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Oh, kernel panics, I'm unfortunately familiar with those for other reasons So would X exit out and show me the kernel panic, or would X freeze, or what?

I never actually thought of checking out local pc retailers for gaming pc parts! I remember going to one that seemed like a very reliable place. Supposing we wanted to build our own computer though, (and not deal with the cost of labor that they would charge,) would it make sense to make an online build at a place like, say, Newegg, and then visit our local retailer to actually purchase the parts? I've never heard of a game developer using graphics manufacturer-specific techniques so it only works on a certain brand of hardware.

Not to hijack, but I think I may actually give Vista a spin once my XP installation dies. Back on topic, I honestly think Windows 7 is a good operating system. I didn't use it nearly enough, but within the beta release, I thought it was great.

Ya, I 'spose executing the binary would be the easiest method in my case, thank you.

Well, I guess I'm just in a holding pattern right now, waiting for my next BSOD Quick question though, if it were a hardware problem, what would I notice in a Linux distro?

It seems that bzip2'ing a file via python isn't quite as simple as I thought it would be.I've looked up the reference for its library in the Python manual, and there doesn't seem to be any tutorials for simply bzipping a file. Would it be better to just call the bzip binary?

Well, I can do the same thing with the windows os. The BSODs just happen infrequently and unpredictably.

Well, I ran Memtes86+, as well as several disk error checking utilities. No problems reported, from each utility. Fortunately, it seems like the BSODs have magically disappeared... for now.

Before I start off this thread, I'd like to say first of all that I have nothing against AT&T. Their support seems great, (mediocre at the worst) and they seem to do a good job of... doing their job. Now, over the course of about three years, I have somehow managed to "break" two AT&T modems and/or modem/router combos. Although not by the same manufacturer, they were coincidentally all provided by AT&T. I've had quite a bit of experience with networking. I know how to secure a wireless hub, I know how to flash a router with DD-WRT, and I understand quite a bit of the terminology. However, I've had a streak of bad luck with any hardware provided by AT&T. Now hear my stories out: 1st occurrence, 2WIRE 4 port & wireless router/modem combo So I was at a friends house, and we wanted to host a game of Command and Conquer: Generals behind his network. I told him that we needed to forward whatever ports the game needed to be forwarded, so he agreed, and we looked up the username and password of his router. After logging in successfully, I entered the correct ports, and his computer's IP address. Saved and applied, we launched the game to defend our country from various baddies. After awhile, we realized that no one was joining. Upon visiting an open port scanning site, that realization was confirmed. "Great," I thought, "Now what." I logged back in, rechecked the ports - sure enough, they're still there. I even tried putting his computer under a DMZ. No luck. At one point during this searching, the internet suddenly "went down". We could not access the outside internet, and were constantly redirected to a local page telling us to contact 2WIRE support. (How are we supposed to do that when we have no means of finding 2Wire contact information? ) Of course, I didn't want to alarm everyone, so I tried fixing it myself. Over to the router I went, trying almost every kind of power cycling and resetting method I knew. Nothing worked. So finally, the rest of my friend's family finds out that their internet isn't working. ("Oh crap.") Of course, I was the primary suspect for this So I explained to them that the router, under no circumstances, should be doing what it was doing at the time, as a result of me. Unfortunately, that still wasn't too good on my case, so we ended up calling AT&T's support. We were greeted, and walked through pretty much everything I had done, before they support person upgraded us to "Level 2" support. We were then greeted by someone who instantly knew what was wrong (thank god) and told me to go to the routers address, then append a three letter combination to the end of that address, after a forward slash. (Note that I had of course attempted accessing the configuration page earlier, even that wasn't working.) Amazingly, I was taken to a "reset" page, with a various host of options. After being told what I should click, I followed through, and we were pinging google in no time. Several questions that came to mind were, "Why wasn't whatever was causing this issue cleared after hard resetting the router?", "Why is this page not linked to in the lockout message?", and "Why is the Level 1 support not aware of this page?" In the end, I was forgiven, and in fact caused AT&T to upgrade the splice box (I think that's what it's called) for my friend's neighborhood, as well as get my friend's family an upgraded router (one with which I have never so much as touched). 2nd occurence, Westell 6100 Single ethernet and USB ports Just last night, I was helping a different friend setup a Webserver on Ubuntu. This person is very competent with the ways of networking, thus of course they knew where to go when they had to forward a port. Sure enough though, their webserver was not accessible from the outside. So we both fire up Teamviewer, and over I go on a mission to make things right. After much dinking around in the router's (Linksys) control panel, I finally decided that either their ISP could somehow detect inbound HTTP traffic, (regardless of it being on port 80,) or the modem somehow needed portforwarding as well. (I assumed his modem was similar to mine, in the sense that it only acted as a bridge. I was surprised later.) I found out the IP address of the modem, (the fact that it was a LAN IP confirmed my suspicion of a middle man), and was presented with another configuration page after browsing to said LAN IP. Being cautious at the sight of a Bellsouth logo, (which is apparently owned by... AT&T) I looked around at the selection of tabs, none of which contained anything regarding port forwarding, or even bridging. There was, however, an "Advanced" button, which I clicked on. (And was warned that doing so could essentially screw things up.) At that point, my friend told me that their modem frequently conked out on him, regardless of what he was doing at the time. I found that a bit strange, and after asking him if he really wanted to proceed, was told that "it just needs to sit overnight". Very strange indeed. I found a section within the advanced control panel labeled "IP Passthrough". Instinctively, I selected the router's IP address as the client to be "passed to", and clicked apply. We were prompted with a warning message saying the modem will have to restart after applying the changes. I said my goodbyes, and clicked ok. After waiting for about half a minute, my friend comes online only to tell me that the modem has entered its "heartattack" phase again. "Just let it go for a little bit longer," I said. "It's not going to work..." my friend replies. So we let it go a little bit longer. After conditions not improving, I tell him to "stick a pin in it" so to speak, and reset the modem. He knew what to do, and came back a minute later to tell me that the light pattern had not changed. (All flashing, with the power light being red.) I looked everywhere for what a red power light could indicate. No where, and I mean nowhere, was there mention of this pattern in any online manual, even remotely related to this modem. So I asked my friend to check the model again. No new information was returned. After 3 hours, I apologized for temporarily ruining his modem, while he was in contact with seemingly evasive support techs on their echat website (he was poaching off of someone else's internet at the time). We went our separate ways, with me looking at another long school day before I could find out if things had improved. Now just an hour ago, I received an email from him telling me that the modem is working like normal again. He'll be expecting a new modem from Bellsouth, it seems. Overall, what a nightmare. If I were to give any advice that I learned from these two experiences, I would say that you should buy your own modem instead of taking the one the ISP provides, if you plan on doing anything directly related to it. I hope you readers have at least enjoyed the stories. Do you have any to share?

Weird... I can't reproduce the problem any more.I tried clicking on the link directly from my email, and it worked fine.Then I tried logging out, then clicking on the link again... and it took me directly to the ticket again, with the login window at my top right, like usual.Odd.

And the consumer is concerned about possible side affects :S

Thank you for that well written reply! I've had unusual experiences with check disk, (be it running everytime I reboot my computer, or not running when I need it to) although I'll set it up to run on both of my hard drives. Sorry, forgot to mention them: A 250GB SATA HDD, holds pretty much everything minus the page file, and then I have a 1TB (7~~GB) SATA HDD which holds the pagefile, along with a lot of other files I rarely use. Anyhow, I've been running Diskeeper 2010 for awhile, it's been defragmenting everything in the background constantly. Even then, I'll tell it to do a full defrag on both HDs. I'll try out that memory utility as well. (Then I'll give Memtest86+ a try, as well.) As a side note, there wasn't any overheating issue to begin with, I just wanted to make sure everyone was aware that it couldn't be related to overheating, since I know BSODs may occasionally be caused by overheating Once again, thanks for the help. I'll post back with the results (that's if I get another BSOD )

Did you ever notice a pattern, then wonder that caused that? My computer has suddenly been spewing out BSODs, seemingly with no cause whatsoever. Each BSOD has a different error code, and they appear inconsistently (seems to be at least once a week, after I log in.) Here's a list of them, with as much detail as I can provide: (They are not necessarily in order, either) 0x0000007E (0xC0000005, 0x00198D00, ...) 0x0000008E (Occured after logging in, while I was installing an update for Adobe flash player. Before the crash, the mouse froze up several times.) 0xC0000005 0x00000050 (0xF05C371C, ...) I think there may be more, those are just the ones I've written down. Graphics drivers are up to date, lastest windows updates installed. Heat does not seem to be an issue here, fans are working fine. Here are some system specs: OS: Windows XP Home SP3 GFX: Nvidia GeForce 9600 GT w/ 1GB Mem: 2GB If someone could help me out here, that would be great.

Weird. Seems like a problem none the less, should I be reporting this to Mozilla instead?

I think pretty much the entire NFS series before NFS:Carbon was cool. I always enjoyed Porsche Unleashed or Hot Pursuit 2 as a kid, and especially in PU, the combination of techno music and course design seemed... inspiring. I think we should all get PU and play a network game together. Good times. Wait, what?

Really? In my case, it would really only happen in bursts - I.E. the server would change maps, say, every half an hour or so, then any clients (on average, I'd have four connected at a time) would download the map from Xisto (supposing they don't have it in the first place), and then that would be all the bandwidth every happening on my account. And once someone has a map, they never need to download it again. Same thing for materials, models, etc.

Hi everyone.It seems that there's a small bug in the support software.I got a reply today, so I was about to go back and reply to that. I went back in the email and clicked the link that supposedly took me to my ticket. However, I was prompted with this:That's all I'm prompted with Hopefully you guys will be able to fix that message, or extend the cookie's lifetime.Thanks!

Meh, nevermind, changing the editor type to standard seems to be working ok

Good point. It seems like the amount of energy lost makes this whole idea unfeasible.

Hi everyone.For some reason, my cursor does not show up in this forum's editor. It works fine almost everywhere else, just not here for some reason.Also, I was just about to quote someone, and I could not move my cursor past the very top-left of the window.If anyone could help, that'd be great.

Ack, gigantic OP 0.0This whole idea sounds kind of... dangerous, to me.You beaming electricity through the open air, some how, and expect it to end up at position B without causing any kind of malaffects during its travel? I feel a second head growing just at the thought of this.

Hi everyone.I've been hosting several dedicated servers on my own, so I went out on the hunt for a perfect free host that would support support "FastDL" servers, commonly associated with source-engine based games.I was perhaps thinking on using Xisto as my go-to location, but does anyone else use a "FastDL" server?