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Reposting here something I slapped up onto the forum, but given that that had reached ~900 pages last time I looked I suspect it’ll be read by about three people. –[ – ]– So what’s likely to be happening behind the scenes. At the coal face: Techies cursing, trying to find out who changed what,…

Some debugging later, and some tweaking of the timers we get this, the timers were off by more, but there’s something weird happening at cycle 6 where the 1ms cycle ramps up well beyond what it should be.  Further digging tomorrow night.

So, first admission, this doesn’t work yet.  In theory everything is perfect, checking the circuit shows the IR LED is firing, the test green LED goes “blip” and the red indicates when the code is off having a kip.  However the camera is sat there like a dumb lump ignoring the IR codes through either…

In which your humble narrator manages to get his shiny new Arduino to make the Pentax K10D go “click”. After some digging around I managed to find out how the remote cable on the K10D is setup, 2.5mm stereo jack. Tip – Shutter Ring – Focus Sleave – Common All nice and simple, close ring…

A quick comment, apparently the “you’re always joined to /general on logon” is a bug, it should default to on the first time and then remember the setting. This doesn’t make things any better, what it demonstrates is the quality control / testing is absolutely shocking.

So, knocking up a quick spreadsheet listing in a very clear manner a complex medication regime for the various medical staff at the hospital is ‘abnormal’.  No… I’m not OCD (it should be CDO anyway…).  Though it would appear this didn’t help them.  They’ve still got utterly confused.  Maybe we should have rambled through the…

General Players will now automatically join General chat when logging in source This really has to count as one of the more moronic design decisions Blizz has made of the years, not as bad as the RealID fiasco but well up there in the count of “stupid things done to keep marketing happy”.  There were…

The case of the missing pond and floating air breathing fish.

I’ve probably posted about this podcast before, but in honour of its passing (last episode out today) I recommend that anyone with even a passing interest in ancient Rome download the whole damn lot and listen to it back to back. http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/

It looks like as part of the change in mitigation, cooldowns and the other stuff they’re doing to tanks that paladins are getting back word of glory in pretty much the original form.  Short CD with good healing (~41-45k at level 85 in 397 raid gear).