Tried all that. I think my hearing is too damn sensitive.
It's either that or I've made myself dependant on the ceiling fan.
A-flex on my machine definitely makes the sound more noticeable. I really should kill it, but I've been to lazy to reach under my bed and adjust it.
Probably just need a newer/different machine.
By the way, SleepyHead on sourceforge is becoming quite useful for those with full data recording machines (hint hint, shameless plug) a new release will be out soon, once the lazy assed dev gets some decent sleep.
It is NOT just the obese that are prone to sleep apnea and related disorders unfortunately.
Hereditary factors, such as having a large tongue, or a small jaw are very common causes of obstructive sleep apnea. Some forms, such as complex sleep apnea are caused by breathing messages not getting sent through the neural pathways, which can affect people of any shape or size.
Being tired all day because of an untreated sleep disorder certainly doesn't inspire people to get out and exercise, so it's not surprising more overweight people use CPAP.
If strapping a mask on at night allows someone to have a fog free day, then that's awesome. Being properly treated, and able to concentrate and remember clearly, overweight people will certainly be more motivated to go do something about their situation.
* I develop the open-source software for CPAP users called SleepyHead, and have on my journey met an awful lot of skinny and athletic people who are "on the hose".
My sensitivity has been burnt out a lot because of it, I hope I didn't come across as too harsh with that bit.
It's only been a year for me, and I've had to take a step back and have a serious objective look at things to pull myself out of the downward spiral.
It's only just now I'm starting to be able to sleep in solid blocks again. On days I do manage to, my memory is a lot clearer.
I let things get to me so bad I started having mini-stokes and heart problems, on top of the constant sleep deprived fog, so I had to force myself do something about it for my own health and safety, and part of that was learning to love a good sleep again.
Keep your chin up.. Just remember that jerk isn't losing any sleep over you. He stopped caring about your sleep a long time ago.
It's not fun lying awake every stinking night wondering what the heck you did wrong to end up in that situation. It totally sucks waking up at 3am and feeling the same depressive cycle switching on again and again, when all you want to do is get some frigging sleep.
And all that time wasted, spent in a loop trying to process all the conflicting advice you've been given by well meaning idiots who've never experienced anything near where you have been through.
Waking "up" in the morning feeling like a zombie and can't remember what day it is, let alone what needs to get done.
Doctors prescribe antidepressants, mistakenly thinking it's just a simple brain chemical change that caused the completely messed up psyche, when in reality the problem was caused by an asshole who couldn't own up to their feelings, ripping a hole in the fabric of our universe, messing up our brain chemicals. (They may still need balancing, but they won't fix the problem until we can bring ourselves to address the root cause of it.)
The problem with marriage and other close relationships is we tend to bind our potential for happiness and wellbeing to another persons, and when the cords are cruelly severed, our identity is damaged in the process, along with our self worth.
It's not easy to give ourselves permission to stop mourning for the treasured thing we lost (of course it is completely natural need time to grieve). However once we do, we can begin to retake control of our own future, we can start to find a solid foundation in ourselves, and nurture our own reasons for happiness. In the end we are stronger, better people, and able to deal with anything life throws our way.
I hope things improve for you real soon, so you can have a good nights sleep. I wish I knew the right thing to say that helped. I know it can take quite a while to get back on your feet. I've really found it helps to know others have been through similar crap.
If they are still sounding like Darth vader, they probably have the wrong mask fit, or using a nasal mask and unintentionally sleeping with their mouth hanging open. A good CPAP machine will track leaks on an SD card or similar.
I still get driven nuts by the sound of the machines fan ramping up slightly whenever I breath in. Wife doesn't seem to notice it, but most of the time I need the ceiling fan on full bore.
I found it's a good thing to scare the crap out of them with an overnight oximetry reading. Cheap data recording oximeters are dirt cheap on ebay, and a good gift/loan for someone worth caring about.
Does wonders for the die hard denialists seeing the blood oxygen saturation drop to near death levels multiple times throughout the night.
Even more hilarious is showing people a cam recording of them stopping breathing while they sleep, with all the gory choking sounds.
Usually after seeing or hearing all that, they are off to the doc to book a sleep test.
For me is wasn't that dramatic. Over a year on CPAP for moderate sleep apnea and I'm still as scatterbrained as hell.
The best I get is a reduction in daily headaches, which I find a pretty damn good reason to continue with CPAP. One nap off the hose and I know about it (along everyone else around me.. grrrrr.)
Weight loss is a huge health bonus for people with sleep disorders. It's also freaking hard to do. Congrats.
At least one (sad) person though that was funny and relevant..
I wish these companies would stop pinching trademarks when they create stupid acronyms.. If it's leads to 40ghz chips and technology, they should put a little more thought into a funkier ground-breaking name for their concept..
24bit addressing was brought in with "protected mode" on the 286 series and up (and as far as I can vaguely remember, partly on the 80186 too, or am I thinking of the LOADALL instruction?)
Z80's, despite being the coolest CPU ever relied on external bank-switching hardware, and could only address 16 bits.
6502's was even more 8 bit -> it didn't have any external 16 bit registers. It did have 16bit immediate addressing, a 16bit mode with an index, and indirect 16 bit addressing mode (using memory contents as a register).
The 6510 had a little bit of banking smarts built in in the first coupla bytes of IO/memory, which could bank roms, ram expension, etc, but it certainly wasn't linear addressing.
The underlying principles of this office related stuff is taught (now anyway) as a standard subject in Australian (and most other countries) schools.
Anyone who after 12 or more years of modern education, can't easily adapt to using any computer software to write letters and other business documents, should not be regarded as employable (in their current state) in an office position. There are plenty of other jobs available for them.. I guess computers weren't a strong enough interest. (I'm not knocking people with learning disabilities here btw, but thats a separate issue.)
I'm glad there are plenty of smart people out there who can fix my car, fix broken limbs, and do other cool stuff, but not operate computers well. I'd have no job if it wasn't for them.
It will be interesting to see if Microsoft can compete for future students loyalty by being only a "little more expensive" then the nearest major competitor.
You can also click on Applications, then Add-Remove to install it there graphically. Most nerds prefer to do in on the console. (This is a nerd site in case you haven't noticed)
As a bonus, most linux distro's download it off the net for you and install it. Windows you have to find the software first.
Please keep your illegitimate fud spouting to yourself.
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XFS is a damn great filesystem.. very fast. even faster if you split the meta data and the storage parts onto seperate physical devices.
My biggest gripe is the lack of ability to shrink the darn partitions, which is a pain, particulary on top of lvm.
Because of this, I'm still a fan of reiserfs, it's fast too, and I can grow and shrink the filesystem live, and at will.. it's never let me down yet either. (not that either filesystem is infallable based soley on my personal success rate)
It's such a shame that these two great filesystems have the potential for an uncertain future..
Realtime patches make it a lot more practicle for stuff like audio processing - sound comes in line-in, gets worked over and send straight out to line-out - all in less than 5ms. I've found these 2.6 patches better than the realtime-lsm stuff.
As for your sound playback is skipping...
You can up the pci latency on your audio card.. (using setpci) but that wont solve everything.. for instance sound still has to load from the harddisk, so the latency for the controller has to be up too.
Something could be sharing an IRQ with your soundcard or something else that makes things clag up.. (For instance, a pci network card can interfere with onboard sound card plugged into a certain PCI slot)
Of course, your computer could just be too slow. and some chipsets just plain suck. (eg older VIA stuff, which I unfortunately is in the majority of my computers)
My soundblaster audigy card cacks out at 5ms, so I took it out tried a whole bunch of s/h crud from my soundcard box, and now use an old SB Vibra128 (CT4810) and get near zero latency for music recording. So I guess the type of soundcard can have an impact on stuff like that.. I found CMI soundchips to be the absolute crummiest in terms of latency (and have had plenty of skips with them in ordinary desktop machines)
Argh.. cold is disgusting.. I had a crack above one of my wisdom teeth, and the high speed drills freezing cold exaust cut through the anaethetic like a knife. I ended up begging the dentist to rip the tooth out.
But I do think by this plasma weapon being cold they mean relatively cold compared to lasers.
why oh why does a dentistry article have to come up on slashdot on the day I gotta go to the dentist?:-(
I think you hit the nail on the head.. with a sledgehammer.
The software in itself is very muchly high in all forms of chunky Goodness. But the name "GNU" and other attrocious names spawned from it are not only crap, they (IMFSO) should be counted as crimes against humanity. How many people have died(*) from their brains exploding from trying to mouth or explain this once-maybe-cool-in-the-80's cruft. Also, true "Playful cleverness" would at least put an exit condition on those recursive acronyms. Stack faults are not cool when you have to pick the body parts off the floor.(*)
Despite the fact RMS has cool initials, he was a founding father of a text editor that caused the slaughter of countless millions(*) in the holy wars. (Not that those VI, PICO and other sucky editor using scum deserved to live..;)
And how exactly is a HURD of GNU supposed to work together in a harmonious bond without some form of guiding master process. I can assure you that the whole gooey pile of GNU-ey goodness heaped together, will NOT transend to a form of sentience using a kernel that has a sucky name like HURD.
And need I say anything about the horrendous exploitation of all those helpless GNU's?(*)
I hereby propose the following actions to be taken:
1. Richard Matthew Stallman be brought before a War Tribunal for his horrible acts of Cruelty(*), 2. Offending software urgently has name changes to something (a heck of a lot) less sucky.(#) 3. I be commited to an insane asylum as soon as practically possible.
Beep!
(*) May or may not be factual.
(#) I'm serious.. this would cause much rejoicing.
I've recovered quite a few thirsty laptop keyboards by soaking them in a small bath of metholated spirits for a few minutes, adgitating them a little, and then sufficient drying/gentle shaking to allow all the metho to evaporate. Works particularly good for removing sticky softdrink residue.
Metho & cotton buds on circuit boards is worth a try.. I've found the quicker one gets to them the better.
I used to pull the membrains out of my old PC keyboards and wash them in dishwater or under the garden hose, although that don't work to well no more. (I dont recommend it - Plastic membranes tracks and contacts are getting to darn small these days..) But maybe distilled or heavily filtered water and a hairdryer might do the trick?
Fear not.. there's always healthy cat. Most good chinese resturaunts serve it as a chicken substitute.
Plus you can always scrape them off the bitumen for free.. Even comes pre-tenderized - sometimes even modularized..
There are plenty of strays around for the picking, just keep yer hands off my kitty cat. I've got a nice recipe picked out, and am just waiting for her to fatten up a bit;-)
What you talkin about? We can buy the stuff in Woolworth/Coles stupermarkets here, and it costs about the same as regular cow..
You can always shoot/humanely dissassemble yer own, provided they roam around your neighbourhood.
The snags (sausages) taste like crap, but the steaks are rather tasty with a little marination.. All that ninja stuff makes them tough little buggers..
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Tried all that. I think my hearing is too damn sensitive.
It's either that or I've made myself dependant on the ceiling fan.
A-flex on my machine definitely makes the sound more noticeable. I really should kill it, but I've been to lazy to reach under my bed and adjust it.
Probably just need a newer/different machine.
By the way, SleepyHead on sourceforge is becoming quite useful for those with full data recording machines (hint hint, shameless plug) a new release will be out soon, once the lazy assed dev gets some decent sleep.
It is NOT just the obese that are prone to sleep apnea and related disorders unfortunately.
Hereditary factors, such as having a large tongue, or a small jaw are very common causes of obstructive sleep apnea.
Some forms, such as complex sleep apnea are caused by breathing messages not getting sent through the neural pathways, which can affect people of any shape or size.
Being tired all day because of an untreated sleep disorder certainly doesn't inspire people to get out and exercise, so it's not surprising more overweight people use CPAP.
If strapping a mask on at night allows someone to have a fog free day, then that's awesome. Being properly treated, and able to concentrate and remember clearly, overweight people will certainly be more motivated to go do something about their situation.
* I develop the open-source software for CPAP users called SleepyHead, and have on my journey met an awful lot of skinny and athletic people who are "on the hose".
I understand very well too unfortunately. :(
My sensitivity has been burnt out a lot because of it, I hope I didn't come across as too harsh with that bit.
It's only been a year for me, and I've had to take a step back and have a serious objective look at things to pull myself out of the downward spiral.
It's only just now I'm starting to be able to sleep in solid blocks again. On days I do manage to, my memory is a lot clearer.
I let things get to me so bad I started having mini-stokes and heart problems, on top of the constant sleep deprived fog, so I had to force myself do something about it for my own health and safety, and part of that was learning to love a good sleep again.
Totally agree.
Keep your chin up.. Just remember that jerk isn't losing any sleep over you. He stopped caring about your sleep a long time ago.
It's not fun lying awake every stinking night wondering what the heck you did wrong to end up in that situation.
It totally sucks waking up at 3am and feeling the same depressive cycle switching on again and again, when all you want to do is get some frigging sleep.
And all that time wasted, spent in a loop trying to process all the conflicting advice you've been given by well meaning idiots who've never experienced anything near where you have been through.
Waking "up" in the morning feeling like a zombie and can't remember what day it is, let alone what needs to get done.
Doctors prescribe antidepressants, mistakenly thinking it's just a simple brain chemical change that caused the completely messed up psyche, when in reality the problem was caused by an asshole who couldn't own up to their feelings, ripping a hole in the fabric of our universe, messing up our brain chemicals. (They may still need balancing, but they won't fix the problem until we can bring ourselves to address the root cause of it.)
The problem with marriage and other close relationships is we tend to bind our potential for happiness and wellbeing to another persons, and when the cords are cruelly severed, our identity is damaged in the process, along with our self worth.
It's not easy to give ourselves permission to stop mourning for the treasured thing we lost (of course it is completely natural need time to grieve).
However once we do, we can begin to retake control of our own future, we can start to find a solid foundation in ourselves, and nurture our own reasons for happiness. In the end we are stronger, better people, and able to deal with anything life throws our way.
I hope things improve for you real soon, so you can have a good nights sleep. I wish I knew the right thing to say that helped.
I know it can take quite a while to get back on your feet. I've really found it helps to know others have been through similar crap.
If they are still sounding like Darth vader, they probably have the wrong mask fit, or using a nasal mask and unintentionally sleeping with their mouth hanging open. A good CPAP machine will track leaks on an SD card or similar.
I still get driven nuts by the sound of the machines fan ramping up slightly whenever I breath in. Wife doesn't seem to notice it, but most of the time I need the ceiling fan on full bore.
I found it's a good thing to scare the crap out of them with an overnight oximetry reading. Cheap data recording oximeters are dirt cheap on ebay, and a good gift/loan for someone worth caring about.
Does wonders for the die hard denialists seeing the blood oxygen saturation drop to near death levels multiple times throughout the night.
Even more hilarious is showing people a cam recording of them stopping breathing while they sleep, with all the gory choking sounds.
Usually after seeing or hearing all that, they are off to the doc to book a sleep test.
Lucky guy.. :)
For me is wasn't that dramatic. Over a year on CPAP for moderate sleep apnea and I'm still as scatterbrained as hell.
The best I get is a reduction in daily headaches, which I find a pretty damn good reason to continue with CPAP. One nap off the hose and I know about it (along everyone else around me.. grrrrr.)
Weight loss is a huge health bonus for people with sleep disorders. It's also freaking hard to do. Congrats.
I don't know about it being all that good for us, but definitely a very yummy way to bring in the new year! :)
Hmmm.. if there was such a thing, I'd like to see nominated, on terms of impact and contribution to society:
Linus, RMS, Bjorne S, Donald K, and that windows intern guy who wrote solitaire.
A triple entendre with a pun attached.. You sir deserved a medal.
Holy crap. That's the most positive upbuilding thing I've read on slashdot for yonks..
Thankyou.
At least one (sad) person though that was funny and relevant..
I wish these companies would stop pinching trademarks when they create stupid acronyms.. If it's leads to 40ghz chips and technology, they should put a little more thought into a funkier ground-breaking name for their concept..
24bit addressing was brought in with "protected mode" on the 286 series and up (and as far as I can vaguely remember, partly on the 80186 too, or am I thinking of the LOADALL instruction?)
Z80's, despite being the coolest CPU ever relied on external bank-switching hardware, and could only address 16 bits.
6502's was even more 8 bit -> it didn't have any external 16 bit registers. It did have 16bit immediate addressing, a 16bit mode with an index, and indirect 16 bit addressing mode (using memory contents as a register).
The 6510 had a little bit of banking smarts built in in the first coupla bytes of IO/memory, which could bank roms, ram expension, etc, but it certainly wasn't linear addressing.
damn.. where are my mod points :) Well said.
The underlying principles of this office related stuff is taught (now anyway) as a standard subject in Australian (and most other countries) schools.
Anyone who after 12 or more years of modern education, can't easily adapt to using any computer software to write letters and other business documents, should not be regarded as employable (in their current state) in an office position. There are plenty of other jobs available for them.. I guess computers weren't a strong enough interest. (I'm not knocking people with learning disabilities here btw, but thats a separate issue.)
I'm glad there are plenty of smart people out there who can fix my car, fix broken limbs, and do other cool stuff, but not operate computers well. I'd have no job if it wasn't for them.
It will be interesting to see if Microsoft can compete for future students loyalty by being only a "little more expensive" then the nearest major competitor.
Your sir, are clueless.
You can also click on Applications, then Add-Remove to install it there graphically.
Most nerds prefer to do in on the console. (This is a nerd site in case you haven't noticed)
As a bonus, most linux distro's download it off the net for you and install it. Windows you have to find the software first.
Please keep your illegitimate fud spouting to yourself.
XFS is a damn great filesystem.. very fast. even faster if you split the meta data and the storage parts onto seperate physical devices.
My biggest gripe is the lack of ability to shrink the darn partitions, which is a pain, particulary on top of lvm.
Because of this, I'm still a fan of reiserfs, it's fast too, and I can grow and shrink the filesystem live, and at will.. it's never let me down yet either. (not that either filesystem is infallable based soley on my personal success rate)
It's such a shame that these two great filesystems have the potential for an uncertain future..
Realtime patches make it a lot more practicle for stuff like audio processing - sound comes in line-in, gets worked over and send straight out to line-out - all in less than 5ms. I've found these 2.6 patches better than the realtime-lsm stuff.
As for your sound playback is skipping...
You can up the pci latency on your audio card.. (using setpci) but that wont solve everything.. for instance sound still has to load from the harddisk, so the latency for the controller has to be up too.
Something could be sharing an IRQ with your soundcard or something else that makes things clag up.. (For instance, a pci network card can interfere with onboard sound card plugged into a certain PCI slot)
Of course, your computer could just be too slow. and some chipsets just plain suck. (eg older VIA stuff, which I unfortunately is in the majority of my computers)
My soundblaster audigy card cacks out at 5ms, so I took it out tried a whole bunch of s/h crud from my soundcard box, and now use an old SB Vibra128 (CT4810) and get near zero latency for music recording. So I guess the type of soundcard can have an impact on stuff like that.. I found CMI soundchips to be the absolute crummiest in terms of latency (and have had plenty of skips with them in ordinary desktop machines)
Argh.. cold is disgusting.. I had a crack above one of my wisdom teeth, and the high speed drills freezing cold exaust cut through the anaethetic like a knife. I ended up begging the dentist to rip the tooth out.
:-(
But I do think by this plasma weapon being cold they mean relatively cold compared to lasers.
why oh why does a dentistry article have to come up on slashdot on the day I gotta go to the dentist?
I see the evil windows using Sith have control of the mod points today.
(Waves hand) you *will* mod the parent up...
You mean /dev/random? :)
I think you hit the nail on the head.. with a sledgehammer.
;)
The software in itself is very muchly high in all forms of chunky Goodness. But the name "GNU" and other attrocious names spawned from it are not only crap, they (IMFSO) should be counted as crimes against humanity. How many people have died(*) from their brains exploding from trying to mouth or explain this once-maybe-cool-in-the-80's cruft. Also, true "Playful cleverness" would at least put an exit condition on those recursive acronyms. Stack faults are not cool when you have to pick the body parts off the floor.(*)
Despite the fact RMS has cool initials, he was a founding father of a text editor that caused the slaughter of countless millions(*) in the holy wars. (Not that those VI, PICO and other sucky editor using scum deserved to live..
And how exactly is a HURD of GNU supposed to work together in a harmonious bond without some form of guiding master process. I can assure you that the whole gooey pile of GNU-ey goodness heaped together, will NOT transend to a form of sentience using a kernel that has a sucky name like HURD.
And need I say anything about the horrendous exploitation of all those helpless GNU's?(*)
I hereby propose the following actions to be taken:
1. Richard Matthew Stallman be brought before a War Tribunal for his horrible acts of Cruelty(*),
2. Offending software urgently has name changes to something (a heck of a lot) less sucky.(#)
3. I be commited to an insane asylum as soon as practically possible.
Beep!
(*) May or may not be factual.
(#) I'm serious.. this would cause much rejoicing.
This is data compression - Them ones and zeroes are much smaller..
I've recovered quite a few thirsty laptop keyboards by soaking them in a small bath of metholated spirits for a few minutes, adgitating them a little, and then sufficient drying/gentle shaking to allow all the metho to evaporate. Works particularly good for removing sticky softdrink residue.
:-)
Metho & cotton buds on circuit boards is worth a try.. I've found the quicker one gets to them the better.
I used to pull the membrains out of my old PC keyboards and wash them in dishwater or under the garden hose, although that don't work to well no more. (I dont recommend it - Plastic membranes tracks and contacts are getting to darn small these days..) But maybe distilled or heavily filtered water and a hairdryer might do the trick?
(attempt at your own risk.
Fear not.. there's always healthy cat. Most good chinese resturaunts serve it as a chicken substitute.
;-)
Plus you can always scrape them off the bitumen for free.. Even comes pre-tenderized - sometimes even modularized..
There are plenty of strays around for the picking, just keep yer hands off my kitty cat. I've got a nice recipe picked out, and am just waiting for her to fatten up a bit
What you talkin about? We can buy the stuff in Woolworth/Coles stupermarkets here, and it costs about the same as regular cow..
You can always shoot/humanely dissassemble yer own, provided they roam around your neighbourhood.
The snags (sausages) taste like crap, but the steaks are rather tasty with a little marination.. All that ninja stuff makes them tough little buggers..