Rants etc.....

[gingerbee]

yea=sterday had my first GY shift and of course iwas up at 8 am tried to Power nap it didnt happen so I got home 0-730 this morning took a davigo( 1/2pill I hate taking pills) and some valrien root I was out cold until 1200 and well could not get back to sleep several reason whch most ar becasue my get burning tingling pains in my fingers when I sleep and also numbness down my arms both are caused for c spine injuries from decades ago that are now catching up to me . so now I have 4 hours sleep and total head fog hoping that I can get some nap time but I have never been a person that could do that this should be hell for me overnight with lack of sleep and poor cognitive ability at least though I am getting some work as security at the local base which is a good thing

My wife works 12 hr shifts and sleeps during the day unless in the morning so she can get a few things done, but she always stays awake all night and sleeps during the day whether working or not, I assume its not something you can do if you don't know what shift you will be working. glad you got some work you wanted hope it all works out for ya.

 

[Shadowmeph]

My wife works 12 hr shifts and sleeps during the day unless in the morning so she can get a few things done, but she always stays awake all night and sleeps during the day whether working or not, I assume its not something you can do if you don't know what shift you will be working. glad you got some work you wanted hope it all works out for ya.

that is what I would do if I was on full-time or even 3-4days a week but for now I am just being called in afternoons and graveyard off and on

 

[clshades]

I didn't know the difference but the firewall as we call it is a mason block wall with and 2-3 inch air gap and then another mason block wall between our homes, sadly for me the only thing that is not covered with this wall is the soffit as it overhangs the outside wall about 2 feet.

from what Google says in a duplex there is no firewall it's just a normal wall with fire retardent drywall, glad I don't have a duplex and this explains why I can barely hear my neighbours, they have 4 kids and 6 dogs, so very happy there is a huge ass wall between us lol.

I am taking pictures and getting the roof shovelled off this week, once spring is here, up go the heating cable as I can't count on the new owner doing anything about the attic, hopefully they will insulate the attic but I ain't counting on it, so heating cables it is. Can't count on Simcoe County to have a stand-up agent as everything they do to that house has been half-assed, I can hope

the big difference I can see is the house next to me could burn and if the soffits don't spread it then we would be fine ( our course it would affect us but I would have a house still ) these places were built by the county in 1959 so I guess that was the code for semis back then, where they are moving it's a true duplex, just drywall and frame between them and the neighbour so if sneeze you can hear it, no thanks

If I can make a suggestion. Plug the heat trace into a wifi plug so you can turn it on and off when needed.

 

[Shadowmeph]

OMG last night wasnt my shift so I went through all of that forcing sleep and what ever only t oget to the place and discover it wasn't my shift lol that's the one thing that messes me up doing these types of shift where you start at 2300 and fined 0700 the next day, also the super on the phone said I was to work the next two days which wasnt my fault well sort of because I also misread the timesheets on the wall it showed working Sunday which again I would have started on Sunday finished Monday morning hehe
on a sidenote at least I am only a 5-minute drive from there

 

[gingerbee]

Well, thankfully, they are coming to do my roof today. I just found some big cracks in the second floor's ceiling that were not there a few weeks ago. I suspect it's the 10-20 tons of weight on my roof. This winter has been brutal.

 

[Marzipan]

Dell software is SHYTE! I remember installing their Support Assist app and it took FOREVER to install and takes FOREVER to load and is slow as molasses when using. my 5600H hit 102C while I was moving data around, so I downloaded and installed some Alienware Control app and crap, it took FOREVER to install....ike 20 minutes. when it was done, it had a box to click to let it restart the PC when I clicked Finish, but I didn't select it, BUT, damned computer still restarted when I clicked finish. Q#$)@#(*T$@)(#$*@)!!!!

 

[Marzipan]

not so much a rant as an observation on the annoying humor of an SSD running out of cache. like I said, I am moving files around, average size is 16GB, and they're blistering between two SSDs at 1.8Gb/s and then at like 80% complete bang, 192Mb/s.

 

[Marzipan]

here's one more rant for the sake of ranting about 8 cats fluffing out so much fur that you have to tear down and clean your laptop every 2nd day.

I have no space to work, but I swear I am going to have to build a tower simply for the sake the crap won't build up on it as badly or as quickly as it does in MiniPC and laptops. <_<

 

[Izerous]

not so much a rant as an observation on the annoying humor of an SSD running out of cache. like I said, I am moving files around, average size is 16GB, and they're blistering between two SSDs at 1.8Gb/s and then at like 80% complete bang, 192Mb/s.

Might not have been cache but heat. It is amazing how slow SSDs get when heat saturated and how much a heat sink makes a difference.

 

[Marzipan]

Might not have been cache but heat. It is amazing how slow SSDs get when heat saturated and how much a heat sink makes a difference.

you're right, it probably wasn't the cache, because immediately after that transfer finished, I started another for, again, a 16GB file and it went through at 1.67MB/s for the whole thing. but I did it immediately after the other finished, so not too sure it was heat...but maybe.