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Summer in the Northwest has been late in coming. Well, yesterday it decided to make up for lost time, and instead of the temps in the 60's and 70's that have been persisting for weeks and weeks, (Along with a lot of overcast and rain) it has gotten REALLY hot.
Seriously, I had the day off from work today, and I'm wishing I didn't. Northwest homes typically don't have air conditioning because you rarely need it, but today the indoor temperature got up to 89°. It got so hot that my PC started overheating and BSODing randomly. (This didn't help while I was already struggling with the incompatibilities between Firefox 3.6.6 and Flash 10.1. (More on that below). I had to take off the side panel and set up a house fan to blow into the box. That seems to be working. 58-60° C is good. 68°C = random crash.
As for Firefox vs Flash. I tried the hints on the Firefox website WRT changing the timeout on their new plug-in container. No luck. I downgraded Flash to 9.0. No dice. I downgraded Firefox to 3.6.3 (The one before they added the container) and it worked. Now I've re-upgraded flash, and it's still okay, so far. So in spite of all the forums saying otherwise, I think it's a FireFox problem.
But such things are hard to diagnose when your machine if blowing up on you from the insane heat.
It's after 7:00 and the temp inside is still 86°F, but the cpu is happily idling away at 56°C.
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Its not tech spech but it worked and brought the core temp to "normal" and it stopped freezing up on me.
I've been forced out of my little trailer and into my sister's basement...thank bog that was available or I'd have taken up residence in the lake itself.
We are getting record temperatures here in the Okanagan...record for this time of year anyway...actual records top out at around 40 degrees Celcius and so far the average for the last four days has been 35.
Even though its dangerous to go outside...( I almost died walking around town yesterday..probably less than 5 klicks) I still intend to walk down to Oroville in the U.S. today so If I never post anywhere ever again at least you'll know why and you can tell DA and loosecannon what happened.
I'm sorry we didn't link up while I was down there a couple weeks back but since I didn't have a car and walking turned out to be improbable I just hung out with Peter for a while and then at my sister's .
In late august, early september I'm lined up for a house sitting gig at my sister's place in Gig Harbour...*and* I"ll have access to her excellent automobile...SO...mayhap we can meet for a beer or something at that time.
Were my The Office Depot in Gig Harbour is about a 40 minute walk from my sister's place. I can also walk downtown in about an hour or so and there is a great little pub called The Tides there.
This trip of mine is still not 100% confirmed as the house is still up for sale and my bro in law is a bit worried about my not keeping it in "show room" condition while I'm there.
Its not going to happen till late august anyway.
Sooner than that I might be looking after another sister's house just N. of the Border in Surrey and since she has wicked cars to use I could also blast down there one day just for a quick visit to see you or Peter.
I was planning on one for Breakfast tomorrow (er, today). I got another ham a little while ago.
Homemade lemonade though has definitely been a blessing. However, the greatest force for household cooling is the infamous "Wall-O-Wind" [link]