I jumped the gun. Everything tested good for an hour, and the temperatures were acceptable, so I'm back in Ubuntu folding. I'll be posting frame time updates as soon as I get some decent samples.
My processor is overclocked 30% from stock 2.0 to 2.6 GHz. Time for some better numbers (perhaps I can get a unit a day done now).
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Overclock, Better Cooling Round
So, I decided it was time to get more out of my hardware, so I'm giving another attempt to over clocking my system. I stopped last time because of cooling problems. Right now, I'm 78% though a memtest86 run. Prime95 is next on the list if I can get it to complete this test fine.
Well, pass one completed. I'm not real worried about the memtest results as with the prime95 findings.
Strange. I just tried running a balanced prime95 torture test, and it kept failing with code 1005, so I gotta figure out what's going on there. I'm running a power consumption test right now while folding@home is running on the other core (prime95 is single core). I'm trying to make sure it is stable while running at 100% for at least an hour. I need to see how hot it's going to get. 50 degrees so far. I should know by 3:30 if the temps are okay. I'm gonna let it run all night if it's doing well enough (make sure it's completely stable).
Time for a soda.
Well, pass one completed. I'm not real worried about the memtest results as with the prime95 findings.
Strange. I just tried running a balanced prime95 torture test, and it kept failing with code 1005, so I gotta figure out what's going on there. I'm running a power consumption test right now while folding@home is running on the other core (prime95 is single core). I'm trying to make sure it is stable while running at 100% for at least an hour. I need to see how hot it's going to get. 50 degrees so far. I should know by 3:30 if the temps are okay. I'm gonna let it run all night if it's doing well enough (make sure it's completely stable).
Time for a soda.
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Beautiful Day
For those who didn't spend any time outside today, you all missed out. It's beautiful! I was roller blading in the park for an hour or two. It was warm, but it's been a while since I worked up a good sweat. I love this weather.
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Need
I need something different. I'm starved for social interaction of a meaningful level (being yelled at by the customer because his/her computer isn't fixed yet really doesn't count as much). I also want to spend more time teaching myself new things about computers....
Eh, screw it. I'm gonna go do devotions and read some more in the book we are studying at church. I'll update later.
Eh, screw it. I'm gonna go do devotions and read some more in the book we are studying at church. I'll update later.
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Case Mod, Day 3
So, woke up sick again. I listened to the sermon from last week on WNAZ. But I'm getting tired of being sick on and off every couple of days.
Well, I got the soldering done... sort of. My case mod stage one is complete for now. I broke one of the new LEDs while soldering it on, so I had to scrap that and go with three replaced LEDs for now. The fourth will have to wait for another order or me to find that shop down town.
I'm also gonna see if I can order that SMA dongle so I can hook up external antennas to my notebook and get better signal strength... and the ability to hook up a directional high gain antenna.
And for those who I haven't told, I didn't get the position at Willis. I'm still looking for any computer related job.
I think I'm gonna go throw up now.
Well, I got the soldering done... sort of. My case mod stage one is complete for now. I broke one of the new LEDs while soldering it on, so I had to scrap that and go with three replaced LEDs for now. The fourth will have to wait for another order or me to find that shop down town.
I'm also gonna see if I can order that SMA dongle so I can hook up external antennas to my notebook and get better signal strength... and the ability to hook up a directional high gain antenna.
And for those who I haven't told, I didn't get the position at Willis. I'm still looking for any computer related job.
I think I'm gonna go throw up now.
Sunday, March 11, 2007
I'm KraZy!
Some times I really think I am. Oh, and I watched Vanilla Sky for the first time tonight (it was on, I was board). I'm waiting for my laundry to finish and working on my computer again. It was a strange movie. I wasn't sure how to take it.
<tangent>
I'm hooked on computers. My desktop alone triple boots now. My notebook dual boots. I'm odd. Oh, I still need to get my remote SSH/apache/file server up and running. I think that's next. I'm gonna go make another cup of coffee and fold clothes while watching VH1 for a while. Then I may work on the server for a bit if my desktop doesn't need anything else. And I feel a round of CounterStrike: Source coming on to celebrate.
That's crazy.
<tangent>
$sudo mkdir /media/oldinstall</tangent>
$sudo mount /dev/hdc0 /media/oldinstall
$ls -a /media/oldinstall
#checking contents
#this printed entire contents of / on my original Ubuntu install
#basically everything I didn't want to have to config all over again
$sudo cp -r /boot/grub /media/oldinstall/boot/grub
$sudo cp -r /media/oldinstall/* /
$echo 'Wee!'
I'm hooked on computers. My desktop alone triple boots now. My notebook dual boots. I'm odd. Oh, I still need to get my remote SSH/apache/file server up and running. I think that's next. I'm gonna go make another cup of coffee and fold clothes while watching VH1 for a while. Then I may work on the server for a bit if my desktop doesn't need anything else. And I feel a round of CounterStrike: Source coming on to celebrate.
That's crazy.
Friday, March 9, 2007
Long Day
Wow. I got to work at 8 am this morning and left at 9 pm (minus an hour for lunch). It's been a while since I pulled a full shift like that. I'm tired. I have to be at work again early tomorrow, so I'm gonna turn in soon.
Before I go, I just wanted to say a few things. I've been doing a lot of thinking, and I've made some decisions. One, this fall, there is an opening to work for four months down in Papua New Ginea as a network admin for one of the Nazarene schools. I have decided to pursue that with all my energy. It will be a four month NIVS assignment, so I need to complete all the training (CCO and the like). I would also need to raise support for those four months. A job is going to be difficult to work out, because I will need to resign or get extended leave, and will need something a week or two after I return. God will provide. Second, I'm buying the last two original speakers from this set I bought from Nate. He originally sold them to Mandie, and she was going to put them in storage, so I thought I would save her a buck or two (and unite the set). Third, I purchased a second SDA this past Tuesday to replace my original, which is no longer working correctly. I am going to take it back as soon as I get my pay check next week and get the MDA. The company that makes both is releasing a new phone with all the features of the MDA in the size of the SDA in a few months, but I never buy brand new technology because of the pricing issue. So after I've had the MDA for a year, I might be ready for an upgrade, and the new phone should be cheaper.
Oh, and for those who I haven't spoken with recently, I've been working at CompUSA for about 6 months now, and am so ready to quit. The company is falling apart at the seams, and I'm in no hurry to "stick with it" because of the attitude displayed to me as an employee. I have applied several places and interviewed as well. I'm waiting to hear back from a few and still looking for more opportunities. I have been too stressed about my pay, and I have finally decided I can't take any more. I'm out as soon as possible. I need much better pay and benefits. I need to see a doctor. I need to get my car fixed. I need to have some stability and a savings account. I need God to provide something swiftly and soon if nothing lined up now works out.
I pray you all have a good evening and for those on spring break, hope it was amazing. DW
Before I go, I just wanted to say a few things. I've been doing a lot of thinking, and I've made some decisions. One, this fall, there is an opening to work for four months down in Papua New Ginea as a network admin for one of the Nazarene schools. I have decided to pursue that with all my energy. It will be a four month NIVS assignment, so I need to complete all the training (CCO and the like). I would also need to raise support for those four months. A job is going to be difficult to work out, because I will need to resign or get extended leave, and will need something a week or two after I return. God will provide. Second, I'm buying the last two original speakers from this set I bought from Nate. He originally sold them to Mandie, and she was going to put them in storage, so I thought I would save her a buck or two (and unite the set). Third, I purchased a second SDA this past Tuesday to replace my original, which is no longer working correctly. I am going to take it back as soon as I get my pay check next week and get the MDA. The company that makes both is releasing a new phone with all the features of the MDA in the size of the SDA in a few months, but I never buy brand new technology because of the pricing issue. So after I've had the MDA for a year, I might be ready for an upgrade, and the new phone should be cheaper.
Oh, and for those who I haven't spoken with recently, I've been working at CompUSA for about 6 months now, and am so ready to quit. The company is falling apart at the seams, and I'm in no hurry to "stick with it" because of the attitude displayed to me as an employee. I have applied several places and interviewed as well. I'm waiting to hear back from a few and still looking for more opportunities. I have been too stressed about my pay, and I have finally decided I can't take any more. I'm out as soon as possible. I need much better pay and benefits. I need to see a doctor. I need to get my car fixed. I need to have some stability and a savings account. I need God to provide something swiftly and soon if nothing lined up now works out.
I pray you all have a good evening and for those on spring break, hope it was amazing. DW
Saturday, March 3, 2007
I'm not an insomniac, I just like nights...
So, yesterday I woke up in the living room after an hour or two of sleep at 1
AM. It was cool. So I bumped the heat up a notch and sat down behind my
computers. Wednesday, I bought a package called Acronis Disk Director Suite . It was explained to me that it works better than Norton Ghost, so I gave it a shot (for $25 employee cost). I used it to transfer my Windows XP Pro 64bit off the RAID 0 array and onto a 120 GB hard drive (it moves data, resizes partitions... just about anything you could need; it takes care of the partition table, MBR, and all that other stuff too. I know this sounds more like an ad than a review, but it's neither. Anyways, works great. Got my data moved. So I was sitting there Saturday morning at 1AM thinking to myself, "What am I gonna do with the seven hours before I have to go to work?" So I wrote a few e-mails, read a bunch of stuff online, and then remembered that I wanted to install Linux on my main desktop. So I did. Twice. In the process of attempting to get dual screens working correctly (using the generic method, rather than the restrictive one for my graphics card), I bricked the installation and couldn't figure out how to get back into a terminal to fix it. So I saved some time by starting the reinstall and making breakfast around four or five in the morning. So, I started over, got it working (after a few tries and error messages), and was back up and running. With dual screens. I have this strange "whiter than sour cream" feeling in my head right now. I spent the last hour before work setting up Folding@Home via the SMP client (stupid lib dependencies). I'm around 40% done with my first SMP work unit. At this moment, I'm working on freeing up some space (using Acronis to move data to a larger drive) so I can install World of Warcraft and CounterStrike: Source. Once I'm done with that, who knows... but heck this is fun. I think I'm gonna just start going to bed as soon as I get home from work and do all this stuff early in the morning when there are no distractions. It's nice and quiet when I leave the radio off. Well, time to be thinking about church and my afternoon plans. God's peace to you all.
AM. It was cool. So I bumped the heat up a notch and sat down behind my
computers. Wednesday, I bought a package called Acronis Disk Director Suite . It was explained to me that it works better than Norton Ghost, so I gave it a shot (for $25 employee cost). I used it to transfer my Windows XP Pro 64bit off the RAID 0 array and onto a 120 GB hard drive (it moves data, resizes partitions... just about anything you could need; it takes care of the partition table, MBR, and all that other stuff too. I know this sounds more like an ad than a review, but it's neither. Anyways, works great. Got my data moved. So I was sitting there Saturday morning at 1AM thinking to myself, "What am I gonna do with the seven hours before I have to go to work?" So I wrote a few e-mails, read a bunch of stuff online, and then remembered that I wanted to install Linux on my main desktop. So I did. Twice. In the process of attempting to get dual screens working correctly (using the generic method, rather than the restrictive one for my graphics card), I bricked the installation and couldn't figure out how to get back into a terminal to fix it. So I saved some time by starting the reinstall and making breakfast around four or five in the morning. So, I started over, got it working (after a few tries and error messages), and was back up and running. With dual screens. I have this strange "whiter than sour cream" feeling in my head right now. I spent the last hour before work setting up Folding@Home via the SMP client (stupid lib dependencies). I'm around 40% done with my first SMP work unit. At this moment, I'm working on freeing up some space (using Acronis to move data to a larger drive) so I can install World of Warcraft and CounterStrike: Source. Once I'm done with that, who knows... but heck this is fun. I think I'm gonna just start going to bed as soon as I get home from work and do all this stuff early in the morning when there are no distractions. It's nice and quiet when I leave the radio off. Well, time to be thinking about church and my afternoon plans. God's peace to you all.
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