Ow Ow Ow!!!!!! That hurts my head just reading all that stuff! On Aug 17, 2012, at 15:41 , John Sessoms wrote:
> 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! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
