Cool little addition to 8.0.1

You know how when you try to grab a curve in the Channel EQ, you're never quite sure if you're adjusting the Q ( up and down) or the Frequency (side to side)? Well, now when you are hovering over the Q area, a little "Q" appears next to the cursor just to confirm..
I like that.

I really wish you could also adjust Q when using an MCU in Vpot 8 'EQ' mode.... That would be awesome!

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The cool little features in iWeb templates

Hi all,
I was just wondering how to get the cool little add-ons that the iWeb templates have on my site?
For example, iWeb has scissors on one of the sites. Their are also others like.. doodles, post its, "hello, my name is" I know I can simply cut and paste, but I'm looking for additional add ons. is there a stock pile of these somewhere on the web or maybe on my mac?

You can add scrolling banner text, blinking text, mouse rollover, Fancy Zoom, Show and Hide text and many other enhancements.
OT

A cool little find

I was just mucking about in the environment and went to the new menu to create a Midi Monitor and noticed the quicktime synth. Plugged it all in and got myself a roland GS synth from Quicktime. Ok its not the most impressive plugin in the world but its an additional GM/GS synth that i didn't know about in logic and im sure there are some here that don't know about it either. When i was at unit one of our projects was restricted to the use of a GM synth and its surprising what result you can get out of these things.

This is built in to OSX (or Quicktime).
It's like the Mac equivalent of a PC Soundblaster card. Cheap and cheerful.

Cool little icons - Where did they get these?

I ran across Depeche Mode's website months ago. I really like
the little icons they use at the bottom of the page for Facebook,
Youtube, Myspace etc. Where did these come from? Is it a Flash
product? Or is it a custom Flash icon their designer used? I would
love to get my hands on them if anyone recognizes them.
Check out:
http://www.depechemode.com/
-T

Hi SH -
While it does look like "each one is separate" it is actually
one image
containing all the icons including the hover state.
The sprite method uses CSS positioning to only display the
desired icon as a
background
The image:
http://www.depechemode.com/images/brat_bottom_footer_icons.jpg
The CSS:
#brat_hacked_footer span.announcement {
background: url(/images/brat_bottom_footer_icons.jpg)
#edecec;
float: left;
display: block;
width: 25px;
height: 22px;
margin: -4px 4px 0px 0px;
#brat_hacked_footer span {
background: url(/images/brat_bottom_footer_icons.jpg)
#edecec;
float: left;
display: block;
width: 25px;
height: 22px;
margin: -4px 4px 0px 20px;
#brat_hacked_footer span.store {
background: url(/images/brat_bottom_footer_icons.jpg);
float: left;
display: block;
width: 62px;
height: 22px;
margin: -4px 4px 0px 20px;
#hacked_footer_announcement_list span.announcement {
background-position: 0px 0px;
#hacked_footer_myspace span {
background-position: -25px 0px;
#hacked_footer_facebook span {
background-position: -50px 0px;
#hacked_footer_youtube span {
background-position: -75px 0px;
#hacked_footer_store span.store {
background-position: -100px 0px;
#hacked_footer_store_links a {
display: inline;
margin: -0px 0px -0px 0px;
#hacked_footer_store_links b {
display: inline;
margin: -0px 0px -0px 0px;
#hacked_footer_announcement_list a:hover span.announcement {
background-position: -0px -22px;
#hacked_footer_myspace a:hover span {
background-position: -25px -22px;
#hacked_footer_facebook a:hover span {
background-position: -50px -22px;
#hacked_footer_youtube a:hover span {
background-position: -75px -22px;
#hacked_footer_store a:hover span.store {
background-position: -100px -22px;
"shoutzager" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
>I think they just doctored up those icons themselves.
Each one is separate
>with a rollover. Addthis has a popular product.
>
http://www.addthis.com/
>
> SH

What do you call those cool little icons?

you know the ones... i cant figure out what there called or where to find a site that has a bunch of them for use.
if you dont know what i mean theres an arch linux one and a firefox one at the bottom of dibbles page (first ones i found just now) http://dtw.jiwe.org/news.php

cactus wrote:
Penguin wrote:phrakture, what *in the hell* is that avatar?
The "house keeping" robot from FLCL (fooly cooly).
naw but he's red in the picture.... which means ass-kickage (... or the main character's brother / the man he will become ... depending on how deeply you'd like me to analyze it)

Interesting little app that gives 100% CPU time to your app of choice.

Hi All,
I saw this cool little app that basically shuts down all other non essential processes and gives 100% CPU time to the app of choice. It is called Freeze Frame. Thought it might be worth a look, with all the overloads and all ..... PS - I am not affiliated with this company whatsoever.
http://www.elgebar.com/freezeframe.html
Regards,
Peter

gbrits wrote:
I'm sorry if I explained myself incorrectly. If I were allowed to post the code I would have done so already. I didn't ask you to post your code. I asked you to post structurally similar code that exhibits similar behavior.
I was hoping to get some pointers 'in abstracto' as to what generally may lead to such behavior (i.e not utilizing 100%). Unfortunately, there are about a snotzillion things that could cause the situation you describe. As already pointed out, all we can offer are random guesses, and that's not a productive use of anybody's time.
Perhaps my question was indeed to broad.Yup.
I'll get back to it with a more concrete simplified code example if I can . Excellent.

I'm a little confused about this apple remote thing

Background: I've currently got a mac mini, which i love, which came with this cool little remote deal which makes using iTunes super easy. Now I'm on the verge of getting a nice new Mac Book Pro and I'm wondering what to do in regards to this remote. What I want to know and have been unable to figure out is, does one remote automatically work for any mac in the vicinity? do you have to program a specific remote to work with a specific computer? I don't want to start playing a song on my MBP and have my mini start playing something else.
Anyone have any experience with this?

You can pair the remote with any computer running a version of OSX that supports the remote. Just follow the instructions at:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1619
I have three remotes, and have two of them paired. One paired to an iMac running 10.4.11, one paired to a MBP running 10.5.2, and the unpaired remote runs my apple dock to control my iPod hooked to the stereo.

My Dual-Boot Adventures

The saga goes like this... (grab a hot, foamy latte, sit back and read -- go ahead -- take a couple of minutes to live my rollercoaster of emotions)...
I've got a dead PC laptop graveyard brewing in my living room corner. The latest addition is a cool little Toshiba R100. Two pounds light, it's been a great little workhorse: 256mb of RAM, 20gb HD, running XP Pro. But the screen has started to dima little after 2 1/2 years... my little baby is tired. I decided to go ahead and put the DNR sign on her, and relegate her to the graveyard.
SO then came my dilemma. I'm primarily Mac in my own little world, but as a consultant I am often forced to work within the PC world. And then came along the MacBook Pro with the Intel chip... eyebrows raised, and then Apple releases Boot Camp.
I barely dodged the Army recruiters in high school cause I was afraid of Boot Camp -- but now, at 41, I regret being afraid of what Boot Camp really offered: discipline, diligence, motivation, and a strong desire to achieve.
Now, Apple was allowing me to re-join Boot Camp at my advanced age.
I sauntered into the Apple Store this weekend, convinced I was ready to sign on the dotted line... the Mastercard dotted line that is.
I had done my research... the shiny new Toshiba Tablet Laptop with all the whizbangs was $1999.00 at Best Buy. A MacBook Pro outfitted to run both OSX and XP would cost close to $4000.00 out the store:
MacBook Pro with 2gb RAM, 100gb HD, 2.16 Intel Duo Core $3000.00 + the freshly minted copy of XPSP2 I'd need would set me back $300.00. Then you add the AppleCare and extra power adapter, tax, and you're close to 4grand.
I weighed the difference: 2 separate laptops to keep track of, or the promise of an ALL IN ONE! Simply dual-boot, and all your problems are solved. One computer, will travel!
My wife had to be put out of the picture, so I scurried her off to the Giants game. No way she would be a part of this, and she opposed it from the start. It's countless the bedroom arguments that Steve Jobs has caused... does he even imagine?
So in the store, the Apple Dude is well-informed. He did tell me, however, that if I wanted to see Boot Camp in operation, I'd have to go to Circuit City -- since the Apple Stores expressly forbid BETA software on their demo machines, and, of course, Apple will not even consider having a machine with XP running in the store. He also stated that since it was Beta software, they wouldn't support it -- basically, the machines CAN DO IT, but I'm on my own...
He promised to quickly upgrade the in the store machine to 2gb of RAM if I purchase there, however, he said I could order it online custom if I wanted.
He also said to forget about the built-in iSight, bluetooth mouse and keyboard, and possibly some other little gadgets running under Windows.
So I bought it... holding my breath at the cashier stand... hoping the credit card would authorize... he also convinced me to get the free iPod Nano and Printer, since I convinced HIM to give me the educational discount... I was currently in an online wine-tasting class.. he bought it, and quickly took about $700 off the total!
So I get the little silver sucker home, and fire her up. I made the mistake of transferring my G4 stuff over first. That was 50gb and 3 hours later before I could get to Boot Camp.
When I got to Boot Camp, it all started out real nifty. I was sure to PRINT OUT the Install PDF (I highly encourage this), and away I went. The download was painless, and I didn't need a firmware upgrade. The first message came to me quickly however... Boot Camp told me it couldn't partition the drive. I had chosen 30GB for Windows. BC said the disc needed repair. So I had to boot from the OSX install CD, and run Disk Utility. Disk Utility repaired something, and BC then did the partition! Woo-hoo. I wiped the sweat from mt forebrow - I had a successful partition.
Next came the install of Windows. I inserted the XPSP2 Cd, and away we went. About 50% through the install came the blue screen of death. Something about an installation cab being corrupt. I panicked cause the EJECT button didn't work (Windows wasn't installed... nothing to recognize the CD)... so I restarted the installation again. Same blue screen of death.
By this time, my wife was home from the Giants game, and I was hunkered over my little silver monster, in the dark, oblivious to it now being Saturday NIGHT!
She looked at me in disgust, and muttered something about it's either me or Apple as she stormed out...
I continued with my panic about.. how do I get the CD out to return to the world of OSX, cause on every restart the machine tried to boot teh XPSP2 CD. I referred to the BC PDF printout, and it told me to hold down the mouse button to eject the CD. Cool.
So I restarted, and forgot to hold down the mouse button ... BUT ... I didn't get the blue screen of death. I had jostled the computer a bit, so maybe that caused the CD to spind differently, and it continued.
So after about 45 minutes, Windows was installed. I rand the BC Mac drivers Disk, and Windows froze. Had to restart.
Did that a couple of times, and it seemed to take finally.
I'm in Windows now, have done some updates... get a lot of fatal driver errors, and MSN 7.5 causes a major blue screen of death.
I am typing this with the Apple Bluetooth Keyboard and using the Apple Bluetooth mouse... although the mouse sometimes tracks funny.
I've installed all the Adobe software, Macromedia software, Firefox, and some other stuff without too many issues.
Photoshop CS2 is BLAZING fast.
The wireless is great, picked right up, the networking works fine... I'm using the DVI out to a 23" Apple Cinema Display, and it's working fine, except every now and then the screen freezes for a milisecond. I think this screen is causing the persistent driver errors.
I'm not sorry I did it, I think it's absolutely cool to have 2 OS's on one MAC!!
It wasn't a SMOOTH install, but with a little luck I was able to weave my way through.
I'm 4 days in, we'll see how it goes...
--Brandon
<br

Have you held the Option key at startup to get the OSX option?
One in OSX you can set the startup disk in System Preferences > Startup Disk

HELP with Presto Poll

Ok, I have been trying to add a poll on my site for two days
and the frustration is overcoming me! :-(
I have no, let me repeat again, no experience with SQL
databases, so after some surfing I came across a little PHP program
called Presto Polls. Seemed cool, and apparently works for others.
I downloaded the prestopoll-4 (
http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=28878&group_id=100446
) and transferred it to my site to a folder called "polls".
I next went to the admin-poll.php and changed the question to
one of my own. I then added 3 answers. So far so good... I then
look online via direct link the poll.php file and it looks fine and
will let me vote. No problem.
I then inserted an iform into my webpage. (Using Dreamweaver
CS3 on a Mac) I link the iform to the poll.php file in my poll
folder. Upload the page and it doesn't work. It shows the iform box
but nothing inside .
Does anyone know what have I missed, or better yet some other
easy way to create a poll while not having to be a programmer?
Any advice or help is greatly appreciated.

You can always make this suggestion to the DW team. For one,
though, I
wouldn't really support devoting development funds to such a
specific
purpose.
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
Adobe Community Expert
(If you *MUST* email me, don't LAUGH when you do so!)
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"Corey Spann" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
>I just wanted to post a follow up to my previous
question. I managed to
>work
> out the problem, and have to say this is a very cool
little piece of
> software/code to do a poll or survey on a website. Have
a look here at
> what it
> did:
http://www.betrayalofanation.com/trailer.html
>
> The problem was actually in the adding of an iFrame. I
surfed the net and
> found the right code like this: <iframe
> src="
http://www.yourdomain.com/poll/poll.php"
width="215" height="250"
> frameborder="0" scrolling="no"> </iframe>, and
it worked fine. There are
> limitations to this freeware?s capabilities, but for a
down and dirty
> survey
> you don?t need any SQL databases, etc.
>
> I honestly think it would be a very useful addition to
Dreamweaver to be
> able
> to create a web poll via a DW wizard or something. To be
able to easily
> create
> a poll/survey would add interaction for the visitor and
feedback for the
> site
> owner. To me this is a valuable addition to managing and
implementing a
> site.
>
> I know DW supports SQL, etc., but how much easier would
it be if DW could
> create a php type set of files that could be easily
uploaded. This would
> be for
> simple type surveys only. Basically a wizard that asked
for the question,
> answers, width, etc. and you?re done! That would be
slick and quite
> useful. I
> realize it would only work on servers that would run
php, but the brains
> at
> Adobe could do the code in something else if they
wanted.
>
> Just my 2 cents, but I hope someone takes a look at it,
since it could,
> and
> would likely be used by many if it were easier.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
>

How to add BlackBerry Messenger Contacts?

I recently purchased the BlackBerry 8300 World Edition phone and found the online tutorial to be quite useful. Unfortunately, I find myself stomped because I want to add contacts so that I can commence conversations on the BlackBerry Messenger network. Can anyone advise how to add contacts and send a message to them?
Regards,
Babb
Solved!
Go to Solution.

In Addition:
Once the invite is accepted, they will show up in your contacts list once you open BB Messenger. To start a conversation, just click on the selected person and start typing.(the typing window appears at the bottom). You can also send files between contacts. It's a cool little program. I use it more than I thought I would.
John
John
Stevie Ray! 1954-1990
** Don't forget to resolve your post with the accepted solution.

Help w/ SE/30, Color Classic, System 6, a Centris, and more.

Hi all,
I recently acquired some more cool oldies However, they're pretty much unfamiliar territory. I have two SE/30s. One is working - it has 2MB of RAM and a 40 meg hard disk, with an ethernet card installed. However, it's running System 6, and it can't print to my Color StyleWriter 2400. I tried downloading the 2400's drivers from Apple's older software page, but those drivers said it needed 6.0.7. So, I downloaded the 6.0.8 upgrade. Argh - same message! I really don't fancy running System 7 anything with 2 meg of RAM.
This also came with a cool Apple 20SC hard drive - with it's original 20MB MiniScribe HD working quite well.
I have another SE/30 which powers up to fine vertical lines. So, I opened her up (the screws recessed in the handle had already been removed, lucky for me). As it turns out, the battery had leaked everywhere. It completely ruined the battery holder on the logic board, and it had even eaten through a capacitor near the battery. So, I need information regarding the capacitors, or a new SE/30 Logic board. Upon further inspection, there appear to be other capacitors that have leaked a little.
I also got a color classic. That's a cool little machine, but rather useless right now. However, it uses 30 pin memory, which i don't have. It has something like 8MB of RAM, which I'd like to upgrade. I put an LC PDS ethernet card in it, but there are NO networking-related control panels installed (Network and File Sharing are both missing). What do I need to get a System 7.1 machine on a network? I have an LC III in the same state.
I also got a Centris 650 and 12" RGB display - the kind that go with the LC. The Centris needed a clean install - I chose 7.6.1. It seems to work well now, but it likes to turn blue sometimes! What I mean is, the initial grey rasters are fine, then right before the happy mac appears and the corners of the screen are rounded, the whites shift to neon blue. It's not the monitor - all the colors are fine, and the monitor works fine with other machines. Only the pure whites turn blue - no other colors are messed up. I pulled and cleaned the VRAM with a contact cleaner pen, and the problem seems to be okay for now, but I haven't looked at it yet today. I also got an AAUI -> Ethernet transceiver, so i should be able to connect to other machines.
Ideally, I'd like to get ALL these machines on the network, so that they can see each other's files and such. Any help with that would be greatly appreciated. I'm familiar with the TCP/IP and IP addresses and stuff, but I have no idea what software I need to install on these old Macs to get them to file share.
Any help, suggestions, links, advice or opinions about ANY of this would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Kyle-

Kyle
So, I downloaded the 6.0.8 upgrade. Argh - same message! I really don't fancy running System 7 anything with 2 meg of RAM.As Jim mentioned, 30-pin SIMMs of 1MB (as opposed to the 4 X 512kB, or 8 x 256kB that you have now), and perhaps 4MB, are reaching the throwout point. Try for 8 x 4MB as a least-cost fillip to your SE/30. With Mode 32 (and, therefore, 32-bit operation), the resulting 32MB will make the SE/30 fly, and easily run Systems up to and including 7.5.5. Its NIC and your printer will also thank you. The 20SC case, I suggest, is capable of at least a 4GB replacement for the MiniScribe if you use 7.5.5.
So, I need information regarding the capacitors, or a new SE/30 Logic board. Upon further inspection, there appear to be other capacitors that have leaked a little.If you go shopping for another SE/30 logic board, look for one that has metal latches for the SIMM slots, and, to ice the cake, a socketted 68030 processor. The first is a more durable means of SIMM retention, and the second a useful feature if you find a plug-in, as opposed to an SE/30 PDS slot-filling, processor upgrade.
I also got a color classic ... it uses 30 pin memory ... which I'd like to upgrade. I put an LC PDS ethernet card in it, but there are NO networking-related control panels installed (Network and File Sharing are both missing). What do I need to get a System 7.1 machine on a network? I have an LC III in the same state.The CC can take 2 x 4MB SIMMs in addition to the 4MB soldered-in. However, the Memory Manager will 'see' only 10MB total. The CC supports up to OS 7.6.1, and with OT 1.1.2 and a PDS NIC, can hold its own in a LAN. Keep in mind that System 7.5.3 and the 7.5.5 update are readily accessible. OS 7.6, however, is a 'reference release' that must be bought.
Ideally, I'd like to get ALL these machines on the network, so that they can see each other's files and such ... I'm familiar with the TCP/IP and IP addresses and stuff, but I have no idea what software I need to install on these old Macs to get them to file share.Networking is a snap if it is set up properly. Teejus, but rewarding. OT 1.1.1 and 1.1.2 will need to be added to Systems 7.5.5 to 7.6.1 after you have installed the NIC drivers (if needed). You will need to configure AppleTalk, TCP/IP, Users & Groups, and FileSharing. It is also a Good Thing to use AppleShare versions appropriate to each installed System/OS. Rainer's link will also stand you in good stead.
Apple IIe; 15 x 68K; 7 x PPC; 5 x G3 System 6.0.8 to OS 10.4.x

Moved to G4 MDD... want to upgrade fans. Fan specs? Internal temp sensors?

Hello!
Just a week ago, I upgraded from an older Quicksilver (single 733) to a Dual-1.25 Ghz FireWire 800 MDD. To say this machine leaves the QS in the dust is an understatement! This nifty MDD feels faster running Leopard than my MacBook Pro does!
In any case, while the noise is not as bad as I feared given the reputation of the "G4 Windtunnel", it's definitely a bit more annoying than the QS it replaced. I've noticed that it's not bad when idle, then when I start using it for any heavier-duty stuff (EyeTV, for example) one of the fans kicks in at high speed - keeping the G4 cool makes it much more "ear-friendly". I've kept it out in the open as much as I can, to allow for ample airflow, but am considering replacing one or more of fans with more quiet ones.
I have three questions:
1. How do you tell if this MDD went back to apple for a fan replacement? I know they were recalling them for a while.
2. What are the airflow and noise ratings of the fans - or at least the big case fan? I'm comfortable swapping out the fans for ones with higher airflow per unit noise, but do not know what the baseline flow is!
3. I have yet to find an app capable of accessing the temperatures of any sensor other than the CPU board and the hard drives - yet I know there are more sensors in there. Is there some app, apart from iStat or Temperature Monitor, that can read the other sensors?
Thanks for tips,
-Daniel

Hello,
I modded my G4 MDD a couple of years ago.
Upgraded the main large fan to a Vantec Stealth super quiet fan with the silicone noise reduction kit.
Upgraded the 2 fans on the power supply too using x2 Vantec fans.
Also did the mod fitting 2 smaller fans behind the processors using a fan controller I bought from Maplins. Works a treat keeping the mac super cool & quiet.
Ulitmately the rear fans acted as an xtra exhaust sucking the warm air out of the unit instead of it creating a nice cool area between the main fan than processors.
Its all quite easy to do if you are comfortable/confident in messing with it.
Installed drives to 7200rpm and again used silicone quiet kits when reinstalling.
It also helped installing an ATA 133 pci card with decent cables which I think made a huge difference in overall performance.
Ram coolers are also a good addition.
I wish I hadnt have sold it as it was a solid machine and put some of the earlier G5's to shame.
Good luck & have fun
Did a cool little mod fitting a blue neon cold cathode tube which illuminated the front retro exhaust ports which was cool. Again this was powered using a molex connector of the DVD drive, simple but nice mod.

New Project - New Problems or The day the Reaper died

Ok, this is more like telling a story than a cry for help.
The story is about a new project, new (great) results and the disaster that followed.
Well story starts October 21st with me upgrading rig 1 with new parts. They came for my Opteron165 setup which oc'ed nicely but didn't make it far enough. So board, cpu and ram of rig 1 (sig) got replaced by the following parts:
The new cpu is an Athlon X2 5200+ EE (TDP 65W), 2.6ghz, 2x 1024kb L2 cache, 90nm, F3 stepping.
The board is from MSI (of course), a K9N SLi Platinum. Very nice board and luckily it is PCB version 1.2 which features a heatpipe while the older version just had a very bad cooling, passive aluminium heat sink. The older version is the one still to be seen on MSI product site.
The new one looks therefor way better and stays cooler:
In addition I threw a pair of the finest ddr2 ram in it. A 2gb dual channel kit of OCZs new DDR2 PC2-6400 Reaper CL3 Edition. DDR2-800 with 3-4-4-15 (stock), guranteed to work with 2.3volts.
So suppositions for oc were great and I started:
First of all upgraded the bios from 1.8 to the latest 1.10. Then I thought why go step by step, why not starting big. So I set HT clock to 250mhz, resulting in a cpu clock of 3250mhz (multi 13), Hyper transport link set to 800mhz (x4), ram very relaxed (divider 667, 5-5-5-15 2T). It didn't post but I thought solution is easy, forgot to set extra voltage for cpu. Next try at 3250 mhz with 1.25v and set 0.1v extra in bios. It didn't post. I set voltage to maximum but no luck. Tried again but this time I lowered the HT link to 600mhz (x3). Now it posted even with 1v extra and it also booted XP but seemed to be not very stable. So set extra voltage to 0.15v which enhanced stability greatly.
After minor driver problems my old XP installation worked pretty perfectly with the new setup. Time had come to see if it was stable and I started Orthos. It seemed to be ok, 1hour no problems, 2hours, 3hours and bam... 3hours 40 minutes and that's it. I thought "Damn, but it will make it with more voltage". I added more voltage (0.2v extra) and started Orthos again but no way, at 4hours 32 minutes it stopped again.
I'm not easy to discourage and so I added 0.25v to the 1.25v vcore and tried another time. Still 250x13 = 3250mhz.
And it worked!
Orthos now easiely worked six hours when I stopped it myself to see if it would also be stable with more intensed ram settings. I set ram divider to 800mhz (1:1) resulting in DDR2-929 and timings to 4-4-4-15 2T.
I started Orthos and left the machine alone... Outstanding 16 hours later it was still working!
After 17hours 5 minutes and 50 seconds of running Orthos I knew I had a stable beast!
It also worked with ram set to divider 667 (resulting in 406mhz or ddr2-812) and 3-4-4-15 2T. However 1T was a real killer, thats why I left command rate at 2T and were happy so far.
Performance was really good and I wanted to know if this would increase my 3dmark06 results which were already great with old setup because of nicely oc'ed 8800GTS 320. The opteron could do 9572 3dmarks with it.
The new setup easiely broke the 10.000 points by reaching 10306 points with cpu at 3250mhz, ram at ddr2-929 (4-4-4-15 2T), vga as seen in sig.
It really seemed to be finished. The rest would be just playing around and going for suicide clocks. At least that was what I thought at that time.
Before maxing it out I wanted to have the Vista 64 Ultimate installation also running with the new setup. I hadn't booted vista since upgrading to the am2 system, so I tried for the first time....
AND NOW EVERYTHING GOT F***** UP
Vista welcomed me with a blue screen instead of a logon screen. I was pi**** but aware it might not like changing from NForce4 SLi to NForce 570 SLI. Next step was trying safe mode but vista thought of blue mode and showed a screen of that colour. I thought "ok, maybe you dislike setup change" and so I went for a clean install. I even formated the partition and gave it a go. Installation was fine 'til first start. Well, it wasn't a start to be honest as vista told me it was not able to do this. Repair wasn't successful either.
Assumption was now system is not making the oc clocks although proved to be stable under XP. So I removed any oc and loaded fail-safe mode in bios. Relaxed ram timings to 5-5-5-18. I started installing vista again, thought I could oc again when it is installed.
Oh boy, how wrong I were... The 2nd installation turned out to be as faulty as the first and I tried again and again... After installation failed nine times I were finally discouraged.
I just wanted to boot XP for now, forget about installing vista and maybe ask here if it this was a known issue.
Well, I didn't get to see XP. I was just informed about a missing file that also prevented to boot safe mode. I took my XP cd and started automatic repair. After this was nearly finished the first errors and notifications about unknown, missing or corrupted files appeared. Although XP made it to finish install and booted successfully. But this XP wasn't a real XP as many things didn't work. I couldn't install drivers because loads of errors and crc crap made working with it impossible. Clear install time! But no way, same issues like seen in vista.
Now I were pretty desperate and I urgently needed an idea. I came to the solution maybe I could try with single channel, using just one mem stick. I removed one and tried installing XP again. It worked without any issue. Even driver installation and other software worked without a problem. Now I were even able to install Vista.
But still I didn't know what caused all the trouble. I had three suspects: Mobo, ram, cpu. I doubted in faulty board but cpu (failing to control dual channel) or the ram stick I removed were my favorites. As it was the easiest to try I put the other stick back in but used a slot combination that would cause single channel. Booting Vista now turned out to be a disaster. Errors, corrupt files and so on. Same with XP.
Conclusion: Dual channel is not the problem. Added mem stick was now suspect no.1. I took the first one out and started memtest. Memtest didn't show errors after 8hours. I wondered and started Vista. Result was the same as seen before with two sticks. Errors and access violations. Replaced this stick with the other one and everything was fine again.
Next day I tried with a borrowed MDT 2gb dual channel kit which also worked without a problem.
Sad but true one of the Reapers is K.I.A. . Damn....
Now I'm sitting here with a borrowed kit of value ram which luckily allows me to let the cpu run at 3250mhz with mem divider at 667mhz (result: 406mhz) and which I can luckily keep 'til I get another kit of Reapers. I have to send my current Reapers back to vendor these days and wait for the rma process and wait and wait....
So what started greatly ended not so great. For now I'm sick and tired of seeing bios screens or installing windows and I'm also pretty pi**** because of all the data I lost. Some crucial ones among them.
Main problem remains: I have no idea WHY the Reaper died. I never set any higher vdimm than 2.3v what should be ok for it. It never felt hot and was directly in the main airflow. Also I have no clue why memtest didn't find any error with the faulty stick.

Quote from: flobelix on 30-October-07, 06:12:31
Be aware that you have to keep an eye on shader clocks when oc'ing the gpu. With common tools you're oc'ing gpu and shaders at the same time. Since I'm suspecting a misproportion of gpu/shader clocks to be one of the reasons for problems with factory oc'ed Geforce 8 you should try with different combinations. With the latest Riva Tuner you can change 'em seperately without having to mod the bios.
Memory is at it's end I suppose, that's the problem with most high end cards, no potential. Seems as you have to live with that.
That's true for HD2900 series I think but as far as I know 8800GTX needs it even for stable working.
Could be your psu is too weak, maybe really time for the new Corsair. On the other hand should be strong enough I guess.
You're ungrateful! That good old 3500+ oc'ed so well and was once a real performer and you call him crap.... bad boy.
"You're ungrateful! That good old 3500+ oc'ed so well and was once a real performer and you call him crap.... bad boy. "
yes you are right the CPU perform great, but its just old..(is not CPU fault in direct sense )
"Be aware that you have to keep an eye on shader clocks when oc'ing the gpu. With common tools you're oc'ing gpu and shaders at the same time. Since I'm suspecting a misproportion of gpu/shader clocks to be one of the reasons for problems with factory oc'ed Geforce 8 you should try with different combinations. With the latest Riva Tuner you can change 'em seperately without having to mod the bios."
Yes im aware about it, but not this is the case.. i got instability even with 2Mhz on the GD more...SD remain @ stock 1350 and memory stock as well.. and go instability...
Reversed story if i put everythink is stock, but +2Mhz more on the memory i got the same instability....
"With the latest Riva Tuner you can change 'em separately without having to mod the bios."
hmm nope here, its locked increasing GD clock inscrease SD clock as well. they are locked and increased in parallel.(etc, both in same time)
"Memory is at it's end I suppose, that's the problem with most high end cards, no potential. Seems as you have to live with that."
mem. chips used are for 1000Mhz the VGA stock, MSI is not OCed them.. so they must have potencial.. also VGA is adverted with DOT... at least its designed to handle till 5-6% OC, i have done few review(don't trust much here,but anyway its an info) and user opinion no problem to OC till 2100Mhz(1050). So i doubt that is memory problem.
"Could be your psu is too weak, maybe really time for the new Corsair. On the other hand should be strong enough I guess."
Yes that is the only conclusion which i can stuck at the moment... Good news is that i have talked with distributor today and they ensured me that will delivered tomorow for me. So tomorow i will know more about that mistery when i install the more powerful(and hope so great) PSU.

Apple's App Store + Flash + PC Only --Info here! ;)

*I do not own a MAC at all and used Flash CS5 + Air 2.6 SDK to make APPs for the iOS and then upload them to the APP Store to try and make money!*
Hey guys, I just want to say first that if you have a PC and you have Flash CS5, and you have a developers license, you can make a game and upload it to the app store. I just pulled my hair out for a month trying to get this to work but I did it all on just a PC. Now I will share what I did, because nobody else cares.
0. Ok before you do anything you should goto the APPLE Provisioning Portal after you login on Itunes Connect, make an APP and fill out everything needed, including the bundle IDs and the certificates.
1. Program your game in AS3.
2. Get a developers license.
3. Change the CPU value in your apps .xml file to GPU.
4.   Now in apples provisioning portal, which is in the dev center after you login you must follow the steps to create your provisioning profile.   It will involve downloading certain certficates to create a .p12 file and a .mobileprovision file. Usually to do this you could use a PC and a program called OpenSSL and the command prompt. HOWEVER, uploading the app REQUIRES A MAC OPERATING SYSTEM to do so, so you might as well just use the MAC method to make your .p12 and .mobileprovision. You need these files when you compile to tell the IPOD/iphone/ipad that this is a legitimate file.
5. DOWNLOAD Mac OSX Snow Leopard from wherever you can or buy it .
5. MAC? I thought this was PC only!? Well it is, but in order to do this, you have to run MAC software on your PC. Normally this is very hard to do...well not really. YOU MUST have the program VMware. DOWNLOAD Vmware from wherever you can or buy it .   In VMware you can make a fake harddrive, make a FreeBSD hard drive with 2 cores, and SCSI. After it is created you must mount the Snow Leopard DVD to one of the cd-rom drives inside of VMWARE for your fake harddrive you just created. Now when you boot vmware you will need to go into BIOS by pressing F2. When in bios set the CD-rom to boot first. Save and boot.
6. The MAC OS install screen will pop up, you must go to the top menu and choose drive editor(or something like that) and then find your "fake" hard drive you just made, you must select it and format it as MAC. It happens fast. Then return to the install screen by closing the drive editor.
7. Choose install, now if you have a hacker version of snow leopard (which is what I had) you will have many settings to change in the preferences tab. The most important things to change would be the KERNEL. There is a chocolate kernel and one above it I cant remember, the chocolate kernel didnt work for me so maybe try the one that is above it. If you have Nvidia or ATI card choose ATI in the video section the info will state it works for both card types. Choose whatever for sound...probably wont work anyway. You must also choose a certain driver in the network section, I think it is called RL8589 or somehting like that.   And finally click install.   (NOTE: Everyone has a different system and these setting will need to be tuned to your PC, I do not know what your pc is so I cannot tell you exactly what to choose, you should be able to figure it out, and if it doesn't work, be prepared to try this ALL over again, I seriously had to reinstall MAC OS 4 times to get it right, but then it worked.
8. Now it will begin installing MAC OS on your fake drive inside VMware. After it is done installing it probably won't boot. You will need to download a boot disk to boot the MAC OS. My favorite (because it works) is a disc called Nawcom/OSX86 ModCD 0.3.1.   You DL it here: http://blog.nawcom.com/ModCD/OSX86_ModCD-032311-151021.iso.zip
9. Set the CD-rom from the Snow Leopard DVD to the Nawcom ModCD.
10. Boot up and you will see the Nawcom screen asking you to press any button, do so. It will start loading white text like crazy....until hopefully you will see the MAC welcome screen asking you to press the keys next to you shift keys, do this and set up the MAC with your developer information.
11. You can now login to Itunes connect using Safari we browser.
(REMEMBER the Bundle ID in the provisioning portal for your app must match the one in your .xml file. It will look something like com.Mycompany.Myapp.)
12. Download your certificates and use the Key Assist in Apps>Utilities and the provisioning portal on itunes connect(There is in depth docs on this) to create your .p12 and .mobileprovision files.
13.BACK ON YOUR PC, move the files from the "MAC" to the PC, I did this by plugging in a USB drive and loading the files on using the MAC OS, if you must, you can upload the .p12 and .mobileprovision files to a file host, like www.fileden.com. Put these files in WINDOWS somehow. (Remember that there are 2 certificates, one is the developer certificate, one is the distributer, for the app store you need the distributor certificate to be used when creating the .p12 file, not the developer certificate.(This final compiled file will not run on your iphone after for testing, it will however work after people download it from the app store. Compile your game using AIR 2.6 using the command prompt to run this line from Air2.6/bin folder:
adt   -package -target ipa-app-store -storetype pkcs12 -keystore   YOURKEYFILE.p12 -storepass YOURPASSWORD -provisioning-profile YOURCOMPANY.mobileprovision YOURAPP.ipa YOURAPP-app.xml YOURAPP.swf icon2929.png icon5757.png icon7272.png
14. Now you will have the .ipa file you need to upload to APPLE.
15. Now you can either put this on a USB drive, upload this to fileden, or create an .iso file with the .ipa file inside of it, then mount that as a second cd rom inside VMware, you may have to change the nawcom and iso file's positions in vmware so that nawcom is always number 0 and the iso with your APP is number 1.
16. Boot up MAC and "transfer" your APP.ipa to the MAC.
17. Download Application Loader from APPLE in Safari.
18. Install Application Loader.
19. Start Application Loader and then fill in your Itunes Connect login information and login.
20. Do whatever it asks and upload your APP, hit upload.
21. It will say verifying, if it gives an error, you have done something wrong in making your files...it is ok, it took me countless tries to create the file properly, your main concern is making sure the Bundle IDs match and that you use a distributor certificate to create the .p12 file not a developer one.
22. If the file fails, keep trying, there is a lot of info out there for trouble shooting but it is your fault it is happening.
So there is it, I used WINDOWS XP PRO for this. Yes Windows XP Pro was running, while MAC OS was running beside it in a window. The MAC may run a little slow but it is bearable to upload a game(not to use as a MAC for daily things).
*I do not own a MAC at all and used Flash CS5 + Air 2.6 SDK to make APPs for the iOS and then upload them to the APP Store to try and make money!*
To prove that flash can do the job, here is proof with my app iBomb! and 8-bit game that is pretty fun and has a cool little story!: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibomb/id434765925?mt=8&ls=1
If I helped you out you could help me out by buying my app, it's ok if you can't.
I hope this post is HOPE for many of you flash devs out there like me that wondered if this was even possible. Take it easy guys!
-Nineteen95

You credit or debit card credentials must be associated with same country where you purchase iTunes media.
"Although you can browse the iTunes Store in any country without being signed in, you can only purchase content from the iTunes Store for your own country. This is enforced via the billing address associated with your credit card or other payment method that you use with the iTunes Store, rather than your actual geographic location. You can use the iTunes Store in all countries of which you’re a resident, but you’ll either need a separate iTunes Store account for each one, or you’ll need to continually be switching the billing information on your single account. Generally, it’s simpler just to set up an alternative account for these situations, although it’s worth nothing that features like iTunes in the CLoud and iTunes Match are designed to work best when using a single iTunes Store account, as you can only switch accounts with these services every 90 days."
From here > The Complete Guide to Using the iTunes Store | iLounge Article

Java.awt.createFont(...) in Applet

I'm trying to dynamically load a truetype-font in an applet with Font.createFont(...) .
Unfortunately I'm always getting
java.lang.SecurityException: Unable to create temporary fileAnd, surprise, surprise, Font.createFont() requires a temporary file wich I found not to be documented in javadoc but in the source of Font.java (see last line of the next code example):
public static Font createFont ( int fontFormat, InputStream fontStream )
      throws java.awt.FontFormatException, java.io.IOException {
      if ( fontFormat != Font.TRUETYPE_FONT ) {
          throw new IllegalArgumentException ( "font format not recognized" );
      File fontFile = null;
      fontFile = File.createTempFile ( "font", ".ttf", null );Has anybody faced the same problem or an idea of how to solve this issue with little additional work?

has really nobody got an idea?

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