I'm in the future. Like hundreds of years in the future. I've been dead for centuries.
Oh, lovely, you're a cheery one aren't you?
Oh, lovely, you're a cheery one aren't you?
Friday, June 05
Thanks Obama!
No, seriously.
The AUD / USD exchange rate is back above 80 cents.
A few months ago it had dropped to 60 cents, which made running the servers seriously expensive. Now it's back within my financial comfort zone.
No, seriously.
The AUD / USD exchange rate is back above 80 cents.
A few months ago it had dropped to 60 cents, which made running the servers seriously expensive. Now it's back within my financial comfort zone.
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Monday, June 01
The HDMI Audio Driver In The Explorer With A Chainsaw
Ever since I got my Radeon 4850* I've had this little problem: Windows Explorer refreshes itself at a rate of about 1Hz. This means that the mouse pointer constantly flickers from its normal state to busy and back again, certain icons also flicker, and various drop-down boxes close themselves 500 milliseconds after you open them.
The fix I found was to completely disable the Shell Hardware Detection service - the process that brings you autoplay. That kills autoplay, of course, but it solves the problem in explorer.
But not in Steam. Fortunately, I hardly ever use Steam.
And so I had six months of peace.
Over the weekend, though, I went on something of an install-and-update frenzy, having, after all, 28GB of new software to try out, and I updated to Vista SP2.
And the flicker returned. Grrr.
So I went searching for the thread where I originally posted the fix to remind myself what it was, and found that someone had come up with a much better fix: Just disable HDMI audio output.
Well, duh. I should have guessed that instantly.
* Teraflop!
Ever since I got my Radeon 4850* I've had this little problem: Windows Explorer refreshes itself at a rate of about 1Hz. This means that the mouse pointer constantly flickers from its normal state to busy and back again, certain icons also flicker, and various drop-down boxes close themselves 500 milliseconds after you open them.
The fix I found was to completely disable the Shell Hardware Detection service - the process that brings you autoplay. That kills autoplay, of course, but it solves the problem in explorer.
But not in Steam. Fortunately, I hardly ever use Steam.
And so I had six months of peace.
Over the weekend, though, I went on something of an install-and-update frenzy, having, after all, 28GB of new software to try out, and I updated to Vista SP2.
And the flicker returned. Grrr.
So I went searching for the thread where I originally posted the fix to remind myself what it was, and found that someone had come up with a much better fix: Just disable HDMI audio output.
Well, duh. I should have guessed that instantly.
* Teraflop!
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