The Official Status Thread
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Status annoyed.
It seems like I'll have to disassemble half the computer just to replace the CMOS battery. I don't want to move the CPU heatsink. :(
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
I don't want to move the CPU heatsink. :(
If you're needing to replace the CMOS battery, it might be high time to refresh the thermal paste on it anyways...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
I don't want to move the CPU heatsink. :(
If you're needing to replace the CMOS battery, it might be high time to refresh the thermal paste on it anyways...
Probably better to just throw the whole thing out and upgrade
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@Tsaukpaetra Why? It's working fine as it is.
My policy is "if it ain't broke, ".
I'm well aware that's not your policy.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
Why? It's working fine as it is.
And you're replacing the CMOS battery because.....?
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@Tsaukpaetra It can't hold the time of day if I unplug it from the mains.
This has no relation to the CPU temperature, now has it?
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@Tsaukpaetra A-ha! You've upvoted my previous post, which means you agree!
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra It can't hold the time of day if I unplug it from the mains.
So?
This has no relation to the CPU temperature, now has it?
ISTM if the battery is dead the thermal interface material on the CPU-heatsink interconnect is likely dried out and less effective due to age. So, yeah, it kinda does.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra It can't hold the time of day if I unplug it from the mains.
This has no relation to the CPU temperature, now has it?
To be fair you're unlikely to have issues with the CPU temperature if the computer is unplugged at the mains.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
It seems like I'll have to disassemble half the computer just to replace the CMOS battery
My old ITX MB had it glued to the side of back panel audio ports. So removing it was easy-peasy. Putting the wire with the 2-pin micro JST back? Aaargh &&@&F&&@!
This new one? I don't even know where it is. Somewhere under all the bits and bobs. Not looking forward to it
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra Why? It's working fine as it is.
My policy is "if it ain't broke, ".
I'm well aware that's not your policy.
"If it aint broke, ... oh look it is now!"
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Status: Considering whether my computer's intermittent slowdonws could be related to the computer's age or dried out thermal paste
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Considering whether my computer's intermittent slowdonws could be related to the computer's age or dried out thermal paste
Have you tried unplugging it at the mains?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Good times.
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@Tsaukpaetra's definition of "good times" is like Ben Lubar's definition of "fun".
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And the reason my service wasn't outputting to the new directory after I checked, double-checked, and triple-checked my change in configuration was: there wasn't anything to output.
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@Zecc was today years old when he learned the joys of setting his service to output a startup log entry.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Good times.
Hey, back then I had what could almost be called friends!
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Considering whether my computer's intermittent slowdonws could be related to the computer's age or dried out thermal paste
Sounds about due for a controlled burn. Set breaks well away from the CPU, for when the paste flares up, then just let 'er rip.
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Status 1: I probably could have gotten away with a 4-foot (1.21e10 Å) USB cable. But since the only options were 3.3' (which is what I had), 6', and 10', and I wasn't sure (at the time) if 6' would be enough...I now have a 10' USB-C cable.
Status 2: The product owner for my product has decided to go through Jira and assign each and every ticket in the Kanban board (not including every ticket ever, just the ones that have been released for less than a week and those not released yet) an epic. This triggers a separate notification and email for each ticket. OCD/inbox-0 status...irritated.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status 1: I probably could have gotten away with a 4-foot (1.21e10 Å) USB cable. But since the only options were 3.3' (which is what I had), 6', and 10', and I wasn't sure (at the time) if 6' would be enough...I now have a 10' USB-C cable.
Status 2: The product owner for my product has decided to go through Jira and assign each and every ticket in the Kanban board (not including every ticket ever, just the ones that have been released for less than a week and those not released yet) an epic. This triggers a separate notification and email for each ticket. OCD/inbox-0 status...irritated.
I tend to set up an outlook filter that just dumps anything Jira in a folder and marks it read. Jira is mostly noise and I can't be arsed to sift through all the crap to find the one mail every month that is actually anything relevant.
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@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Status 1: I probably could have gotten away with a 4-foot (1.21e10 Å) USB cable. But since the only options were 3.3' (which is what I had), 6', and 10', and I wasn't sure (at the time) if 6' would be enough...I now have a 10' USB-C cable.
Status 2: The product owner for my product has decided to go through Jira and assign each and every ticket in the Kanban board (not including every ticket ever, just the ones that have been released for less than a week and those not released yet) an epic. This triggers a separate notification and email for each ticket. OCD/inbox-0 status...irritated.
I tend to set up an outlook filter that just dumps anything Jira in a folder and marks it read. Jira is mostly noise and I can't be arsed to sift through all the crap to find the one mail order month that is actually anything relevant.
Literally the first thing I do whenever I discover we're using Jira.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
replace the CMOS battery
You may also think of a new computer... I replaced the battery in my old machine after some 10 years. Was a fast computer when I bought it....
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
It can't hold the time of day if I unplug it from the mains.
Solution: Synchronize with some internet time at start-up. You may need to use the
force
parameter when the clock is really off...
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Status Thread:
This triggers a separate notification and email for each ticket.
Similar to @Carnage , I set up a rule in Outlook to send such thinks to the SPAM folder.
That's possible despite the origin of the email is in the same domain. But it requires a little trick: do not use the "mark as spam" option in the rule, but use the "move to folder" option and select the spam folder.
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
replace the CMOS battery
You may also think of a new computer... I replaced the battery in my old machine after some 10 years. Was a fast computer when I bought it....
This is actually my most recent computer, bought— I guess it's been 4 years already .
I haven't gotten to actually use it as my daily workhorse for reasons. I kept using my previous one, from— I want to say 2013. It kept ticking, so why not?
That one never actually got a dead battery, and I only stopped using it because its SSD started dying. Now I've gotten used to work on my laptop, which lets me move around the house when I get bored of where I'm sitting.
So this one with the bad battery is only used for Netflix and gaming (it's connected to the living room tv). The only time I've heard the fans spinning is during Assassin's Creed, and even then only temporarily. So why do I need more? I don't play many AAA games.
I don't need another computer. Fuck consumerism.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
So this one with the bad battery is only used for Netflix and gaming (it's connected to the living room tv).
So why the fuck would a clock that's wrong for the first few minuets after cold booting matter?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
So why the fuck would a clock that's wrong for the first few minuets after cold booting matter?
It gives you a chance to play some music!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icZob9-1MDw
More seriously, we have hardware that comes up with clocks that are very much not in synch, and yet which needs to work with very precise timings (the clocks have to “tick” within about 0.01ms of each other for things to work). This is handled by a protocol that synchronizes the clocks gradually after boot; for the first few minutes, you've simply not got a great deal of precision in the clock timing. This matters now, because we've sped up our application code setup to the point where the clocks are not yet synchronized by the point the main app code runs, resulting in weird failures because we're too efficient.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
So this one with the bad battery is only used for Netflix and gaming (it's connected to the living room tv).
So why the fuck would a clock that's wrong for the first few minuets after cold booting matter?
Because the whole truth is the BIOS forgets its saved settings and always forces me to restart until I get that fixed, and that's annoying.
And before that started happening, Windows got consufed and wouldn't load display drivers; which are kind of important when you actually want to see what you're doing.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
So this one with the bad battery is only used for Netflix and gaming (it's connected to the living room tv).
So why the fuck would a clock that's wrong for the first few minuets after cold booting matter?
Because the whole truth is the BIOS forgets its saved settings and always forces me to restart until I get that fixed, and that's annoying.
And before that started happening, Windows got consufed and wouldn't load display drivers; which are kind of important when you actually want to see what you're doing.Real computer enthusiasts don’t let darkened monitors stop them!
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
And before that started happening, Windows got consufed and wouldn't load display drivers; which are kind of important when you actually want to see what you're doing.
I've been meaning to nuke and reinstall my OS for a while now because the display driver is in a working/broken state. For various reasons relating to posture and porcine animals, this has not yet been carried out
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
It gives you a chance to play some music!
Minuet in G Major - BachThe most advanced piece I ever learned to play (reasonably well). I haven't practiced it in a very long time, though, and any attempt to play it now would have more wrong notes than right.
very precise timings (the clocks have to “tick” within about 0.01ms of each other
In my world (well, I personally am not usually the one who has to worry about this), clock skew would typically be <1 ns. 10 μs? That's forever! (Different world, though. That's skew within a single chip, not between systems. But .)
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
That's skew within a single chip, not between systems.
The skew on a single board is fairly easily handled since that's got its own synchronization hardware (it makes sense to have a master time source per board since they can operate stand-alone) but the inter-board synch is a real pain. Ideally we'd like synch to be better than about 0.1μs, so that it's basically completely negligible given the clock speeds, but we can usually work with quite a lot wider spreads. We do run a clock synch protocol, but that takes its sweet time as it is designed to have low average network overhead and so doesn't send messages frequently.
Realtime software is !!!!
But one benefit is that we can use TDMA for handling a lot of concurrency issues. That's an example of something where you mention it to someone used to Rust and their brain just breaks as it is a provably safe mechanism that is totally incompatible with their favourite language.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
The most advanced piece I ever learned to play (reasonably well).
I can play this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocGRLusqL8k
And by "this" I mean I can play the video of David Hicken's performance.
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@Zecc I like. It raises a question, though. I've seen other people using iPads for sheet music, and I've wondered how the page turns are triggered. (The people I see using them in person, who I could ask, have to swipe, just like paper sheet music.) Is there a foot switch or something we can't see in the video? Is there a human page turner, just like performing from paper sheet music, but able to be not on stage/camera? Or is the software analyzing audio from the microphone to determine when the performer reaches the end of the page?
(I'm not necessarily asking you, specifically, but if you or anyone else happens to know the answer, ...)
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
how the page turns are triggered.
I imaging it knows the BPM and expected length based on the visible staves.
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@HardwareGeek I have wondered the same thing and assumed (wishfully thought) it was the latter.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
how the page turns are triggered.
I imaging it knows the BPM and expected length based on the visible staves.
That would be the simple and obvious way, but performers don't always play at exactly constant tempo, unless they're playing to a click track.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
I like
I figured you would and it's why I posted, btw.
It can't always be bad puns.
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Status: Google will soon believe I wish to know all about page turners.
It was bad enough when it thought I wanted time turners, but now I'll have to deal with paper!
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@hungrier Makes sense. However, I've seen an organist using an iPad, and he's obviously not using one of those, because his feet are on-camera and busy playing music. Maybe his wife(?) is off-camera using something like that to turn pages for him.
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@HardwareGeek There are probably a variety of things that can be used in a similar way. E.g. slideshow remotes
e: In any case, with an organist it would almost certainly be operated by someone else, unless the organist is extremely dexterous with something other than hands and feet
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
unless the organist is extremely dexterous with something other than hands and feet
Oh I can imagine....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
unless the organist is extremely dexterous with something other than hands and feet
Oh I can imagine....
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STATUS Just received spam for a sale of pregnancy t-shirts... maybe...
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
unless the organist is extremely dexterous with something other than hands and feet
Am I the only one imaging an organist whacking a pedal with his head?
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Oh I can imagine....
Apparently I am
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@Luhmann Depends on which head
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
organist whacking a pedal with his head?
That would require very unusual dexterity — and probably anatomy. A manual, maybe, but a pedal would be difficult.