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November 1st, 2005

unixronin: Galen the technomage, from Babylon 5: Crusade (Default)
Tuesday, November 1st, 2005 10:23 am

This is not the boring text-only post you're looking for.  There are photos here.  [JEDI MIND TRICK]  See the snarling cat Jack-o'Lantern, and the four-eyed one with its tongue hanging out.  Look at Pirate and Wen dressed as witches, and Goose dressed as a cat.  See Sir Bruin, the Bearfoot Knight, sitting in half-armor and tabard on the Iberian Celtic chair on the front steps, challenging all comers and handing out treats and advice on the inadvisability of asking for tricks on All Hallows Eve, when the wall between the worlds is thin and Daoine Sidhe and other darker beings wander the earth, and occasionally inducting trick-or-treaters into the Order of All Souls Knights.

(Maybe there really will be photos later.  At least of the jack-o'lanterns.)

A twisted thought for Hallowe'en:  Get one of the white pumpkins, carve it into a likeness of Michael Jackson, and have a Jacko Lantern .....

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unixronin: Sun Ultrasparc III CPU (Ultrasparc III)
Tuesday, November 1st, 2005 04:03 pm

The World of Warcraft realm servers are down until 1300H for maintenance, and I was thinking, as long as I was waiting, I may as well run memtest86 on vorlon just to rule out memory-related causes for the frequent crashes and lockups.  So here I am watching it run, and thinking, "Funny, memtest86 doesn't seem to be running any faster on an Athlon64 3000+ than it used to on whitestar's original Athlon 1200."

Then I remember that vorlon has four times as much memory....


(Incidentally, after multiple passes, memtest86 shows zero memory errors.  There's nothing wrong whatsoever with this RAM.  I'm still convinced the problem is the video card; Leadtek insists there can't possibly be a problem with their card.  I need someone with large, aggressively-studded boots to go put one of them up Leadtek's ass.)

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