walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:48:33 +0000:
> On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:26:39 +0000, Duncan wrote: > >>...I'm making >> faster progress toward some personal financial goals than I had been... > > Hmm. Would one of those goals involve a new computer with a specsheet > sprinkled liberally with 'giga' and maybe even 'tera'? ;o) Well... not a whole new computer, but one of those goals is the pair of dual-core Opteron 290s (top of the socket-940 heap) I've been talking about for awhile. I've actually got the money now, and went online to get them the other day, but didn't like the privacy policy the place with the good price ($525 each, so $1050 for the pair, yes, that's /after/ the latest price reduction) had, so didn't get them. Actually, it was more one of those "you agree to the privacy policy" checkbox on the shipping info registration, but try as I might, I could NOT find the policy actually linked ANYWHERE on the ENTIRE site! I think I've become rather more sensitive to such things since I quit proprietaryware and don't see EULAs with ridiculous terms shoved in my face every day. Anyway, I decided I couldn't do it. I did fill out a feedback on it, but of course wasn't going to put in a valid email address since I couldn't find a privacy policy, so they can't get back to me -- I'll have to go back and check them, but the time... My current machine is no slouch. With 8 gigs memory, a dual Opteron, if only 242s at this point, and 4x300 gig drives (so 1.2 TB raw storage, there's your tera), it's still above average. The video's not so good tho, a Radeon 9200, the last of the old freedomware driver supported r200 chip series. Now that AMD/ATI is supporting libreware drivers again, I figure they'll have something worth looking at in terms of upgrade probably sometime next year. I'm also still running CRTs, dual 21/22", 1600x1200, but now that prices are coming down on reasonable resolution/ size LCDs, a couple WSXGAs (1600x1050) might do. I'd /really/ like a minimum 2048 width, so I could view two 1024 width side by side per panel. The 30" Apple Cinema style LCDs, 2560x1600, are nice, but still out of my price range at ~$1750, say $3500 for the pair. Maybe in a couple years... The big non-computer goal on the list is lasik. I had worn contacts for years and was reasonably happy with them, but broke one a year or so ago, and switched to glasses. I've stayed with glasses since they want you out of contacts for several months before they do lasik, but due to time constraints, I haven't even been in for an exam to see if I qualify. I do know that at my extreme correction (-11 diopters or so each eye, about 20/2000 best I've been able to estimate -- uncorrected, I see that big E on the eye chart, that people should see at 200 feet, at about 2 feet!), it's not going to be cheap, and I may not get perfect vision, but it should be good enough I can go without glasses anyway, and if I do end up wearing them for better vision, they'll be tiny and light, compared to the coke bottle bottom goggles I wear now. Reasonably, that'll be a minimum of $800 an eye, possibly double that, so I'm looking at $1600-3200. (IOW, if it wasn't for that, those Apple Cinema displays / could/ be on my list. Oh, well...) > Seriously, I haven't paid much attention to whether my groups marked as > read actually stay that way. If any of you three could post a bone-head > simple example including exact-bone-head-steps-to-reproduce, I'd like to > take a look. The problem here is that it's not something you can really duplicate. I'm not sure what triggers it, maybe a weird post that doesn't meet the official specs in a group, maybe some hopefully temporary server condition, maybe some weird mis-transmission of some sort, but once it happens, it seems to screw up something in the local configuration. That's why working with another instance (set to use the same server) things worked -- the local config wasn't screwed. So we sort of know how to fix it. Erase pretty much the entire local config, including all read message tracking, etc. That suggests it should be possible to narrow it down to a single file in that config/ database, and from there, possibly, to a single bad entry. However, that's what I've not had time to do. Once we know the specifics of the bad entry, it's likely we, or at least Charles, will be able to figure out what triggers it. However, until someone who /has/ either the won't- stay-read problem, or the won't-update problem, actually has time to try to trace down the specific file and entry, it's going to be difficult to do anything else with it. Unfortunately, that also means we don't know enough about it to make it reproduceable, altho it /does/ appear to be happening to multiple people, which would suggest it's /not/ just a single guy's config and/or database that got corrupted, as I initially suspected when I first saw it here, and as the evidence would point to if it were /not/ multiple people experiencing it. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
