Hmm alright, having had a quick crack at cold turkey and not
finding it very palatable. I'm presently on ~half doses of my
regular tramadol... so far so good, I'm pretty shot by the time the
next dose is due but thats probably better than having an over
abundance.

WE're having great weather in Aus. The more northern sections of
the east coast are having storms, king tides, and watching the
beaches was away... some 4 or more metres had disappeared last I
checked in on it. While down here south of the border, the
Mexicans are having a string of 30c+ days. I'm looking forward to
the cool change due tomorrow or the day after.

Sabretooth has been thermaling out. Whats new? I gave in and gave
it a new home. The case it was in was a relic from about the
original I-Mac days when PC's suddenly got some painted metallic
looking cases. This one is green and vaguely creamy beige. Looks
spiffy in a retro kind of way but its not the most ventilated. Its
been rehomed in a Cooler Master Centurion of some model. I suspect
around Mk3 or 4. Its much the same case as daily drive but all
black whereas daily has some silver on it too. Its looking much
happier.

A Friend o' mine, yup still got one or two, bought himself one of
these fangled ARM powered Mac-Mini's. He's exceedingly happy with
it. Out performs its predecessor an intel powered Mini.
Apparently crunching just as hard as Intel, for far less heat and
power. He's thinking if they stick, there's going to be blood in
the water as Intel tries to figure out what to do next. I s'pose
to some degree AMD would be in the same boat, but they have the
wood on Intel already at the moment, so they've got the high
ground, Apple seems to be heading for the middle ground.

The church is giving me the irrits. We've got eased COVID
restrictions so its pretty much a full house. On the plus side not
so many watching online. Bt it means the house band is back at full
strength. Week 1 the bass guitar shakes the living daylights out of
the camera, and I rename them "The Cam Shaker" band. 2nd week no
bass guitar, but the keyboard is pushing out the same kind of
volume and rhythm making up for it. And once again it shakes the
camera around. No sign of any effective solution yet, when its
going on you can feel the baseline through the bench and all. :/

They're still forging ahead with new cameras something like so https://bird-dog.tv/p100-overview don't quite see the fascination
myself. Think even more it'll be time to retire when they arrive.
Their website is looking prettier, I found for forum software and
added it in. But its proving difficult to get content from them to
put on it. Tired of asking. I've gotten a bit vindictive about it
with my filler content. I might call it quits on that too. Trouble
is that... as per the camel is a horse designed by a committee I'm
getting tangled in their politics and I have zero interest in that. http://houseofrefuge.net.au

And that is I think all the news I have... ahh not quite..
somethings close to blowing up my hudson msg bas again. No idea
why.. warning I'm getting is that msg text file is to large. I've
cranked up the expiry for the moment. I did look into squish wihch
I thought it did.. apparently it doesn't :/ So I'm going to have
to get to the bottom of it, or create some nifty and creative way
out of my predicament.

Everywhere you go, there you are...
Spec


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On 15 Dec 2020 at 11:37a, Spectre pondered and said...

Hmm alright, having had a quick crack at cold turkey and not
finding it very palatable. I'm presently on ~half doses of my
regular tramadol... so far so good, I'm pretty shot by the time the
next dose is due but thats probably better than having an over
abundance.

Glad you're doing OKish... it sounds like a bit of a ride to suss out how
best to handle what you are able to take (or not)...

WE're having great weather in Aus. The more northern sections of
the east coast are having storms, king tides, and watching the
beaches was away... some 4 or more metres had disappeared last I
checked in on it. While down here south of the border, the
Mexicans are having a string of 30c+ days. I'm looking forward to
the cool change due tomorrow or the day after.

I can see the hot temps coming our way in the next few days. For me that
means temps in the mid to upper 20c but in other parts of New Zealand it will likely be even warmer. We've had really strong springlike winds still. Nutty stuff that causes things to topple. :(

Sabretooth has been thermaling out. Whats new? I gave in and gave
it a new home. The case it was in was a relic from about the
original I-Mac days when PC's suddenly got some painted metallic
looking cases. This one is green and vaguely creamy beige. Looks
spiffy in a retro kind of way but its not the most ventilated. Its
been rehomed in a Cooler Master Centurion of some model. I suspect
around Mk3 or 4. Its much the same case as daily drive but all
black whereas daily has some silver on it too. Its looking much
happier.

Nice :)

I have not been doing much in the PC building space as of late. I find myself wanting to get one of the new Pi 400 units. Only to play with and because it reminds me of a ZX81 from 1983... not because I really have anything I
actually have in mind for it heh... but at the moment I don't think they ship here and it's probably just as well as the budget is tight for this upcoming holiday season.

A Friend o' mine, yup still got one or two, bought himself one of
these fangled ARM powered Mac-Mini's. He's exceedingly happy with
it. Out performs its predecessor an intel powered Mini.
Apparently crunching just as hard as Intel, for far less heat and
power. He's thinking if they stick, there's going to be blood in
the water as Intel tries to figure out what to do next. I s'pose
to some degree AMD would be in the same boat, but they have the
wood on Intel already at the moment, so they've got the high
ground, Apple seems to be heading for the middle ground.

Intel are in a bind I think at the moment. I have not followed it too closely in recent years but I thought AMD were crushing them now with the Ryzen gear? Sound right?

The church is giving me the irrits. We've got eased COVID
restrictions so its pretty much a full house. On the plus side not
so many watching online. Bt it means the house band is back at full strength. Week 1 the bass guitar shakes the living daylights out of
the camera, and I rename them "The Cam Shaker" band. 2nd week no
bass guitar, but the keyboard is pushing out the same kind of
volume and rhythm making up for it. And once again it shakes the
camera around. No sign of any effective solution yet, when its
going on you can feel the baseline through the bench and all. :/

..but did you solve the hummmmmm? :)

They're still forging ahead with new cameras something like so https://bird-dog.tv/p100-overview don't quite see the fascination
myself. Think even more it'll be time to retire when they arrive.
Their website is looking prettier, I found for forum software and
added it in. But its proving difficult to get content from them to
put on it. Tired of asking. I've gotten a bit vindictive about it
with my filler content. I might call it quits on that too. Trouble
is that... as per the camel is a horse designed by a committee I'm
getting tangled in their politics and I have zero interest in that. http://houseofrefuge.net.au

Where there are people there's always dramas it seems but equally there's
good opportunities for social banter if people want to play the game of civility... I hope you get untangled soon for your own sanity.

And that is I think all the news I have... ahh not quite..
somethings close to blowing up my hudson msg bas again. No idea
why.. warning I'm getting is that msg text file is to large. I've
cranked up the expiry for the moment. I did look into squish wihch
I thought it did.. apparently it doesn't :/ So I'm going to have
to get to the bottom of it, or create some nifty and creative way
out of my predicament.

I mostly know JAM I met HUDSON once and have SQUISHed a few things in my time too :)

Everywhere you go, there you are...

Yesterday once was now...

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Their website is looking prettier, I found for forum software and
added it in. But its proving difficult to get content from them to
put on it. Tired of asking. I've gotten a bit vindictive about it
with my filler content. I might call it quits on that too. Trouble http://houseofrefuge.net.au

Holy crap. I looked at the site. It's hilarious. I wish I could use that strategy at work.

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Intel are in a bind I think at the moment. I have not followed it too closely in recent years but I thought AMD were crushing them now
with the Ryzen gear? Sound right?

I have only followed from a distance. Seeing as my tech is generally roadside collection. But yes, Intel lost the high ground of the market to Ryzen and "threadripper".. which is all the gamer boys.. I believe they still have business aspects of that market though.

The low end has been consumed or is in the process of being by ARM and low power chips. So Intel as you say is in a bind and is wedged into the centre portion of the market. I've seen musings around that if its not careful Intels x86 may be on its last legs as a dominant force.

..but did you solve the hummmmmm? :)

Well no... I still believe its gound a ground loop hum. However it also seems to hum on unloaded inputs. There's been a "vocaliser" jammed into the mix while there was only one singer, and if it has flat or no batteries it also produces noise. And more recently a couple of mics have been giving issues also. The mics seem to be battery issues... the existing rechargeables are a ~2yrs old.. so they got some new ones.. week two they're flat before the end of the service, so I'm thinking there's a charger issue also.

Everywhere you go, there you are...

Yesterday once was now...

And tomorrow never comes...leading to it being very frustrated...

Spec


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Holy crap. I looked at the site. It's hilarious. I wish I could
use that strategy at work.

chuckle... It was even worse than that, I have to tone myself down from time to time. Still :) its meant to be amusing so thats good.

Spec


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On 12-16-20 12:51, Spectre wrote to Avon <=-

The low end has been consumed or is in the process of being by ARM and
low power chips. So Intel as you say is in a bind and is wedged into
the centre portion of the market. I've seen musings around that if its not careful Intels x86 may be on its last legs as a dominant force.

Will be interesting times ahead. Intel has been dominant for so long, and now they are looking to be on shakier ground, with the rise of ARM and AMD really getting their technology right.

..but did you solve the hummmmmm? :)

Well no... I still believe its gound a ground loop hum. However it
also seems to hum on unloaded inputs. There's been a "vocaliser"
jammed into the mix while there was only one singer, and if it has flat

Maybe it just doesn't know the words, so it hums? <g, d & r> ;P


... My hard disk is full! Maybe I'll try this message section thing.
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..but did you solve the hummmmmm? :)

Well no... I still believe its gound a ground loop hum.

Maybe it just doesn't know the words, so it hums? <g, d & r> ;P

I believe it knows the words, but its Sssssss tone deaf ;)

Spec


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On 16 Dec 2020 at 12:51p, Spectre pondered and said...

x86 may be on its last legs as a dominant force.

If we could go on Mastermind I think my preferred specialist subject would be the Inter 2,3,486 chips :) After than it's get a bit murky - ha!

Well no... I still believe its gound a ground loop hum. However it also seems to hum on unloaded inputs. There's been a "vocaliser" jammed into

Hmmm (excuse the pun) well if there's hum without inputs connected perhaps
it's an earthing issues in the power supply of the amp? Just a guess..

Everywhere you go, there you are...

Yesterday once was now...

And tomorrow never comes...leading to it being very frustrated...

I feel the need to find a bunch of nice one liners to post here in response :)

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On 12-16-20 22:47, Spectre wrote to Vk3jed <=-

..but did you solve the hummmmmm? :)

Well no... I still believe its gound a ground loop hum.

Maybe it just doesn't know the words, so it hums? <g, d & r> ;P

I believe it knows the words, but its Sssssss tone deaf ;)

That could be it. ;)


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Hmmm (excuse the pun) well if there's hum without inputs connected
perhaps it's an earthing issues in the power supply of the amp? Just
a guess..

Could be, but it some of it arrives pre amp, although the amps hum on their own too. I only hum before bathnight though...

Spec...


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Re: in the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king
By: Spectre to Avon on Wed Dec 16 2020 12:51 pm

The low end has been consumed or is in the process of being by ARM and low power chips. So Intel as you say is in a bind and is wedged into the centre portion of the market. I've seen musings around that if its not careful Int x86 may be on its last legs as a dominant force.

I have heard *somewhere* that Intel was aware of this trend in the mid 2000s already and their contingency plan is to leave the consumer market and become military contractors.
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I have heard *somewhere* that Intel was aware of this trend in the
mid 2000s already and their contingency plan is to leave the
consumer market and become military contractors. --

Never come across that one before, but its been some time since I've really had my eye on the ball so to speak.

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