State of the Game

[nemolomen]

Both times I was in an on foot CZ in Elite.

I should have thought of this when you mentioned the page file error last time. Is you HDD/SSD full, or nearly full? Like less than 20% free space?

It could be a lot of things- Win 10 and 11 have had lots of updates recently and it could also be spanked drivers.

BIL remarked yesterday/day before that he hasn't had any blue screens since he upgraded to 11. RE EDO, he has only played between 0 and 2 times per week for the last 6 or so, but he's already at 2 days in a row atm.

Have you tried percussive maintenance?

We had a few televisions (B&W) at home when I was a kid with holes in the wooden side panels from my father's "adjustments" in this manner...said adjustments we're typically needed right during a crucial moment of whichever sport he was watching at the time.

The only way to reset one of those was by removing the top cover, then pressing the (well-hidden) reset button, then rebuilding it again...

Comparison:
Reset PC 0.05 seconds
Reset iMac 8 minutes 42 seconds (if you're good at it!)

Never figured you for a mac brain. I restored an original '98 bondi blue model b as a personal project a while back. Interesting beast. Ended up replacing the CRT with a 21" 4x3 Samsung SyncMaster LCD. I have a picture somewhere of the "FrankenMac".

I am keen on santa next week btw lads for a festive mascot. Many opportunities for sack comments.




I have also been considering the following Mr Morita, but as a future mascot, due to opportunities for made-up wisdom from our expertise:-

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Here's another one of those "sentences" that fits the...ahhh...mood in here: "Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100 foot clipper."

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"Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die" -

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And last but not least. I can't believe none of you remembered the other half of Ben Dover & Phill McCracken. I hear they used to do alot of work together...

 

[Rat Catcher]

Ahhh...
"Man with hand in trouser pocket feels cocky all day!"

 

[Rat Catcher]

Never figured you for a mac brain.

I'm the man the head of Apple's Tech Support called to assist with stuff they couldn't sort out... (that was back in the 90's) Which was ironic as my loathing for anything they produced was obvious, but I was very good at 'fixing' stuff others couldn't, and was paid quite handsomely for doing so!
(Those were the days when the standard Apple engineers main tool was Norton..,)

 

[Rat Catcher]

Hehe... I've picked up the freebie Courier from the Galnet news stuff earlier... Spent a happy couple of hours flying around the bubble visiting the engineers, so Courier #3 "Nameless" is now all nicely G5'ed and ready to be pressed into service doing unto settlements, maybe a bit of bounty hunting too, I still haven't managed to take out an elite anaconda with a Courier yet - hope this one does

 

[PRORABBIT67]

 

[AlSki]

Hehe... I've picked up the freebie Courier from the Galnet news stuff earlier... Spent a happy couple of hours flying around the bubble visiting the engineers, so Courier #3 "Nameless" is now all nicely G5'ed and ready to be pressed into service doing unto settlements, maybe a bit of bounty hunting too, I still haven't managed to take out an elite anaconda with a Courier yet - hope this one does

I haven't picked mine up yet as I have erm... 8 other Couriers. This one might need to a special anti-gank build in recognition of the Krait that rammed me to death on my first attempt.

 

[nemolomen]

I'm the man the head of Apple's Tech Support called to assist with stuff they couldn't sort out... (that was back in the 90's) Which was ironic as my loathing for anything they produced was obvious, but I was very good at 'fixing' stuff others couldn't, and was paid quite handsomely for doing so!
(Those were the days when the standard Apple engineers main tool was Norton..,)

Norton's <scoff> Amateurs.

Hehe... I've picked up the freebie Courier from the Galnet news stuff earlier... Spent a happy couple of hours flying around the bubble visiting the engineers, so Courier #3 "Nameless" is now all nicely G5'ed and ready to be pressed into service doing unto settlements, maybe a bit of bounty hunting too, I still haven't managed to take out an elite anaconda with a Courier yet - hope this one does

I haven't picked mine up yet as I have erm... 8 other Couriers. This one might need to a special anti-gank build in recognition of the Krait that rammed me to death on my first attempt.

Where do I start on that trail? I'm up for something different tonight.

 

[Factabulous]

Where do I start on that trail? I'm up for something different tonight.

You can look at the recent cryptic galnets, or click here ... https://forums.frontier.co.uk/posts/9660362/

 

[Lysette]

Mine sent me this, think she’s saying I need a shave?

indeed, a clean cut, like my avatars provide it in some games.

 

[[Diplomacy] Carnegie]

Fun fact for the day:

I'm you're in a 'massacre pirates' mission USS and you shoot a pirate after you see the 'surge detected' message, the poor fool will turn around and fight you, but completely forget to extend his weapons, so things are pleasantly one-sided

 

[AngryAntz]

Fun fact for the day:

I'm you're in a 'massacre pirates' mission USS and you shoot a pirate after you see the 'surge detected' message, the poor fool will turn around and fight you, but completely forget to extend his weapons, so things are pleasantly one-sided

Ban the exploiter!!!!

 

[[Diplomacy] Carnegie]

Ban the exploiter!!!!

Then you REALLY don't want to hear about the time I dropped into a 'massacre deserters' USS and all 8 ships remained completely stationary, not even turning around. Once I'd dealt with the Cobra that was taking potshots at me with a turreted cannon it was like shooting fish in a barrel. At this rate I'll be Deadly without scratching my paint!

 

[LeoBartlet]

I should have thought of this when you mentioned the page file error last time. Is you HDD/SSD full, or nearly full? Like less than 20% free space?

Still has 40gb space left out of 465gb.

I did a memory test and it came back with hardware errors so I reseated the RAM and just for good measure I changed the clock speed on the ram that I had increased a couple of months ago.

It didn't throw errors after that.

 

[AngryAntz]

Then you REALLY don't want to hear about the time I dropped into a 'massacre deserters' USS and all 8 ships remained completely stationary, not even turning around. Once I'd dealt with the Cobra that was taking potshots at me with a turreted cannon it was like shooting fish in a barrel. At this rate I'll be Deadly without scratching my paint!

If I was in that situation I would take advantage as well... no... wait... who am I kidding... I would still die.

So

Ban the exploiter, because I am so bad that I can't exploit

 

[[Diplomacy] Carnegie]

If I was in that situation I would take advantage as well... no... wait... who am I kidding... I would still die.

So

Ban the exploiter, because I am so bad that I can't exploit

Time for an open letter demanding easier exploits

 

[AngryAntz]

Time for an open letter demanding easier exploits

and a squeegy for my windscreen.

 

[Manticore]

Speaking of exploits, being Sunday it's time for a musical interlude:

 

[Darth Ender]

often when my more modern machines have had odd data corruption issues. I've found it tied to the motherboards not operating the ram at a high enough voltage for the rated speed.

so if you've done something like run memtest86 overnight and had a few errors or the system crashes ...etc. or even if you have just been getting odd random hdd errors and no other signs of issues, you might solve your issue by just bumping the ddr voltage up to like 1.3 volts from the standard 1.2. and if you're running ddr 4000 or higher, probably 1.35 volts.

plus unless you find that you really need to.. i'd just go without swap if you've got ssd's. you wont kill decent ssd's like back in the day, but why wear them out to waste as fs cache when your drives have crazy fast random access and dont suffer the issues of spinners. and most swap ends up being cache unless you're doing something crazy.

 

[AngryAntz]

often when my more modern machines have had odd data corruption issues. I've found it tied to the motherboards not operating the ram at a high enough voltage for the rated speed.

so if you've done something like run memtest86 overnight and had a few errors or the system crashes ...etc. or even if you have just been getting odd random hdd errors and no other signs of issues, you might solve your issue by just bumping the ddr voltage up to like 1.3 volts from the standard 1.2. and if you're running ddr 4000 or higher, probably 1.35 volts.

plus unless you find that you really need to.. i'd just go without swap if you've got ssd's. you wont kill decent ssd's like back in the day, but why wear them out to waste as fs cache when your drives have crazy fast random access and dont suffer the issues of spinners. and most swap ends up being cache unless you're doing something crazy.

This does not seem like irrelevant or useless information... it does not belong on this thread

 

[AngryAntz]

Why are they giving me free ARX so I can buy cosmetics instead of working on bugs

Now if you will excuse me I seem to have enough to buy my toon another christmas outfit.