Testing the graphics card using a secondary computer To verify that the graphics card is working properly, you may need to connect power and video cables, turn on the tester, and run diagnostic tests. Set up and use a standalone graphics card tester according to the manufacturer’s instructions. A graphics card can be tested without being installed in a motherboard using these testers, which typically come with connectors for power, video, and other signals. The standalone graphics card tester is a specialized device that is used to test graphics cards without a motherboard. ![]() You should contact a qualified computer technician if you are unsure how to test a graphics card or encounter any problems. When handling computer hardware, you should always follow proper safety precautions and use caution. If you are unfamiliar with computer hardware, it is not recommended to test a graphics card without a motherboard because it can be a difficult and potentially risky process. In addition to standalone graphic card testers, secondary computers, hardware monitoring tools, and benchmarking software, some tools and equipment may be required. The tools and equipment you require will depend on how you intend to test the graphics card. ![]() You will need a few tools and pieces of equipment to test a graphics card without a motherboard. ![]() It is possible to verify a graphics card’s functionality before installing it in a new or existing system or to troubleshoot an issue with a graphics card that has been removed from a system. You may need to test a graphics card without a motherboard for several reasons.
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![]() So you need to do all you can to care for your colour.Ĭonfusingly, purple shampoo is not what you’re looking for. This colour is like red in that it will fade fast. Now you know how to dye your hair at home, you’ll need to look after your new gorgeous colour with specially formulated products. The easy guide for beginners How do I care for my purple hair? ![]() Maybe because our hair was darker to begin with. The reviews say it didn’t last long but we’ve found it holding better than other dyes. The result was a deep, dark mauve with brown undertones that’s not as vibrant as the box colour but a gorgeous, rich muted shade. Like the review above, we tried this on light brown hair rather than blonde as recommended! For this reason, we left it in longer to let the colour really soak in. ![]() I’ve had it on for 3 weeks and hasn’t faded much at all.” We say: After a few washes, it’s now a beautiful muted mauve colour. “I used this on my blonde hair and it turned a nice dark mauve colour. My hair is now a chocolatey mauve and doesn’t look too bright in natural light.” “I used this on dark hair just to see what would happen (the box makes it very clear not to do this!). “Easy to apply and it gave me a lovely mauve tone to my dark blond hair, it does fade quickly leaving me with a pinky blond colour which I really loved.” Best for: Purple vibrance for blonde hair. After 5 washes, it’s on its way out so it won’t last the 15+ washes it promises but the colour is so gorgeous that we’ll forgive them. The results were a lustrous, vibrant colour that lifted our hair. We tried it on mid-blonde hair and left it in for 30 minutes to really penetrate. This is a great Lavender colour that’s easy to apply and the creme is lovely and thick so you don’t splash it everywhere and dye your bathroom lavender too. “I have dark brown hair and I was worried that this would not show up or work on my hair. On bleached hair, it’s more like indigo but should wash out nicely.” “Not exactly the colour on the box if you have bleached hair but they have a little chart at the back. Personally I may have needed to saturate some strands a little better, but I still love the colour that came out.” “This hair dye was easy to use and the colour came out great.
![]() The program is designed to alert you when a device’s battery level drops below a certain value, which you can customize. ![]() In order to change the notification preferences, you need to open the Settings panel from the context menu. The application displays each device’s battery level as full, medium, low or empty. If you want to check your controllers, you only need to right-click the tray icon. ![]() Gamepad Battery Monitor will be minimized to the tray area automatically, and it will continue to run in the background and track your devices’ charge level. Monitor gamepad battery level from the system tray This program is designed to work with any XInput compatible gamepads, including the Xbox 360, Xbox One and NVIDIA SHIELD controllers. All connected gamepads should be detected in a matter of seconds, provided they have been turned on. Once downloaded, you can launch the application instantly without going through a setup process beforehand. No installation or configuration required It is very unobtrusive, but it may need some more tweaks. Gamepad Battery Monitor is a very simple application that tracks the charge level of all connected controllers and can display notifications when the battery level drops too low. Thankfully, there are specialized utilities out there that can help you out. No one wants their controller to die in the middle of a game, but it is difficult to monitor your gamepad’s battery level when using it to play on your PC. Connect your headset to your PC and turn on your motion controllers.See the Steamworks documentation page for more information and troubleshooting. In order to run SteamVR you should double-click the file "vrstartup.exe" located at SteamVR\bin\win64\vrstartup.exe, or SteamVR\bin\win32\vrstartup.exe if the target PC is running a 32-bit version of Windows.This will allow the runtime to find the Windows Mixed Reality for SteamVR driver in your custom installation. (Note that if you're running a 32-bit version of Windows, the win64 part of the path above should be win32 instead.) \SteamVR\bin\win64\vrpathreg.exe adddriver "C:\SteamVRInstall\MixedRealityVRDriver" In that case, in the command prompt you should run: For the sake of this example, we will assume the containing folder is at C:\SteamVRInstall. Do the same with Windows Mixed Reality for SteamVR, and any SteamVR-compatible apps you would like to install on the target PC.Īfter plugging the portable storage device into the target PC, move the SteamVR, MixedRealityVRDriver, and other folders to a convenient place on the target PC.Įnsuring SteamVR and MixedRealityVRDriver are in the same folder, open a command prompt.Copy this entire directory (named SteamVR) onto a portable medium of your choice (e.g. The directory containing the SteamVR Runtime will open.Select the tab "LOCAL FILES" and click on the button labeled "BROWSE LOCAL FILES". A new window with multiple tabs will open.Once SteamVR is installed, right-click the entry "SteamVR" and in the resulting popup menu, click on the entry "Properties".In Steam, open the Library section and find the part labeled "Tools".Install SteamVR and Windows Mixed Reality for SteamVR as directed above using Steam on a PC with full internet access.Store the necessary media on a portable storage device Set up Windows Mixed Reality for SteamVR in an environment without internet access Install Windows Mixed Reality for SteamVR.Locate SteamVR in the list and then right-click and select Install Game. * If you don't see the popup, install SteamVR by navigating to the Tools section of your library. Follow the prompts on the dialog to install it. With your headset plugged in, launch Steam and you should see a dialog prompting you to install SteamVR. ![]() Install Steam and login or create a new account.Note: For advanced troubleshooting of your SteamVR setup, make sure you have the following software components installed: The SteamVR Tutorial should start automatically. Set up up Windows Mixed Reality if you haven't already.A PC with a GTX 1070 graphics card (or equivalent) and an Intel® Core™ i7 processor should offer a good experience for a broad range of titles. PC requirements vary for the apps and content on Steam.If no updates are available, select Check for updates, and then install any new ones. If updates are available, select Install now. Make sure you have no pending updates: Select Start > Settings > Update Eckhaus had assessed her professional potential long ago, while attending a summer flute program at Tanglewood as a teen. Like many musicians, they had put down their instruments for day jobs. The two had taken to commiserating about how much they missed playing and how few opportunities there were to do so. The ensemble was born after Eckhaus bumped into a former NRHS bandmate, Robert LaPorta, on the train. New Rochelle High School’s band program solidified her passion while surreptitiously planting the seeds for what would become Westchester Symphonic Winds. A private teacher helped Eckhaus learn to love the instrument, which gets “much better parts,” than the flute, she says. “A newbie on the piccolo is like a newbie on the violin - quite jarring,” she admits. The busy single mother of two remains dedicated to the ensemble, which performs three concerts each year as the ensemble-in-residence at the Tarrytown Music Hall, plus the always-sold-out Fourth of July celebration at Caramoor.Įckhaus’ musical career began in elementary school in New Rochelle when she picked up the flute and later the piccolo, despite a decided lack of encouragement from those within earshot. ![]() Today, the group - comprising “doctors, lawyers, computer programmers, music educators, and former military” - performs several concerts each year.Ī professional numbers-cruncher by trade - she’s the CFO of janitorial-supply firm Strauss Paper Company in Port Chester - Eckhaus is also the principle piccolo player for the Westchester Symphonic Winds (WSW), a group of 60 amateur musicians she helped found 29 years ago. ![]() Piccolo player and CFO Rachel Eckhaus helped found the Westchester Symphonic Winds 29 years ago. It’s an intimidating piece to be sure - just ask Rachel Eckhaus, who is often called upon to perform it in public, before cheering crowds. Who doesn’t love the rousing piccolo solo in Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes Forever”? Its sheet music reveals a crazy roller coaster of notes - over 122, to be exact. ![]() VLC player and Firefox normally do not allow ColorSync control, so they can be easier to use to check non-Mac 'views' of a file.LUTs stand for Look Up Tables. Such as QuickTime Player, and Chrome & Safari browsers. It's only lighter when viewed on a Mac, with apps that allow the Mac ColorSync utility to handle color management. So my Rec.709 compliant system will display that file as you see it within Premiere, pretty close. sRGB primaries, D65 white point, gamma 2.4 display transform, around 100IRE/nits total brightness. And all broadcast specs require the 'full' Rec.709. So that 'we' still got essentially the same image. Which had a specific native curve to the shadows of the signal.Īs digital "flat panel" monitors came into existence, Bt.1886 was addended to Rec.709 to compensate for the flat response of the digital panels. The "original" Rec.709 was created while 'we' were still all using CRT monitors. as the only tranform, skipping the also required gamma 2.4 display function added in Bt.1886. It has been years.īecause the problem is specifically caused by Apple's choice to use the camera tranform function. We are the paying customer. Let's put aside our individual desires and focus on the greater good to fix this adobe color space issue so that exports look like the edits. By coming together and finding a solution that works for everyone, we can ensure that the task is completed efficiently and effectively.įrom the thousands if not tens of thousands of people who edit video for devices, we urge you at adobe to consider the benefits of working together and compromising in order to accomplish meaningful this important task. While we respect your beliefs and opinions, it is a little bit selfish to insist on doing things only your way when there are so many other people involved in editing. It is important for us to work together and come to a compromise rather than insisting on doing things solely our own way. However, we must consider the bigger picture and the fact that a much larger group is already working towards completing and editing videos in a certain way specifically for Apple products. We understand that you have strong convictions about the way you believe color space should be accomplished. The need/use of the LUT could only be changed by a change of the standard used by ColorSync. ![]() That dilemma can't be "solved" by a version change with an outside app like Premiere or Resolve. ![]() "Normal" viewed outside Premiere on a Mac, but too dark outside of the Macs.A bit light on a Mac, but "normal" outside of Mac displays without the LUT.the choice is between two imperfect things: Because on non-Mac gear, the Rec.709 video file will probably be displayed with a correct 2.4 gamma. That LUT will essentially push the midtones and shadows a bit darker in the exported file, so that when viewed on a Mac, outside of Premiere, the file will look more like it did while viewed in Premiere.īut of course, then outside of the Mac-sphere, on a non-Mac system, that file will now be a lot darker than it appeared on the Mac within Premiere. So the image typically is darker within Premiere than outside on the same Mac computer. Premiere always attempts to operate by the Rec.709 standards, including it's internal monitors which are not 'controlled' by ColorSync. So Rec.709/SDR video files are displayed with lighter shadows and mids on a Mac, than they would be if displayed with the "normal" Rec.709 gamma of 2.4. is caused by the Mac OS color management utility ColorSync applying a non-standard gamma to Rec.709 video files.ColorSync, for some reason, uses a 1.96 gamma. ![]() How Do You Select a Page Template in WordPress?. ![]() How To Make a WordPress Template Manually.Using Spectra To Create a Custom Page Template in WordPress.Create a Custom Page Template Using Gutenberg.How To Make a WordPress Template Using Elementor.Creating page templates in WordPress With Starter Templates.Why Might You Need a WordPress Custom Page Template?.What Is a WordPress Custom Page Template?.So, how do we create a custom page template in WordPress? You can use them as a one-off or as a template for multiple pages.Īnd the best part is that you don’t even need to know HTML, CSS, or PHP! What if you wanted to change the layout structure for a particular page? What if you’re going to create a unique page layout that’s different from the default template?įortunately, WordPress gives you the flexibility to create custom page layouts. With a pre-built template structure, all you have to do is replace the default text and images with your unique content, and you are pretty much good to go. Install a WordPress theme, tweak the content to your requirements, and voila, your website is ready to be launched! You’ll probably agree that creating websites using WordPress is relatively easy. Do you want to create a WordPress custom page template? Want to create a template that looks different from the rest of the pages on your website? Want to know how to make a template even if you have no coding experience? ![]() ![]() Savepoints can be used to create nested transactions. ![]() When this happens, the application will need to retry the entire transaction. After the first write statement, both concurrent reads and writes are blockedĬommands inside a deferred transaction can fail if they cause the transaction to be upgraded from a read transaction to a write transaction while the database is locked. Var writeCommand = connection.CreateCommand() After a the first read statement, concurrent writes are blocked until the Var value = (long)readCommand.ExecuteScalar() Var readCommand = connection.CreateCommand() Before the first statement of the transaction is executed, both concurrent using (var transaction = connection.BeginTransaction(deferred: true)) This can be useful for enabling concurrent access to the database during the transaction. It also causes the transaction to gradually upgrade from a read transaction to a write transaction as needed by its commands. ![]() This defers the creation of the actual transaction in the database until the first command is executed. Starting with version 5.0, transactions can be deferred. Var value = (string)quer圜ommand.ExecuteScalar() Var quer圜ommand = secondConnection.CreateCommand() Using (secondConnection.BeginTransaction(IsolationLevel.ReadUncommitted)) while the transaction on the first connection is active Without ReadUncommitted, the command will time out since the table is locked Var updateCommand = firstConnection.CreateCommand() using (var firstTransaction = firstConnection.BeginTransaction()) Note, the connection string must include Cache=Shared. The following code simulates a dirty read. The actual isolation level will be promoted to either read uncommitted or serializable. treats the IsolationLevel passed to BeginTransaction as a minimum level. If allowed, the same query could return different rows when executed twice in the same transaction. Phantoms are rows that get changed or added to meet the where clause of a query during a transaction. The results contain data that was never actually committed to the database.Ī nonrepeatable read occurs when a transaction queries the same row twice, but the results are different because it was changed between the two queries by another transaction. This level allows dirty reads, nonrepeatable reads, and phantoms:Ī dirty read occurs when changes pending in one transaction are returned by a query outside of the transaction, but the changes in the transaction are rolled back. SQLite also supports read uncommitted when using a shared cache. Other statements executed outside of the transaction aren't affected by the transaction's changes. This isolation level guarantees that any changes made within a transaction are completely isolated. Transactions are serializable by default in SQLite. Because of this, calls to BeginTransaction and the Execute methods on SqliteCommand may time out if another transaction takes too long to complete.įor more information about locking, retries, and timeouts, see Database errors. In SQLite, only one transaction is allowed to have changes pending in the database at a time. Using a transaction can also improve performance on SQLite when making numerous changes to the database at once. The initial state of the database when the transaction was started is preserved. If any statement in the transaction fails, changes made by the previous statements can be rolled back. Transactions let you group multiple SQL statements into a single unit of work that is committed to the database as one atomic unit. ![]() ![]() Your diagram shows 3 paths for gnd and 2 are isolated. So these paths must be shared with short more bulky wires. That's what "Gnd" is defined to be, but only if connected properly. The fundamental issue is Gnd = 0 V everywhere. The power and GND wires to these boards from the central circuit are a bit thicker (18AWG) - the rest (from the board to the modules) is 22AWG. Rows of Dupont connections go out to the "Next Track" pads on the MP3 modules. Is there something fundamentally wrong with this setup? Am I pushing the chip beyond what it can send, or the Nano? Any help very gratefully received (apologies for the amateur diagram).Įdits: adding an image of one of the 4 outer boards to show the in/out (green/yellow) connections. I got this working with a 3 A adaptor, but not reliably (different ones would fail - not trigger, just play the whole 90 s, then start again - every time I switched it on). I built a small-scale one with just 4 modules, one coming off each of the 4 switches of the chip. I only have one of the boards fully finished (30 modules) but it's ignoring the trigger. The Arduino sketch is designed to make it skip (so restart the track) every 60 s, with all of the tracks playing simultaneously. The Nano is powered with a standard 9 V adaptor, and the 5 V part is powered with a 5 V, 45 A PSU which should be more than enough to handle the current draw of the modules.Įach MP3 module contains an SD card with a single track on it. Each board connects to 30 MP3 players ( GPD2846 modules) with 5 V power, GND and an "in" and "out" connection, which go to either side of the "Next track" button on the MP3 player. If you want to process another file format, just replace the Decoder implementation and if you want to get the audio data from a different source, just replace use a different AudioSource.I have a circuit that sends a 300 ms signal (a short button press) from pin D13 on an Arduino Nano to a 4066 chip, which then sends it to 4 boards (A, B, C, and D). #define USE_HELIXĪudioSourceSdFat source(startFilePath, ext) ĪudioPlayer player(source, out, decoder) ĪudioLogger::instance().begin(Serial, AudioLogger::Info) Īs you can see, this approach has quite some flexibility: if you want to use I2S as output just replace the AnalogAudioStream with I2SStream. The following Arduino Sketch demonstrates how to implement an MP3 Player: which gets the data from a SD drive and provides the audio as analog output: The AudioSourceSdFat class builds on the SdFat Library from Bill Greiman which provides FAT16/FAT32 and exFAT support with long filenames. If the following line is commented out for your processor, remove the comments. Before you start double check your settings in the AudioConfig.h of the arduino-audio-tools project. The sketch is using the following dependencies: ![]()
![]() The pitcher was compelled to make a Forced Public Confession. In the video, Miller accused companies such as Target of pushing "evil" into the faces of children and cited the Bible passage warning to "take no part" in evil by shopping at Target or buying Bud Light or products from similar corporations currently pushing the extreme LGBTQ agenda.īut after Bass shared the video, he was accused of sharing "hate speech," and on Tuesday, he was forced by team management to come out and make a big apology in front of the sports media.ĭespite Bass' apology, though, Toronto Star columnist Gregor Chisholm said it wasn't enough as he turned out to be the one disgorging the most hate in this whole sad saga.Īfter several paragraphs describing the situation over the video and apology, Chisholm went on the attack against Bass, insisting he is not worth keeping on the team and noted how shocked he was that the team was keeping the pitcher instead of announcing he was being cut on Tuesday. 5 as the basis to boycott Target and Bud Light for forcing the radical LGBTQ agenda on its customers. Now, a columnist from the Toronto Star is saying an apology is not enough and is demanding that the team cut the player for daring to be a Christian in baseball.īass shared the video on Monday to his Instagram account from Christian activist Ryan Miller who cited the Bible's Ephesians Chap. On Tuesday, Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Anthony Bass was forced by the team to apologize for posting a video featuring a Biblical reason to boycott Target and Bud Light. Weird how these "journalists" speak, think, and act exactly like leftwing activists. Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped.Tornoto Blue Jays Compel Pitcher Who Supported Target, Bud Light Boycotts Into Forced Public Confession and Reeducation CampĪ Toronto Jays pitcher seemingly offered support for the Bud Light and Target boycotts, and a "journalist" immediately demanded he be fired. The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon Secret John Kerry Senatorial AccomplishmentsĬhanges Liberal Senator George Michell Will Make at Disney Media-Approved Facts About the Democrat SpyĬhanges to Make Christianity More "Inclusive" Other Judgments Dick Clarke Made About Condi Rice Based on Her Appearance Signs That David Letterman Just Doesn't Care AnymoreĮxamples of Bob Kerrey's Insufferable Racial Jackassery Other Bad Things About the Jews, According to the Koran Signs that Paul Krugman Has Lost His Frickin' MindĪll-Time Best NBA Players, According to Senator Robert Byrd Things People Are More Likely to Say Than "Did You Hear What Al Franken Said Yesterday?" Signs That You, Geroge Michael, Should Probably Just Give It Up Nicknames for Potatoes, By People Who Really Hate Potatoes I'd much rather see 16P + 16E cores, but that would make for a substantially larger chip. Next year's 15th generation though should bring a substantial upgrade, though not all that substantial, as 32 out of those 40 cores will be half-speed quarter-size "Efficiency" cores. This year the company is not expected to release a new generation of desktop chips at all. Intel is planning to release 40 core Arrow Lake desktop chips next year.The top post on Digg right now links to a Reddit thread. Reddit used to very much a bit player behind market leader Digg, until Digg released a hugely unpopular update and told users who complained to fuck off.Īnd fuck off they did, in droves, to Reddit. Not $2 per million, $2 per call.Ī reasonably configured server should be able to handle 10 million API calls per day, meaning that Infura has something like an 80% margin to cover all their costs beyond the bare hardware, Reddit has around 99%, and Twitter 100%. Not quite as lots, but still lots, with the cited number being $12,000 per 50 million API calls.Īs a baseline example, blockchain gateway Infura charges $1000 per month for 150 million API calls, while at the other end of the scale Twitter charges anything up to $2 per API call. Reddit is planning to charge lots of money for its API, just like Twitter.Though the article also notes that Irwin's brief tenure also saw Twitter welcoming "neo-Nazis", so it would appear that Tech Crunch is hiring meth heads straight off Skid Row, which while perhaps commendable as a form of social outreach is unlikely to improve editorial standards, or, this being Tech Crunch, unlikely to improve them much. (Tech Crunch)Īs the article notes, the timing of Irwin's abrupt departure coincides with the debacle du jour of Twitter first welcoming and then censoring Matt Walsh's film How to Stump a Supreme Court Nominee. In the feel-good story of the day, Ella Irwin, Twitter's head inquisitor, successor to the odious Joel Roth, who survived the revolution that deposed former dictator Vijaya Gadde, has resigned. |
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