Skype broken to the point of being completely usel...
Windows 8.1
Skype 7.5.85.102
IE 11.0.9600.17631
I have been frustrated with Skype since I upgraded to Windows 8. I installed the desktop version and when someone called both versions would ring and after I answered one, the other would keep ringing. I uninstalled the metro version and that's when things really started to go south.
I have never answered calls from someone else. Not once on this computer has that worked. I click on the answer button and it just keeps ringing and ringing. Both versions till ring despite every last trace of the tiled version being removed.
I have to call someone twice before it rings at their end, if it rings at all. I frequently get no answer even when I know the other person is sitting at their computer waiting for my call. Maybe 1 in 10 calls go through.
It crashes repeatedly. It stops responding and I have to kill the process.
In short, every single time it takes about 10 minutes of fiddling with it to make a call happen. I'd have ditched it long ago but my parents know how to use it and they are not that technically savvy.
I've done the usual things, uninstalled, reinstalled, latest versions, older versions etc. etc. If anyone here can help me I'd much appreciate it.
Additionally ringing can come from any Oultook client. So if you have your mail open in a browser you would either close it or disable the audio via the speaker icon on the lower right corner of the browser page. Your audio drivers were/are crashing/becoming non-responsive which is probably assisting in causing the unresponsiveness as a whole. I would suggest you update your outdated audio drivers to possibly even newer ones. The latest generic Realtek audio drivers (High Definition Audio Codecs - 64 bit Windows 8.1)http://www.realtek.com/downloads/ Other thing you can do: You can also run msconfig (Windows Key +R) "msconfig" and do a selective startup (unchecking a least startup items) vs. a normal startup and see if anything changes (you can switch it back after a reboot). If your current Firewall/AntiVirus solution is causing huge delays in your system you can try temporarily disabling/uninstalling them to see if it stops. There is also an issue with one of the USB-based device on your system that is causing huge delays in the User-Mode Driver Framework causing it to crash. A crash occurs when the device does not respond within the requested time which is a rather large chunk of time. I'm not sure what this device is as nothing came up in a web search: USB\VID_2672&PID_000E&REV_0001It could be a USB controller, MTP/Media. or storage device and updating its drivers, removing or disabling it may resolve some system-wide issues as well. Something like a cell phone/MP3 player not drawing enough power from USB causing the device detection to go up and down partially freezing the system could be a possiblity as well.
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Skype broken to the point of being completely useless
Windows 8.1Skype 7.5.85.102IE 11.0.9600.17631 I have been frustrated with Skype since I upgraded to Windows 8. I installed the desktop version and when someone called both versions would ring and after I answered one, the other would keep ringing. I uninstalled the metro version and that's when things really started to go south. I have never answered calls from someone else. Not once on this computer has that worked. I click on the answer button and it just keeps ringing and ringing. Both versions till ring despite every last trace of the tiled version being removed. I have to call someone twice before it rings at their end, if it rings at all. I frequently get no answer even when I know the other person is sitting at their computer waiting for my call. Maybe 1 in 10 calls go through. It crashes repeatedly. It stops responding and I have to kill the process. In short, every single time it takes about 10 minutes of fiddling with it to make a call happen. I'd have ditched it long ago but my parents know how to use it and they are not that technically savvy. I've done the usual things, uninstalled, reinstalled, latest versions, older versions etc. etc. If anyone here can help me I'd much appreciate it.
Additionally ringing can come from any Oultook client. So if you have your mail open in a browser you would either close it or disable the audio via the speaker icon on the lower right corner of the browser page. Your audio drivers were/are crashing/becoming non-responsive which is probably assisting in causing the unresponsiveness as a whole. I would suggest you update your outdated audio drivers to possibly even newer ones. The latest generic Realtek audio drivers (High Definition Audio Codecs - 64 bit Windows 8.1)http://www.realtek.com/downloads/ Other thing you can do: You can also run msconfig (Windows Key +R) "msconfig" and do a selective startup (unchecking a least startup items) vs. a normal startup and see if anything changes (you can switch it back after a reboot). If your current Firewall/AntiVirus solution is causing huge delays in your system you can try temporarily disabling/uninstalling them to see if it stops. There is also an issue with one of the USB-based device on your system that is causing huge delays in the User-Mode Driver Framework causing it to crash. A crash occurs when the device does not respond within the requested time which is a rather large chunk of time. I'm not sure what this device is as nothing came up in a web search: USB\VID_2672&PID_000E&REV_0001It could be a USB controller, MTP/Media. or storage device and updating its drivers, removing or disabling it may resolve some system-wide issues as well. Something like a cell phone/MP3 player not drawing enough power from USB causing the device detection to go up and down partially freezing the system could be a possiblity as well.
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Adjustment brush (retouch) slow to the point of being unsusable
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Mac Pro (2 x 2.66Ghz)
6 GB RAM
ATI Radeon 4870 w/512MB VRAM
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ThanksI have tried a number of the suggestions in other threads.
The Aperture libraries are on their own separate disk. They were created from scratch, no import of older libraries. The images were imported and left in place (referenced). After a couple of weeks of use, iDefrag shows almost no fragmentation in the libraries (0.02%).
I have done nothing to specifically start OS/X in 64bit mode. I don't see the point. The only thing that is likely to happen by forcing this is to break things. The OS is "as installed", as is Aperture 3.
The GPU is the fastest that I can get to work on my generation Mac Pro (ATI 4870).
Suggestions to clear cache and prefs, given that this is a clean install of Aperture and the libraries have been created new, from scratch, seem pointless but have been done anyway in the interest of completeness.
Energy saver has been tweaked to disable spinning down the disks. In fact, since I use Final Cut Express occasionally, I have implemented the config steps suggested by Tom Wolsky in his excellent book on that application.
At this point, I have no more spare cycles to spend troubleshooting Aperture. I am falling back to Lightroom/Photoshop. I'll circle back later, if/when Apple gets this version of Aperture sorted out. I really want to use Aperture. I like its interface and DAM model. The native targeted adjustments are a compelling feature as is Places. And the integration with the rest of Apple's application ecosystem is a big plus. However, it is hard to get past the dog-slow performance on pretty powerful hardware. -
The text based menus are ok, and is the only option that can be configured to a larger size.
But the icons in the CC applications are so tiny that they are practically useless.
Even extended on a separate 24" LCD display the interface icons are too small.
So, having searched a lot on the topic of high resolution displays, the OS will scale an application appropriately if it is designed correctly.
I am running Windows 8.1, and i.e. the applications in the Office pack scale perfectly. Not so strange, perhaps, being MS.
When will CC get this upgrade?
Kind regards,
ThomasPlease take a look at: Photoshop CC / Windows 8.1 HiDPI / Retina scaling support at the moment Adobe works with Microsoft to work on scaling for HiDPI devices. See reaply from Chris Cox
"Again, we're continuing to work with Microsoft on the scaling problems in Windows.
We, and they, recognize that the existing attempts to offer scalable UI have serious issues.
And no, we can't commit to a timeframe for a long list of reasons."
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Flash Builder 4.7 slows to the point of being unusable
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I have always been slightly amused by the point system and the little crosses since I came back to the forums after a few years away.
I imagine that knowing that someone has answered a lot of questions that have been marked as Correct or Helpful could be a handy indicator to someone new to the forums. Like Bill Hunt for example. It isn't the points as much as the percentage of points as a ratio to the number of posts. It indicates that people have often marked his answers as useful.
Well, the other day I noticed that I had reached 996 points and I was about to get a third marker. Try as I might to be nonchalant about it, since the points are not all that important, it still kind of threw me off when I got stalled at 996. I have had two correct answers lately and yet my points no longer increment.
So, is the system broken? Are my points being held up for review for some reason? Or, is there some other reason? I guess I am just curious about it. I keep telling myself it doesn't matter. Yet, what can I say? Pride is just one of those vices that is hard to shake. Throw a little vanity in there and ....It is like riding a roller coaster. Wheeeeee! Back up to 1101 points!!!!
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Post Author: sagimann
CA Forum: Deployment
Hello,
I'm not sure if this is due to bad deployment, but I suspect it is, at least due to bad environment.
My env is:
Solaris 10 64 bit
Oracle 10g client installed under /opt/oracle/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/client_1
BOXIR2 + FP2.6 installed under /opt/reporting, running under user 'bouser'. by the way, 'tnsping' works via that user.
Important bouser env:
ORACLE_HOME=/opt/oracle/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/client_1
TNS_ADMIN=$ORACLE_HOME/network/admin
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:$ORACLE_HOME/lib32
I reboot the box, then start BO like so:
cd /opt/reporting/bobje
. setup/env.sh
./mysqlstartup.sh
./startservers
./tomcatstartup
Then, I import a BIAR file with some reports, and whenever I try to open any report via infoview, I get a gray error message INSTEAD of the input param form:
Error:
Your request could not be completed because a failure occurred while the report was being processed. Please contact your system administrator.
This does not occur in our BOXIR2 on Windows, which is why I'm guess it's a deployment/env issue. The main obstacle I have is: how do I diagnose this? there's nothing in the bobje/logging folder, nothing in the /var/adm/message file except for the following line:
May 5 15:23:23 testbox1 boe_pagesd[3865]: [ID 253862 user.error] A failure occurred while the Page Server was processing report 'test report' (id=777) for user Administrator
pls advise,
thank you.The solution is to turn off the printer preference (bottom of Page Setup screen) in the Crystal Report before uploading to the Server. Thanks to: http://pinchii.com/home/2011/12/error-adding-reports-to-crystal-reports-server/
The explanation, from a comment in the above linked blog post:
"To elaborate more on the error, what basically happens is that the Crystal Reports engine tries to get the status of the u201Creport printeru201D aka u201Cdefault printeru201D which was present on the system when the report was created, but the printer does not exist anymore. This causes the Crystal engine to error out. By setting the report to u201CNo Printeru201D, it tells the Crystal Engine not to look for that report printer when opening the report."
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