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I had the funniest spam today, here goes:
You have been referred to us: (Referral ID: R4132)
Based on your present knowledge and past life experiences our University
administration office has been trying to contact you. We feel you may qualify for one of our
Univsersity degrees in your area of expertise.
administration office has been trying to contact you. We feel you may qualify for one of our
Univsersity degrees in your area of expertise.
We have been qualifying people based on thier experiences in past and present jobs
and are offering qualified degrees with transcripts for those that qualify.
and are offering qualified degrees with transcripts for those that qualify.
If you call our offices now we can confirm our information and send you either a
Bachelors’,Masters’, or Doctorate within 2 weeks.
Bachelors’,Masters’, or Doctorate within 2 weeks.
Administration Office Number:
1-206-202-1674
1-206-202-1674
Administration Hours:
24 hours, 7 Days a week, including Sundays and Holidays
24 hours, 7 Days a week, including Sundays and Holidays
University Administration
Elliott Wright
Client Identification: CL0832
Elliott Wright
Client Identification: CL0832
That's a direct copy/paste. I love the idea that I can get a post-grad degree based on a previous life. Do these people know what I was in the last incarnation? I could have been a termite or something. But then again...
Those spellings are all theirs too.
fire effect
6°C, dank
28 miles under grey cold skies. The roads are slimey, brown with mud and scattered with decaying foliage. I kept the milage down because the sore throat seems a little worse today. Still not a real problem though.
Back to video capture duties again. I’m adding fire effects as well as sparks/lightning to a pop video spoof. The footage is already shot, captured onto my PC and ready to load into 3ds max.
Now in 3DS Max, I’m trying two ways of doing this;
- either lightning strike- using a renderable spline that glows and jiggles about,
- or Particle-flow that emits long cylinders lke sparks which are attracted to the bunsen.
The second seems the most promising, both are quite a bit of setting up to render a scene of only about 4 seconds. Partcle flow is the most entertaining to use, it makes you think in a logical way rather than a visual one.
cycling: finally got those wretched gears working properly. The gear change is now quite good, earnly up to Campagnolo standards.
No specific cause
-2 to +2°C & 
There seems to be a "repairing" theme in the last week’s entries. Breakage and loss. I lost my USB memory plug this week. Today, I took a wheel hub to built up at a cycle shop. The computer is running better even though one of the new componants can’t be used. the car needs a few things. New derrailleur has arrived along with brakes.
Updated yesterday’s entry converting the results of RAM tribulations into a table. It doesn’t narrow down into a specific componant, basic incompatibility looks most likely now. I give up for now, pending expert advice.
Look below for my car this morning in close-up.
What a day- full of colour, atmosphere & space. And all this with no time for painting.
Hats off to the lady in Tamworth who had a poodle wearing a coat- on it was written " Take no notice of this dog". I didn’t tho’, it was such a nice dog, not pulling on the lead like mine do. I did notice it. sorry…
Another mystery…
That RAM!
the replacement for the faulty RAM (see previous) is not problem free.It’s like this- there are 4 RAM slots to plug it in. To run the faster Dual Pipe mode, you need to install the first 2 cards into slot 1 & 3 & that has given 1024MB RAM:
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Slot 1
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Slot 2
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Slot 3
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Slot 4
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Equals (POST)
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512
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0
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512
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0
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1024
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Original
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512
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512
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512
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0
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1572
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Ok for now
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512
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512
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512
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512
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512
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No use
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512
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512
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0
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0
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1048
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No dual pipe
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512
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512
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512
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0
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fail
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boot failure |
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512
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512
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512
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512
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2048
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Ideal, but unstable
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2nd try: re-ordered the Single-sided & double-sided DIMMs in the slots.
It was DS+SS+DS+SS, but this one worked:
DS+DS+SS+SS. Only for a few minutes, then blue-screen & warning bleeps. Now I think maybe one of the new RAM cards is also faulty.
DS+DS+SS+SS. Only for a few minutes, then blue-screen & warning bleeps. Now I think maybe one of the new RAM cards is also faulty.
For a bigger picture look
There’s no "em" dash in this blog! Oh well, at least I worked out how to insert a table.Done it!
Very windy
27 miles cycling- it’s getting dark too early.
FINISHED the Japan trip Video, it’s on a DVD here on the desk waiting to be tested on a set-top box. The last hold-up was a problem with sound at the end. Now it’s all done, though it took ages to render/process/whatever before the final burn to disk.
Found a very useful site about windows security
Techtrax. Now the pictures in my site are a bit more secure- hurrah for templates and javascript.
Fan base
17 to 12°C- getting much cooler. Summer has finished.Added a new fan to this computer- it’s a really quiet one so can be turned up to quite a fast speed. The remaining noisy one is in the power supply. Secondly: the new RAM, phoned the shot today & they suggested uprating the BIOS – so I wil give it a try, but it seem unlikely that the cause is there.
Finally- Pacific Fighters has ben upgraded slightly. tha 30MB patch has addeda new map and changed the flight dynamics in an interesting way.
No painting today-since I’m not feeling well enough.
RAM not good
16°C, much fresher, still warm for October though, Installed new RAM to this computer today. Currently holiding 1024MB- and the idea was to double it up. the new DIMM cards are not happy at all, I can get just one recognised and even then some programs lock up when trying to use the full amount. 
Expecting an Amazon order to arrive Monday, it was ordered on the 9th September. this is poor. Amazon often advertise stuff on their catalogues that they don’t have or cannot get- that’s not a one-off either.Cerulean blue
No cycle to work, preserving that popped rib.ouch again 16°C. Greyness.
Epson– you are the most annoying printer I’ve ever given house room to. You cost £30 to fill with ink, then you print all streaky most of the time. Normally I run the nozzle-check & clean utilities four or more times. By the time you are ready to give we decent print, most of the ink has gone on test prints.
It’s now 21:20 hours, and I have run the self-clean utility 11 times, the result is still streaky.
. Now the ink is level is down to 50%. It takes just over 5 minutes per page of A4 when it actually prints.
. Now the ink is level is down to 50%. It takes just over 5 minutes per page of A4 when it actually prints.Never buy Epson.
All I want to do is show WiP photos to my Year 12s tomorrow, the canvases are in school waiting for the lesson. they have had one oil painting lesson with my colleague, this will be the followup.
I have cerolean blue oi colour. Gonna have fun with that!!
. It’s traditionally a Cobalt II colour, but this is probably a modern synthetic, I own very few poisonous colours now.
. It’s traditionally a Cobalt II colour, but this is probably a modern synthetic, I own very few poisonous colours now. recuperated
Cycling: 42 miles in stunning weather., 24°C.
, 24°C.Summer’s in the last phase- golden fields, but the trees are looking slightly caramelised. Hedgerows are laden with berries, blackberries are the tastiest & some roads take a long time to travel along. the ones at the top seem the nicest, more sun or fewer little hands/paws, I don’t know.
Webdesign: more CSS shenanegans. It’s rather fiddly I have to admit! Setting up pages to use as templates seems like a good idea but then the layout changes when areas are marked-up as editable regions. Oh well, getting used to the idea now though, but Dreamweaver offers to link with a CSS editor. Now I’m curious- what is a css editor like to work with?
Here is a good site to get some ideas, w3schools. I learn’t a lot from these pages.
Me recovered from that enigmatic ill-feeling of the last few days- don’t know what that was all about.
Micycle 
