From: Igor Roshchin
They usually enjoy working late, with the people who feel and enjoy the
magic of the night. But they are forced to work from 5am (Ouch!)
That's all the master's fault. So, they all decided to go on strike this
morning to show him that they should not be treated like that!
(And he even has the automated updates enabled, which is hurting them!)
They know that he won't buy Macs, so they are safe for some time.
Otherwise he'd regret the revolt from $3k machines. At least the current
computers are cheaper to deal with.
...
Well, FWIW the current headache was solved with only 15 reboots - 7
failed attempts to update auto-magically over 3 days, and 8 critical
updates installed individually, one at a time ...
So far, I've spent about $1,800 building this machine including the
software I bought to run on it. Or more like I built the machine around
the software I wanted to run. It does an adequate job of running
Photoshop CS6 Extended & Corel Painter 11. I have the complete set of
Nik Filters except I still need to upgrade HDR Efex Pro to Pro2.
By "adequate", I mean you want it, here it is. Done. What's next?
System parameters:
GIGABYTE GA-Z68MA-D2H-B3 Intel Z68 Motherboard,
Intel Core i7-2600K Unlocked - Quad Core, 8MB L3 Cache, 1MB L2 Cache,
3.40 GHz,
32GB PC3-10666, DDR3-1333MHz RAM
12X Internal Blu-Ray Writer - BD-R SL 12X, BD-R DL 8X, BD-RE SL/DL 2X,
DVD±R 16X, DVD-RAM 12X, DVD+RW 8X, DVD-RW 6X, CD-R/RW 48X, _LIGHTSCRIBE_.
Hard Drives - 3 physical internal SATA drives with available ports for 4
more.
Boot: Hitachi 2.5” 160GB
Scratch: Hitachi 2.5” 120GB
DATA: Seagate 3.5” 1.5TB
Windows 7 Professional 64BIT
"Boot" & "Scratch" are stand-in drives until Solid State drive
technology matures a bit more (meaning prices come down A LOT). The
"Scratch" drive has nothing on it except PhotoShop's scratch file.
I still want to get a good video card for it, but I had some other
expenses crop up. I also want a scanner that will handle large format
transparencies. I figure about another $1,000 to finish it.
I don't even want to think about what it would have cost me to get a Mac
with those specifications. I don't know if I could get a Mac with those
specifications.
That wasn't what woke me up. I was just on the verge of waking to make
my regular early morning trek, when the other computer restarted itself
from a Stop 0x0000000A. The WindowsXP startup sound is rather loud
because the volume control for the speakers doesn't load until after the
desktop.
Micro$oft says Stop A is a driver issue, but that's BOGUS. It's a
failing memory chip on one of the DIMMs. I been to *that* rodeo before!
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