It can´t be. It does that sound with other computers too whenever I insert a USB memory stick. I guess they put it there to let the user know it works

I've built the machine that is becoming my new server in the carcass of the old one. I couldn't persuade the new Atom to boot the Windows 2000 server installation that I'd used with its Celeron predecessor, so I installed Linux (Debian) on the drive instead, and I'm gradually installing the new pieces of software.

The Web server is in place, so I can post images again, and all the old ones are there. However, Apache is case-sensitive, where IIS wasn't, so a lot of the links here will be broken just because they contain "skyrim" instead of "Skyrim", or something similar. I'll edit them as I find them, but if anyone's post quotes mine, I can't fix the copy.

I won't bother fixing links to obsolete downloads.

I still have to install the mail server, and it looks like I need to create the domain server on a separate box, so those are on the to-do list.

Is that Atom the script Editor? (if so, I have it for reading Papyrus and love it!). Is there any way to tweak the program so it isn't case sensitive? I think I have seen on one of my old computers a setting that changed it from case sensitive; but can't remember how it was accessed.

Well, it will be great to have you and your screenshots back! I am just amazed at your ability with computers!

No that's Intel Atom the CPU. Low-power like ARM, but runs the same programs as Intel Core CPU's. It's not as fast as the desktop processors, but it's enough for a web server.

I'm re-learning a lot of Linux administration stuff as I do this. Of course I can't find my old notes about it. They were probably saved on the old machine!

You never cease to amaze me with what you know and what you can do with it on computers!








This post has been edited by mALX: Jun 6 2015, 07:07 PM

The saga of the server rebuild has taken a major leap sideways - mudcrabs rule!!

My workstation decided it didn't like the Domain Controller going away, and insisted I change to a workgroup basis so it could still use the network. Doing that solved an issue I'd had for ages that prevented me using Skyrim across all three monitors, so I can now play in 5700x1080 resolution at last! Don't worry, I'll crop/scale any screenshots before I post them.

But it never gives without taking away, and Wrye Bash/Smash won't start up, and I have to manage my load order and profiles by hand until I fix that.

I'm making progress with the mail server configuration, too. I can now receive floods of spam, and have to re-train my system to reject it, but I can't yet send outside my own system. It's nice that it's secure by default, but there are a lot of hoops to jump through.

Could you take a pic of your gaming station with Skyrim running? I´d like to see what it looks like on three monitors

I tried that last night, but there's too much contrast in the pictures for you to be able to see what's running. I'll try again with daylight in the room, and see if that gets better results.

The field of view is wider than you can really see clearly, and the side monitor images are stretched at the extremes, but movement from the sides catches your eye, and you don't get blindsided by attackers that would previously have been off-screen. That doesn't stop sabre cats from jumping on you from behind, of course. I played Oblivion that way for ages (after reworking the UI with Darn), and tried to do the same with Skyrim when I got it, but there wasn't an equivalent UI adjuster that worked for me, until Flawless Widescreen started working. Vanilla Skyrim tries to scale all the menus etc. to the screen width, so everything's off the top and bottom. FW makes it use the height to scale those instead. There are still a few things, like lockpicking, that don't get fixed, but they're ones I can live with.

I'll try and post a few wide screenshots with menus, map, etc. I can shrink them so that you won't need multiple monitors to view them.

I am currently enjoying my new broadband. More moneyz per month unfortunately, but at least I get unlimited data and hopefully a much more reliable connection


And it´s still a lot cheaper than my first broadband. On that I had up to 8MB/sec and on this I have 2MB. For what I use it for, 2MB is more than enough.

This post has been edited by mirocu: Jun 9 2015, 03:37 PM

Yeah, I'm with Mirocu on wanting to see a picture of your rig, holy cow!!!

Then here it is. Not the best photo, still has issues with contrast and dynamic range. If the screens look right, then you can't see the rest, and vice-versa.

The workstation tower is faintly glowing under the desk on the right. Core i7 extreme, 32GB, and a pair of NVidia 680's - all liquid-cooled to keep it quiet.

The server is in a closet off to the left. The fan in that makes enough noise for both machines!

Here's what a screenshot of that view looks like. Notice how the extreme sides are stretched out, because they're going out of your peripheral vision at those angles. Sometimes they're beyond the walls of the tunnel and you see void out there.

This post has been edited by ghastley: Jun 9 2015, 11:59 PM

Holy cow, ghastley! That is amazing.

OMG! (drool, drool) !!!!!! AWESOME !!!!! That is like the one at Disney World !!!!! (drool, slurp) !!!!!!

Holy sweet rig, Batman!



All you need to do is paint the frames white and you won´t even notice it´s three screens!

No, they must be black for the immersion - like going into a cave! (a man cave).



But I have to QFT your first line = Ditto this:


Holy sweet rig, Batman!




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*´rocu´s computer maintenance program running*


-vaccum the fans
-use compressed air to remove more dust far inside the shell
-download the latest virus definitions
-run virus program and additional malware program
-copy the two latest save files from Fallout 3 and Oblivion to two USB memory sticks
-finish up by making a new, fresh save point for computer


*maintenance program complete*

I'd pay for someone to come to my house and do all that - especially vacuuming the dust from the fans!

Does anyone know of any good file recovery programs to get back older versions of your documents?

I switched over my usb on which I store all my stories from my laptop to my stationary computer, and now several of my latest story ideas are gone. Thankfully I only lost the documents I've been working on lately, so it's not nearly as much lost stuff as it could have been, but I've been working on so many different documents lately and it was a while since I made a backup, which means that about half a dozen story ideas are gone.

I'm using Piriform Recuva to try and get some of it back. But sorting through all of it takes ages because the documents it recovered it just named with numbers and of the 100 I've gone through so far it only seems to be pretty old copies of one story. Which is good, admittedly, because at least that's something, but there was a whole lot more where that one came from.

The only idea I have is restoring to another save point using the Windows feature. That might bring it back. Otherwise we´ll have to wait for Rosa or ghastley

And we'll just tell you to restore from your backup.

What? You had files you considered important in only one place?