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c:\> telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

Well, it’s been a few days and the server hasn’t left me at a command line (and it has crashed, but started right back up like a good watchdog.) So it appears that the problem was calling another batch file from within the first. Adding the perl line to the watchdog seems to have solved the problem.

Not the newest card out there anymore, but still does everything I ask it to.

I was having issues of my machine freezing up after extended periods of 3D activity.  I initially thought it was an issue with my sound card, because when it froze, it got stuck in an audio loop, but I have since realized that it was my video card overheating.  Fortunately, there is a great little program out there called “ATITool” (not to be confused with another outstanding program called ATI Tray Tools.)  ATITool allows me to override the fan controls on my card, and when set to 100%, I haven’t had a crash yet.

Refer to this post and this post.

It still crashes, just a few lines later and still leaves me with a command prompt. Oh well; it was worth a try. Any batch file gurus out there willing to take a look? I would add a line to try to kill the window after it finishes, but the problem I see is that if it is crashing now to a cmd prompt rather than firing itself back up, it isn’t reading any further into the batch file anyway, but I suppose it is worth a shot.

TIA,

Orb

Edit: What I did now is paste the line calling the perl into my batch file. It will no longer be running at a higher priority, but just maybe this will solve the problem…

(continue reading…)

Yum!

It is so nice to be back in a linux environment, at least partially. Today, I installed andLinux and I have to say I am loving every minute of it!  It is great to be back to this feel and functionality, and the best part is that I do not lose any element of my windows experience either.  andLinux runs right on top of XP (and with outstanding performance, I might add!)

It is especially great because I can keep myself familiar with the *n?x environment, and still be able to do everything else I enjoy doing in Windows.

It’s a little tricky to get working, however,  My first piece of advice to those thinking about installing it is to install it with the process to be started manually - I was unable to get it to run with starting automatically with windows.

Overall, pretty damn cool.

Will it blend?

http://www.willitblend.com/videos.aspx?type=unsafe&video=iphone

In order to try and fix the exiting from the program, and thus leaving me with a command prompt, I have commented out line 591 in the GNUMP3D2 file, which read “exit;” See below.

#
# Abort with error message if we cannot fork().
#
my $forkFail = $literals->get( “ERROR_FORK” );
if ( !defined( $pid ) )
{
print $forkFail;
#exit; commented out by orb
}

Hopefully, this will allow the daemon to continue running even if it gets an ERROR_FORK. It should still let me know, but then maybe it will continue to run.

We shall see. So far, so good.

Check these two links out:

http://www.soscats.org

http://www.goodsearch.com/?charityid=848634

The first one is the internet presence of Save Our Strays, a nonprofit organization dedicated to finding homes for stray cats, a very worthwhile cause. If you or someone you know is in the market for a cat, contact them!

The second is a great search page (powered by Yahoo!), and Save Our Strays receives 1 cent for each search. We all know how much we use search engines.

Thanks for your time,

Orb

Friends, family, visitors from around the world,

We have made some more changes around crazyskills.com including updating the backend servers which host it. Overall, the main index.php page was down for about 12 hours. Meaning a total of 12 hours of downtime in the 8 years we have been running this site. Sorry for the minor inconvenience but it is all for the best.

Where you, the end user, will notice the change the most is on the new home page, http://www.crazyskills.com, where we now sport additional news and entertainment items.

As always, crazyskills.com remains ad-free.

Even with the outage, we are headed toward another record month here at crazyskills with well over 100,000 hits as of this posting for the current month.

Thank you for your continued support!

Peace,

Orb

I just had this dream that I am on the edge of a rediculously large “half-pipe” (like in skateboarding) but this thing is huge.. It’s a sport to get bungee cords or something and a mat or a rug or something that you sit on. The goal is to swing on this thing for the thrill of it. The bungee cords are attached to something (not sure what) and everyone taking part in this thrill has their own methods behind swinging on this huge half-pipe. This particular time in the dream, friends of mine were there - old friends - taking part in the thrill. People had sponsors on their towels or rugs or whatever they were. Anyway, you start at the top of one side and slide down this huge half-pipe and (defying the laws of physics) you get going so fast that you eventually (you hope) fly high enough to reach some other platform or something. Well, in this latest iteration, I got plenty of speed going on my way down at first, but I hadn’t tuned my bungee cord just right, slid down the one side, flew high into the air on the other, when my bungee cord pulled me back too soon (while I was still airborne) and I fell a huge distance onto the center of the thing below me to my death.

Too early. Back to sleep for me.

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Peace,

Orb

So I’ve got this batch file to keep my mp3 daemon running on the crazyskills radio server. (It’s not the most stable of programs…) Here is the content of that file:

@echo off

title crazyskills mp3d watchdog

echo *********************************************

echo ** crazyskills mp3d watchdog **

echo *********************************************

echo ** STARTING SERVER - (%time%) : (%date%)

:begin

start /wait /abovenormal c:\gnump3d\bin\gnump3d.bat

echo ** RESTARTING SERVER - (%time%) : (%date%)

goto begin

Now my understanding of this nifty little batch file I wrote is that once the process is terminated, it should fire it right back up. But instead, once the file terminates, it leaves me at a command prompt inside my new window. What am I missing?

I wrote a similar program for the Counter Strike server which did exactly what I wanted it to. Is the problem that I am calling another batch file? Would it solve the problem to paste (and edit paths, etc.) the contents of the called batch file into my watchdog?  Or do I need to add a line to kill the window after the ’start’ line?

TIA

Orb