Microsoft Calls

[Russell Reiter]

Speaking of Fun. I dug into the tickle trunk and pulled out a SODIMM
and added 256mb to the flaky Toshiba you offered up to the list a
while ago. That RAM coupled with Debian XFCE and using LightDM dropped
the drive temperature sensor below 40c on normal video load. Xine
worked for digital video's and surfing with Iceweasel was no problem.

I'm assuming that the bios had sensed the extra RAM memory and updated
the video aperture from 32M to 64M. Although I couldn't see a way to
force either up or down in the bios. I saw somewhere that it will
automatically set to 128M  on 1 gig of ram.

Here's how I trashed the hard drive. BTW I'm changing my self
definition from Blunt Force Hacker to Ham Handed Hacker.

Remember I'm searching for a solution to a problem I perceive in a
Hardware Abstraction Layer. Reported as the MP bios bug. it is the
Multi Processor, or as some wag had named it, the Military Potential
bug, because your battery might blow up accidentally on purpose.

The DSDT fix for the routing for the the timer had already been
applied on install of this Debian Spin onto the Toshiba. It seems to
have had little real effect except for reducing dmesg errors, however
the ACPI timer sill wasn't connecting the clock through IRO0.

Applying the Radeon firmware helped somewhat, but it was the extra ram
which kept the drive temperature from rising too quickly. There is no
cpu temperature sensor so I was monitoring the drive temperature to
try and figure out if improving chassis cooling would help.

Then I did apt-get update and installed Google Chrome and all its
package updates. I opened up a web page and walked away. A couple of
minutes later I went back and the drive temp was 47 and rising one
degree every 5 seconds or so, then the screen went black.

Now that was fun!

I have another drive but I'm looking around for a 1gig PC2700 SODIMM
before I have at it again.

I haven't touched the other Toshiba yet. My girlfriend won't let me
reflow the Motherboard in our oven at home.

Cheers
Russell

On 9/27/14, phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org <phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> My recollection of high school was that 'being antisocial' was the worst
> thing you could say to someone. I recall being told that on several
> occasions. Really what it means is 'You aren't paying enough attention to
> *me*'.
>
> The correct nerd response to that should be 'Actually, anti-social is not
> correct. Anti-social implies that I am against socializing. That's not
> true at all. The correct term is asocial, that is, being social does not
> interest me'.
>
> This all came to a head at the grade 13 class party, where the Blonde
> Goddess in the class railed at me for bringing my floater ring, model
> boat, and other toys. I was under the apparently misapprehension that we
> were there to have Fun, but we evidently had different ideas of Fun.
>
> Peter
>
>> This is an interesting philosophical question. Is it possible for a
>> truth to be insulting?
>>
>> I know Peter is not anti-social, so I know that the phone guy was
>> false in what he said. However does this mean what Peter said was
>> true.
>>
>> On a balance of probabilities I'd say yes.
>>
>> Sorry .... too much electioneering happening in Toronto these days. I
>> can't figure out which criminal outfit to vote for. Perhaps the one
>> that promises a digital chicken in every pot. A campaign based on; If
>> elected I promise I'll track down every Bash Operator From Hell.
>> First we go after the mime's.
>>
>> %switching to decaff now
>>
>> Russell
>>
>>
>> On 9/26/14, phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org <phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>> Just got a call from someone claiming that my Microsoft computers needed
>>> fixing.
>>>
>>> When I told him I was running Linux, he said 'You are one of those
>>> anti-social guys'.
>>>
>>> I told him he is a criminal.
>>>
>>> I think my insult was better than his.
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
>>>
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>>> http://www.syscompdesign.com
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>>> 647-839-0325
>>>
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>
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> http://www.syscompdesign.com
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> 647-839-0325
>
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