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03:06
Things that annoy me
I have a bunch of torx screws that are between T15 and T20,=
Both of which I have
03:27
It never ends, after you aquire a full set of torques , it will of course have a few other items like star & square, but not the full set of those. Then you get a full set of square star and torques and suddenly everything is assembled with triangles.
03:48
lol
i could just convert them to flat heads
@JourneymanGeek thats easy, just take the close enough flat head, shove it in, a few taps with a hammer and they all work with one type :-)
lol
naw, cut slots with a rotary tool
lol
Ohhhh .
04:34
Works pretty well for exposed screws
I PREFER not to
annoyingly I have a tiny one that works
and one that's just too large
Er my gash, I'been getting so many BSOD's lately.
blue screen view or whocrashed is cool
The rest of the time, I'd be wishing I'd be getting BSOD's instead of improper restarts without warning.
Eh that reminds me, 2 BSODs since I have been doing some intensive calculations using Python's numpy
05:15
Me thinks Intel MTK is causing them BSODs
05:46
Argh, I just recoovered from another one.
Mhh, I wonder what does BlueScreenView have to say about this.
Well, this is worthless. I don't understand a thing :(
Mhh, if I had to take a shot in the dark, I assume ntoskrnl.exe is what old Blue is saying is to blame.
Search is telling me it could be hardware trouble.
...a driver that has corrupted the system pool. Sounds like someone's taken a piss where they ought to be swimming.
06:20
@HackToHell I'm sorry I'm not sure exactly what you mean. Are you referring to MediaTeK? I'm not sure how it's involved here.
06:51
Guitar Hero?
07:16
@Boris_yo I don't have that installed. No.
07:49
@Nick My bad, it was supposed to be software.intel.com/en-us/intel-mkl
@Nick What's the most recen thing you installed ?
It's the most probable cause of BSODs
Could be anything automatic too, check and roll back windows updates
08:07
@HackToHell The BSODs predate everything I've installed. The only hardware that my laptop uses is the CDMA dongle thing I told you about. I fear this outdated driver might be the problem.
@HackToHell Mhh, I have an Intel Core i3. MKL is likely to be installed but I'm not sure.
Eesh, this is unresolvable. Maybe I should send this lap to a repair shop.
 
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Bob
Bob
10:18
@Nick Nah, BSV isn't very good at determining the actual faulting module.
Grab a copy of WinDbg.
Look up guides on crashdump analysis in WinDbg, but just !analyze -v should get you fairly far.
 
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14:39
Weird.
Steam is downloading with a sustained 15MB/sec over my 10MBit connection
At last according to windows resource monitor
Mind you, I am not complaining.
I still miss the old 100mbit connection. Downloading now takes ages.
Bob
Bob
15:13
@Hennes Maybe your ISP's billing system is down? :P
(many of them will default to a higher package when that happens...)
Nah, then I would have the regular 100mbit.
Right now my line is so filled browsing is slow.
But since I am downloading 100+ GB of steam games I do not mind.
My shiny new SSD is almost half full already (and started with 230GB on it)
 
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Bob
Bob
18:00
@allquixotic ...ok, moving to ovh has been bumped up in priority
(current dedi is... currently inaccessible. again.)
well, at least they respond quickly
> We are have a power outage due to the local power company we will notify you as soon as the power is back please refrain from reopening this ticket until we have the issue resolved
...whatever happened to backup power supplies?
18:15
@Bob I thought huge server locations almost invented the need for such things :-)
@Bob Those cost money (both to purchase and to maintain).
So I would not buy emergency power for all my systems and I would only offer things like backup power or dual PSU's at a premium.
which goes back to "you don't get what you don't pay for" .
Bob
Bob
@Hennes They're also completely standard at DCs.
Aye. And I still would offer them at a premium and default (for marketing reasons) to a system without
then leave out the words "reliable" when referring to that plan :-)
18:28
26GB downloaded via steam, 72.8 GB more to go
Reinstalling a few games previously deleted due to lack of disk space
 
1 hour later…
19:51
Would you put Windows 10 on a computer that has a motherboard so old that it has an AGP slot? (and expect it to work:-)
20:07
Sadly, yes
As in:
1) Yes, I would try.
2) I would expect it to work even thoug I think backward compatability needs to stop somewhere. And prefereably a lot sooner than MS drops it on average
I tend to think that people have best results when matching the generation of hardware with the similar or close generation of operating system. Soo people with new laptops that come with new OSes of that age , seems like a good way to have less problems.
oh, I just realised why it would not work. Consumer CPUs (and maybe server CPUs too) did not yet have NX in that era. WIn8 requires that. I assume win 10 also requires it.
It has been a guarentee for me that some older hardware of the "special" type does not survive past a few OSes , as the OS itself while supporting thousands of items, does not support Odd (and often expencive) stuff. And hardware items themselves do not stay supported.
Reverse that, and update the hardware only, and the old OS did not support things. Like win95-98 did not have any appretiation for massive memory (even though it would abuse it just fine) Support for huge disks etc.
It is soo cool when support is dropped or waneing , and the "hackers" jump in and start patching and fixing stuff themselves. Although that can require a LOT of steps and can still have issues with lesser known things, It often shows what you could do, if anyone started doing it :-)
I piddled with some mobile systems "hacking" patching fixing , trying to get stuff working, and it worked out great, then 1-2 years the device itself is EOL, and WTF did i just spend 6months working on something that did not last 2 years after :-(
 
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22:17
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Q: AMD Radeon HD 7640G inverting colours

Josiah AyresI have not been able to find anyone else on the internet that has had this issue, so I am hoping someone will be able to help me out. When you plug in or remove any external device, VGA/HDMI/USB the screen temporarily displays everything in inverted colours (see pictures). This behaviour also oc...

Well i did not fully read the question Again :-( inverting the colors when one even Inserts the Mouse. Mentally I am thinking what would it take digitally to invert the colors, that is not the wrong numbers landing in the wrong places.
Sounds like it would take a pretty big effort , to inverse all the colors this way digitally. as if there might even exist a piece of software that would do that as one of the tricks? A super trickey mouse softwares that has a cool Direct draw inverse colors feature? like what?
No idea. :(
There are times when i have wanted such features :-)

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