GitHub and My computer problems
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GitHub and My computer problems
Thanks, got an account set up (Mik-S-UMS, Mik-S was taken )
I'll spam a few suggestions soon one I have finished the GitHub training tutorial
Would had done so earlier but been wrestling with my PC for the past 20 hours after random blue screens, each with different errors
I think it is stable now but might have to reinstall the OS
I'll spam a few suggestions soon one I have finished the GitHub training tutorial
Would had done so earlier but been wrestling with my PC for the past 20 hours after random blue screens, each with different errors
I think it is stable now but might have to reinstall the OS
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Re: Cannot play h.264 content on Samsung Q60 2020
It was something to do with drivers and an update timed at the wrong moment, and maybe me being impatient.
Was doing the git tutorial when screen went black and the hard drive was going crazy but mouse pointer still there. didn't know what it was doing so hit the power button to shut down and was greeted with the first bsod. Possibly corrupted the harddrive, saw MFT mentioned somewhere and ntfs.sys in some of the bsod's (plus kernel security check failure, bad pool caller and others) It refused to go back to a restore point, bluescreening on chkdsk. just got it working again as I think I didn't reseat the ram properly so got another bsod not long after last post.
Was doing the git tutorial when screen went black and the hard drive was going crazy but mouse pointer still there. didn't know what it was doing so hit the power button to shut down and was greeted with the first bsod. Possibly corrupted the harddrive, saw MFT mentioned somewhere and ntfs.sys in some of the bsod's (plus kernel security check failure, bad pool caller and others) It refused to go back to a restore point, bluescreening on chkdsk. just got it working again as I think I didn't reseat the ram properly so got another bsod not long after last post.
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Re: Cannot play h.264 content on Samsung Q60 2020
Yeah BSOD has always been RAM-related for me too. Glad you got it fixed, looking forward to your suggestions on GitHub. That will be really valuable given how much you interact with users here, especially to convey how urgent and common a need is
Re: Cannot play h.264 content on Samsung Q60 2020
@mik_s It sounds to me like you cut the power during an update, which could have caused some real damage to your file system. Assuming that you're running Win10, I think there is a (command line) tool that isn't in my Win7 world that can do a check on important system files and download and replace those that are damaged. It might be worth a try, even though chances are that the damaged files weren't among those checked by the tool. It's one of the very few actual improvements I'm aware of with Win10.
I never power off or reset a running computer if it's at all possible to avoid. I will wait a very long time, monitor disk activity (HDD LEDs and sound) and try to figure out if it's really hanging. Some times, only the GUI is hanging, and I manage to either log in with "remote desktop" or send a shutdown command from another computer. Only when all efforts are exhausted to no avail, will I consider hitting a button. And to my "defense", this works out pretty well - I almost never end up in a situation where I have to cut the power/reset, and my Windows installations tends to just keep working for years and years. I still have files on my C: drive that is dated in 1997 (I always rescue what I can if a disk dies, and rebuild it - never format), and I pretty much only have to reinstall Windows once every 5 years or so if a system drive dies.
I never power off or reset a running computer if it's at all possible to avoid. I will wait a very long time, monitor disk activity (HDD LEDs and sound) and try to figure out if it's really hanging. Some times, only the GUI is hanging, and I manage to either log in with "remote desktop" or send a shutdown command from another computer. Only when all efforts are exhausted to no avail, will I consider hitting a button. And to my "defense", this works out pretty well - I almost never end up in a situation where I have to cut the power/reset, and my Windows installations tends to just keep working for years and years. I still have files on my C: drive that is dated in 1997 (I always rescue what I can if a disk dies, and rebuild it - never format), and I pretty much only have to reinstall Windows once every 5 years or so if a system drive dies.
Re: Cannot play h.264 content on Samsung Q60 2020
I never actually removed power, it was shutting down when the first bsod happened. It was just unexpected having a black screen and excessive drive activity I thought I may have gotten a virus or something. Normally I never shutdown my PC, only put it into sleep mode.
Tried all the recovery options to rebuild corrupt system files (sfc) but that failed. I still have problems and more bsods (I think it is making up error messages now) so I'll have to do a fresh install I think. I still have my old win7 on the 2nd harddrive I can boot to, but that has its own issues.
Since this is getting off topic I'll split this thread
Tried all the recovery options to rebuild corrupt system files (sfc) but that failed. I still have problems and more bsods (I think it is making up error messages now) so I'll have to do a fresh install I think. I still have my old win7 on the 2nd harddrive I can boot to, but that has its own issues.
Since this is getting off topic I'll split this thread
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Re: Cannot play h.264 content on Samsung Q60 2020
I think you called it, I'm half way though running MemTest86 now (the windows memtest was useless) and have 1200 erros and counting. Looks like a single bit is stuck on somewhere.
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Re: My computer problems
Ah, ok, "soft power off" is fine. It's only if you hold it for 4 seconds or push the reset button that filesystem corruption can occur. But, bad RAM can also manage to corrupt the filesystem because the data is corrupted while held in memory and then written out in corrupted state to the disk.
I would fix the RAM first, and then see how badly damaged Windows was. It's impossible to evaluate how things are as long as you have RAM problems constantly impacting everything you do. Try to identify which stick it is, and simply remove it until you can get a replacement. Yes, it will go slower because you lose the dual-channel, and you will have less RAM, but it should at least be stable.
I would fix the RAM first, and then see how badly damaged Windows was. It's impossible to evaluate how things are as long as you have RAM problems constantly impacting everything you do. Try to identify which stick it is, and simply remove it until you can get a replacement. Yes, it will go slower because you lose the dual-channel, and you will have less RAM, but it should at least be stable.
Re: My computer problems
Not looking good
always the the 6th digit 1 off
it is even telling me it is BAD
that it didn't even finish Looks like it is only 1 bit that is faulty if i am interpreting this correctly I am now testing 1 stick at a time to find the bad one and gave all the contacts a good clean with IPA, might have just been a bad contact
always the the 6th digit 1 off
it is even telling me it is BAD
that it didn't even finish Looks like it is only 1 bit that is faulty if i am interpreting this correctly I am now testing 1 stick at a time to find the bad one and gave all the contacts a good clean with IPA, might have just been a bad contact
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Re: My computer problems
Regarding GitHub and development environment setup, different people will preach different solutions.
As SubJunk said, you don't need to do any of this to participate on GitHub and create issues or make comments. If you do with to have the ability to "dig in a bit deeper", you will need to set up some kind of development environment in addition. The bare minimum you need is:
If you want a free and open source IDE for Java, there aren't that many options. I use Eclipse, and in my view it is miles ahead of any other IDE I've used also in other languages before. It can really do amazing things for Java because it is so well integrated with Java (and it is actually written in Java). You can work with other languages in Eclipse as well, and I've tried to use it both for JavaScript and C++, but to be honest, I didn't find that very satisfactory. But, for Java, it's simply "the king" in my opinion. Others will have other opinions though.
Eclipse can be a little bit bitchy to set up, because you have to install some extensions/plugins and know how to configure it to get it set up properly. Some people seem to give up on Eclipse before they get this right, and these people will usually say that "it's crap". That said, no software is "perfect", and the same goes for Eclipse - I've had some annoyances with the latest version. On my "development computer" I have an older version (Eclipse Luna) that I consider to be working pretty much "perfectly" though.
If you want to give Eclipse a try and need some instructions to get going, just ask and I'll do my best to explain.
In addition, you need to be able to do the basic things with Git. Git is one of those things that are brilliant and a complete mess at the same time. Git can be inconsistent, confusing and sometimes a real pain to deal with, but when you get it to do what you want, it's simply a brilliant tools that I don't quite understand why some choose to live without. For Windows, I recommend installing TortoiseGit though.
Git itself is command-line only. You have to type commands, and the feedback you get is in one of those "terminal"/"dos" windows - not always the most elegant or user-friendly way to work. TortoiseGit is one of several "GUI tools" that works on top of Git. All TortoiseGit does is to visually guide you by letting you look at "the Git content" through graphical tools and lets you tell Git what to do through menus instead of having to remember commands and syntax. It still use Git to do the actual work, it simply generates "command lines" that it passes on to Git, so by working this way you're free to use the GUI and the command line in any combinations you want. In the beginning I did almost everything via TortoiseGit's GUI, but as I've gotten more used to it, I now do some things from the command line (because I find it quicker or easier) - but I still use the GUI for many things where I simply consider it very superior to the "bare Git".
Expect to be frustrated by Git though, read some tutorials to get the basic idea of what it does. Git is very complex and there are loads and loads of things that I don't know how works to this day. But, don't let that scare you, since you don't need most of this. The "normal" use most of us need is actually quite simple and straight forward, the problem is that the documentation doesn't really differentiate between "what you need to know" and the complex stuff. So, I recommend trying to get an overview first, so that you can orient yourself enough to know what you're interested in doing, and then figure out how to do just what you need. I personally think TortoiseGit goes a long way to "cushion the impact" when first meeting Git.
As SubJunk said, you don't need to do any of this to participate on GitHub and create issues or make comments. If you do with to have the ability to "dig in a bit deeper", you will need to set up some kind of development environment in addition. The bare minimum you need is:
- Git installation
- Java JDK (as opposed to the "regular" JRE) installation
- A reasonably capable text editor
If you want a free and open source IDE for Java, there aren't that many options. I use Eclipse, and in my view it is miles ahead of any other IDE I've used also in other languages before. It can really do amazing things for Java because it is so well integrated with Java (and it is actually written in Java). You can work with other languages in Eclipse as well, and I've tried to use it both for JavaScript and C++, but to be honest, I didn't find that very satisfactory. But, for Java, it's simply "the king" in my opinion. Others will have other opinions though.
Eclipse can be a little bit bitchy to set up, because you have to install some extensions/plugins and know how to configure it to get it set up properly. Some people seem to give up on Eclipse before they get this right, and these people will usually say that "it's crap". That said, no software is "perfect", and the same goes for Eclipse - I've had some annoyances with the latest version. On my "development computer" I have an older version (Eclipse Luna) that I consider to be working pretty much "perfectly" though.
If you want to give Eclipse a try and need some instructions to get going, just ask and I'll do my best to explain.
In addition, you need to be able to do the basic things with Git. Git is one of those things that are brilliant and a complete mess at the same time. Git can be inconsistent, confusing and sometimes a real pain to deal with, but when you get it to do what you want, it's simply a brilliant tools that I don't quite understand why some choose to live without. For Windows, I recommend installing TortoiseGit though.
Git itself is command-line only. You have to type commands, and the feedback you get is in one of those "terminal"/"dos" windows - not always the most elegant or user-friendly way to work. TortoiseGit is one of several "GUI tools" that works on top of Git. All TortoiseGit does is to visually guide you by letting you look at "the Git content" through graphical tools and lets you tell Git what to do through menus instead of having to remember commands and syntax. It still use Git to do the actual work, it simply generates "command lines" that it passes on to Git, so by working this way you're free to use the GUI and the command line in any combinations you want. In the beginning I did almost everything via TortoiseGit's GUI, but as I've gotten more used to it, I now do some things from the command line (because I find it quicker or easier) - but I still use the GUI for many things where I simply consider it very superior to the "bare Git".
Expect to be frustrated by Git though, read some tutorials to get the basic idea of what it does. Git is very complex and there are loads and loads of things that I don't know how works to this day. But, don't let that scare you, since you don't need most of this. The "normal" use most of us need is actually quite simple and straight forward, the problem is that the documentation doesn't really differentiate between "what you need to know" and the complex stuff. So, I recommend trying to get an overview first, so that you can orient yourself enough to know what you're interested in doing, and then figure out how to do just what you need. I personally think TortoiseGit goes a long way to "cushion the impact" when first meeting Git.