[D-Dan]

The Duke wrote:

mainly cos I would weeks if not months with out printing one, then the ink would be dry or other issue

Which is exactly the issue I had with everything except Canon. Canon seems to last longer with ink when unused.

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[D-Dan]

I’ve always liked Canon printers, not just for their quality. I’ve had Epsom and HP, and both tend to dry the inks out if not used, which is something I haven’t found with Canon.

And Linux support on Canon seems more reliable (though it may have improved with HP and Epsom since I last tested either), and since that’s my exclusive desktop, it’s kinda a big win.

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[D-Dan]

I had the last check less than a month ago. I have minor background retinopathy, but nothing to worry about (so I’m told). I may just put it down to fluctuations.

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[D-Dan]

Worryingly for me, accountants are also in the firing line from AI. On a positive note, despite HMRC doing their damned best to force it through, HMRC’s track record with IT leaves a lot to be desired. I’m probably safe until I retire.

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[D-Dan]

Try recording a part of the screen rather than full screen. (Select “Record a fixed rectangle” and then “Select rectangle”). This will reduce the record resolution without you having to reduce your screen resolution. See if that helps.

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[D-Dan]

Mine was a manual backup. i.e. Copied the whole lot to another drive. The files rarely change or get added to, so minimal loss in the event of a failure, or a fault on the opposite side of the keyboard to the screen, in this case.

Of course, Plex took longer to reindex than the actual restore, but it’s all good, now 🙂

 

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[D-Dan]

And replied, thank you.

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[D-Dan]

Thanks, JayCeeDee. I’d happily give them a go if you can accept PP.

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[D-Dan]

Can’t really help. Just did a test on a partial screen capture, and no issues.

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[D-Dan]

OK. I’ve calmed down. My VM is up to date. I’ll boot it again in a month to update it, and annoy me again.

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[D-Dan]

@Bob – you’ve got me really guilty now. I hoovered one up (who attacked me barebacked from behind, or possibly just fluttered into me). I’ve seen one in the last three or four days. It’s in my kitchen now looking like it’s on its last legs. I’ll leave it to die in peace.

I hadn’t realised that hoverflies are possibly man’s last hope. Not only do they do the job of wasps (eat aphids), but they are possibly man’s last hope re pollination (they are second only to bees, and with bees in a serious decline, there’s a good chance we need them).

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[D-Dan]

I’m guessing that UEFI is simply a cure for a problem that MBR/GRUB doesn’t have. I have nothing starting at early boot, other than to make sure my system boots. i.e. a basic Input/Output system. In otherwords, BIOS hands over to the boot system (in my case GRUB), and that’s it.

I suspect UEFI could prove to be more of a security problem than I have now. The biggest risk to me, is something hijacking GRUB. Converting to UEFI could open that hole up.

EDIT. I say that because UEFI boot will take kernel control away from the user, and hand it over to the base system.

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[D-Dan]

So basically, on a desktop system, not worth the effort?

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[D-Dan]

As for wasps, or possibly more accurately (I hope) those things that look like wasps, but aren’t, and aren’t stingy, try my kitchen. I keep finding 1 or 2 per day, with the window having been closed for three weeks. Most seem very sluggish. Got a lively one last night, but it’s been hoovered up, now.

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[D-Dan]

I was thinking more somewhere like The Old Monkey on Princess Street. We probably wouldn’t drown, there.

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[D-Dan]

Ed P wrote:

a little a UK study found alcohol caused dementia in Civil Servants

Nope. As someone who deals with Civil Servants on a daily basis, either they deliberately hire the already demented, or dementia is caused by being a Civil Servant.

As an aside, I used to be a medical accountant, and without fail, all of the GP clients were smokers, too.

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[D-Dan]

I’m on air cooling only at the moment, with just the stock single front/single rear fans, and even under stress the temp isn’t bad (< 50). GPU is lower than CPU, but only 1 or 2 degrees. A Freezer 13 cooler on it. Having said that, I’m used to a mess of cables all over the case, rather than almost cable free with the management this case provides. There’s definitely a lot more air around everything, and even with the vents with no fans, it’s going to help cooling.

Fortunately, I have temps displayed on my conky desktop, and so if anything starts going awry, I’ll spot it quickly, and possibly invest in a double front fan and maybe a top double exhaust.

At the moment, I’m still enjoying the performance 🙂

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[D-Dan]

Progress. I took the day off work yesterday, and went back in today. After my woes converting the boot drive to work on a UEFI system (even in BIOS mode), I wasn’t expecting any more until weekend.

As it happens, the MB bundle arrived at work yesterday, so home it came. I’d planned on just mounting the MB to the chassis and connecting up the chassis wiring, but of course with that done, I couldn’t resist checking it would at least get to the BIOS screen. I figured how hard could temporarily moving the PSU be.

I found out when I knocked the fan of the cooler in old rig, and couldn’t be bothered faffing about with the weird restraining clips, so it looks like the rebuild was advanced a few days.

I have to say, it took 3 hours, but that’s because I tested after each drive and PCI card was transplanted. First boot was nice, final boot with all drives (there are 7, not 6, including the optical. I forgot I had a PCI SATA port in there).

Benchmarks are out of this world. CPU upgrade has more than doubled frame rates in the latest three unigine benchmarks (heaven, valley and superposition, with heaven and valley hitting a solid minimum 60 fps on ultra settings, and a comparison with what I could have got if I’d upgraded, I hit 24th spot for superposition, even beating 1080s).

Render tests in Blender are also surprising. My go-to test scene (all home made) is pretty heavy on the render, and last night just for kicks I added volumetrics. In tests with and with out the volumetrics, with the only changes being between GPU and CPU rendering, and tile size (to get the best performance in each), CPU is now beating GPU, by a fair old margin.

These were fairly low sample tests, and more testing is needed, but initial tests tell me this is now a kick ass system.

And to think, I was still quite happy with the Phenom II X4 965 system. This literally blows it away.

Reused from the Phenom build literally everything except CPU, MB, RAM, Cooler and chassis, hence kept the cost below £900.

Feeling quite happy right now.

Oh, and the build was quite uneventful.

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[D-Dan]

Bob Williams wrote:

So glad my son took up vaping instead of the horrible roll ups he smoked. Don’t really like to see him vaping, but the utility room where he used to smoke* does not reek of tars & tobacco anymore. A conversation with one of his old gf’s, a really heavy smoker : Me: “Those things will kill you!” Son’s ex gf: “I could get hit by a bus crossing the road!” Me: “Oh really. Would you pay the driver to run you down? That’s what you do when you buy a pack of ciggies, you pay for something to give you a very painful death.” Blank look from son’s ex. Should explain 2 things. 1 – son once had a large number of exes, after a marriage break up some 17 years ago. He has given up now he’s 50 I think. 2 – I was once a 300+ a week smoker, until my early 30’s. Never touched a ciggy since. Converts make good preachers!?? *Kids banished him from the house when he smoked. Then nagged him to take up vaping instead. They are still working on the vaping.

Dad?

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[D-Dan]

For the moment, yes – BIOS setup since I still need to boot on this rig. Just preparing for UEFI conversion at the moment.

I think the fix was repartioning for the GPT boot partition and a /boot partition to mount, reinstalling GRUB and configuring it in /boot (mounted by then), reinstalling the Linux kernel, then fixing up fstab for the new UUIDs.

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