Beat those Covid19 blues !

[ENTERPRISE]

Hello all,

 

So lets face it, this whole Coronovirus outbreak is a huge bummer whether you have the virus or not. Some of us at work are running skeleton crews or we are now working from home, so lets beat out those blues and share what we are up to while we are working from home (or should be haha) or if we are off work completely. I know I am getting sick and tired of hearing about the doom and gloom, so lets share some joy.

 

I will start.....

 

I am still currently tweaking my new system as per my sig rig. Still tuning up that CPU and the RAM. Currently managing to get 4.4Ghz on all cores stable at 1.3v on my 3950X, any less and I get some quirks. Running Ram at a steady 3600Mhz but will look to see if I can tighten the timings but not running too bad at 16-16-16-42.

 

Still figuring out through why I am still getting such a low score on the Crytek Neon Noir benchmark (I encourage others to give it a shot and submit). Currently getting around 7300 which is a little frustrating. Tried all sorts but I think the evil here is a setting somewhere ! Will fight the good fight.

 

 

However to keep up the cheer here is a puppy.

 

 

So what are you guys doing or going to be doing in the coming days ?

Edited March 17, 2020 by ENTERPRISE

[axipher]

My company ordered all employees to work from home for the foreseeable future, so I get to hang out with this furry poop factory while working at home on CAD models and programs.

 

Nevermind, can't get the image uploader to work and don't feel like sharing my dog to an image sharing site just to link here.

Edited March 17, 2020 by axipher

[ENTERPRISE]

My company ordered all employees to work from home for the foreseeable future, so I get to hang out with this furry poop factory while working at home on CAD models and programs.

 

Nevermind, can't get the image uploader to work and don't feel like sharing my dog to an image sharing site just to link here.

 

Oddly your the second person to say that. When using the image uploader are you using the red camera icon to the top right of the editor ? If so what is happening ? Everytime I test it, it works. When an image uploads you have to select the image again in the uploader for it to be inserted .

 

If it is that behaviour that confuses people, I will have it altered

[axipher]

My company ordered all employees to work from home for the foreseeable future, so I get to hang out with this furry poop factory while working at home on CAD models and programs.

 

Nevermind, can't get the image uploader to work and don't feel like sharing my dog to an image sharing site just to link here.

 

Oddly your the second person to say that. When using the image uploader are you using the red camera icon to the top right of the editor ? If so what is happening ? Everytime I test it, it works. When an image uploads you have to select the image again in the uploader for it to be inserted .

 

If it is that behaviour that confuses people, I will have it altered

 

Yeah, Red Camera Icon

 

1) Click on Icon

2) Click on Area to being up File Selector

3) Select Image to Upload and click Upload

4) Select small thumbnail of Image

5) Click Insert Selected Image

6) Nothing shows up in Editor

7) Click on Red Camera Icon again, and image shows up there as selected with extra fields, but not in Editor at all; nor in Preview or an actual post

 

P.S.: I attached an image to this post, and will leave it if you want to give it a look.

 

 

[ENTERPRISE]

My company ordered all employees to work from home for the foreseeable future, so I get to hang out with this furry poop factory while working at home on CAD models and programs.

 

Nevermind, can't get the image uploader to work and don't feel like sharing my dog to an image sharing site just to link here.

 

Oddly your the second person to say that. When using the image uploader are you using the red camera icon to the top right of the editor ? If so what is happening ? Everytime I test it, it works. When an image uploads you have to select the image again in the uploader for it to be inserted .

 

If it is that behaviour that confuses people, I will have it altered

 

Yeah, Red Camera Icon

 

1) Click on Icon

2) Click on Area to being up File Selector

3) Select Image to Upload and click Upload

4) Select small thumbnail of Image

5) Click Insert Selected Image

6) Nothing shows up in Editor

7) Click on Red Camera Icon again, and image shows up there as selected with extra fields, but not in Editor at all; nor in Preview or an actual post

 

P.S.: I attached an image to this post, and will leave it if you want to give it a look.

 

 

Interesting....let me look into it. Out of interest what browser are you using and was this on Mobile or desktop ?

[ENTERPRISE]

Just a little test image upload via Chrome Mobile using image uploader

 

[axipher]

Test Doggo Upload

 

[axipher]

Test Doggo Upload from Edge (non-chromium based)

 

[axipher]

Test Doggo Upload at under 1MB from Edge (non-chromium based)

 

[ENTERPRISE]

 

Image larger than 1mb

[damric]

Well, I work from home anyway, but now I also have 2 teenagers home from school, and my wife has to work from home now. She's an IT help desk person herself, so it was easy for her to get running from home. About 99% of her support tickets have been setting up other people to work from home. She said you can hear screaming kids in the background of a lot of her calls.

 

For the teenagers, we decided that even though they don't have to go to school, we are going to try and keep a normal Monday-Friday schedule of waking up early and having a routine. The kids and I, have a morning meeting at 8am to plan out the day into blocks of chores, schoolwork, and recreation activities. Basically I let them decide what they want to do that day and they write it on a white board. They aren't allowed to stream videos or online game until after 5pm so that our bandwidth doesn't get choked up while my wife is working.

 

My son and I built a rig for his poor friend out of some rather nice older leftover parts we had laying around. We bought about $10 worth of games from GOG (so many you can get for $10), and we are getting them installed. I think tomorrow we will be delivering that.

 

My wife and I used to go to the gym every day on our lunch break. Now we just do our strength training at home and jog at the park when she gets done working. I swear it's already summer weather here on the Gulf Coast, and Winter isn't even officially over yet. Been running around shirtless at the park and sweating my ass off...

 

Making new routines keeps you sane.

[axipher]

Well I set up a quick ExtremeHW Minecraft 1.15.2 Survival (non-PvP) server at:

 

minecraft.axihub.ca

 

Just using the default port so you can just plug that in as your server address and it should work, or plug that in to your browser to see a "near real-time" map of the server as you are playing.

 

Spawn island is protected so just do a "/kit tools" to get a basic set of tools with a boat" and go have fun.

[ENTERPRISE]

Ohhhhh Nice ! I will have to get MC again and delve in. Admittedly I am more of an FPS kinda guy but I certainly enjoy a little MC.

[axipher]

Ohhhhh Nice ! I will have to get MC again and delve in. Admittedly I am more of an FPS kinda guy but I certainly enjoy a little MC.

 

FireFall was the last FPS/MMO/RPG I truly for into, Destiny 2 hasn't quite filled that void yet. But a lot of the original developers of FireFall have moved on to create a new game called Em8er that looks pretty damn promising, hoping they continue getting enough support to make it a reality.

 

MineCraft is definitely a fun time sink though, either explore, or build massive creations alone or as a group, or try to beet the "bosses" with as little equipment as possible.

[ENTERPRISE]

Ohhhhh Nice ! I will have to get MC again and delve in. Admittedly I am more of an FPS kinda guy but I certainly enjoy a little MC.

 

FireFall was the last FPS/MMO/RPG I truly for into, Destiny 2 hasn't quite filled that void yet. But a lot of the original developers of FireFall have moved on to create a new game called Em8er that looks pretty damn promising, hoping they continue getting enough support to make it a reality.

 

MineCraft is definitely a fun time sink though, either explore, or build massive creations alone or as a group, or try to beet the "bosses" with as little equipment as possible.

 

I never actually played destiny ! I know...naughty me. Will have to give it a blast sometime. Yeah MC is interesting as you can approach it from several ways depending on your fancy which I think has certainly lent itself to its longevity.

[Supercrumpet]

I'm on spring break so I'm just sitting around a bunch. Classes are online for the rest of the semester and campus is closed for the next few weeks, at least. I live off campus and I don't trust the fact that nobody here has already been infected, so I'm playing it safe and not going home because I don't dare risk taking it home to my parents (since they live in a small town that usually keeps to itself).

 

This also means FSAE has been put on hold, which is pretty life-shattering for most people on the team. But I won't blabber about that, not the point of the thread.

 

I really like the routine idea. I've been thinking I'll do the same next week when we have class again, and your post reinforces that. Let's see if I can actually keep it up. Living alone makes motivating myself to have that sort of independent structure hard sometimes.

[ENTERPRISE]

I'm on spring break so I'm just sitting around a bunch. Classes are online for the rest of the semester and campus is closed for the next few weeks, at least. I live off campus and I don't trust the fact that nobody here has already been infected, so I'm playing it safe and not going home because I don't dare risk taking it home to my parents (since they live in a small town that usually keeps to itself).

 

This also means FSAE has been put on hold, which is pretty life-shattering for most people on the team. But I won't blabber about that, not the point of the thread.

 

I really like the routine idea. I've been thinking I'll do the same next week when we have class again, and your post reinforces that. Let's see if I can actually keep it up. Living alone makes motivating myself to have that sort of independent structure hard sometimes.

 

Well it will pay to stay home and out of the way. The government have shut things down here so I will be working from home....however that being said I am so wanting to get Doom Eternal, looks awesome and I loved Doom 2016. The only thing is I am not sure I can justify the price tag on it haha.

[tictoc]

 

Getting used to working from home is a challenge for people that have never done it before. I'll second the getting in a routine suggestion. Doing everything that you would normally do, waking up to an alarm at your usual time, showering, eating breakfast, and getting dressed for work, or whatever your normal schedule entails, will really help to structure the day, and get started on the right track.

 

During the lock-down, work is still work for me, with the added bonus of a short staff and long hours, since we are considered critical infrastructure.

 

School is a bit of a mess. Restricted lab access and most of the compute resources are prioritizing Covid19 related work. I am currently running a number of different projects for other graduate and post-doc students on my personal gear. That has been an interesting challenge and change of pace.

 

Free time is spent mostly outdoors, but I am lucky since my back yard is many square miles of public land. Tomorrow is a full day off, so I'll probably go snowshoeing, shoot the bow, and maybe fire off a few rounds.

 

Snapshot from my phone for everyone that is stuck inside in the city. 

 

 

Edited July 26, 2021 by tictoc

[ENTERPRISE]

Getting used to working from home is a challenge for people that have never done it before. I'll second the getting in a routine suggestion. Doing everything that you would normally do, waking up to an alarm at your usual time, showering, eating breakfast, and getting dressed for work, or whatever your normal schedule entails, will really help to structure the day, and get started on the right track.

 

During the lock-down, work is still work for me, with the added bonus of a short staff and long hours, since we are considered critical infrastructure.

 

School is a bit of a mess. Restricted lab access and most of the compute resources are prioritizing Covid19 related work. I am currently running a number of different projects for other graduate and post-doc students on my personal gear. That has been an interesting challenge and change of pace.

 

Free time is spent mostly outdoors, but I am lucky since my back yard is many square miles of public land. Tomorrow is a full day off, so I'll probably go snowshoeing, shoot the bow, and maybe fire off a few rounds.

 

Snapshot from my phone for everyone that is stuck inside in the city.

 

 

I hear you. Luckily I have several jobs and work two of those from home so its not too difficult for me but the day job does entail more routing, so that has to be enforced when working at home during lockdown too. It is very easy to fall out of routine if you are not careful, so I just do the same things when getting ready for work but instead of commuting to the office I just walk over to my PC lol. Looks like you have a little bit of snow going on there, where about are you situated ?

 

My free time is still spent mainly in front of the PC as sad as that may sound, either with catching up with the other jobs or working on this site. I do make time to go for walks etc and go out, especially now when we are all stuck indoors.

 

Today however I am going to do a little benching to add some scores to our HWBOT team etc now that I have some free time to do so.

[damric]

lol where is all that snow? Yesterday it was 86 degrees F and I took the kids to swim in a secluded area of the Escatawpa. Ended up with mild sun burn

[tictoc]

Snow is in Colorado. 28" last Thursday, and another 16" this past Friday. It was super windy yesterday, so I was camped out in the house most of the day.

[ENTERPRISE]

Snow is in Colorado. 28" last Thursday, and another 16" this past Friday. It was super windy yesterday, so I was camped out in the house most of the day.

 

A little off topic but I have to ask, what do you do ? I just noticed your system specs and noticed the 128GB RAM lol.

[tictoc]

The 128GB is actually a little short of what I would like to have. Running particle simulations, and as the application has been optimized, RAM usage has gone up per 8 core task. Right now I need to allocate about 35GB per task, so now I'm just giving each task 6 cores. Peak throughput for the current jobs are sitting at 8-core/32GB. I might be able to get by with offloading some of the in-memory data to NVMe drives, but that would require me to take my loop apart and add an NVMe RAID card. The card would need to run in a x16 slot, so I'd have to lose the triple-parallel bridge I am currently using. I might give it a go later this week, since a RAID card plus the NVMe drives is quite a bit cheaper than upgrading to 32GB DIMMs.

 

In it's normal day-to-day life, in addition to being my daily machine, it runs a few build servers, a host of differnt VMs, and does CI/CD for a few repos/applications. I had planned on bumping that machine up to 256GB with ECC UDIMMs, but putting a few things on hold due to the state of the world at the moment.

 

[axipher]

The 128GB is actually a little short of what I would like to have. Running particle simulations, and as the application has been optimized, RAM usage has gone up per 8 core task. Right now I need to allocate about 35GB per task, so now I'm just giving each task 6 cores. Peak throughput for the current jobs are sitting at 8-core/32GB. I might be able to get by with offloading some of the in-memory data to NVMe drives, but that would require me to take my loop apart and add an NVMe RAID card. The card would need to run in a x16 slot, so I'd have to lose the triple-parallel bridge I am currently using. I might give it a go later this week, since a RAID card plus the NVMe drives is quite a bit cheaper than upgrading to 32GB DIMMs.

 

In it's normal day-to-day life, in addition to being my daily machine, it runs a few build servers, a host of differnt VMs, and does CI/CD for a few repos/applications. I had planned on bumping that machine up to 256GB with ECC UDIMMs, but putting a few things on hold due to the state of the world at the moment.

 

Hey there tictoc, been a while. Was that you that had an unfortunate encounter with a Creeper in the Minecraft Server?

[ENTERPRISE]

The 128GB is actually a little short of what I would like to have. Running particle simulations, and as the application has been optimized, RAM usage has gone up per 8 core task. Right now I need to allocate about 35GB per task, so now I'm just giving each task 6 cores. Peak throughput for the current jobs are sitting at 8-core/32GB. I might be able to get by with offloading some of the in-memory data to NVMe drives, but that would require me to take my loop apart and add an NVMe RAID card. The card would need to run in a x16 slot, so I'd have to lose the triple-parallel bridge I am currently using. I might give it a go later this week, since a RAID card plus the NVMe drives is quite a bit cheaper than upgrading to 32GB DIMMs.

 

In it's normal day-to-day life, in addition to being my daily machine, it runs a few build servers, a host of differnt VMs, and does CI/CD for a few repos/applications. I had planned on bumping that machine up to 256GB with ECC UDIMMs, but putting a few things on hold due to the state of the world at the moment.

 

Right, that all makes sense now, I did wonder if you ran some form of simulation which required that much RAM. I have seems some of the simulations performed on Solidworks and I know for some of those, or if running multiple instances ...you need a beefy amount of memory, not too mention a good CPU. The RAID NVMe solution is certainly the cheaper one, though arguable more of a PITA (with having to take things apart and drain loops yada yada).