For the MANY of you who applied, thanks. I wish I had multiple copies so I could give you all a book.  Especially the Gnome/GTK ones….

If I asked you for your postal address or postage payment, thank you, I now have all the details I was expecting, so your parcel should go in the post tomorrow.

The remaining books shall all be local freecycled tomorrow also.

Thank you all for helping keep my bookshelves managable….

Tomorrow I start on the CDs….

-Dx

May Google see, digest and process the following keywords:

NVMCP.SYS, Blue Screen Of Dead, BSOD, DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, NForce2, Game, High Load

And that about says it all, really.   Windows XP and shitty drivers just ruined a darn fine game of Age Of Empires 3…. Sods….

Ah well, I only put Windows on here to find out what hardware was playing up anyway….  Atleast I have a darn good idea now….

After much feeding Google the random combinations of stuff I made it vomit enough back to work out that this is generally considered a bad soundcard, real rough under load, especially games, etc, and dies quite a bit — I’ve not found anything that says the same about Linux mind you…. But anyway, I’ve got an seperate (USB, External) card that I’m going to use (as soon as $housemate finds the PSU for it…. ) and disable the NForce2 onboard thingywhat and see if that helps me like, google says, it has for just about everyone else with this problem….

Again, this post is really here for my future reference and to help others finding the same problems I’ve had with this darn thing….

[Edit: Oh, for the record, Asus A7N8X-E motherboard (I really like these boards...), AthlonXP 2100+, 1GiB Dual Channel DDR RAM, 20GiB PATA133 disk (It's for games only, bite me!), Radeon 9600Pro (I really like these cards too, just a shame that all the drivers available for it for Linux suck in some way or another) ]

[Edit2: Anyone posting comments along the lines of "XP, serves you right" or "Onboard sound, haha" or, worse, "ATI under Linux, you fool!" will magically find their comments not appearing... ]

lejt and I have had a tidy up of the old bookcases, to make some room, and would like to offer up the following:

• The Osborne Complete Reference for Director 8.5 Shockware Studio by David Mennenoh;
• Macromedia Flash For Windows & Macintosh – Visual Quickstart Guide by Katherine Ulrich;
• Macromedia Dreamweaver for Windows & Macintosh – Visual Quickstart Guide by J. Tarin Towers;
• Javascript Manual of Style by Marc Johnson;
• Sams Teach Yourself Java 2 in 21 Days;
• Just Java 2 (Forth Edition) The Sun Microsystems Press Java Series by Peter van der Linden;
• Net Security: Your Digial Doberman [All Platformsby Michael Alexander;
• The Mighty Micro by Christopher Evans;
• Microprocessors and Peripherals by Barry B. Brey;
• Computer Science – A consice introduction by I. R. Sinclair;
• Beginning GTK+/GNOME Programming by Peter Wright;
• GNOME/GTK+ Programming Bible by Arthur Griffith;
• Visual Basic 5 HOW-TO by Eric Brierley, Paul Sanna, Anthony Prince (with Timothy Cain, Dejan Jelovic and Robert Stokes);
• Rogue Element by Terence Strong;
• Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams;
• Money For Nothing by john Harman;
• It by Stephen King;
• The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison;
• The Stainless Steel Rat’s Revence by Harry Harrison;
• Catcher In The Rye by J. D. Salinger;
• The Wizards of Odd by Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams and many others (Edited by Peter Haining);
• The X-Files – Goblins by Charles Grant;
• War For The Oaks by Emma Bull;
• Dave Brown’s Dreamland by Dale Brown and Jim Defelice;
• First Lensman by E. E. ‘Doc’ Smith;
• Farmer In The Sky by Robert Heinlein;
• City by Clifford Simak;
• The Flying Sorcerers by David Gerrold and Larry Niven;
• Triplanetary by E. E. ‘Doc’ Smith;
• The Neophyte by Guy N. Smith;
• ST:TNG – The First Giant Novel by Jean Lorrah;
• Operation Lightning Strike by Nick Pope;
• The Log by Craig Charles;
• Enigma by Robert Harris;
• The Hacker Crackdown by Bruce Sterling;
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen;
• No Greater Love by Danielle Steel;
• The Welsh Triange by Peter Paget;
• Collings Gem: Mathmatics Basic Facts;
• Collings Gem: Biology Basic Facts; and
• DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: German Phrase Book.

All in various states of use.

Requests in the comments (remember to fill in the contact bit, mmmkay?).

If multiple people request the same item I shall use a highly complex selection system involving ninja badgers, a deep freezer and favouritism.

I reserve the right to request postage costs, ‘cos I’m mean like that….

-Dx

via mrben, I did the last one, but while I agreed with the result (it made me Doctor, like resiak) I thought the test was a little thin on the ground, questions-wide, but this one is nicer… I just wish they wouldn’t always make the questions so transparent?

Your results:
You are Wash (Ship Pilot)

Wash (Ship Pilot) 80% Derrial Book (Shepherd) 75% Kaylee Frye (Ship Mechanic) 65% Dr. Simon Tam (Ship Medic) 60% River (Stowaway) 55% Jayne Cobb (Mercenary) 50% Zoe Washburne (Second-in-command) 50% A Reaver (Cannibal) 50% Inara Serra (Companion) 45% Malcolm Reynolds (Captain) 45% Alliance 45%

You are a pilot with a good if not silly sense of humor. You take pride in your collection of toys. You love your significant other.

Click here to take the “Which Serenity character are you?” quiz…

You’re all bloody useless!

The answer was:

• “Who Is Elmo Blatch?”

The item of music was called “Elmo Blatch” by Thomas Newman, the post was categorised as “a movie”, Elmo, played by, Bill Bolender appeared in The Shawshank Redemption. The last clue shall always remain a mystery, as I’m told it’s too obscure to anyone but me to get….

Never mind, I’ll make next months easier…. The Who Is Elmo Blatch EP shall remain for next months offering….
-Dx