I had my first $4/gal. purchase today, gas has come some ways since I arrived state side last January.
Still cheaper that the $4.569 USD/gal. I was paying in New Zealand when we left. Current NZ prices is $6.659 USD/gal. so $4/gal. still feels like a bargain.
I have been getting thousands of these events in my event log, and today I decided to do something about it.
Ran the Dell Diagnostic DOS tool (MpMemmory and DellDiag), and it spent 20 minutes testing memory, and was happy.
Rang Dell Support, the hardware guy ran Windows based tests and they passed so he declared it a software issue. The software support needed me to buy a support package. Wasn’t interested to pay $90 for what appears to be a hardware concern.
- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-WHEA-Logger" Guid="{C26C4F3C-3F66-4E99-8F8A-39405CFED220}" />
<EventID>19</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>3</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2011-03-13T22:04:12.439295800Z" />
<EventRecordID>10405</EventRecordID>
<Correlation ActivityID="{73695672-4BDB-4A1B-B301-BDD46B0B4C29}" />
<Execution ProcessID="1480" ThreadID="656" />
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>sagetv</Computer>
<Security UserID="S-1-5-19" />
</System>
- <EventData>
<Data Name="ErrorSource">1</Data>
<Data Name="ApicId">0</Data>
<Data Name="MCABank">1</Data>
<Data Name="MciStat">0x9400000000000151</Data>
<Data Name="MciAddr">0xf960002757a0</Data>
<Data Name="MciMisc">0x0</Data>
<Data Name="ErrorType">9</Data>
<Data Name="TransactionType">0</Data>
<Data Name="Participation">256</Data>
<Data Name="RequestType">5</Data>
<Data Name="MemorIO">256</Data>
<Data Name="MemHierarchyLvl">1</Data>
<Data Name="Timeout">256</Data>
<Data Name="OperationType">256</Data>
<Data Name="Channel">256</Data>
<Data Name="Length">928</Data>
<Data Name="RawData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ata>
</EventData>
</Event>
Posted to Windows Client Tech Center Forum, not sure it’s the best place, but hopefully that might lead to some better guidance on how to proceed.
PC Spec’s:
[Update 28 Apr] Ran Prime95 over night in Thrash Test mode and the PC was happy and stable in the morning, CPU temp rose only a couple of degrees (from 41 to 47) C.
Not sure what to test next.
[Update 3 May] I installed the AMD Catalyst driver bundle, to see if it was some driver issue, and after rebooting I had 30 minutes of no warnings, until my 8pm video recording started. After the recording stopped the warnings were still occuring, but I’d notice 10 minutes gaps, that almost aligned to when I let the TighVNC session close/minimize.
So from here my plan is to remove the capture card, and turn off SageTV and see if the warnings persist.
Then try uninstalling TightVNC and see if the warnings persist. Because at that point the box is almost how it was out of the factory, and it would be nice to show it’s not those components causing the issue.
[Update 5 May] Last night ran the PC in Safe Mode for 1 hour and did not have any warnings, I was also running Prime95 and Windows Security Essentials (WSE) scanning to exercise the machine like under normal system operations.
I then ran the Dell Boot Daig memory check again, 30 minutes later it all passed.
Going back to normal Windows 7 I still had the warnings. So I progressively:
and the warnings continued.
I then rebooted into “Safe Mode with Networking” and left the machine overnight. This morning there were no warnings while in Safe Mode, but when I rebooted to normal Windows 7, there were 200 warnings in the first 2 seconds, which makes me wonder if the WHEA-Logger is not running in safe mode, thus the safe mode test was pointless. For perspective, I’ve only ever seen 2-3 warnings happen in the same second before. One reason to believe the WHEA-Logger is not working is the the Core Temp CPU heat testing application could not run in safe mode, and it queries the CPU, which is what the WHEA-Logger is also doing.
I have saved the first 75 of the events if there is a Dell, AMD or Microsoft employee interested, you can contact me directly at simeon.pilgrim@gmail.com.
I just listened to the EconTalk podcast about Bitcoin, and thought the idea was very cool.
Happily accepting Bitcoin’s at: 1F2PdwFG9eXyE3y4vCpAUv8SD3v3wCnTLW
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2011/04/andresen_on_bit.html
Now that I’m in the US I notice how all news is 100% US based in perspective, i.e. it all happens due to US based reasons.
Thus you see stock charts like these:
And it’s all about Trimble has done this, and Trimble did that. Or when you see some currency charts:
it generates US focused articles like this:
Which is funny, because in reality that article is the exact opposite of what’s happening. Currency is not a stock, it’s a ratio of strength, and those downward graphs are showing the amount of foreign dollars you get for each USD, which is the opposite of the stock chart, where you look at the USD cost per single stock, thus if you inverse the charts you’d see the cost of foreign dollars are rising.
Another way to notice this is the price of gold in USD, people are all “oh look at its growth” when it’s also an exchange ratio. Looking at it in AUD it’s not currently higher than 2009 prices, thus is it gold or the USD that’s changing?
Also if you look at how the stock-market has grown, you then wonder is the value of everything going up, or is the value of the central currency the USD going down.
The latter is what you’d expect when the Fed has been busy over the last few years creating trillions of new dollars.
I had been playing The Smurfs Village iPod game for a few weeks, mainly to compete with Jacob, but he had a head start, and the game is pretty linear, so catching him turned out not to be an option.
To being with it felt like a good Warcraft type game, but the interesting parts faded pretty quickly and then it was just a grind, with not much new things on the horizon.
I was planning to do some geeky breakdown of different crops, but I’ve stopped playing the game. My favourite crop was Brussels Sprouts, as it paid out x5 the gold (most only pay x4) and 50xp for two hours “work”. The two hours was a good time period for work, as I could check back in 2-4 hours and still not have the crop withering.
Only problem there is not enough to do with gold, vs. Smurf berries, which to have to be brought with really money if you want to do much beyond the basics.
Here’s my video footage from the 27th of March 2011 rocket launch.
Here’s Scott’s capture of the failed rocket launch, that I missed capturing.
Have been looking at D-SLR’s and was looking at the Nikon D5100 on Amazon
Yes people often buy the D5100 with kit lens, and another D5100 body. Really it’s not even released yet.
Today was the first launch day for the Willow Hill Rocketry Group since October’s launch.
It was a cold day, with much standing besides the bigger cars to avoid the wind.
Jacob and I had our maiden launches of our rockets, and we where the second and third lunches of the day.
We both had A8-3 motors. Jacob’s Wizard got some good height, but my Patriot was too heavy for that size motor. I did get closest landing to the orange create (in background) and thus win a prize.
There were 25 launches today, one miss-start, and one in-air engine failure (fire out both ends of rocket).
I fired my Patriot Rocket two more times, with B6-4 motor’s and the flights were better the the A8-3 flight that barely went 10 meters into the air.
The rocket on the far right was the one that had the engine failure mid air.
Not many pictures due to camera failure, will post video, if I find any non-damaged ones.
A few weekends ago I was testing my new SageTV setup with my laptop.
I had the network in one configuration, and I wanted to move things around to get better reception. Before I moved the server and aerial, I took the Powerline device to different rooms in the house to test. I ended up only getting 9.4Mbps in other rooms. I then noticed my laptops Ethernet connection was at 10Mb, assuming something was wrong I forced it to 100Mb full duplex and only got 17Mbps throughput. Assuming this was due to some cross circuit performance problem I tested around the house, and ended back in the office, and with my laptop on the same 100Mb switch as the server, I was still only getting 17Mbps.
After banging my head for a while I put the network connect back to auto detect, and plugged the laptop back into the power cord and ta-da, 94Mbps to the server.
Thus for my Dell Latitude E6400, with Windows 7, on battery, the Ethernet runs at only 10Mb. I remember Windows XP having an option for reduced Ethernet speed on battery, but cannot find it under Windows 7, it just seems to always be on.
Thus now with power cord in hand, I found that the room I wanted to place the server gets 45Mbps to the TV, so I proceeded to move everything, and over-the-air TV is wonderful.
Crazy story of the day, yesterday I got a letter in the mail from IEEE stating that my Credit Card information used to pay for attending the IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference in December has been illegally accessed by a third party.
They don’t know if my information was accessed but I’ve canceled the card to be safe.
Question: What was IEEE holding on to the CC information for, isn’t it security 101, don’t hold the info if you don’t need it?
There were paper’s on securing car networks, and protecting against people tracking vehicles, but that not the real concern it’s the IEEE’s inability to handle payments that will end the world.