On 2016-07-16 02:06, Walter Bright wrote:
BTW, even if an app requires all sorts of registry settings, that is
still no excuse. Have a config file, and when the app starts up, it
looks for the registry settings. If not there, it reads the config file,
and sets the registry settings. I.e. it
On Saturday, 16 July 2016 at 12:16:48 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
On 07/16/2016 12:57 AM, Basile B. wrote:
> On Friday, 15 July 2016 at 21:03:28 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
>> The amazing group Replikas
> From the few I know i retain this one
>
> https://youtu.be/Fn8ZfjBsrng?t=23m19s
>
> very
On 07/16/2016 12:57 AM, Basile B. wrote:
> On Friday, 15 July 2016 at 21:03:28 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
>> The amazing group Replikas
> From the few I know i retain this one
>
> https://youtu.be/Fn8ZfjBsrng?t=23m19s
>
> very hooking.
Amazing!
And there is a connection: I recognized "Taş
On Saturday, 16 July 2016 at 07:57:20 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
On Friday, 15 July 2016 at 21:03:28 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
On 07/14/2016 09:18 PM, Basile B. wrote:
> [...]
>> [...]
posting that.
>> [...]
"under-appreciated
>> [...]
> [...]
treasures" of
> [...]
think that you
> [...]
were truely
On Saturday, 16 July 2016 at 04:54:02 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 05:02:55PM -0700, Walter Bright via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On 7/15/2016 3:43 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> One of the many reasons I gave up on Windows many years ago,
> and never looked back. ;-)
On Friday, 15 July 2016 at 21:03:28 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
On 07/14/2016 09:18 PM, Basile B. wrote:
> [...]
>> [...]
posting that.
>> [...]
"under-appreciated
>> [...]
> [...]
treasures" of
> [...]
think that you
> [...]
were truely
> [...]
I was too young to appreciate at the time but
On 16/07/2016 01:02, Walter Bright wrote:
The Ubuntu printer install isn't any better than Microsoft's. I wonder
what it is about printers. I can plug in USB drives, internal drives,
all sorts of things, and they just work.
Even when it's working, the simplest things fail. I learned to never
On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 05:02:55PM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 7/15/2016 3:43 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> > One of the many reasons I gave up on Windows many years ago, and
> > never looked back. ;-)
>
> I have my grump list for Linux, too. Tried to install it
On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 10:55:06PM +, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Friday, 15 July 2016 at 22:48:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> > For a time at Symantec I pushed through making the compiler runnable
> > directly off of the CD without requiring an installation.
>
> Fun fact:
On 7/15/2016 3:55 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Friday, 15 July 2016 at 22:48:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
For a time at Symantec I pushed through making the compiler runnable directly
off of the CD without requiring an installation.
Fun fact: this was basically THE killer feature of the
On 7/15/2016 3:43 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
One of the many reasons I gave up on Windows many years ago, and never
looked back. ;-)
I have my grump list for Linux, too. Tried to install it once on an HP laptop,
and the installer crashed with some long error message in hex. Like
On Friday, 15 July 2016 at 22:48:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
For a time at Symantec I pushed through making the compiler
runnable directly off of the CD without requiring an
installation.
Fun fact: this was basically THE killer feature of the Digital
Mars compiler for me way back when. I
On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 03:44:20PM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 7/15/2016 12:16 PM, Meta wrote:
> > On Friday, 15 July 2016 at 05:10:29 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> > > I'm excluding the pain of Windows reinstall, as it took 14 hours
> > > of sitting there blankly "checking
On 7/15/2016 12:46 PM, Jack Stouffer wrote:
On Friday, 15 July 2016 at 05:10:29 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
The absolutely easiest reinstall was dmd - I just copied the directory over
from the backup - but I suppose handing out awards to ourselves is a bit
narcissistic.
Always nice to dog food
On 7/15/2016 12:16 PM, Meta wrote:
On Friday, 15 July 2016 at 05:10:29 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
I'm excluding the pain of Windows reinstall, as it took 14 hours of sitting
there blankly "checking for updates". I wonder what it was possibly doing that
took 14 hours (the disk was fresh, there
On 07/14/2016 09:18 PM, Basile B. wrote:
> On Friday, 15 July 2016 at 00:17:35 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOErZuzZpS8
>>>
>>
>> OK, this is really going off off topic but thank you for posting that.
>> I've discovered Arthur Brown (you? ;) ). An
On Friday, 15 July 2016 at 05:10:29 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
The absolutely easiest reinstall was dmd - I just copied the
directory over from the backup - but I suppose handing out
awards to ourselves is a bit narcissistic.
Always nice to dog food every once and a while to confirm it
On Friday, 15 July 2016 at 05:10:29 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
I'm excluding the pain of Windows reinstall, as it took 14
hours of sitting there blankly "checking for updates". I wonder
what it was possibly doing that took 14 hours (the disk was
fresh, there was nothing to transmit to the NSA).
On Friday, 15 July 2016 at 05:10:29 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
I'm excluding the pain of Windows reinstall, as it took 14
hours of sitting there blankly "checking for updates". I wonder
what it was possibly doing that took 14 hours (the disk was
fresh, there was nothing to transmit to the
On 7/9/2016 7:43 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Got a text from Walter - his famous fanless graphics card caught fire along with
the motherboard. He'll be outta commission for a few days. -- Andrei
Back in business now with a new motherboard and new graphics card, which also
wound up forcing
On Friday, 15 July 2016 at 00:17:35 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
On 07/09/2016 09:11 PM, A.B wrote:
On Sunday, 10 July 2016 at 02:43:42 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Got a text from Walter - his famous fanless graphics card
caught fire
along with the motherboard. He'll be outta commission
On 07/09/2016 09:11 PM, A.B wrote:
On Sunday, 10 July 2016 at 02:43:42 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Got a text from Walter - his famous fanless graphics card caught fire
along with the motherboard. He'll be outta commission for a few days.
-- Andrei
lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
On 07/11/2016 02:11 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/9/2016 9:11 PM, A.B wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOErZuzZpS8
You must be older than me to think of that song!
Great music! I was thinking how dangerous that show was then I found
this on Wikipedia:
Brown quickly earned a
On 2016-07-13 21:09, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
I would, as recent kernels support that now, but just haven't had the
time to figure out how to set it up just yet. :D
Seems like Ksplice has been available since 2008 [1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ksplice
--
/Jacob Carlborg
On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 09:49:49AM +0200, Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
> On 2016-07-12 21:09, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>
> > I leave my PC running all the time, and there's never been a
> > problem. I never reboot unless there's a power outage or the kernel
> > is being
On 2016-07-12 21:09, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
I leave my PC running all the time, and there's never been a problem. I
never reboot unless there's a power outage or the kernel is being
upgraded
You don't do "no reboot" kernel patching? ;)
--
/Jacob Carlborg
On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 07:05:41PM +, Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Tuesday, 12 July 2016 at 18:30:58 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> > On 2016-07-12 15:20, Chris wrote:
> >
> > > Maybe if it's up an running, it's not so bad. But if it goes to
> > > sleep as well, then things get
On Tuesday, 12 July 2016 at 18:30:58 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2016-07-12 15:20, Chris wrote:
Maybe if it's up an running, it's not so bad. But if it goes
to sleep as
well, then things get messy. OS X is not the worst offender,
but the
safest thing is to reboot regularly to clean the RAM.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_smoke
On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 3:42 PM, deadalnix via Digitalmars-d <
digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 12 July 2016 at 12:17:00 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>
>> I seriously doubt a fan would stop an electrical fire (in fact, probably
>>
On Tuesday, 12 July 2016 at 12:17:00 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
I seriously doubt a fan would stop an electrical fire (in fact,
probably makes it worse). It's not overheating, it's arcing.
Actually, it would probably make it worse by providing fresh O2
to the fire.
BTW, this
On 2016-07-12 15:20, Chris wrote:
Maybe if it's up an running, it's not so bad. But if it goes to sleep as
well, then things get messy. OS X is not the worst offender, but the
safest thing is to reboot regularly to clean the RAM. I don't know what
exactly causes crashes and funny behavior but I
On 2016-07-12 14:12, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
OSX needs a reboot every once in a while. iOS too. In particular, my
bluetooth system will stop working (and then my trackpad no longer
works). Yes, I've tried all the resetting firmware tricks :)
I currently have an up time of 79 days.
--
On 07/09/2016 10:43 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Got a text from Walter - his famous fanless graphics card caught fire
along with the motherboard. He'll be outta commission for a few days. --
Andrei
I didn't mark the original post with [OT] because it was informing the
community about
On Tuesday, 12 July 2016 at 13:20:17 UTC, Chris wrote:
On Tuesday, 12 July 2016 at 11:51:48 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2016-07-12 11:06, Chris wrote:
[...]
Sleep can be convenient if you're going to use it later the
same day, for example.
[...]
I use OS X and I don't recognize that
On Tuesday, 12 July 2016 at 11:51:48 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2016-07-12 11:06, Chris wrote:
I turn it off every day.
Sleep can be convenient if you're going to use it later the
same day, for example.
If the OS is up too long (several days), it
starts to act weirdly and may crash at
dedicated to the card itself. The fire didn't start on the components
that were attached to the heat sink.
I've run all sorts of computers for 40 years now, have had all sorts of
hardware failures, and this is the first one that caught fire.
The server hardware I've seen all had very noisy fans.
On 7/12/16 7:51 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2016-07-12 11:06, Chris wrote:
I turn it off every day.
Sleep can be convenient if you're going to use it later the same day,
for example.
If the OS is up too long (several days), it
starts to act weirdly and may crash at the most inconvenient
On 2016-07-12 11:06, Chris wrote:
I turn it off every day.
Sleep can be convenient if you're going to use it later the same day,
for example.
If the OS is up too long (several days), it
starts to act weirdly and may crash at the most inconvenient time (is
there a convenient time for a
On 7/12/2016 3:08 AM, Michael wrote:
Maybe it's time to invest in some "workstation" / server-grade stuff if
it's going to be running continuously with little moving air.
There's still a case fan, cpu fan, and power supply fan, just not one
dedicated to the card itself. The fire di
On Tuesday, 12 July 2016 at 11:28:41 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/11/2016 11:24 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
I put my computer into sleep mode when I'm not using it for a
longer
period of time. It seems to shutdown everything but keeps some
power to
keep the data in RAM alive. So it turn back
On 7/11/2016 11:24 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
I put my computer into sleep mode when I'm not using it for a longer
period of time. It seems to shutdown everything but keeps some power to
keep the data in RAM alive. So it turn back on instantly.
I still have a lingering reluctance to do that,
On Monday, 11 July 2016 at 21:29:49 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/11/2016 7:49 AM, Meta wrote:
It wouldn't happen to be an nVidia card, would it?
MSI GeForce GT 720 DirectX 12 N720-1GD3HLP 1GB 64-Bit DDR3 PCI
Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready Video Card
The fire happened at the junction between
On Tuesday, 12 July 2016 at 06:24:13 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2016-07-11 23:23, Walter Bright wrote:
Yeah, I consider myself very lucky, as I leave the machine on
all the
time. I was sitting next to it when it burst into flame, and
cutting the
power put it out. In the future I plan on
On 2016-07-11 23:23, Walter Bright wrote:
Yeah, I consider myself very lucky, as I leave the machine on all the
time. I was sitting next to it when it burst into flame, and cutting the
power put it out. In the future I plan on cutting the time for it to go
into hibernation. Fortunately it's a
On 7/11/2016 7:49 AM, Meta wrote:
It wouldn't happen to be an nVidia card, would it?
MSI GeForce GT 720 DirectX 12 N720-1GD3HLP 1GB 64-Bit DDR3 PCI Express
2.0 x16 HDCP Ready Video Card
The fire happened at the junction between the graphics card and the
motherboard. I'm not totally sure
On 7/11/2016 6:06 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
That's kind of scary. It's one of those things you don't think about
happening -- like what if you weren't home if this happened.
Could have been a lot worse.
Yeah, I consider myself very lucky, as I leave the machine on all the
time. I was
On 7/9/2016 7:43 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Got a text from Walter - his famous fanless graphics card caught fire
along with the motherboard. He'll be outta commission for a few days. --
I can do email and such with my laptop, but it is not suitable for
development.
I spent yesterday
On 7/9/2016 9:11 PM, A.B wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOErZuzZpS8
You must be older than me to think of that song!
On Sunday, 10 July 2016 at 02:43:42 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Got a text from Walter - his famous fanless graphics card
caught fire along with the motherboard. He'll be outta
commission for a few days. -- Andrei
It wouldn't happen to be an nVidia card, would it?
On 7/9/16 10:43 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Got a text from Walter - his famous fanless graphics card caught fire
along with the motherboard. He'll be outta commission for a few days. --
That's kind of scary. It's one of those things you don't think about
happening -- like what if you
On Sunday, 10 July 2016 at 02:43:42 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Got a text from Walter - his famous fanless graphics card
caught fire along with the motherboard. He'll be outta
commission for a few days. -- Andrei
I hope he wasn't using it on the back of a camel in the desert...
http
On Sunday, 10 July 2016 at 02:43:42 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Got a text from Walter - his famous fanless graphics card
caught fire along with the motherboard. He'll be outta
commission for a few days. -- Andrei
Glad he's ok.
Maybe go overboard with the fans this time ;)
On Sunday, 10 July 2016 at 02:43:42 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Got a text from Walter - his famous fanless graphics card
caught fire along with the motherboard. He'll be outta
commission for a few days. -- Andrei
lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOErZuzZpS8
Got a text from Walter - his famous fanless graphics card caught fire
along with the motherboard. He'll be outta commission for a few days. --
Andrei
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