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1) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions
Message 114963 Posted 7 Dec 2024 by Sirius B |
Absolutely & in more ways than 1. After changing the cable, he then rebooted router & after its startup procedure, he checked the taskbar & saw the network icon change. Then he accessed the Internet & visited several websites then closed down the broweser. What he said next gobsmacked me. I shouldn't have net access because of what he saw on the router. He had listened to what I told him before he started to work. He didn't believe me but seeing the evidence for himself, asked how long has it been like this? Since the day the hub v2.0 was installed. Said he will be back in a couple of minutes, then returned with a replacement router (hub v3.0). Apparently after startup procedures router signal should turn white just like the cable box. Mine was turning red & shouldn't be giving me net access. |
2) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions
Message 114955 Posted 5 Dec 2024 by Sirius B |
Grumble. Been offline for 9 days, & it proves my mantre more effctive. Too much trust & reliance in technology. Trying to contact Virgin via mobile is difficult to say the least. especially using their 08 number. Spoke to a nieghbour who is also a Virgin customer who went to their website managed to get a different number. Wrote it down & asked me to let him know the outcome as he understood the issue regarding landline & VoIP. I have to admit I was very surprised as no issues what so ever. No human contact, all automatic. After confirming that mobile was from my postcode, ran a basic test & stated I can either hold or call back later. I held. Thank you for holding, we're just going to run some tests. A few minutes later. there seems to be an issue with your device. We've sent a link to your mobile. Please use it to book an engineer. Did so & went for earliest possible slot. 2 issues. 1st, the cable from the router to the junction box was corroed at the juncion box. 2nd, the router itself was not fully configured by the engineer that installed when Virgin replaced their cable to Cat6. Replaced router, set it up correctly & the differnce has been very noticable. |
3) Message boards : The Lounge : Bad news from BOINCStats Willy
Message 114926 Posted 29 Nov 2024 by Sirius B |
PrimeGrid will be running a challenge 10th Dec-20th Dec to honour Willy. I will be entering the team for this so if any Seti Orphan who wishes to joine me will be welcome. |
4) Message boards : The Lounge : Bad news from BOINCStats Willy
Message 114910 Posted 26 Nov 2024 by Sirius B |
Sad news. I learnt about when received a Boinc notice earlier today. |
5) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions
Message 114568 Posted 24 Sep 2024 by Sirius B |
Glory. For the 2nd year running, bypassed the energy increases for Oct & Jan. Electric will need topping up 25-26/4/25. Gas enough for 420 days ( could be much less depending on Winter usage). Grumble. This year though will affect my wallet to the tune of £200, courtesy of Ms Reeve's "hard" decsion over the £22B in the Gov's finances. |
6) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions
Message 114207 Posted 30 Jun 2024 by Sirius B |
Mega Glory. Waited until the football was over then set about reviewing the half yearly accounts. Seeing as the new Fuel Cap is due tomorrow, got all in hand to cover our power through to Mid April next year. Gas until mid August next year (depending on Winter usage though). Only bill left to worry about is the Water bill, due either at the end of July or early Aug. Normally pay that off in one hit. Still need to save funds somehow & the only thing left is Cable package. This inflation rise + 3% whammy is pushing our budget to it's max. Had to chat to the missus & she agreed, we'll have to reduce the package. So logged onto our A/c. 1st thing that hit us was the front page - renew your contract (that's new, never done that before as we've ended up on a rolling contract). Sign in to the review & renew. Did so - shocker! We can offer the same package at this price. Clicked on accept & renew. £26 a month cheaper than current. Nice. |
7) Message boards : The Lounge : These are no longer with us, may they have peace.
Message 114048 Posted 21 May 2024 by Sirius B |
Frank Ifield 86 Singer. |
8) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions
Message 113935 Posted 22 Apr 2024 by Sirius B |
It seems yesterday was a day for glory. 1st glory. Ordered 4 items Sat morn, houselold & personal. Ordered another 2 items, I.T components Sat afternoon. All stated Tues delivery & was surprised around 3pm.Amazon delivered all 6. 2nd glory & a strange one at that. Pulled some drives from the 4 bay enclosures & put them into the 2 bay. Drives recognised straight away, copied them over to the new 6tb drive. Once done, reformatted them & did 2 more. Followed by another 2. Last copying over now. So far 4 drives (11tb) done. Just another 8 drives (30tb left). Their all dumb enclosures so can't understand why the 4 bay ones not seen. Thankfully, I always name my drives so hoping I can access Data & Personal drives. |
9) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions
Message 113836 Posted 28 Mar 2024 by Sirius B |
Glory x2 I love small retailers. Been annoyed for some time with software companies no longer providing software on disk with them opting for online downloading. Finding out that my Office 2010 will no longer install on Win 10/11. Didn't fancy the high cost of their last version before they switched to Office 365 & annua/monthly subscription. Got a good deal for office 2021 (full package), unfortunately it was a download from M$. Expecting to download an iso file, found an img file instead. Unable to open. but needed access my files so as suggested tried Openoffice. Again as suggested tried Libra Office. Much better but... ..Excel has functions that are different to those packages Retailer stuck with it & looked into the issue. Got that 1 sorted, Product key would not work. Retailer looked into it & apologised. Employee sent wrong package key. New key sent this mornin g. Ah Bisto. With the issues with M$ & Windows 10/11 installation issue & unable to access media drives, they'been shut down for a month already. The saving on electricty shook me, so once access to media regained, must learn to shut them down when not in use. Over a calender month, the saving equates to £30 a month. Ah Bisto. |
10) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions
Message 113774 Posted 16 Mar 2024 by Sirius B |
After a week of hair pulling, get 3 wow's in one norning. 1st glory. In my haste to complete the Ryzen build I rushed the installation of 2 drives. 1st one went okay but the 2nd I damaged the sata power connector so carried on & added a 3rd carefully. Installed Windows 11 on 1 & linux on the other. This morning decided to use an old trick used on the old IDE drives, using 2 flat head screwdrivers attempted to strainghen the pins & align them. Success. To prevent any future connection issues with that drive used a molex to dual sata connector & fed it through the bay. 2nd glory. Took the final reading for the gas 6 monthly spreadsheet. We have used more gas this Winter that last Winter. But comparing both, it is £63 less - Nice. 3rd glory. After reading meter, postman delivered mail for everyone. Taking ours indoors, knew straight away what it was. The Council Tax bill for 2024-25. WTH? 2 weeks early? Normally issued on 15th March most years & sent out during the 1st week of April. This year, issued on 8th & received this morning? Have they got that efficient or just crying over shortage of funds? Looking at our liability for the year, it is 0. Also showing a credit of £55.07 from last year. Definitely needs a phone call Monday, don't won't those muppets chasing us up after giving us 10 years of grief. Oh & to paraphrase Mr Kipling, seti boards are... ...Exceedingly slow. Edited for spelling errors. |
11) Message boards : Questions and problems : GPU Issue
Message 113754 Posted 9 Mar 2024 by Sirius B |
Thanks Jord. Noted. |
12) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC projects launching multiple Terminal windows (Win 11)
Message 113753 Posted 9 Mar 2024 by Sirius B |
I don't think Boinc is the problem. I've been experiencing this nearly every day since 26 Feb. It's got so bad, that after completing the 100 tasks still to run, I'm going to finally kill Windows on my systems & use Linux Mint. Googling the issue found many are experiencing it. It appeared to be Edge's helppane constantly bringing up Help in M$ support page, Every time I closed it down, multiple pages opened. Managing to get into task manager found helppage.exe + 3 other files associated with it. Tried deleting them but no joy, so used a trick learnt in the early days of XP. Delete from the bottom up. It worked for the 3 files but not the .exe so renamed it .cra. You can guess what word I meant. :) Unfortunately, whatever caused it is still on the system somewhere & after every program closed they pop up again, only this time Boinc Advanced View page in the wiki, even though Boinc is even running. This is after closing Firefox after a browsing session. I'm thinking an M$ update. #crew M$ & their "unstoppable updates". |
13) Message boards : Questions and problems : GPU Issue
Message 113713 Posted 2 Mar 2024 by Sirius B |
Ouch, thanks Jord. Don't know how I missed that. It worked, sadly I didn't do the job properly, it downloaded another 4. My fault, I didn't uncheck Nvidia GPU. Hopefully on the next download, it will work. Surprised that in 7 days, no GPU tasks downloaded in Linux. |
14) Message boards : Questions and problems : GPU Issue
Message 113709 Posted 2 Mar 2024 by Sirius B |
After building a new computer (Ryzen 5 - 5500), I fitted 2 hard drives. 1 for Linux Mint 21 & 1 for Windows. 11 Pro. I spent 7 days testiing out Linux & while doing that ran a 7 day test running Boinc - 7.22.1. Next I installed Windows & Boinc & still testing Boinc with 2 days remaining of test. For the 1st time in a very long time, had to abort tasks as they were suspended by prefs. Checking both Web & local prefs, I cannot find any where to prevent GPU crunching just suspend when computer in use. I don't do GPU crunching. Is this a Boinc issue or an issue for the project? This did not occur when using Linux. |
15) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions
Message 113697 Posted 28 Feb 2024 by Sirius B |
It's not a Boinc issue but Microsoft 1. The MS package states: Win 11 Pro 64 bit Eng Intl 1 pk DVD Version 22H2 Bulid Date 04/24/23. Purchased all the Ryzen compnents & Win 11 lJuly 2023. Actual disk states Windows 11 Pro 64 bit Full Version. Also it activated no issues. Reched out to the MS community yesterday morning but so far no answers. 2.5 days since running Boinc on Win lt looks like surpassing Linux (crunching same project). I suppose that's all down to the project. Some crunch better on Linux & vice versa. |
16) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions
Message 113692 Posted 27 Feb 2024 by Sirius B |
Thanks Richard. Oops, I posted the reply without checking. That's the version installed & running. |
17) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions
Message 113686 Posted 26 Feb 2024 by Sirius B |
Glory & Grumble at the same time. Glory. Able to run either Linux or Windows on new rig. Nice. Grumble. Boinc shows O/S as Windows 10 Pro 22H2 but I installed Windows 11. Is this normal for Boinc? |
18) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions
Message 113642 Posted 19 Feb 2024 by Sirius B |
Glory. Ryzen rig up & running. Grumble. Win 7 rig turned out to be M/B issues, so ending up running laptop to grab all the log in info for various sites. No problem. Shutting it down Sat night, it came up with installing updates before shutting down. Switching on Sun... Crap on a stick, 23H2 is nothing but trouble, anytime I clicked on anything, up popped a browser page wiith either MS Edge/Brave help centers. No I don't want to ask Leo. No I don't want Co-pilot. . Grumble 2. Never had any issues in the past using KVM's but now... Can't get a 2 PC HDMI/USB switch working. |
19) Message boards : The Lounge : These are no longer with us, may they have peace.
Message 113640 Posted 19 Feb 2024 by Sirius B |
Shirley Anne Field 87 Actress (Alfie, The War Lover} |
20) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions
Message 113622 Posted 15 Feb 2024 by Sirius B |
Aargh, what is it with me & gpus. :-( Plugging in a usb 2 bay enclsure Tuesday night & screen flashed off then got the dreaded blue dialogue box - no signal then it changed to - cable not connected. Checked cables, no issues, yet the problem persisted. Switched monitor off & on again, no change. Hit reset button, no loy so hit power off button, no joy, neither worked so switched off from psu & rebooted. Got into bios & couldn't see any issues so let it continue booting up. Windows loaded up then boom, same problems, thinking Windows itself corrupted so restored from backup. Fortunately last full backup was last Friday (any work done since then actually stored on separate drives. Restore was successful but same problem so shut down for the night. Spent most of the morning yesterday pulling the gpu out & replacing ("borrowed" the GT1030 for the Ryzen). I'd forgotten how heavy a Coolermaster R1000 case was fully populated. For the past several months, experienced weird bootup issues as well as some display issues, just niggling issues, no real problems. After installing device driver, all those issues disappeared. No more 2gb gpu's for me. Min is going to be 4gb. Managed to order another of the same GT1030's & was surprised to find it at the same price 7 months on rather than increased like other cards. |
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