1. I know what Basketball is. 2. Not making shit up. 3. Not a borderline retard. 4. Profit?
Sorry man. I recognize the name but before your post I wouldn't have been able to tell you the sport he plays. And I got that only by inference since you didn't actually say he played Basketball. And I assume professional vs some college hoops?
Yep, I recall an interview with Bill Gates years ago regarding Minesweeper. He was asked what his best time was and it was something like 1 second. The interviewer asked how he did it. He said he'd just randomly click until he got the 1 second score.
My motorcycle MPG reading only goes to 50MPG. I guess Suzuki never expected someone on a Hayabusa actually reaching 50 miles per gallon (for the record, I got 52 mpg at the time).
There were probably lots of books including the Tom Clancy tome, Debt of Honor from 1994 where a jumbo jet was crashed into The Capitol in DC, that brought up the possibility of an airplane crashing into a building on purpose.
The 512M card was purchased Oct 2008. The 1 Gig card was purchased this past September. The 512M card seemed to be in good shape once I cleaned out and installed the most current driver set back in September. At the time I was trying to decide whether to go with a second 4870 as I wanted to run in Crossfire mode when gaming, or pitch the first 4870 and go with a pair of Nvidias. With the good drivers, I went with the second 4870 and within a few weeks started experiencing problems yet again. Because the last clean up and reinstallation of drivers seemed to correct the problem, I gave it another shot but it didn't fix it.
When I opened the ticket in December, I was looking for some advice. I uploaded the error from the Event Log and the output of dxdiag so they knew the configuration. Unfortunately I didn't get a reply so I continued to upload the errors and went back as far back as early October to get the prior errors.
At one point in mid January, Diamond closed the ticket without contacting me. I found out when I received an automatic e-mail about the closure.
I reopened the ticket and posted more errors that had occurred. With no response, I finally opened another ticket requesting an RMA and pointing to the December ticket. Within a few days I received the RMA number and instructions to send the card back.
In the mean time I moved the 512M card back as the primary card (I'd originally put the 1G in as primary when I bought it and the 512 as secondary). Since I run three monitors, the third one became idle so I plugged it into to Mac Powerbook. I'm running Synergy so I have access to the third monitor although I can't move a window to it or stretch one over to the third monitor.
Since pulling the 1G card and moving the 512, I hadn't had any problems (about 3 weeks while it was in transit).
Last week it arrived on my doorstep. Per Diamond, the card doesn't have a problem and passed all tests. They gave me back the same card, not a different one.
Before I installed the card, I ran memtest to check system memory (passed) and ran the passmark tests to get an idea on how the system ran with the 512M card only. The score was around 850. I put the 1G card back in (same card) and reconnected the Crossfire cables. But this time I activated Crossfire in the Catalyst Control panel. This time passmark was up to 1200.
It's been running fine for the past week including in several games (Bioshock, Quake 4, Left 4 Dead, Dead Space) and general web surfing. In the past if I put a DVD in, the system would reboot immediately. After putting the card back in, it played the movie (My Cousin Vinny) without any problems.
Without knowledge of the inner workings of the card or drivers, I can only make a few guesses based on experience and interpreting the logs and the output of passmark and dxdiag.
I suspect that the ATI drivers thought there were two 1G cards since the 1G was in the primary slot, and would try to talk to memory above 512M on the 512M card and thereby boot the box. Currently the ATI Control Center thinks both cards are running 512M of RAM. Since it seems to be stable, I'm good with that really.
Ultimately, it seems that the hardware isn't faulty as it passed Diamond's testing and seems to be running fine although it thinks it only has 512M of RAM on board.
I've had over a year of random boots, continually booting system until it warms up (I guess), and driver issues.
One of the biggest problems with the drivers is that if you don't eradicate every bit from your system (I use a driver sweeper and registry cleaner), upgrades are very erratic. It took 10 months or so of upgrading, uninstalling and installing upgrades until I chased down the two tools and fully cleaned my system before applying the newest drivers. I still had problems but they were much reduced. With the latest clean up and drivers, the 512M card seems to have stabilized
The 1 gig card still caused problems until I finally (after several months of posting errors to my trouble ticket at Diamond) got the ok to return it. Since its return, it hasn't had a single problem (it's been a week). Keeping my fingers crossed.
I'm with you there. I signed up about a year ago (maybe a bit more) and have had several cousins from my dad's side contact me (dad and his siblings had a falling out so we never visited) and this summer I'll be riding through California meeting aunts and uncles as well as cousins and families. I've been exchanging e-mails with my aunt and learning quite a bit about dad and his earlier life. It explains quite a bit about his personality and of course there are lots of things that are puzzling.
And this is after years of owning my last name as a domain (so it shouldn't have been too hard to find me:) ).
That's weird. I'm not using the GreaseMonkey script and I get that same Hide drop down. It hides it for my computer browsers but the Facebook App on the iPhone ignores that setting (so I see updates on the iPhone).
The funny thing is that I see more people with Router injuries than table saw ones. Missing the end of a finger or two because they didn't use a piece of push or feather board and *zip* down an inch.
Really? I saw it last year at GenCon as well and with the center hex or 1" square surface I figured it was perfect for Miniature gaming. Especially since you'd have to stand in order to play. Certainly not board games (well not exclusively anyway; you could play on the top but you'd still have to stand) and I know the groups I play with would rather sit on the couches I have in my game room than at the chair and table (which I created for board gaming).
Yea, I saw it last year at GenCon Indy and had read a few comments on rpg.net. It looks nice and all but it's really for the folks who are miniature gamers (which is basically what D&D 4E is; minis rules). I do use minis at times for positioning during the game but not throughout the session.
I made my own table for boardgaming, 6' x 6' which works very well. It holds Arkham Horror and all the expansions (so far). And for regular gaming, the three couches and two coffee tables work perfectly.
Well, not "just". It is a bit more secure due to the rigorous testing of the code. OpenBSD has everything off by default except sshd and has the firewall on by default. Perfect for a server (which is how I'm using it). I enable the services as I need them.
But still, Windows could be counted as more secure if it left all the services off by default. So instead of having to read up and shut down services when you install a machine, you'd read up and turn on services as you need them.
So when I install an OpenBSD box, I'm pretty reasonably assured that I don't have a web or e-mail server running waiting for an attack and I can begin making it ready to be a server. It's the opposite on a Windows box. I shouldn't even plug it into the 'net until I'm sure it's patched and all unnecessary services are disabled.
Well, except for the constant commercial breaks to really interrupt the flow of the show. It's why I stopped watching Heroes after a few episodes. Now I just rent the DVD series.
Yes yes, some sort of DVR. We'd have to get a bunch of unnecessary packages in order to get a DVR. It's not worth the extra $60 to $100 a month just to skip commercials. I'd rather just wait and rent the DVD from NetFlix.
A friend has a daughter who was around 14 at the time. She didn't like dad's rules regarding homework and not staying out late. So she bailed to a friend's house. He went to find her, located her at the friend's place and went in to get her. He was busted for trespassing. Ok, good call. Next time she bailed, he found her and called the police. "Sorry sir, she's not breaking any laws" so he couldn't do anything about it. Third time she bailed, he simply waited for her to return. He was accused of neglect and threatened with having his daughter taken away by Child Services.
On my side, my daughter was 13 or so at the time. As punishment, she got a couple of swats on her ass with my hand[*]. She reported me to the school councilors. Child Protective services was in my house when I got home and I was investigated. I received a pamphlet detailing my "crime". Ultimately I was found not guilty and advised I should sue my daughter for false reporting. I'm also in a database as an "unfounded child abuser", just in case it happens again.
[*] Yes, I "hit" both daughters. Seldom. Never in anger (unlike my parents) and when it happened, it was the open handed swat.
I have two Ubuntu boxes here. On one, while in a term window, if I paste from the clipboard, the terminal session never comes back. strace shows it going berserk. The other one is fine and pasting into a text editor is also fine.
It's annoying that I have to log in remotely to boot the box every time I forget and paste in some string.
Yea, same here. I've had my main domain for 10 years now. I use a whois specific e-mail and occasionally get an e-mail from someone in China trying to convince me to get an equivalent Chinese domain for one of the 13 or so I run. I get more e-mail from some film guy trying to get one of my domains than the folks in China though. Every few months it's, "you're not using the domain, can I have it?" "Look dude, just because you don't see anything on port 80 doesn't mean I'm not using it." Heck now I can't even reply to him. My domain "doesn't have a good reputation" so he's refusing e-mail from me. And I can't get off that list, I've tried. I have a years worth of e-mail logs and can account for every message that goes out.
I do get the occasional domain renewal mailings ("are you kidding! that's three times what I'm paying now!") and no phone calls.
Don't forget too that if every scalped ticket isn't sold, that comes off of the bottom line. Heck, it might explain why "sold out" concerts have quite a few empty seats.
Someone wrote a routine that said "if (accelerator && brakes) give priority to accelerator;" The updated firmware says "if (accelerator && brakes) give priority to brakes;"
There's another routine that says "if (moving) disable neutral"
The car has a pseudo stick shift, accelerator, and brake pedal. Honestly none are needed as they're all sensors and nothing mechanical. A Nintendo or XBox joystick and a keypad to type in your speed is all you really need.
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1. I know what Basketball is.
2. Not making shit up.
3. Not a borderline retard.
4. Profit?
Sorry man. I recognize the name but before your post I wouldn't have been able to tell you the sport he plays. And I got that only by inference since you didn't actually say he played Basketball. And I assume professional vs some college hoops?
[John]
Yep, I recall an interview with Bill Gates years ago regarding Minesweeper. He was asked what his best time was and it was something like 1 second. The interviewer asked how he did it. He said he'd just randomly click until he got the 1 second score.
[John]
My motorcycle MPG reading only goes to 50MPG. I guess Suzuki never expected someone on a Hayabusa actually reaching 50 miles per gallon (for the record, I got 52 mpg at the time).
[John]
There were probably lots of books including the Tom Clancy tome, Debt of Honor from 1994 where a jumbo jet was crashed into The Capitol in DC, that brought up the possibility of an airplane crashing into a building on purpose.
[John]
LOL, that's funny right there :D
[John]
My wife smoked and poked when she was younger. She's since given up both :(
[John]
The 512M card was purchased Oct 2008. The 1 Gig card was purchased this past September. The 512M card seemed to be in good shape once I cleaned out and installed the most current driver set back in September. At the time I was trying to decide whether to go with a second 4870 as I wanted to run in Crossfire mode when gaming, or pitch the first 4870 and go with a pair of Nvidias. With the good drivers, I went with the second 4870 and within a few weeks started experiencing problems yet again. Because the last clean up and reinstallation of drivers seemed to correct the problem, I gave it another shot but it didn't fix it.
When I opened the ticket in December, I was looking for some advice. I uploaded the error from the Event Log and the output of dxdiag so they knew the configuration. Unfortunately I didn't get a reply so I continued to upload the errors and went back as far back as early October to get the prior errors.
At one point in mid January, Diamond closed the ticket without contacting me. I found out when I received an automatic e-mail about the closure.
I reopened the ticket and posted more errors that had occurred. With no response, I finally opened another ticket requesting an RMA and pointing to the December ticket. Within a few days I received the RMA number and instructions to send the card back.
In the mean time I moved the 512M card back as the primary card (I'd originally put the 1G in as primary when I bought it and the 512 as secondary). Since I run three monitors, the third one became idle so I plugged it into to Mac Powerbook. I'm running Synergy so I have access to the third monitor although I can't move a window to it or stretch one over to the third monitor.
Since pulling the 1G card and moving the 512, I hadn't had any problems (about 3 weeks while it was in transit).
Last week it arrived on my doorstep. Per Diamond, the card doesn't have a problem and passed all tests. They gave me back the same card, not a different one.
Before I installed the card, I ran memtest to check system memory (passed) and ran the passmark tests to get an idea on how the system ran with the 512M card only. The score was around 850. I put the 1G card back in (same card) and reconnected the Crossfire cables. But this time I activated Crossfire in the Catalyst Control panel. This time passmark was up to 1200.
It's been running fine for the past week including in several games (Bioshock, Quake 4, Left 4 Dead, Dead Space) and general web surfing. In the past if I put a DVD in, the system would reboot immediately. After putting the card back in, it played the movie (My Cousin Vinny) without any problems.
Without knowledge of the inner workings of the card or drivers, I can only make a few guesses based on experience and interpreting the logs and the output of passmark and dxdiag.
I suspect that the ATI drivers thought there were two 1G cards since the 1G was in the primary slot, and would try to talk to memory above 512M on the 512M card and thereby boot the box. Currently the ATI Control Center thinks both cards are running 512M of RAM. Since it seems to be stable, I'm good with that really.
Ultimately, it seems that the hardware isn't faulty as it passed Diamond's testing and seems to be running fine although it thinks it only has 512M of RAM on board.
Still sounds like a driver issue.
[John]
A pair of 4870's.
I've had over a year of random boots, continually booting system until it warms up (I guess), and driver issues.
One of the biggest problems with the drivers is that if you don't eradicate every bit from your system (I use a driver sweeper and registry cleaner), upgrades are very erratic. It took 10 months or so of upgrading, uninstalling and installing upgrades until I chased down the two tools and fully cleaned my system before applying the newest drivers. I still had problems but they were much reduced. With the latest clean up and drivers, the 512M card seems to have stabilized
The 1 gig card still caused problems until I finally (after several months of posting errors to my trouble ticket at Diamond) got the ok to return it. Since its return, it hasn't had a single problem (it's been a week). Keeping my fingers crossed.
And there, I've provided one in return.
[John]
I'm with you there. I signed up about a year ago (maybe a bit more) and have had several cousins from my dad's side contact me (dad and his siblings had a falling out so we never visited) and this summer I'll be riding through California meeting aunts and uncles as well as cousins and families. I've been exchanging e-mails with my aunt and learning quite a bit about dad and his earlier life. It explains quite a bit about his personality and of course there are lots of things that are puzzling.
And this is after years of owning my last name as a domain (so it shouldn't have been too hard to find me :) ).
[John]
That's weird. I'm not using the GreaseMonkey script and I get that same Hide drop down. It hides it for my computer browsers but the Facebook App on the iPhone ignores that setting (so I see updates on the iPhone).
[John]
Well, considering most folks don't really work for IBM (most are contractors subject to dismissal at a moment's notice), I'd go with Basketball.
[John]
The funny thing is that I see more people with Router injuries than table saw ones. Missing the end of a finger or two because they didn't use a piece of push or feather board and *zip* down an inch.
[John]
Really? I saw it last year at GenCon as well and with the center hex or 1" square surface I figured it was perfect for Miniature gaming. Especially since you'd have to stand in order to play. Certainly not board games (well not exclusively anyway; you could play on the top but you'd still have to stand) and I know the groups I play with would rather sit on the couches I have in my game room than at the chair and table (which I created for board gaming).
[John]
Yea, I saw it last year at GenCon Indy and had read a few comments on rpg.net. It looks nice and all but it's really for the folks who are miniature gamers (which is basically what D&D 4E is; minis rules). I do use minis at times for positioning during the game but not throughout the session.
I made my own table for boardgaming, 6' x 6' which works very well. It holds Arkham Horror and all the expansions (so far). And for regular gaming, the three couches and two coffee tables work perfectly.
[John]
Well, not "just". It is a bit more secure due to the rigorous testing of the code. OpenBSD has everything off by default except sshd and has the firewall on by default. Perfect for a server (which is how I'm using it). I enable the services as I need them.
But still, Windows could be counted as more secure if it left all the services off by default. So instead of having to read up and shut down services when you install a machine, you'd read up and turn on services as you need them.
So when I install an OpenBSD box, I'm pretty reasonably assured that I don't have a web or e-mail server running waiting for an attack and I can begin making it ready to be a server. It's the opposite on a Windows box. I shouldn't even plug it into the 'net until I'm sure it's patched and all unnecessary services are disabled.
[John]
Well, except for the constant commercial breaks to really interrupt the flow of the show. It's why I stopped watching Heroes after a few episodes. Now I just rent the DVD series.
Yes yes, some sort of DVR. We'd have to get a bunch of unnecessary packages in order to get a DVR. It's not worth the extra $60 to $100 a month just to skip commercials. I'd rather just wait and rent the DVD from NetFlix.
[John]
No sugar addiction but I do have an addiction to popcorn. :)
[John]
Anecdote is not Data of course.
A friend has a daughter who was around 14 at the time. She didn't like dad's rules regarding homework and not staying out late. So she bailed to a friend's house. He went to find her, located her at the friend's place and went in to get her. He was busted for trespassing. Ok, good call. Next time she bailed, he found her and called the police. "Sorry sir, she's not breaking any laws" so he couldn't do anything about it. Third time she bailed, he simply waited for her to return. He was accused of neglect and threatened with having his daughter taken away by Child Services.
On my side, my daughter was 13 or so at the time. As punishment, she got a couple of swats on her ass with my hand[*]. She reported me to the school councilors. Child Protective services was in my house when I got home and I was investigated. I received a pamphlet detailing my "crime". Ultimately I was found not guilty and advised I should sue my daughter for false reporting. I'm also in a database as an "unfounded child abuser", just in case it happens again.
[*] Yes, I "hit" both daughters. Seldom. Never in anger (unlike my parents) and when it happened, it was the open handed swat.
[John]
Ooh, anecdotes :)
I have two Ubuntu boxes here. On one, while in a term window, if I paste from the clipboard, the terminal session never comes back. strace shows it going berserk. The other one is fine and pasting into a text editor is also fine.
It's annoying that I have to log in remotely to boot the box every time I forget and paste in some string.
[John]
I'm just about there myself. And with the flaky hardware (I'm looking at you ATI), I can't get a decent game running for long anyway.
[John]
Yea, same here. I've had my main domain for 10 years now. I use a whois specific e-mail and occasionally get an e-mail from someone in China trying to convince me to get an equivalent Chinese domain for one of the 13 or so I run. I get more e-mail from some film guy trying to get one of my domains than the folks in China though. Every few months it's, "you're not using the domain, can I have it?" "Look dude, just because you don't see anything on port 80 doesn't mean I'm not using it." Heck now I can't even reply to him. My domain "doesn't have a good reputation" so he's refusing e-mail from me. And I can't get off that list, I've tried. I have a years worth of e-mail logs and can account for every message that goes out.
I do get the occasional domain renewal mailings ("are you kidding! that's three times what I'm paying now!") and no phone calls.
[John]
Don't forget too that if every scalped ticket isn't sold, that comes off of the bottom line. Heck, it might explain why "sold out" concerts have quite a few empty seats.
[John]
Huh. I'll have to try that next time one pops up. Should be any minute due to the faulty Diamond ATI card I have :(
[John]
It's all a program now.
Someone wrote a routine that said "if (accelerator && brakes) give priority to accelerator;" The updated firmware says "if (accelerator && brakes) give priority to brakes;"
There's another routine that says "if (moving) disable neutral"
The car has a pseudo stick shift, accelerator, and brake pedal. Honestly none are needed as they're all sensors and nothing mechanical. A Nintendo or XBox joystick and a keypad to type in your speed is all you really need.
[John]
Well, Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, notepad, Ctrl+V
You can also hit PrtSc if they can't figure out how to hit Ctrl and the letter A at the same time. Then open Outlook, Paste it in, and mail it off.
[John]