Another run of this popular past-time.
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- Post in this thread, anything with legible words.
- Stay within the message board rules.
- Empty posts are invalid towards winning.
- You must wait for someone else to post before you can post again, any and all multiple posts are invalid towards winning.
- Have FUN.
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The winner will be the last person that posted, when I have time to check the thread, after one of these events:
- A specific date and/or time occurs
- A specific number of posts have been made
- I get tired of y'all nagging me who is the winner :)
- I draw the winning card from a deck I keep hidden from everybody
- An event I have chosen occurs (doesn't occur).
Sorry there are no physical prizes, only the satisfaction you played and won and you name added into the winners list. :)
Congratulations to the last winner of the last game, (me!) RandyC.
Scorecard Recap of WINNERS of games.
- 2 for swiftmallard
- 3 for Krunchin-Keith
- 2 for Bymark
- 4 for John Clark
- 1 for Dune Finkleberry
- 4 for Mikey
- 1 for Ageless
- 4 for RandyC
- 1 for Alijay
- 2 for GasGiant
- 1 for DogBytes aka DP (RIP) < Honorary Win
- 1 for Cori
Let the game begin...
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Congratulations, RandyC! Winning post number 101. Heck, I was close!
And now I'm winning again (but not for long, I suspect!)
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Congratulations, RandyC!
Winning post number 101. Heck, I was close!
And now I'm winning again (but not for long, I suspect!)
You're suspisions are korrect, as It's my turn at WINNING !
John klose only kounts for hand gernades or atomic bombs.
RandyC, break out the party kake. Oops, I think the grand-baby ate it all.
Did I mention i'm WINNING and it's FRIDAY finally, two for one !
/ John klose only kounts for hand gernades or atomic bombs.
Yup, as they say, "close, but no cigar"!
As for me, Friday's over, and it's time for bed. I'll sleep tight, knowing that I'm ...
... WINNING!
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John klose only kounts for hand gernades or atomic bombs.
Yup, as they say, "close, but no cigar"!
As for me, Friday's over, and it's time for bed. I'll sleep tight, knowing that I'm ...
... WINNING!
And now that it is Saturday morning you might as well just go ahead and sleep in, I am winning anyway!
CONGRATULATIONS JOHNC on your winning of the last game!
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No sleepin' in 'ere, too much todo.
Besides Roomba is runing in cicles picking up all those dropped peanuts. I sometimes drop some on purpsoe so he has something to eat.
Today's todo:
Water Plants.
Spray Paint some Buckets gray so they blend in with the other plant pots, if it doesn't rain today, it's looking overcast.
Fix some water hoses.
Komputa tweeks. Add new sata kolored kables and my kustom made DC pwoer adapter kables. I had trouble kolor koding these. These kolored tapes I had, which are 20 years old from my model building days, are non-sticky anymore. I was then going to use pens, but there is not much to mark on. Then kolored velco straps but they are to bulky. Finally I found a simple, cheap, solution. Old twister wire ties. They come in multiple kolors. I keep a lot of them off everything I but. So I was able to twist these on each end of the kables, kut off any excess and they are marked in sets for each komputer in Red, White or Blue. I still have Black or Green ones for the forth komputa, but since two of those are off I'm only using Red and Blue today.
And the list goes on.....
But first more koffee and most importantly, I'm WINNING !
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BUMP - it's well gone Sunday now.
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Things that go BUMP in the night.
Oh well i'm WINNNING now.
/ Things that go BUMP in the night.
Oh well i'm WINNNING now.
Time for you to stop winning and get back to work! I am now WINNING!
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No work today, it's rest day.
It's kinda rainy here. Not at the moment, I think it is over. It was only a lite rain that started in the pre dawn hours.
No need to water plants today. Maybe some on the proch later that didn't get any rain, if the sun comes out, otherwise they are fine for now.
I do have some red hot peppers now, just wee little things not even an inch long yet. it took a long time to get the plants going. This is why i like to bring the plants in during winter and try to keep 'em going. Some of the other pepper plants are 6 foot tall. Doesn't make the peppers any bigger but stair garden looks nicer. I might have trouble bring the sweet potatoes in, they grow all over the railings and spiral around stuff. Some of those vines are over 15 feet long now.
Breakfast is done and kleaned up. Roomba ran around again this morning to keep me komapny while I was hanging out in the kitchen.
Good news is the komputas are back together and running fine, no smoke or sparks came out when I powered back up. I got that done yesterday. Had problems with some sata kables. The ones I ordered were all supposed to have metal latches on both ends. 2 of the 3 black ones did not have latches on the right angle end and it was backwards from the ones with latches, meaning if I used them the kable would run the opposite direction off the drive from the others and would have to make a loop to go in the correct direction as the others. Not a problem really but I didn't like that. Besides I ordered kables with latches on purpose and they cost a little more than the non latch ones, so I sent all 3 of the black ones back for kredit as it was not what I ordered. What I did was just use the exsisting red ones, plus the new blue and new green ones, that sill gave me three kolors for the set of drives in each of the twins. Anyway they are done and tied in a nice bundle betweeen the drives and mobo and strapped down at the mobo end which doesn't have anything for the latches to grab on to so that they can't vibrate or be pulled loose. Fortunately the 20+4 pin power wire is just below the sockets, which that locks in place, so I had something to strap the sata wires to.
Also while I was doing this I moved the drives and the cage up higher in each komputa. It was sort of sitting on top of the power supply. The heat exhaust, although small, was at the same level as the cpu fan, and in fact the cpu fan was sucking any heat in and blowing it on the cpu fins. By moving them up, the heat now is above that fan and on the same level as another exhaust fan so it should just loop around and blow out, not affecting the cpu flow any. Not that it was much anyway, but any small amount removed is more helpful.
The DC wires are run, two more power packs removed from the klutter and one 6 foot AC cord removed. Everything is back up and running fine. This also balances my power loads better as each set of devices are now powered by the komputa they are attached to and each komputa is plugged into a different backup supply. Before a set of devices were run off one ac cord, so two hubs might be on the same cord on one backup supply instead of each supply. The additional load on the kompta is small, since most of the devices were using some usb power already. I think I added it up and like the total was 800 some ma. They 32v line can go to about 32Amps in these 800W supplies. Some of the other drives and stuff use 5V also, but I don't think the total is anywhere near full capacity. I feel it was a project worthwhile and all i nall power usage is more efficient, ie one power supply converting ac to dc instead of several, one for each device plus the komputa. At least that's my thinking weather it is really true or not.
Next I kolor koded the komputas. Twin 1 is blue, Twin 2 is Red. The others if I repair them will be other kolors. Then any wires like video, usb or my 5VDC power adapters coming off of them will have kolored twister ties on the ends, so I kan tell them apart. When the wires end up the same place coming for each komputa, like at the back of the backup supplies, its hard to tell which kord is which, but now with kolored tags on them I kan more easier tell which kable is which and if I go to unplug something, don't unplug the wrong one. Some are done but I need more ties to finish of the job. I also have kolored velcro ties I found at staples I kan use too in red, blue, green and yellow. Same thing, each kolor will be used only for one komputa, matching the kolor I chose.
Nothing else important to do all day, except maybe WINNING.
/ Wakes u[ and looks at the clock ... 01.30am it says
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/ Wakes u[ and looks at the clock ... 01.30am it says
Your clock is off a bit John, mine says 5:15am Monday morning and I am WINNING!!
I was watering my tomatoes on Saturday and a yellow jacket bee, just about an inch or so long, was drinking the water as I was watering the plants. He decided he didn't like me anymore and got me twice!! Once in the arm near the right elbow, didn't ever hurt but the second time was in the right eyebrow and man it STILL hurts!! My oldest son was home by chance and he checked and there is no stinger, so just a hole in my eyebrow. I put ice on it and took a Tylenol but it took the 3rd Tylenol, with 3 hours in between each one, before I noticed any relief! Then it was sort of okay, with me putting ice on it, letting it warm back up, starting to hurt, me putting ice on it, etc etc until I took another Tylenol and went to bed Saturday night. Sunday morning I woke up and my eye was swollen!!!!! I immediately put some ice on it and the swelling went right down, all day yesterday I put ice on it, let it warm up, ice on, etc etc with varying regularity. This morning I woke up and it is only very slightly swollen, in fact I might be the only one to notice it, but it is still sightly sensitive to the touch. I am amazed how a little tiny bee can give that much pain and suffering when he didn't even leave his stinger in me! He just essentially poked 2 holes in me and flew away. I did hit him a few times as he was attacking me and swatted him down to the deck, I heard his little body make a sound when he hit. But he kept coming back, there is NO nest in the tomatoes, he was just after the water, which I was giving him when he attacked! Yellow Jackets nest in the ground around here and we were 10 feet or more off the ground.
Today I have a dentist appointment, about a month ago I cracked a tooth and have been able to chew only on the left side of my mouth. I went in to see her, on the wrong day it turns out, and saw someone else who said I will need a Crown. I do not dislike Dentists, and mine is a good one, but I have gotten a Crown before and they are not alot of fun until they are completed.
BUT I am STILL WINNING!!
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Oh, you have a talking clock...how wonderful! ;)
You can go back to sleep now.
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Your clock is off a bit John, mine says 5:15am Monday morning and I am WINNING!!
Morning Mikey...looks like our posts crossed. Even though you didn't win...
Have a good day.
Keep trying. You never know when the winning event will happen.
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Congratulations to RandyC!
My turn to win as I've got to get to bed early so I can chew out an insurance adjuster tomorrow. 
My wife got into an accident where someone rammed into her car when she was stopped at a light. They've totaled it, but are only giving us $3200 for it. I was looking at the breakdown of prices, and they've got her down as having the basic package 1999 Grand Am SE.
It was a 1999 Grand Am GT! Loaded to the max with power windows, power doorlocks, a factory sunroof. They say it had excessive wear, with high mileage. Bull! Though it had 80,000 miles on it it had a large V6. That car could probably go for nearly 200,000 miles! The body was immaculate with no dents or scratches!
Rant over! 
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My turn to win as I've got to get to bed early so I can chew out an insurance adjuster tomorrow.
Good luck on your insurance chomping...
And congrats to you for being the first one back after the outage.
Unfortunately, not the winner. But keep trying, you never know what/when the winning event will be!
/ Congratulations to RandyC!
My turn to win as I've got to get to bed early so I can chew out an insurance adjuster tomorrow.
My wife got into an accident where someone rammed into her car when she was stopped at a light. They've totaled it, but are only giving us $3200 for it. I was looking at the breakdown of prices, and they've got her down as having the basic package 1999 Grand Am SE.
It was a 1999 Grand Am GT! Loaded to the max with power windows, power doorlocks, a factory sunroof. They say it had excessive wear, with high mileage. Bull! Though it had 80,000 miles on it it had a large V6. That car could probably go for nearly 200,000 miles! The body was immaculate with no dents or scratches!
Rant over!
It's okay they are used to it, alot of people are not happy with the first offer and go back for more, just be ready with some pictures of the car showing its condition and they should adjust it for you. Just think though you could have been paying your rates as though it were not worth as much as it really is, you could have saved a few bucks over the years.
It is now 5:48am and I am awake and WINNING!!
/ It is now 5:48am and I am awake and WINNING!!
It's 17.50 hours here and time for Tea and muffins.
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Lunch time.
Been eating frozen meals, after cooking of course, for lunch. I usually get the ones the grocery has on sale. This week I giot 4 for 10 bucks. Other people go out to lunch and spend 10 bucks a day.
I even had a sort of kold drink today. I got a personal fridge. It runs off 12 VDC and holds about 6 cans or 3 drink bottles since they are a little bigger. Just fine and I can hide it under the counter up front here. What I did was take an old spare 230W computer power supply, add a jumper to the green wire so it comes on, then for 7 bucks I got a cigarette lighet socket and stuck some of my mate-n-lok pins and a shell on it so it plugs into the power supply and the fridge with its cigarette ligheter plug, made for cars, plugs in.The thing only draws 40W so no problem on the pwoer supply. Saved money over buying one made for it that costs 18 bucks. I could of jsut cut the plug off the fridge and wired it directly, but I though at some point I might use it when I travel by car so it will still be handy for that.
Had problems with the first power supply i tried. It would not come on when jumpered except when I also plugged in a hard drive. Had me puzzled for a while and then I realized it is also an older old one, with only a 20 pin connector. I must also need a load on the 5v line to kick in, which I wasn't going to have. I used another old power supply that had a 24 pin plug and it works fine with just the fridge on the 12v line and the jumper.
So it is chilling some drinks now, maybe tomorrow i'll actually have a cold one.
It was just something to have for fun, just like WINNING.
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/ Lunch time.
Been eating frozen meals, after cooking of course, for lunch. I usually get the ones the grocery has on sale. This week I giot 4 for 10 bucks. Other people go out to lunch and spend 10 bucks a day.
I even had a sort of kold drink today. I got a personal fridge. It runs off 12 VDC and holds about 6 cans or 3 drink bottles since they are a little bigger. Just fine and I can hide it under the counter up front here. What I did was take an old spare 230W computer power supply, add a jumper to the green wire so it comes on, then for 7 bucks I got a cigarette lighet socket and stuck some of my mate-n-lok pins and a shell on it so it plugs into the power supply and the fridge with its cigarette ligheter plug, made for cars, plugs in.The thing only draws 40W so no problem on the pwoer supply. Saved money over buying one made for it that costs 18 bucks. I could of jsut cut the plug off the fridge and wired it directly, but I though at some point I might use it when I travel by car so it will still be handy for that.
Had problems with the first power supply i tried. It would not come on when jumpered except when I also plugged in a hard drive. Had me puzzled for a while and then I realized it is also an older old one, with only a 20 pin connector. I must also need a load on the 5v line to kick in, which I wasn't going to have. I used another old power supply that had a 24 pin plug and it works fine with just the fridge on the 12v line and the jumper.
So it is chilling some drinks now, maybe tomorrow i'll actually have a cold one.
It was just something to have for fun, just like WINNING.
Sounds like way to much work for me, I bought one of these a few years ago and use it around the house when I need to: http://chinagrabber.com/cheap-for-110v-ac-to-12v-dc-car-power-charger-adapter-plug---110v-12v-car-adapter.aspx
It rained a little last night but nothing special, it looked really dark there for awhile but most of it just went around me. 8-(( My rain barrel could have used a refill, it is not empty but I don't like to have to fill it from the hose. More rain might be coming today but then the weekend is supposed to be nice with no rain until next week!
Some of my hot peppers are getting very red now, that means it is time to pick them and send them around to all the neighbors! My second bush, the one the birds picked all the little flowers off of is finally producing its second round of flowers. I have been chasing the birds away and it should produce some peppers soon. My tomatoes are doing fine, the sun killed the tops of the plants off, way too much sun is bad and mine got days and days and days of 100+F heat and they just burnt up, but they are now coming back from the bottom up and I am still picking tomatoes every day.
As for me, my eye feels better with no pain to speak of for a couple of days now but my tooth STILL hurts. I think the Dentist got the front and back of the temporary piece too wide and it is trying to spread my teeth out, making it hurt. It has been 4 days and it should NOT still be hurting!! I am going to call today and get some advice, my next appointment isn't until 7 Sept!!
JohnC my RAC has finally started to nudge up some more, I am now at 356,973 after being stuck in the 353,750 range for more than a week! I changed some of my pc's away from Malaria and over to PrimeGrid and I think that is what did it.
I am still WINNING though!
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Sounds like way to much work for me, I bought one of these a few years ago and use it around the house when I need to: http://chinagrabber.com/cheap-for-110v-ac-to-12v-dc-car-power-charger-adapter-plug---110v-12v-car-adapter.aspx
Same type of thing, only how much current can yours provide. The one recommended for the fridge puts out 5A, although the fridge says it only uses 3.3A or 40W at 12VDC. Even the small computer supply can handle that no problem. It is somewhere 200-250W type, standard supplies as with most computers. It is a spare from one of the upgrades to a larger supply.
My rig was cheaper than buying the 18 buck one, also it reuses old equipment and I like that. It too will have a second use in the future. There are some other devices round that area on the sales desk, a calculator, credit card machine and maybe my shipping scale. These all use a separate power pack. When I order some plugs to convert the other power supplies we use, I will have plugs to do these types of things to. I can run all three of those plus the fridge off the one old computer supply, thus reducing power packs plugged in from 4 to only the one power supply. I have to plan out what parts I need to complete the whole project. I started one day but it got busy. I did take a list of the part numbers I bought for home, so at least I've already done the research for parts and no where to get them.
The only negative is the computer supply with wires hanging out does not look as "pretty" as a power pack, but it is hidden under a counter so it makes not much difference.
Also too I have not destroyed it, so it could be removed and used to run a computer. Same for the power packs, they can be plugged back in and run the equipment if needed or equipment needs to be moved.
All in all the whole experiment is kind of fun and reminds me of my younger, more creative days.
If you're more interested in the molex plugs and power supply conenctions, I found a very good source was the wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molex_connector
It told me all I needed to know about the plugs and how to jumper the green wire so the supply stays on without being plugged into a computer.
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Picked two more orange bell peppers this morning, these will be a gift to one of the store owners near ours, she saves boxes for me sometimes when i need extras. I've been giving her some fresh peppers and tomatoes as a thank you.
I've got more orange ones for myself to use this weekend. I'm getting lots of orange ones, a few red. Haven't seen any yellow this season. I suspect I get more orange from having the orange sun gold tomatoes planted one pot away. Prior to that i got few colors other than red. The yellow may have come from the yellow pear tomatoes, but even those became orange this year.
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Oh well off to work and another day of ....
...WINNING !
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Alan, you are moved!
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Alan, you are moved!
Your turn to move over John!
Hey I worked half the day today trying to get a machine up and running with Win7 64bit Ultiamte and it just would not work. The hard drive kept failing even after 2 different drives. 8-(( I finally tried Win7 32 bit Ultimate and it worked first time!! In the mean time I put the video card in a different machine and now don't have the one I wanted to try to put in it!! MORE 8-(((( I was trying to find a machine with an AGP slot but ended up only finding pci-e or just pci slot motherboards! Oh well still looking and WINNING!!
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Alan, you are moved!
Your turn to move over John!
Hey I worked half the day today trying to get a machine up and running with Win7 64bit Ultiamte and it just would not work. The hard drive kept failing even after 2 different drives. 8-(( I finally tried Win7 32 bit Ultimate and it worked first time!! In the mean time I put the video card in a different machine and now don't have the one I wanted to try to put in it!! MORE 8-(((( I was trying to find a machine with an AGP slot but ended up only finding pci-e or just pci slot motherboards! Oh well still looking and WINNING!!
Odd. I'm running Win 64 bit, and had no trouble installing it. It did demand a new installation though. I was trying to upgrade Win XP and it just wouldn't let me do it.
Winning in the meantime.....
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Alan, you are moved!
Your turn to move over John!
Hey I worked half the day today trying to get a machine up and running with Win7 64bit Ultiamte and it just would not work. The hard drive kept failing even after 2 different drives. 8-(( I finally tried Win7 32 bit Ultimate and it worked first time!! In the mean time I put the video card in a different machine and now don't have the one I wanted to try to put in it!! MORE 8-(((( I was trying to find a machine with an AGP slot but ended up only finding pci-e or just pci slot motherboards! Oh well still looking and WINNING!!
Odd. I'm running Win 64 bit, and had no trouble installing it. It did demand a new installation though. I was trying to upgrade Win XP and it just wouldn't let me do it.
Winning in the meantime.....
Alan, Mikey was referring to Windows 7 64-bit. You lose!!!
But just for now. The winning event/post/whatever is still to come and tomorrow's another day!!!
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/ Hey I worked half the day today trying to get a machine up and running with Alan, Mikey was referring to Windows 7 64-bit. You lose!!!
But just for now. The winning event/post/whatever is still to come and tomorrow's another day!!!
Oooops. I was referring to Windows 7 64-bit. That's what I'm running now.
Winning!
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Alan, you are moved!
Your turn to move over John!
Hey I worked half the day today trying to get a machine up and running with Win7 64bit Ultiamte and it just would not work. The hard drive kept failing even after 2 different drives. 8-(( I finally tried Win7 32 bit Ultimate and it worked first time!! In the mean time I put the video card in a different machine and now don't have the one I wanted to try to put in it!! MORE 8-(((( I was trying to find a machine with an AGP slot but ended up only finding pci-e or just pci slot motherboards! Oh well still looking and WINNING!!
Odd. I'm running Win 64 bit, and had no trouble installing it. It did demand a new installation though. I was trying to upgrade Win XP and it just wouldn't let me do it.
Winning in the meantime.....
Oh it has worked just fine on other machines, I think there must be something in the machine it just didn't like, some component that was incompatible or something. I do not upgrade anymore, although I do have a version of Win7 32bit that my son gave me because he did not want to upgrade his laptop that I MAY try to upgrade my main pc with. I have not decided yet, it is still running Win XP Pro 32 bit and is doing just fine. New 500gb hard drives are down to the $50.00 range, so I may just but one and do a fresh install.
JohnC my RAC is movin on up to 358,433, so it is finally on the move again! I am still looking for an unused machine of mine that has AGP on the MB, if I find one I can bring up another card, albeit an older, slower one. What I am trying to do is find the best of the bunch and keep them running, while saving the others for cooler weather.
WINNING!!
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Which begs the question....were we fighting? Or is that just a generic thought process running loose inside that head of yours?
JohnC today my RAC is even higher at 359,840, so switching to PG and bringing that one more machine on-line is helping. I would like to catch you before Christmas but if wishes were fishes none of us would ever be hungry!
WINNING!
/ My youngest daughter and crew are planning a pool/drinking party tonight for friends (granddaughter is NOT invited). Car keys will be locked up until driver is shown to be unimpaired or is a designated driver.
High temps this afternoon will be in low 80s F, so not quite the warmest for swimming. Tomorrow will be mid to upper 80s F. Both days are expected to be clear and sunny with low humidity.
/ My youngest daughter and crew are planning a pool/drinking party tonight for friends (granddaughter is NOT invited). Car keys will be locked up until driver is shown to be unimpaired or is a designated driver.
High temps this afternoon will be in low 80s F, so not quite the warmest for swimming. Tomorrow will be mid to upper 80s F. Both days are expected to be clear and sunny with low humidity.
Love the idea Randy, wish more parents would do it that way, lock up the keys I mean. They make a really inexpensive portable breathalayzer, here are some examples,
http://www.portablebreathalyzer.net/
I am sure the kids will find warm things to do and have lots of fun doing it. I am also glad your daughter agreed to the conditions, it shows maturity on her part.
JohnC my RAC is now up to 362,005, so climbing steadily right now.
Right now it is in the low 60's outside and it is 6am my time. It is supposed to get up to about 90 today and then warmer as the week goes on, topping out in the mid to upper 90's with some storms by the end of the week.
As for me I am just WINNING!!
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Currently it looks like I am the owner of a falling RAC.
Be careful the RAC does not fall on your head.
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I'm WINNING
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OOOH OOOH! That's a '2-fer', yours going down and mine going up! Today mine is at 364,128, so it is going up about a couple thousand a day, which is a good thing!
Speaking of '2-fers' my tooth STILL hurts and I am mad my dentist did not call me back on Friday, I WILL be calling the office this morning and trying to get in this week. She is quite busy and it can take months to get a regular appt but I go on vacation next week and shouldn't be having to take a Tylenol every 4 to 5 hours for the next 3 weeks!!
I also have to mow today, uggghhhh! It is already 73F with 75% humidity and the temp is supposed to hit near 90 today!
And Keith you were winning but now I am WINNING!!
/ Can I borrow your mower. My garden (front and back) is a little jungle like.
I am taking an extended lie down until it's dark. I must let this mowing the lawn feeling pass!!
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And Keith you were winning but now I am WINNING!!
I'm think I'm WINNING.
It hit 99.9F here today, again, no rain still. I was thinking since April 1st i've probabbly captured less than 33 gallons total this year, 1 barrel full. Last year I had 3 barrels full, and every time I emptied one which took about 5 days and started on the next, it would rain again so I always had three full barrels. I would say I was capturing 33 gallons a week at least with plenty of excess.
I finally watched all of my classic Doctor Who, well at least the ones I have on DVD. I started April 1st with story #1 and finished story # 159 this morning. This time around I was watching all the extras and then going back and watching the program again wit hthe commentary. I actually have a bunch on beta tapes in the garage, and it appears 6 of them are ones not available on DVD yet. I may have to dig those up and see if I can still play them.
With that note, I'm WINNING again.
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Been raining quite heavily last night.
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Been raining quite heavily last night.
Had a bit of a sprinkle last evening...not enough to water much of anything. Today will be 4-H weather: hazy, hot, humid, and just plain horrible!
Keep on posting people. If the winning event is # of posts this game will last forever at the rate you are posting. Then again, it IS summer vacation time and maybe nobody's wasting a lot of time on the computer???
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Been raining quite heavily last night.
Had a bit of a sprinkle last evening...not enough to water much of anything. Today will be 4-H weather: hazy, hot, humid, and just plain horrible!
Keep on posting people. If the winning event is # of posts this game will last forever at the rate you are posting. Then again, it IS summer vacation time and maybe nobody's wasting a lot of time on the computer???
Then I think you should just give the game win to me, after all I am posting!
JohnC yes you can borrow my mower but you have to pay for the shipping both ways, and I will need it back by next week. It would actually be much cheaper to find your local lawnmower repair shop and buy one of their used ones, but your choice.
Also JohnC my RAC today is at 355,352, so actually down a couple K. 8-((
The weather here is supposed to be in the UPPER 90's both today and tomorrow! They are talking near record heat for both days then right now they are saying some rain might move in for the rest of the week. My rain barrel has been kept just full enough to not force me to use the hose to fill it back up yet, I really hope that continues!
And Keith I never was a Dr Who fan, he probably would have been fun to watch but I just never started and by the time I thought about watching him I was waaay too far behind.
Did I tell you I was WINNING? Well I am!!
/ JohnC yes you can borrow my mower but you have to pay for the shipping both ways, and I will need it back by next week. It would actually be much cheaper to find your local lawnmower repair shop and buy one of their used ones, but your choice.
Actually I use a 17" wide Honda Izzy petrol mower and got the front and back gardens donw yeaterda evening. Takes me about 1 hour, abd it came up nicely. Thanks goodness I did it as it rained quite heavily overnignt.
Lovely wall-to-wall sunshine today with a good breeze. Keeps the temperature comfortable at ~18C (64.5F).
[quote]Also JohnC my RAC today is at 355,352, so actually down a couple K. 8-((
My RAC seems to have stabelised, but my daily output is about 40K to 60K lower than it was earlier in the month.
WINNING?
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/ JohnC yes you can borrow my mower but you have to pay for the shipping both ways, and I will need it back by next week. It would actually be much cheaper to find your local lawnmower repair shop and buy one of their used ones, but your choice.
Actually I use a 17" wide Honda Izzy petrol mower and got the front and back gardens donw yeaterda evening. Takes me about 1 hour, abd it came up nicely. Thanks goodness I did it as it rained quite heavily overnignt.
Lovely wall-to-wall sunshine today with a good breeze. Keeps the temperature comfortable at ~18C (64.5F).
I am glad to hear you don't need my mower then, I was kinda worried with the shipping times!
Also JohnC my RAC today is at 355,352, so actually down a couple K. 8-((
My RAC seems to have stabelised, but my daily output is about 40K to 60K lower than it was earlier in the month.
I found out the problem I was working on a dvd and had turned off Boinc on one pc and forgot to turn it back on. I found it this morning during my daily check of my machines, so all is coming back up now.
WINNING?
Oh really? I think it is me that is WINNING!!
pc I went to see the dentist today and she did a root canal on my tooth.
/ pc I went to see the dentist today and she did a root canal on my tooth.
Oh fun! I had my own encounter with some Novocaine today. About a year or so ago I had a growth removed from my upper left jaw just above the gum line. It apparently didn't heal properly since there was a little flap of tissue that would develop a blister and then pop.
I went in today and they jabbed me with the Novocaine, then took it out. They also painted it with the worst tasting stuff I've had in a long time. Yuck! Supposed to keep it from getting infected though.
/ A nice long win randyC but you now need the rest!
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/ A nice long win randyC but you now need the rest!
Actually, as the thread-starter I CAN'T win. But thanks for the thought anyway...I'll take a nap now...
/ pc I went to see the dentist today and she did a root canal on my tooth.
Oh fun! I had my own encounter with some Novocaine today. About a year or so ago I had a growth removed from my upper left jaw just above the gum line. It apparently didn't heal properly since there was a little flap of tissue that would develop a blister and then pop.
I went in today and they jabbed me with the Novocaine, then took it out. They also painted it with the worst tasting stuff I've had in a long time. Yuck! Supposed to keep it from getting infected though.
I HATE Novocaine!!!! They me in the right rear of my mouth, waited about 20 minutes and stuck some clamp thing on my tooth. I said O-U-C-H and they took it off and jabbed me again with more Novocaine! After another 20 minutes they stuck the clamp thing on my tooth and I said O-U-C-H again! They said I HOPE you are kidding, I wasn't. They continued on and after alot of filing with some teeny, tiny little files and then taking some x-rays, she filled the tooth back up and said I was done. THEN the Novocaine started to kick in!! All this happened starting around 2:30 or so and it wasn't until after 8pm that I was feeling un-numb enough to eat without chewing my cheek! This has been a long standing problem with me, I normally make them work on me with no shots, they just don't take effect until after they are all done anyway, so what's the point?!! But this dentist, I really like her, won't do Root Canals or Crowns without giving patients a shot, or two, first. I put my foot down on fillings though, I told I would find someone else if she insisted on giving me a shot for those. I do not think it is her technique, I think it is just me and the way my nerves work or are routed. She did put a stick in my mouth, right where she was going to inject me before she gave me the first shot though, it tasted REALLY bad, I wonder if it was the same stuff.
WINNING while sitting in front of the air conditioner!!
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nitrous oxide!
You won't feel a thing.
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nitrous oxide!
You won't feel a thing.
You know I have thought of that and will ask her about it next time. I may be her first patient, oooh that may not be good. Oh well as said I will laugh all the way to my death!
JohnC my total Boinc RAC is now back up to 355,505, so it is rebounding nicely.
That means I MUST be WINNING!!
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We had some rain, at least I think it was rain, been so long since I've seen any. It didn't last long, a violent thunderstorm with about 10 minutes of rain even though the storm lasted about 1/2 an hour. Din't caputer but a couple of gallons.
Well today it should be 100F again and the humidity is still in the upper 70%'s at least.
I've got to go out and check my Alamanda bush. I've had her a long time but not had good luck with offspring. The first year she grew some odd thing, like a golf ball but with spikes all over it. I finally figured out it was a seed pod. There are like a dozen seeds in them and they are bigger than watermelon seeds. I got four little ones to grow a few inches tall and then lost them all. She didn't put out pods for the next three years. Then I got another pod. I was able to get two to grow and one got to about a foot tall but then I lost it over the winter. Now I'm excited because so far i've seen seven seeds pods on her this year.
My team passed 1,000,000,000 credits yesterday.
Sounds like WINNING to me.
/ I've often thought that women probably make better dentists than men. My dentist has such fat fingers, that I can't open up wide enough for his fingers and tools in my mouth.
Remind me to look for a woman dentist with little dainty hands. Sure makes the going easier!
@ Krunchin-Keith! TFFE is having a bash in our own little forum celebrating our upcoming 1,000,000,000! It's sitting presently at around 994,109,485. Mikey! Stop on in, and join in the festivities!
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Remind me to look for a woman dentist with little dainty hands. Sure makes the going easier!
The one you want is the doctor with little dainty hands, makes your annual physical exam go much easier! My former MD used to be a guard in the NFL. OUCH!!
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The one you want is the doctor with little dainty hands, makes your annual physical exam go much easier! My former MD used to be a guard in the NFL. OUCH!!
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Whoo, we had a nasty thunderstorm blow thru just before the end of work. Hard rain and lots of lightning. I got nervous and turned all the work computers off, even though the backup supplies ahd not even beeped any yet. We had what looked like some nearby strikes. I left them off because another storm is on the way. Storm only lasted 30-40 minutes. It's pretty serious when I turn the computers off.
Good news, I'm up to about 15 gallons of rain water captured at present.
is it time for WINNING Yet ?
/ Remind me to look for a woman dentist with little dainty hands. Sure makes the going easier!
The one you want is the doctor with little dainty hands, makes your annual physical exam go much easier! My former MD used to be a guard in the NFL. OUCH!!
I had a Doctor in the Navy tell me that many years ago, I think he could have been a guard in the NFL. I was getting ready to get discharged and was tired of my knees hurting from Osgood Slaterus Disease, calcium deposits, and went to him to get them shaved off. He showed me his hands and said I can do that but the scar will go from mid calf to mid thigh, I said no thanks and still have them. And yes the knees still hurt!
I did not turn the pc's off but we had some serious storms come thru today too! I did not get any rain this morning but DC got some serious rain and wind and traffic is a mess. This afternoon is when I got my rain and we got wind too, alot of it! My rain gauge shows we got almost an inch of rain in less than an hour and my rain barrel is full. WooHoo!
WINNING!!
/ Time to post, win then head for sleep.
One of my 4 dogs is nattering at me as she wants to go to sleep.
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is it time for WINNING Yet ?
Well, not for you--yet!
You see, most LP2PW threads go at least 100 posts (not all though) and we're not even to 70 yet. Hmmmm. Kinda reminds me of the 7 little pigs theme. Naaaaa!
Keep posting. Maybe it's a certain post, maybe it's a certain day, maybe it's...well there IS something that will trigger the win.
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is it time for WINNING Yet ?
Well, not for you--yet!
You see, most LP2PW threads go at least 100 posts (not all though) and we're not even to 70 yet. Hmmmm. Kinda reminds me of the 7 little pigs theme. Naaaaa!
Keep posting. Maybe it's a certain post, maybe it's a certain day, maybe it's...well there IS something that will trigger the win.
There have been games that have lasted less than 50 posts, not here on Malaria though, and some games that have lasted over 3,000 posts, again not here at Malaria. The length of the game and or a trigger point has always been left up to the individual game organizer, I ran one for 159 posts one time because that was my number when I was a firefighter.
It is raining again, I JUST checked the rain gauge and it is up to 2 inches right now, and that is just since yesterday morning. It is supposed to rain most of the day today I think, but I think it will be more spotty than that according to the radar on the tv.
Yesterday morning a darned chipmunk was on my deck eating some tomatoes! I got my air gun out and popped him a few times and he just jumped and went back to munching!! I ran out on the deck making alot of noise and he ran down the steps to the ground level and then just stood next to his burrow entrance, where I popped him a few times, again making him jump. All he did was jump and not like being hit with the plastic pellet, so I decided I was going to go out and buy me a cheapy Walmart CO2 pellet pistol. I mentioned this to a guy I take to lunch every week and he says 'I got one you can have'! I went into his home, I have been there MANY times in the past helping him with his pc's etc, and he reaches into a drawer and pulls out this Crossman CO2 pistol along with 14, 14 CO2 cartridges, 2 things of metal bb's and hands them to me and says 'here you go'. I came home put on some safety glasses and tested it out, it is noisier than I thought it would be but is pretty accurate, the rear site is missing and instead just has a screw in its place, and has quite a pop to it. It also will shoot quite a ways, compared to my battery powered plastic pellet shooting one. I think the squirrels and chipmunks are in for a rude awakening when the weather clears, and I might even have to find me a fiberglass handled shove to leave outside in the weather so that when I hit them they aren't left laying around the yard.
I am definitely WINNING now!!!
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So much for kold drinks. My kooler trips the power supply this morning and I had turned both off last night. Power supply works fine, even under a load of a computer and some drives.
All the computers work fine, although I had a ton of updates to install this morning, driving me nuts jumping from computer to computer, I only have 6 here under my control that I use and keep running, there are other but other people manage them as far as updates. Good thing I came in before 8am cause it was almost an hour before I had everything back on and running normally, except the kooler.
I'm WINNING while Mikey is busy teasing munks.
/ TFFE is now sitting at 996,719,152 cobblers. Just a couple more days then we celebrate 1,000,000,000! We even have entertainment there at the TFFE site.
Among our entertainers are The Final Countdown And to beat them we introduce This nightingale!
And I managed to book Elvis the basset hound.
And Krunchin-Keith!!!! Enjoy your new landmark and congratulations!
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Story here and here.
Way to go BOINC USERS!
/ For those of us who also crunch E@H (raises hand), it was announced yesterday that a couple of crunchers had completed WUs that discovered an unknown Neutron star.
Story here and here.
Way to go BOINC USERS!
I read about that earlier! Very interesting. You'd think that it would have been SETI, but alas they can't keep their servers going.
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Happy Friday the 13th you lucky people.
I'm so lucky, I'm WINNING.
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As are you right now John, sorry about that but it is my turn to be WINNING!
Dune I posted on the boards.
Keith do you install all MS updates as soon as they come out? I went around and updated all of my pc's the other day, but usually wait a few days to make sure the updates aren't in fact downgrades, as MS HAS done in the past, before I do them. And yes that is how a couple of mine were not crunching for a day or two. I do NOT upgrade at the same time they crunch, too much potential in my mind for 'issues' to develop. And I forgot to reboot one one day and one the next day while updating them, my RAC is STILL recovering!!
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Keith do you install all MS updates as soon as they come out? I went around and updated all of my pc's the other day, but usually wait a few days to make sure the updates aren't in fact downgrades, as MS HAS done in the past, before I do them. And yes that is how a couple of mine were not crunching for a day or two. I do NOT upgrade at the same time they crunch, too much potential in my mind for 'issues' to develop. And I forgot to reboot one one day and one the next day while updating them, my RAC is STILL recovering!!
I update when I have time to reboot. On most of my systems I reboot one day a week. Some of the remoter systems maybe once a month.
I've never had any problems installing the patches to patched patches while running boinc. The updates don't usually take effect until after you reboot.
My home systems have been beeping at me a few days now so they will get updated today or tomorrow.
I have problems with most of my XP systems, if I don't reboot at least once a week, the work computers i use a lot i reboot every morning. The problem is after some time, the screen will get a patch of some window in the wrong place, then when you open new windows they don't fully fill in and sometimes even the border is missing in spots makeing the new window useless. It can be any program or even windows folders that will do it. It seems to me the more times you open and close any windows the sooner it happens, then count might be something like 250 but I don't really know.
There are four or five programs I didn't install on the twins here, because I though it might be one of those, but they still developed the same problem, and it happens at work and at home, some of those being common programs to both locations, so I think it is in windows. It seems to me long ago I never had this problem, it was like after ie6 or 7 came out maybe, whichever one was a big update requiring uninstall of the previous version I think. Because ie is also part or windows explorer or the other way around I now figure that it is where the problem is, internal to windows and not some add on software.
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Checking my plants this morning I found Alamanda now has 9 seed pods growing. Wow, I've never seen so many. I hope out of those I can get some babies to grow.
No rain scheduled for at least another 3 days. Today is clear, mild hot, humid and good windage.
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I have problems with most of my XP systems, if I don't reboot at least once a week, the work computers i use a lot i reboot every morning. The problem is after some time, the screen will get a patch of some window in the wrong place, then when you open new windows they don't fully fill in and sometimes even the border is missing in spots makeing the new window useless. It can be any program or even windows folders that will do it. It seems to me the more times you open and close any windows the sooner it happens, then count might be something like 250 but I don't really know.
There are four or five programs I didn't install on the twins here, because I though it might be one of those, but they still developed the same problem, and it happens at work and at home, some of those being common programs to both locations, so I think it is in windows. It seems to me long ago I never had this problem, it was like after ie6 or 7 came out maybe, whichever one was a big update requiring uninstall of the previous version I think. Because ie is also part or windows explorer or the other way around I now figure that it is where the problem is, internal to windows and not some add on software.
You might try updating the video drivers for those systems. I once had similar problems on a Linux system and a driver update cured it. Obviously, Linux is not Windows, but the idea is the same.
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I have problems with most of my XP systems, if I don't reboot at least once a week, the work computers i use a lot i reboot every morning. The problem is after some time, the screen will get a patch of some window in the wrong place, then when you open new windows they don't fully fill in and sometimes even the border is missing in spots makeing the new window useless. It can be any program or even windows folders that will do it. It seems to me the more times you open and close any windows the sooner it happens, then count might be something like 250 but I don't really know.
There are four or five programs I didn't install on the twins here, because I though it might be one of those, but they still developed the same problem, and it happens at work and at home, some of those being common programs to both locations, so I think it is in windows. It seems to me long ago I never had this problem, it was like after ie6 or 7 came out maybe, whichever one was a big update requiring uninstall of the previous version I think. Because ie is also part or windows explorer or the other way around I now figure that it is where the problem is, internal to windows and not some add on software.
You might try updating the video drivers for those systems. I once had similar problems on a Linux system and a driver update cured it. Obviously, Linux is not Windows, but the idea is the same.
No its not video drivers. They have been updated many times since this problem began, and it happens on several systems with differnet video boards. I haven't had time to fully investigate this problem, but at least a reboot cures it and more frequent reboots keeps it from reoccuring for a while. Not the biggest problem on my todo list.
I did solve another problem today, rather cleverly I must say. This is not the korrect way, but it works and i'm happy. I have an internal kard reader that came in the komputer. My usb hub also has a kard reader. Ya know you end up with 4 drives in my komputer, well for me it is 8. I guess i could unplug the internal but i figured it might come in handy for some kopy fuctions someday. On my now dormant Sony komputer, I could rename these drives, and after roboot they would stay renamed. Well on these Gateway komputers there is something that resets the names to a default on every boot and i kan't figure out what it is. Ya see I want the CompactFlash drives nameed as "KompactFlash External" and "KompactFlash Internal". The SD drives as SD/MMC and not MMC/SD and so on. My solution was rather unique, I found in the registry the keys where these names are stored. But just changing them and rebooting they get set back to this default, but only on the 4 internal drives that came with the komputer. My solution was to rename them and save those registry keys to a file, then add to the startup folder a command to load the registry keys on every bootup, which the command in the startup folder come last, so they execute after the system has already done is reset to default. Problem solved and I get the names I want. Plus too I was able to assign icons to the external drives, using the same ones as the internals so they all like like little media cards and not a box like the default was.
"I don't take no [bleep] from machines"
I'm WINNING. Now to go see the Doctor.
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I have problems with most of my XP systems, if I don't reboot at least once a week, the work computers i use a lot i reboot every morning. The problem is after some time, the screen will get a patch of some window in the wrong place, then when you open new windows they don't fully fill in and sometimes even the border is missing in spots makeing the new window useless. It can be any program or even windows folders that will do it. It seems to me the more times you open and close any windows the sooner it happens, then count might be something like 250 but I don't really know.
There are four or five programs I didn't install on the twins here, because I though it might be one of those, but they still developed the same problem, and it happens at work and at home, some of those being common programs to both locations, so I think it is in windows. It seems to me long ago I never had this problem, it was like after ie6 or 7 came out maybe, whichever one was a big update requiring uninstall of the previous version I think. Because ie is also part or windows explorer or the other way around I now figure that it is where the problem is, internal to windows and not some add on software.
You might try updating the video drivers for those systems. I once had similar problems on a Linux system and a driver update cured it. Obviously, Linux is not Windows, but the idea is the same.
No its not video drivers. They have been updated many times since this problem began, and it happens on several systems with differnet video boards. I haven't had time to fully investigate this problem, but at least a reboot cures it and more frequent reboots keeps it from reoccuring for a while. Not the biggest problem on my todo list.
I did solve another problem today, rather cleverly I must say. This is not the korrect way, but it works and i'm happy. I have an internal kard reader that came in the komputer. My usb hub also has a kard reader. Ya know you end up with 4 drives in my komputer, well for me it is 8. I guess i could unplug the internal but i figured it might come in handy for some kopy fuctions someday. On my now dormant Sony komputer, I could rename these drives, and after roboot they would stay renamed. Well on these Gateway komputers there is something that resets the names to a default on every boot and i kan't figure out what it is. Ya see I want the CompactFlash drives nameed as "KompactFlash External" and "KompactFlash Internal". The SD drives as SD/MMC and not MMC/SD and so on. My solution was rather unique, I found in the registry the keys where these names are stored. But just changing them and rebooting they get set back to this default, but only on the 4 internal drives that came with the komputer. My solution was to rename them and save those registry keys to a file, then add to the startup folder a command to load the registry keys on every bootup, which the command in the startup folder come last, so they execute after the system has already done is reset to default. Problem solved and I get the names I want. Plus too I was able to assign icons to the external drives, using the same ones as the internals so they all like like little media cards and not a box like the default was.
"I don't take no [bleep] from machines"
I'm WINNING. Now to go see the Doctor.
Okay they moved things around so I had to go looking for it but I found what I was looking for:
In Win7 and probably Vista too go to Control Panel, System and Security and then Administrative Tools. Once there click on Computer Management, once there click on Storage and Disk Management. This will show all the drives on your pc and you can right click and change their drive letters, names, paths whatever you like AND it should stay thru a reboot!
In XP go to Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Storage and then Disk Management, then do the right click as above. It is a pain to get to and no they don't make it easy at all!
Keith if you go to the local plant nursery they should be able to give you some tips on keeping those babies alive. Since the one grows so well I'll bet it is something simple but required that is preventing the babies from maturing. Maybe you just have to go 'mom school' to learn to be a better mom. Like when people grow cacti they often forget it grows well in low water situations and they need to dry out between waterings.
It is Sunday and my neighbors grandkid is getting Baptized today, along with his mom, and they are having a brunch afterwards. The Church is so small that only family is going to the actual event so the neighbors are going to the brunch held at their home afterwards. It should be fun, then hopefully we can get out of there and let the family enjoy their visit. Their son, the babies dad, grew up and went to school with my son. The kid is still in college and is unmarried and has a 6 month old kid! Life just got really tough!!
CONGRATULATIONS to Team TFFE on making it to 1,000,000,000!
As for me I am WINNING too!!
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...[SNIP]...Okay they moved things around so I had to go looking for it but I found what I was looking for:
In Win7 and probably Vista too go to Control Panel, System and Security and then Administrative Tools. Once there click on Computer Management, once there click on Storage and Disk Management. This will show all the drives on your pc and you can right click and change their drive letters, names, paths whatever you like AND it should stay thru a reboot!
In XP go to Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Storage and then Disk Management, then do the right click as above. It is a pain to get to and no they don't make it easy at all!
I know about that.
I make shortcuts to these functions and put them in a separate folder in my documents kalled 'my shortcuts' and then a link as a toolbar in the windows bar to my shortcuts. Makes finding them much easier than six klicks thourgh windows' start bar. I have a direct shortcut to drive management.
No that is not it. These are removable drives. I can change the drive letter as with your suggestion and had already done that. That change remains after reboot. What i'm talking about is the name of the removable drive when no media kard is inserted, this is what appears in the 'my copmuter' or 'portable media devices' windows. When you insert a mdeia kard, the name will change to the name stored on the card, but when removed it reverts to a default. I wanted them named so I could more easily identify which was which and have them separated into groups by name. Also too you can only enter about 10-12 characters for a name if you try to rename the device in windows by right click and selecting rename. In the registry you can enter longer names.
Default names on the internal media slots.
CompactFlashI/II
MMC/SD
MS/MS Pro
SmartMedia
I think the external slots had no names, just drive letters.
I reassigned the drive letters to match as best I could the name, with the internals one letter after the externals, except Z which is a backwards S
Here are my names
B: Boinc USB
V: DVD-RAM Drive
W: DVD-RW Drive
E: External HDD 465GB
C: Internal HDD 228GB WDC
O: Internal HDD 931GB Seagate 72
P: Internal HDD 931GB Seagate 59
K: KompactFlash External
L: KompactFlash Internal
M: MS/MS Pro External
N: MS/MS Prto Internal
R: Recovery
S: SD/MMC External
Z: SD/MMC Internal
X: xd/SM External
Y: xd/SM Internal
I named the Smart Media as xD/SM because that is the way it was on my Somy for xd picture disc and smart media, i don't even have any of those media kards but i have some of the others KF,MS,SD types.
In my computer, when viewed in groups sorted by name the lsit becomes more klear. The only other entires are Control Panel, Owners Documents (aka my documents) and Shared Documents. The list is easier to kwickly find a particular drive, at least to me.
Keith if you go to the local plant nursery they should be able to give you some tips on keeping those babies alive. Since the one grows so well I'll bet it is something simple but required that is preventing the babies from maturing. Maybe you just have to go 'mom school' to learn to be a better mom. Like when people grow cacti they often forget it grows well in low water situations and they need to dry out between waterings.
The one growing was nursey bought, i didn't grow it from a seed, that is why it survives as it was already an adult.
I only have 4 store bought plants. The Alamada, two Oleanders and an Amaryllis. I also had an Easter Lilly but that has passed away, but I still have an offshoot from her. Everything else is from cuttings or seeds off other plants or out of vegetables. The aloes wern't even store bought, they were given to us from someone and they were from someones elses plants, not store bought. The snake plant was part of a plant my dad had given to him and we broke some of it off and i brought it up from florida. All of the vegetables i grew from seeds or cuttings, i never bought pre-started plants on any of them.
Heres my garden:
Indoors now: Aloe, Chives, Avacodo
Outdoors now: Oleander, Alamanda, Amaryllis, Easter Lilly, Snake Plant, Sweet Basil, Sweet Potato, White Potato, Pineapple, mini Sun-Gold Tomato, mini Pear Tomato, Musclin-Mix Lettuce, Bell Pepper, Red-Hot Pepper, Clover and some kind of flower. Most of those there are more than one plant.
In the past I also had mini Grape Tomato, mini Red Hybrid Tomato, Elephant Ears, Air Plant and various herbs in the Aero-garden.
Yeah, i'm sure its my fault. I plant a lot of things and some survive. At one time I had two Aloe plants left me by my former housemate. One was to be mine and after she got settled iin her new twon, I was to give one back. So after she left, ka'boom they started multiplying. Eventually I gave on of the originals back to her, but the ones I was left with kept multiplying up until there were more than 300. Then A lot started dying, i'm down to less than a 100 still going mostly down hill, but I see some new shoots on some this year, so maybe it's time for the cycle to reverse again. Amazinly the original is still alive, although it is very small.
It's also a combiantion of water-light and air. Somethings do good outside and then suffer when i bring them in for the winter. Then i've got other things that do well inside during the winter, but suffer inside in the summer.
Same with my Snake plant. I had three pots full. One was over 6 feet tall. Then poof, they're almost all gone. I do sometimes have luck cutting off leaves and just sticking them in new soil. I did this with three, two died and then suddenly the third is still going and two new plants grew next to it, so maybe too that is on a regeneration path.
Oh, Alamada now has 11 seed pods going.
My Oleanders have seed pods starting too, even some of the ones I put in the ground which were some babies I grew from seeds and one of those is a pink one. Strange how i got two different colors of pink from starting with two white trees. Some of the babies came out with lite pinkish flowers and a couple ahve a deep full pink going toward crimson color. I did not plant many seeds this year, but i've got two babies left. It will be funny if next year I get orange Oleander and Pink Bell Peppers.
I think its time to go look for some more Sweet potatoes. Some of the pots are bulging or have dirt hills in them. One vine I think is over 25 feet long and getting about as fat as my pinky finger. I'm not even sure i'll be able to untangle these things as they wrap in and out around the railing and through various pots. I didn't keep good control on some things this year.
CONGRATULATIONS to Team TFFE on making it to 1,000,000,000!
Ditto. Does team USA have kompetition now? We'll have to work harder to regain our position, as I fell soon TFFE is going to pass us. The race is on to 2B.
As for me I am WINNING now, at least at this game.
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Did I see you post that you started a new GPU?
Winning, but not on a rising RAC like Mikey
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/ Went out yesterday afternoon to check the garden...
The TopsyTurvey tomato plant had been disastered! I found a huge caterpillar clinging to mostly stems on the plant. I removed him forthwith! There is one branch with some minimal leaves on it. I have no idea if the plant will regenerate or not.
The other tomato plant in a pot is doing just fine, with lots of small grape size green tomatoes (it's a cherry tomato plant). The pot of peppers finally has some peppers on it.
Keep posting...the winning event will arrive before Christmas, guaranteed!!! ;)
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Did I see you post that you started a new GPU?
Winning, but not on a rising RAC like Mikey
Sort of, I have like 10 altogether that can crunch, but only had 8 of them on line, recently I saw some numbers that showed me maybe I didn't have the best 8 crunching, so I put an old one back online. So far the numbers I saw appear to have been right and I did not have the best 8 running. I put an Nvidia GeForce 9600 GSO online recently and yesterday got 14,972 credits from it. That is more than the Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT card that got 14,799 yesterday! But the GT sometimes only gets 5k or 6k per day, while the GSO has consistently gotten near 15k per day. Both cards have 512 meg of ram and the GT is in a quad core while the GSO is in a dual core machine. Both pc's are using all of their cpu's at PrimeGrid, while both gpu's are at Collatz and both pc's are running 64bit Win7. As of this morning my total Boinc RAC is 362,493 and still climbing!
Keith you have a very extensive custom computer configuration going on, I hope you write all that down so you can reproduce it! I would never even remember all that, and I do have problems sometimes remembering which drive is which!
I think it is also cool how you have been able to keep all those plants going over the years, CONGRATULATIONS!!
Randy I have been lucky with caterpillars and have never seen any in several years, I hope you keep them up there with you!
As for WINNING, I am!
/ I thought I saw a winner when I last looked in, but ...
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/ I thought I saw a winner when I last looked in, but ...
You did, you did, I am WINNING!!
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I thought I saw a winner when I last looked in, but ...
Its all a dream and you must be talking to yourself in your sleep again, wake up, because I'm WINNING.
/ Was just woken by all the noise you made rootling around in your wheelie bin, and ...
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Was just woken by all the noise you made rootling around in your wheelie bin, and ...
Go back to sleep, your talking clock will wake you when its your turn to win, as of now this is nit it as I'm WINNING.
/ Was just woken by all the noise you made rootling around in your wheelie bin, and ...
Go back to sleep, your talking clock will wake you when its your turn to win, as of now this is nit it as I'm WINNING.
Keith you are dreaming again, it is not your turn to win, it is mine!!
JohnC I am not at a total Boinc RAC of 358,146!!!!!
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Cannot win?
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/ ... goes up-and-down like a barmaid's ...
Mood?
/ ... goes up-and-down like a barmaid's ...
Mood?
Or mooed?
ducks and runs...
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Do you keep ducks, and do they give you the runs?
Winning?
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/ RandyC
Do you keep ducks, and do they give you the runs?
Winning?
Not winning yet...maybe soon?
My granddaughter likes ducks...and frogs, and dinosaurs... She's on the cusp of walking, so I might be running after her soon...
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Do you keep ducks, and do they give you the runs?
Winning?
Not winning yet...maybe soon?
My granddaughter likes ducks...and frogs, and dinosaurs... She's on the cusp of walking, so I might be running after her soon...
Oh what fun, all those coffee tables etc that have edges are about to become both good and bad things, both at the same time! Good things because she will learn to hold on to them as she toddles around, bad things as she loses her balance and her head heads right for them! Just remember how your kids did, kids are remarkably durable and resilient! And soon they will learn to have balance and the agility of an NFL running back, making them impossible to catch! My youngest was playing soccer and the coach and he were playing a game on one one one keep away. They stand in one spot facing each other and each tries to take the ball away from the other. After only just a few seconds my son got the ball and the coach could NOT get it back. My sons legs were shorter and when he picked them up he could put them down quicker so he had much more agility and quickness, not more skill, just quicker feet.
JohnC I had a power supply die yesterday on one of my pc's with a video card crunching away in it! My RAC went down overnight to 357,540 and I don't know if I will be able to fix it before I come back off of vacation next week! My RAC should be dropping until I do swap it out, I do have a spare and it should work, I just need the time, I leave tomorrow morning!
That makes me the WINNER!
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Mikey, Sorry to hear about the power supply. This is one advantage I have with krated komputers, that is parts replacement. No cover to open and no screws to remove. I can swap parts in a lot less time.
We got some rain yesterday evening. Very little but I captured 2 gallons which ain't much.
Looks overcast this morning and 92% humidity so maybe we'll get some more today. The humidity is awful. I went out to water the plants, the ones on the porch that didn't get wet. Was only out 5 minutes or so and when I came back in I was all congested.
I don't usually dream about WINNING, I've got better things to dream about, like gurls. This is why now i'm awake and WINNING.
/ Mikey, Sorry to hear about the power supply. This is one advantage I have with krated komputers, that is parts replacement. No cover to open and no screws to remove. I can swap parts in a lot less time.
It turns out the fan was just stuck and it is a 'Cooler Master' brand power supply, that means swappable fans! I however have a can of CRC that I used and it is now working just fine. CRC is for electrical stuff making it very similar to WD-40 but specifically for electrical stuff. I am up and crunching again, WOO HOO!!
We got some rain yesterday evening. Very little but I captured 2 gallons which ain't much.
Looks overcast this morning and 92% humidity so maybe we'll get some more today. The humidity is awful. I went out to water the plants, the ones on the porch that didn't get wet. Was only out 5 minutes or so and when I came back in I was all congested.
I don't usually dream about WINNING, I've got better things to dream about, like gurls. This is why now i'm awake and WINNING.
Yeah I too do not like this time of year, my allergies are bad as usual. It rained all day yesterday but this morning I had to mow and it is not raining today, but might tonight. It is supposed to bright and sunny tomorrow, the day I leave of course! Then I will be down past you Keith in Oak Island. I know it is several hours past you and my wife is not into leaving once we get there, but I may go by your work and peak in. Check out the girls from the calendar!!
Right now I am done mowing, the pc is working and I am getting ready to get into the shower, I am DEFINITELY WINNING!!!
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Speaking of fans, I was watching an episode of the new doctor who, and they had this control console on this space station, it had some built in blue lighted fans, just like the ones i have. I don't think you were suppose to know they were fans, they just made the thing look kool. I only barely reconized the light pattern.
Mikey, you're welcome to stop by anytime, but Oak Island is like a 5 hour drive from Nags Head when traffic runs smooth. Even if you made a detour on your way down, you'd be a long way off course.
On saturdays, its not uncommon for traffic to back up 18 miles and take a couple of hours to cover that distance getting to the outerbnaks.
Yesterday I traveled into the future and read the past message boards so I already know who will win when.
But for now I'm WINNING.
/ It looks like the right time for the sleep shift to report in for it's win
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/ Speaking of fans, I was watching an episode of the new doctor who, and they had this control console on this space station, it had some built in blue lighted fans, just like the ones i have. I don't think you were suppose to know they were fans, they just made the thing look kool. I only barely reconized the light pattern.
Nifty. I've recorded the current season with the brand new doctor, but haven't had a chance to look at it. Something to look forward to.
Yesterday I traveled into the future and read the past message boards so I already know who will win when.
But for now I'm WINNING.
Yes, but did you take the right branch? There are many possible futures, but only one True future. Step carefully or you'll wind up in the spaghetti sauce.
/ Just stepping up to the plate for a WIN!
/ Just stepping up to the plate for a WIN!
Oh soooo close, but sorry just a long out! I had to climb the fence but now it is my turn to be WINNING!!
And Keith that is why I do not think this is the time I will be stopping by, I leave today and come back the middle of next week, so there is little time for side trips this vacation. My wife retires from her work in December and needs to take a month off then, we may take a trip then to a warmer place, so we will have to see.
JohnC my RAC is back upto 359,700 this morning, but with me not babysitting my pc's if one dies again, it will be a few days before I can fix it!
Did I mention that I was WINNING?
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Speaking of fans, I was watching an episode of the new doctor who, and they had this control console on this space station, it had some built in blue lighted fans, just like the ones i have. I don't think you were suppose to know they were fans, they just made the thing look kool. I only barely reconized the light pattern.
Nifty. I've recorded the current season with the brand new doctor, but haven't had a chance to look at it. Something to look forward to.
Yesterday I traveled into the future and read the past message boards so I already know who will win when.
But for now I'm WINNING.
Yes, but did you take the right branch? There are many possible futures, but only one True future. Step carefully or you'll wind up in the spaghetti sauce.
I'm catching up to the new season, but will have to wait for it on DVD to watch. As for now i'm almost to the end of the third season. I can go through about 1 season a week. I still have a large pile of DVDs to watch and catalog. Somehow I didn't think it was going to take me 4-5 months to watch all the classic who. There are 26 seasons of it, with about 70% of it available on DVD, 5 more DVDs to be released later this year. There are about 36 available on VHS as used, but some of those are pricy. Some episodes can never be seen again because they no longer have any films or tapes to make them from, a lot were destroyed before the invent of home viewing. Even some of the DVDs I have have parts of the lost episodes as special features with only 1 to 5 minutes of an episode, the rest all being lost.
I knew you were going to say that, so I must have been in the correct future.
Don't worry though, I won't spoil the fun for you and the others by giving away the winner, which at the moment is ME.
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And congratulations to you...but not for winning.
Your post was #100 in this thread...the winning event has not arrived yet, but is getting closer. Keep posting!
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So t's keep on posting to win?
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So t's keep on posting to win?
Yes sort of, it is now my turn to be WINNING!!
/ Hot and humid all weekend, ugh. This summer is getting old. But not having to go to W@#k is always nice!
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I think it will be hot and humid here too, but for now its not too bad although there is no wind or breeze. 81F / 74% humidity.
It's 9am and now i bored. Got up at 5am, heard the housemate leaving, he went hunting or fishing with a friend from Virginia. So I was able to start the days chores early. Paid any bills, vacuumed, laundry, watered plants.
I even went grocery shopping for something to do. Traffic was awful even at 8am this morning, worse than work days. Usually I go shopping on the way home from work, but I was a little burned out this week, so I decided to make a weekend trip. Sometimes I stop on the way to work and just pick up meals for lunch for the week. I like what ever is on sale. Last week there was Marie Calenedar's at 2.50 each. This week they are $2.00 each. So the freezer at work has some and now my freezer at home has some, I stocked up a little bit ahead. I'll probally stop Tuesday, last day of the special, on the way to work and restock and then on the way home so i can have a full freezer both places which for me is only 1/2 a freezer at home and about 1/3rd at work, have to share.
only thing left to do today is some WINNING.
/ Heavy rain and thunder tonight.
At least I think it's thunder, but it sounds more like fireworks being set off.
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/ Heavy rain and thunder tonight.
At least I think it's thunder, but it sounds more like fireworks being set off.
All I here is the a/c kicking on and off, it is quiet except for the occasional airplane flying by just offshore.
It was hot and humid yesterday, today more of the same I think but since I am not a beachy kind of guy I am okay staying in the a/c. We come for my wife, who is a beachy kind of girl. She likes to just sit under an umbrella all day reading a book, beats me why you want to sit out and sweat all day but as long as she doesn't make me go out we are okay!!
JohnC my RAC is up to 363,409 this morning, so I am going back up again!!
Keith I am glad you found something you like on sale, I hate going to the store and finding only the things I don't like on sale!!
Right now I am WINNING!!
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Mikey, heads up, heavy rain from black klouds and nasty loud thunder and lightning heading south towards you. The storm just blew threw. It thundered for 20 minutes this morning, keeping me awake in the dark, except for the flashes of lightning, then the rain hit, hard. I missed some but then got up and went out and put out some rain buckets, except not all because 4 of my buckets are full or city water. I did manage to finde a few of my housemates too and put them out. I had to keep emptiey some of the smaller ones, in the rain. I managed to capture 30 gallons of water in about 20 minutes. Then just as kwickly the storm passed, i saw a little grey sky with some blue holes in it. Well i won't need to do much watering today, half the plants are done and me too.
wet and winning.
/ I just finished a major project clearing out a lot of ferns and other growth along my back fence. I started early in the morning before it got too hot but I had to put up with the insects active at that time also. Now I'm going to put in some Black-Eyed Susans and purple coneflowers. WINNING!
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me too.
It's rain for the second time today, that's a record for this year. I heard thunder although the rain is lite so far.
Oh well i'm all dry now so i'll just stay inside while winning.
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It's rain for the second time today, that's a record for this year. I heard thunder although the rain is lite so far.
Oh well i'm all dry now so i'll just stay inside while winning.
No rain here until after dinner time! We went up to meet some friends at Surf City, a little over an hour North of me, and after dinner we could see all the clouds and it did rain for a few minutes on the drive home, we did see a LOT of lightening on the drive though. We didn't get any real rain though until after were home and snug in the house, then it POURED for over 30 minutes with thunder and a ton of lightening. It was even still raining when I went to bed after the 3rd quarter of the football game. This morning it is 5:30 am and just dark!
JohnC my RAC went up again, it is now at 363,416! Truth be told sometimes the computers do better when I don't tough them every day. Unless they crash that is and since they are made up mostly of refurbished parts that happens much more often than I would like!! I generally buy a new motherboard and cpu and sometimes memory if what I have won't work and then use old cases, drives, fans etc to make one and get it up and running. Of course now I also end up buying a video card to crunch with too! All that means that computers are not as cheap to make as they used to be!! I think my next few upgrades will be to better video cards to increase my crunching power that way, instead of thru the cpu's.
I am now WINNING!!
/ I am now WINNING!!
That's right, keep on thinking that way. That way, when the winning event arrives and someone else's post is positioned on top you will just feel even worse.
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Keep on keeping on...we ARE in the final stretch!
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A weird thing happened. I'm running Windows 7 64 bit, and a bit ago, I wanted to see what was on a CD Rom that was in the drive, so I opened <My Computer> , and double clicked the CD Rom drive. (It should have had nothing but pictures on it.) It opened up Picture Viewer, but it was taking forever to load. So I tried to close picture viewer, but it wouldn't close no matter how long I waited. So I finally tried to reboot. But after waiting for it to log out for 5 minutes, I finally came to the conclusion that it wouldn't, so I reset the computer by pushing, and holding the power button for 10 seconds. When finally shut down, I restarted the computer and chose the normal start when it came up with the option to start in safe mode or normal. When it started, the screen looked all weird. So thinking something might be off beat, I went and checked the disk for errors. Of course it's not going to do that until you reboot the computer. I rebooted, and it checked for errors, but there was non to be found.
The screen was still funky, so I went ahead and tried System Restore, but any restore points really came up with a pop-up afterward saying it couldn't restore that point. It said something that maybe my antivirus was running and to disable it. I disabled my AV, and tried System Restore again. No dice.... it still won't restore.
So now I'm stuck. The boards look funky and the definition is lacking. Short of reinstalling Windows, I've decided to start with my Windows disk, but pick the option of just restoring important Windows files as that seems to be the best option to preserve what I already have. Is that my best option? Is there any other place I should be looking? I've already set my video card back to default values, and checked all the video settings and everything looks good as far as what I had, but it still looks funky.
Any ideas? Below is a screenshot of the SETI boards as I saw them... And yes... I've uninstalled the ATI Catalyst program, and reinstalled it. My next thought is to uninstall the ATI Catalyst program... shut down the 'puter. Take out the ATI GPU, and hook up the monitor to the crappy onboard video card and see how that works. If it works OK, I'll re put in the GPU and reboot and see if the Windows native drivers render a good picture. And before you ask... I am still crunching on my GPU just fine. So.....
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You're on your own with this one, I know nothing of seven.
Describe what you mean by funky, how is it different from normal ?
Try so simple things first.
Maybe power off everything and even unplug the cords from the wall, let any possible static buildup dissapate, 5 minutes should be enough.
Switch video resolutions down, save them, then switch them back to you prefered resolution.
In windows XP (xtra pains) i have things dissapear off the screen sometimes during startup, when you check settings it still indicates the thing should be on screen. Only way to fix it is disable it, then reenable it.
Other than that all i can think of is I'm WINNING.
/ Thank you for any help I can get. The only thing I can think of that would work, is to format the drive and reinstall Windows.
I'm avoiding that at all costs. Computers are great when they work but when they don't.... 
Sorry for spamming the LPTPWs thread with my problems but know that I've been spamming everyone with it. 
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/ Thank you for any help I can get. The only thing I can think of that would work, is to format the drive and reinstall Windows.
I'm avoiding that at all costs. Computers are great when they work but when they don't....
Sorry for spamming the LPTPWs thread with my problems but know that I've been spamming everyone with it.
Dune since it is a display issue I would go thru and uninstall the ATI stuff, then get the program going around that makes sure all is really gone, then install it again. And yes you will have to put your screen on the crappy onboard thing to do it and maybe even take the card physically out. I am not at home so don't have the program or the name of it, sorry. OOH, OOH I found a link to it!!!!!! http://downloads.guru3d.com/Guru3D---Driver-Sweeper-%28Setup%29-download-1655.html Aren't you just about the luckiest guy around today, now I hope it works for you!!!
That means I am WINNING!!!!! for now at least
/ I've already tried uninstalling the ATI Catalyst program and drivers, but I really like the idea of this Driver cleaner, so I'll give this a shot. It really makes sense. So today you'll find out whether it helped. If this works, I'll name my next born after you!
Seeing as how it's almost a given that I won't have another, AND I now have the driver sweeper and so I am really winning!!
Thanks again Mikey. In a three or 4 hours, I'll give that a shot. Thank you so much!
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/ Dune hasn't posted his graphics success, so he must still be suffering beer blur.
I am not so I am winning.
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/ I am not so I am winning.
Not sure what you're trying to say here, but I know I'm not winning.
I've done all the stuff necessary and still no go. Pictures, and photographs look fine. But everything is lacking.... body and color. Some webpages are lacking color and clarity. And where there used to be buttons, there is now just text.
WTF?????
Is it possible to reinstall Windows using the repair feature? It'd definitely be my choice, as I don't want to loose what I have saved. I sure hate to reinstall from scratch, but that means backing up everything NOW. I kind of wanted to wait for a bit, but this is driving me nuts!
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I am not so I am winning.
Not sure what you're trying to say here, but I know I'm not winning.
I've done all the stuff necessary and still no go. Pictures, and photographs look fine. But everything is lacking.... body and color. Some webpages are lacking color and clarity. And where there used to be buttons, there is now just text.
WTF?????
Is it possible to reinstall Windows using the repair feature? It'd definitely be my choice, as I don't want to loose what I have saved. I sure hate to reinstall from scratch, but that means backing up everything NOW. I kind of wanted to wait for a bit, but this is driving me nuts!
Like I said I know not a thing about windows seven, excpet that I don't have it. It sounds to me like you theme is messed up ?
While you guys argue over who is not winning, i sneek in for some WINNING.
/ It sounds to me like you theme is messed up ?
How right you are!!!
Today I went to pull the video card, and revert back to the onboard video to see if that helped.
I've never had to deal with this computer until I had to pull out the card. So I uninstalled Catalyst and all the drivers, and shut down the computer to pull the video card, and that's when I found there was no onboard video.
But I finally cranked it up again, desperate for a solution. I'm new at Windows 7 so I started poking around. I saw in the desktop "Personalize" the Basic and High Contrast themes, that somehow I was set to High contrast! So I reset it to Windows 7 Basic. And lo and behold!!!!
I'm back in business again!!!!!
I'm running right now on the Windows native drivers, and I'm wondering if I even want to install the ATI Catalyst program. I don't really game, as a game of Solitaire is as heavy as I get. But BOINC may crunch better if it really sees the card. Right now I'm as happy as a pig in (you know what).
So the next round is on me!
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/ Congratulations on the success of getting the graphics working normally.
While you celebrate, and party, I will win.
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/ Well THIS has been a bummer of a day. My primary system has crashed 3 times in less than 24 hrs. The most recent, just as it was starting to record a TV show off the cable box. Luckily the show repeats two hrs later, so I just re-queued it for the later time.
The most likely cause of the crashes is HEAT! I noticed that some of the case vent holes were filling up with dust...so out comes the can of air. I blasted out the vent holes, took the side of the case off and blew out the cpu fan/heatsink. I noted the core temps before and after...dropped them by 6-8 F degrees.
With any luck...problem solved!
/ With any luck...problem solved!
Apparently many problems solved today! I've finally got everything running as usual and it looked great with the Windows native drivers for the ATI card were looking good, so I assumed that everything was good. But I finally looked at BOINC and found that I wasn't doing anymore GPU crunching. So I relented and installed the ATI Catalyst program and now I'm finally crunching 4 cores and GPU also.
So we're both winning!
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/ Good on yer, Dune
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/ With any luck...problem solved!
Apparently many problems solved today! I've finally got everything running as usual and it looked great with the Windows native drivers for the ATI card were looking good, so I assumed that everything was good. But I finally looked at BOINC and found that I wasn't doing anymore GPU crunching. So I relented and installed the ATI Catalyst program and now I'm finally crunching 4 cores and GPU also.
So we're both winning!
I see you figured it out, there is NO CRUNCHING on the gpu unless you install either the ATI or Nvidia drivers, depending on the card you have. I am also glad you got your video working again too, I would not have thought about the 'theme' as I always use the default. I would have scrolled thru on mine, but not thought to check yours. I am just glad it is working again!!! Now get yourself a backup drive and USE IT!!!! There are several free and pay program out there to do backups both manually and automatically. Personally I would buy a WD drive and use the free version of Acronis, Seagate makes a version too I think. You MUST have at least one of those types of drives in the machine in order to use their program, it does not have ot be the backup drive though!
JohnC my RAC is down to 355,529 but I think it is because DNETC is having problems at the moment!
RandyC heat is by far the worst of the fixable pc problems we have and the least fixed! I too tend to let mine get dusty and slower before I do anything about them, but there are some people that blow out their pc's on a regular, calendar basis!
Today is my last day on vacation, I head home in a few hours and will be home by mid afternoon or so. It has been fun, it only rained once during the day and that was yesterday. Night time rains I don't worry about because you are inside anyway. Yesterday it started raining around lunch time and continued raining until about 3pm or so, then it cleared up and it has not rained since. My son actually got in 9 holes of golf after the rain yesterday!
Today I am winning because I am on my last day of vacation and it had definitely been a good one, WINNING!!!!!
/ I've got a backup drive, and I'm way ahead of you. The last backup was when I had XP, so it probably wouldn't have helped. But this morning, I've backed up the important data, so I'm good again. I've got a 1 TB WD My Book Essential external drive, so I've got plenty of room.
My video card is listed in my computers.... it's a ATI Radeon HD 4700/4800. Welcome back to reality Mikey!
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Well I had bad luck with backup drives. They work until you need them. So don't depend on a single drive ! At home I now have 5 drives for most data, 1 primary with 4 backups, not counting some data on the 2 main drives of the twins. I also have 3 more drives I use as media drives, those are copies of the master media collection on the primary. At work I use two drives, but i'm thinking of increasing that to 4 also. At one time I had network drives, those failed, two at the same time, I lost a lot of stuff, some was safe on an older backup, but it has taken me about 1-1/2 now to get back to about where I was, restoring and double checking what I could from paper. That is why I have more drives now, i'm paranoid and don't want to trust a single or pair of drives. I also had some network drives at work, a differnt model than the ones I had at home, but I was paranoid at the time and removed them from service and repalced them with just usb external drives. Plus now these days 1TB drives are so cheap it is much easier to have more than one backup drive.
Now for some WINNING !
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/ It really is time to go to sleep.
I'd love to, but I have to go to w@%k.
/ It really is time to go to sleep.
I'd love to, but I have to go to w@%k.
Yeah, what a bummer. How can you WIN when you have to do that???
...on my way to w@^k now.
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/ It really is time to go to sleep.
I'd love to, but I have to go to w@%k.
Yeah, what a bummer. How can you WIN when you have to do that???
...on my way to w@^k now.
:(
I am still not w*&king, so just kind of hanging out, going to lunch, doing stuff, watching tv, you know retired stuff! ;-)))))
Randy and Keith I too have had a backup drive fail but I don't worry about it as much anymore since I am not in a business. If it goes, it goes, I put hours into trying to get back a drive once and then my wife said 'it's okay I didn't really want that stuff anyway'!!! I actually have very little I can't recreate or do without, except my genealogy! And that IS backed up in several places on several drives and at my dads too!
Right now though I am WINNING!
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It really is time to go to sleep.
I'd love to, but I have to go to w@%k.
Yeah, what a bummer. How can you WIN when you have to do that???
...on my way to w@^k now.
:(
I am still not w*&king, so just kind of hanging out, going to lunch, doing stuff, watching tv, you know retired stuff! ;-)))))
No, I DO NOT know RETIRED stuff, I still have to go to w&*k like other people.
Randy and Keith I too have had a backup drive fail but I don't worry about it as much anymore since I am not in a business. If it goes, it goes, I put hours into trying to get back a drive once and then my wife said 'it's okay I didn't really want that stuff anyway'!!! I actually have very little I can't recreate or do without, except my genealogy! And that IS backed up in several places on several drives and at my dads too!
Good, several copies of what's important to you is all you need. I have many thing I don't want to loose but if I did I'd get by some way, start over maybe. Ya and a lot of it is junk no used and should be deleted anyway. There were some projects lost in the last crash, and it was just impossible to recover and others would be too time consuming to continue and reconstruct so I just abandoned them.
One thing lost was all my boinc backups, no big deal really, but when I was very active alpha testing, sometimes I opened those up to look at past logs searching for clues to a newer problem, it sometimes helped. I also lost my entire stats spreadsheet which i had for some projects for my computers. I lost every result. Again there is no way to get it back, I cut and pasted them off projects before they zapped them from the databases. I had all sorts of neato times related to my systems. Oh well, they still krunch without it and I don't even try to figure out any kind of performance anymore, I've not done any of that since the loss, which all it does for me is give me more time to watch movies.
There were some other things I worked on for a while, but then gave up realizized I would never get caught up and recovered so i just abandoned it.
Right now though I am WINNING!
No time for WINNING now, i've got to get off to W&*K.
/ It really is time to go to sleep.
I'd love to, but I have to go to w@%k.
Yeah, what a bummer. How can you WIN when you have to do that???
...on my way to w@^k now.
:(
I am still not w*&king, so just kind of hanging out, going to lunch, doing stuff, watching tv, you know retired stuff! ;-)))))
No, I DO NOT know RETIRED stuff, I still have to go to w&*k like other people.
Ahhh poor baby! 8-))))) That is a Very Very Very Very Very Big Grin!!!!
Randy and Keith I too have had a backup drive fail but I don't worry about it as much anymore since I am not in a business. If it goes, it goes, I put hours into trying to get back a drive once and then my wife said 'it's okay I didn't really want that stuff anyway'!!! I actually have very little I can't recreate or do without, except my genealogy! And that IS backed up in several places on several drives and at my dads too!
Good, several copies of what's important to you is all you need. I have many thing I don't want to loose but if I did I'd get by some way, start over maybe. Ya and a lot of it is junk no used and should be deleted anyway. There were some projects lost in the last crash, and it was just impossible to recover and others would be too time consuming to continue and reconstruct so I just abandoned them.
One thing lost was all my boinc backups, no big deal really, but when I was very active alpha testing, sometimes I opened those up to look at past logs searching for clues to a newer problem, it sometimes helped. I also lost my entire stats spreadsheet which i had for some projects for my computers. I lost every result. Again there is no way to get it back, I cut and pasted them off projects before they zapped them from the databases. I had all sorts of neato times related to my systems. Oh well, they still krunch without it and I don't even try to figure out any kind of performance anymore, I've not done any of that since the loss, which all it does for me is give me more time to watch movies.
There were some other things I worked on for a while, but then gave up realizized I would never get caught up and recovered so i just abandoned it.
Yep me too
Right now though I am WINNING!
No time for WINNING now, i've got to get off to W&*K.
Then get to it and let the rest of have a chance at WINNING!! THAT is what retirees do, WE WIN!!!
/ I am still not w*&king, so just kind of hanging out, going to lunch, doing stuff, watching tv, you know retired stuff! ;-)))))
I got thoroughly prepped for retirement when I took a voluntary lay-off in spring of 2009. I will settle into it very nicely, thank you.
/ I am still not w*&king, so just kind of hanging out, going to lunch, doing stuff, watching tv, you know retired stuff! ;-)))))
I got thoroughly prepped for retirement when I took a voluntary lay-off in spring of 2009. I will settle into it very nicely, thank you.
Now THAT is the way to do it!!! I first retired in December 2001 after 2 foot surgeries forced me to give up my career as a firefighter. After 2 1/2 years of laying on the couch and getting fat my wife sent me an email saying 'you have a job interview next Thursday, my friend is on the panel don't embarrass me'! Turns out it was light computer repair and alot of inventory management stuff and her friend was one who I had fixed two different pc's for her, I was back working before the interview was over!! 8-(((
RandyC the disk will be in tomorrows mail!
Keith we did not get to stop by the store maybe next trip, I will be looking for those calendar girls. I like September, all 3 of them!!
JohnC my RAC is fluctuating because DNETC is having 'issues', so don't worry about me catching you for right now. I am still trying but it is hard when the project keeps going up and down.
WINNING!!
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I am finding my RAC fluctuating as well, because of the occasional server downtimes from DNETC (now upgrading software for the next 5 hours) and when the Milkyway validator overloads and there is no new work.
Happening too often ATM.
Winning then sleep
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Checking the stats board, it seems some team has bumped my team down a notch, I wonder how that happened MIKEY.
I was thinking of retiring, but I haven't met that wealthy beach bunny yet, maybe if I actually went to the beach it would help. Oh well I guess i've got to keep working. It might be time for me to go back to 4 day weeks, that is sort of like a partial re-tirement, in the sense i don't have to work as hard so i still have income to pay the bills and something to keep me from going stir krazy but still have more time to relax and unwind.
My boss would be about retirement age in about 3 years, but I don't think he plans to for the same reason, he said he would go nuts just stiiting around on the couch. So I at least for a while I still have a job, as I think if he retires that means the business would close down.
Oh well, the world is going to end in a couple of years anyway so why worry about it now, the only thing important now is who is WINNING, and I think it is ME.
/ This is the last day of decent weather for the next 5-7 days. Starting tomorrow it's going to be hot and humid again. [sarcasm]Oh joy, oh rapture.[/sarcasm]
But the state fair is going and so am I tomorrow. You can get anything you want to eat on a stick.
/ We have a WINNER!!
Congratulations SwiftMallard!
The winning event was my first logon on the day I leave for vacation. SwiftMallard, you may start a new game or turn the task over to Keith.
I will be leaving town mid-afternoon today and will probably be out of touch until after Labor Day.
This is the last day of decent weather for the next 5-7 days. Starting tomorrow it's going to be hot and humid again. [sarcasm]Oh joy, oh rapture.[/sarcasm]
But the state fair is going and so am I tomorrow. You can get anything you want to eat on a stick.
/ CONGRATULATIONS SWIFTMALLARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
/ Congratz SM, and many more to come
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