That’s what the blue rope is for 
Tug it back through.
Forwards compatibility built in with my solution.
FYI: I’m a technophobe. I code in a language derived from PL1. I only learned Python last year and have only just started with Azure and AWS 
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I assume all these cables have the common connector?
cat 5 is 100mb max, cat 6e is 1gb, does that matter - not in the slightest - although it might if you wanted to put your network back up devices, or video streamer etc. in the garage.
Not still using COBOL and Fortran are you 
Aren’t a lot of banking bank end systems still using COBOL? The batch processing systems etc.
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95% of our codebase is COBOL and SCOBOL (screen cobol for “front end” green screen). With compilers now compiling native there is no need to change, its efficient and works so why spend years and the high risk in rewriting it all. All our comms software is in pTAL (a native language) but we have written any new stuff in C++. We have a “web app” front end now in java and do use python for scripting compiles, releases etc. Nearly all banking systems (and BT/Shell and many other large companies) all still use COBOL systems. ITs actually where the money still is for dev as all the kids want to code in “modern” languages and its ten a penny for Python devs now as they do it in school.
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The GF’s brother worked for a couple of the big banks in London about 20 years ago as a COBOL programmer and got a lot of money.
As you say those systems do just work and would be very expensive and major to upgrade, but the people with the knowledge are surely aging and charging a lot.
Not that it’s got anything to do with Zwift of course 
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yep the only way a job comes available is when they die or retire 
There are guys in their 70’s still working and people dont move on very often
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The millennium bug?
Easiest money some people ever made 
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it was a proper PITA boring job though. Most of the work was in searching for the issues in millions of lines of code. IBM mainframes actually had a more serious issue but it wasnt as headline hitting as the millenium bug. 9th September 1999. 9999 , obviously an end of file marker in old mainframe code! WE do have new “features” to worry about in 2038 
I’m not sure it was primarily Y2K stuff, just general contracting and code work, but probably had some of that involved.
I’d forgotten about the 2038 possible issues. Luckily I’ll be well out of IT by then 
Although I’ve been looking for my old cobol books
There’s a parser for that 
Regex is your friend here.
Anyhow…back to Zwift and away from AS/400 
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Yikes, 16 days for the next 1000 posts 
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Anyone doing the TTT tonight, I’m not looking for a brutal hard effort if anyone is interested?
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I’m still up for it if we have a team - 19.03 frappe D
Anyone else?
otherwise think I may just do the thrashing about in water thing
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Anyone fancy Crit City tomorrow at 12.30? I’m looking at you in particular @gingerbongo 
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That’s a possible.
not cat B though and I’d get DQ’d
Just waiting for this chase ride to start.
Cat B and C total 100 riders…3 of us in the cat A pen
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Depends if the sofa currently blocking up my shed is collected by then (and the devil child is sleeping).
50/50 I’d say.