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Other What Makes Your Life, Meh?

Discussion in 'General' started by Mr_Mistoffelees, 10 Aug 2023.

  1. Almightyrastus

    Almightyrastus On the jazz.

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    Still recovering from having a tooth out on Thursday.

    It really did not want to come out and took a LOT of twisting, pulling, and levering to get it out so as a result, my mouth is still extremely bruised, this means that I can't bite very hard as the teeth either side of the socket are in bruised gum and bone.

    It came out because of a recurring infection that kept popping out an abscess on the outside of the gum. That infection will go away now that to tooth is not there, but it is still putting up a bit of a fight, something that is not helping the pain although I am now able to properly clean the socket so that should ease off along with the headache that it is giving me.

    Still, at least ibuprofen is actually working for this although I have almost run out...

    I am kinda used to pain, I have a constant lower back pain from getting hit by a car some 30+ years ago, but mouth pain is something else, it just wears you down.
     
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  2. David

    David μoʍ ɼouმ qᴉq λon ƨbԍuq ϝʁλᴉuმ ϝo ʁԍɑq ϝμᴉƨ

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    Two weeks of meh.

    Done nothing but chase my tail - trying to arrange tradesmen to carry out work - at home and wth the car - sorting passports, dealing with Student Finance England (useless shower of shite); all whilst dealing with health issues - both me and the missus.

    It's been an absolutely shite fortnight. I'm just hoping we're at the end of it.
     
  3. mzx1976

    mzx1976 What's a Dremel?

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    My wife, she started being a couch worm for a few weeks now... I don't know what to do with her
     
  4. mzx1976

    mzx1976 What's a Dremel?

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    At least now you can tell others how some random internet stranger made you regret reading his post
     
  5. Spraduke

    Spraduke Lurker

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    Classic sign of depression. Obviously you will know best what might have set that off. If you can, try and get her out for a walk. Even a short walk in the sun can get you out of a negative internal monologue.

    One of the reasons I have taken up golf. I need a 'reason' to go outside but always love it when I do. Golf is now my excuse to get outside
     
  6. RedFlames

    RedFlames ...is not a Belgian football team

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    About the only good thing to be said about golf.
     
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  7. Spraduke

    Spraduke Lurker

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    I used to hold that view but let's just say I'm a convert and there's a reason it's so popular
     
  8. Mr_Mistoffelees

    Mr_Mistoffelees The Bit-Tech Cat. New Improved Version.

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    I live adjacent to a golf course. I still share Mark Twain’s view of the game, “Golf is a good walk spoiled.”
     
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  9. Vault-Tec

    Vault-Tec Green Plastic Watering Can

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    [​IMG]

    Now I know why I slept like crap.
     
  10. RedFlames

    RedFlames ...is not a Belgian football team

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    [​IMG]
     
  11. adidan

    adidan Guesswork is still work

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    Tradespeople organising is harder than herding cats. Finding them is the first issue, them then doing the jobs competently is another matter.

    Hope you and the missus are on the mend. We've both been off and on shockingly bad for a while now ourselves.

    Friday was an odd day, in the morning we both felt like we had our skulls in a vice. Oddly my OH caught up with her mate on Saturday and her husband had had the same thing at the same time.

    Perhaps it's just a Russian sub firing microwave weapons in our general direction. :happy:

    I was joking but then those whales did all beach too...

    Where's my tinfoil hat.
     
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  12. Byron C

    Byron C I was told there would be cheesecake…?

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    Can’t get a CPU to boot on my Gigabyte server board. The MW50-SV0 supposedly supports E5-2600 v4 CPUs but it get bugger all out of it when I install a 2690. No video, no POST beeps, nada. If I incorrectly install the RAM - use just one stick in slot 1 for channel D for example - I can get it to give me the “hey you’ve f’ed up the RAM” beep, but nothing when RAM is correctly installed. I see this diagnostic LED lit up but I’ll be damned if I can find out WTF these mean, I can’t find any reference anywhere - not in the manual, not on Gigabyte’s website, and search engines are useless (I keep getting results about the two-digit hex code diagnostic LEDs found on consumer boards)

    [​IMG]

    Already tried swapping RAM between ECC and non-ECC, yanking out all drives, swapping GPUs… Without any other 2011-3 boards or CPUs, I’m pretty stuck.

    As a last resort I’ll yank the board out of the case to make sure nothing’s fouling any traces, but that really is a last resort - if that was an issue I’d have expected to see weirdness with the 5820K I was using previously, but that was rock solid.
     
  13. Almightyrastus

    Almightyrastus On the jazz.

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    So ready for 3:45 to roll around this afternoon so that I can be done for the week bar the drive home.

    Normally 3 of us in the technical derpartment, one of whom has been on holiday this week, and shall be next week too, not a problem, a much-deserved break for her. My other colleague was in Tuesday, Wednesday, and a small part of yesterday (sickness stuff), and whilst I can cope with everything left for me, it has been a hell of a busy week. Add to that that my mouth is still all sorts of painful and bruised from having a tooth wrestled out last week, giving me a constant dull headache as well, and I am really done with this week.

    Thankfully next week is showing some cooler weather so we have a better chance of sleeping properly without waking up 5 or 6 times stuck to the bedsheets. I shall get those changed when I get in too, I just really want to go home now, had enough.
     
  14. noizdaemon666

    noizdaemon666 I'm Od, Therefore I Pwn

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    Without wanting to teach you to suck eggs; have you double checked the CPU socket for bent pins? There's also a BIOS recovery option I think which might be worth a go.
     
  15. IanW

    IanW Grumpy Old Git

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    Work wifi (outward facing only) on my phone.
    • Our corporate wifi login page is signed with an internal security certificate, which used to make Chrome pop a "This looks dodgy, do it anyway?" dialogue.
    • The last couple of days, Chrome just says "Nah, not doing it!" and blocks the page, possibly because it's served via HTTP instead of HTTPS.
    • On IT advice, I tried Firefox, and got the "This looks dodgy, do it anyway?" dialogue back.
    • TL;DR - Wifi now working because stuffs.
     
  16. Byron C

    Byron C I was told there would be cheesecake…?

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    Yep, socket is fine, as far as I can see. The system was running fine with a 5820K, and the only change I made was to swap the CPU. Even though it’s been a very long time since a CPU could be easily inserted incorrectly, I re-seated the CPU to make sure it was aligned correctly - I checked the socket at the same time.

    BIOS recovery on this board requires it to POST in the first place, because you have to be able to go into BIOS config (according to the manual). I can’t even get that far.
     
  17. DeanSUNIAIU

    DeanSUNIAIU Modder

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    I have a board, cpu and ram you could borrow to test.
     
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  18. Byron C

    Byron C I was told there would be cheesecake…?

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    Sorry, manic weekend, forgot to reply to this…

    That’s a great offer, thank you. I’ve got a couple of ideas to try, so I’ll see how I get on with that before I make anyone inconvenience themselves :happy:
     
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  19. Byron C

    Byron C I was told there would be cheesecake…?

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    BIOS.

    It was a flippin' BIOS update. Flashed the latest BIOS and the damn thing booted straight away; 14 cores, 28 threads, and 64GB ECC DDR4 now showing in Proxmox.

    [​IMG]

    Should've thought of a BIOS update the first flippin' time - if anyone needs me I'll be in the angry dome.

    [​IMG]
     
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  20. Mr_Mistoffelees

    Mr_Mistoffelees The Bit-Tech Cat. New Improved Version.

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    You're not the first and, you won't be the last...

    I've never done that, no, no, no...:worried:
     
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