A wee thingy that might help people understand.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_fault

If you'd like some more machines to test this on you can use some of mine. I have P4's and quad cores. I can throw together a machine with an E6700 too. It may take me a couple of days to get it together and running. I'm not sure that I have all the needed parts, but I know I have most of them. I can set them up any way you like. The P4's have 32 bit XP Home. Quad cores have 32 bit XP Pro, 32 bit Vista Business, and 64 bit Vista Ultimate. If I put together a machine with the Conroe (E6700) I'll use the trial version on Server 2008 (it's FREE until June).

Thanks Kneed,

The reason why I was watching this thread was really to make sure the focus was not lost. Not to say is had, but to be sure it hadn’t. When I saw the CA's seemingly playing down the impact this problem could have, there needed to be a show of concern.

What happens when a problem with the tech end of a project is identified here? You need to disclose the hazard to allow consent of passage. Otherwise any traffic beyond that point by those hit by a problem unknowingly, will challenge their faith. An in the high seas of research, faith may be all you got.

This is why there are “small craft’s advisories”. It is to allow public consent. How do I know this? I am a maritime captain as well.



Note the effect that the challenges have been. This is why I want to offer my skills as a captain once again. As an online military officer, far above the rank you see here.

So Captain to captain, general to general or just soldier to soldier:
Command has its privilege, but its responsibilities need to be met everyday through selfless devotion to your crew.

There is something else I wanted to say, but for the life of me, I cant remember. I, ah, ah..............

[courine struck by PTSD, has delusional episode. Thinks she is Robert Duval in Apocalypse Now, flips her mic on and yells over the noise]

Hear that Kneed? Its the sound of CPU Fans! I love the sound of CPU fans. There is no sound like it.. It reminds me of the fight back in grid.org, where every result, every point, every hour of CPU time was met with a salute.

You know, I cant quite place it. That whirring? But to me, there's nothing like waking to the sound of CPU fans in the morning. It seems to sound like a call. It sounds like?... It sounds like?..... victory.

You know Kneed, someday this will all be over. Every work unit complete. In heavens name, what will we do?

[courine boards a HUII and taps the pilot on the shoulder, signaling to depart.]

If it takes napalm to get the job done, then napalm it is!

But for now, CPU fans will do.

Thanks Kneed,

The reason why I was watching this thread was really to make sure the focus was not lost. Not to say is had, but to be sure it hadn’t. When I saw the CA's seemingly playing down the impact this problem could have, there needed to be a show of concern.

What happens when a problem with the tech end of a project is identified here? You need to disclose the hazard to allow consent of passage. Otherwise any traffic beyond that point by those hit by a problem unknowingly, will challenge their faith. An in the high seas of research, faith may be all you got.

This is why there are “small craft’s advisories”. It is to allow public consent. How do I know this? I am a maritime captain as well.



Note the effect that the challenges have been. This is why I want to offer my skills as a captain once again. As an online military officer, far above the rank you see here.

So Captain-to-captain, general-to-general or just soldier-to-soldier:
Command has its privilege, but its responsibilities need to be met everyday through selfless devotion to your crew.

There is something else I wanted to say, but for the life of me, I cant remember. I, ah, ah..............

[courine struck by PTSD, has delusional episode. Thinks she is Robert Duval in Apocalypse Now, flips her mic on and yells over the noise]

Hear that Kneed? Its the sound of CPU Fans! I love the sound of CPU fans. There is no sound like it.. It reminds me of the fight back in grid.org, where every result, every point, every hour of CPU time was met with a salute.

You know, I cant quite place it. That whirring? But to me, there's nothing like waking to the sound of CPU fans in the morning. It seems to sound like a call. It sounds like?... It sounds like?..... victory.

You know Kneed, someday this will all be over. Every work unit complete. In heavens name, what will we do?

[courine boards a HUII and taps the pilot on the shoulder, signaling to depart.]

lavaflow:
Courine:
Mushball:
[Courine still in her paranoid delusion walks on stage. The stage she thinks is there is a wall size WCG flag. And now with a swagger stick under her arm, speaks:]

We are here together today to fight on a front that plagues all of mankind. A war against an enemy we can’t see or touch. A war with to few weapons to defend ourselves let alone attack. A war against something that could strike us all, civilian and combatant alike!

This war, our war, is on one of the broadest fronts of human exploration, even though microscopic in detail. A war to end the mysteries of life that cause unimaginable suffering.

But it is war, even though its horror, is what brings out the best in a soldier, and destroys all that is base. War may be mankind’s greatest inhumanity but its also mankind’s greatest triumph. Or as Churchill would put it 'their finest hour.'

To turn off your machine is to not fight! Realize I’ve slapped a soldier for less (and got in a bunch of trouble with Ike for that), but i would do it again if it meant the purification of 1 more system. To fight on a selfless front of its own, supporting research. Finding the tools to help us rid ourselves of the pain caused by our enemy. And to deny any true soldier from its destiny is not just an act against ourselves, but against God.

It is here that I would turn to a chaplain to write a prayer for battle. I had one do it in the past for better weather. Considering the circumstances, I bet my ivory-handled revolvers he can do it again! For this is a holy cause. If you look into the eyes of any stricken by our foe, you would pray to God it wasn’t so.

I realize most of you HATE MY GUTS! After the Battle of the Bulge, I wouldn’t blame you. Day after day of forced marches and battle, even I began to hate me. But I knew that reaching the brave men of the 101th, surrounded by [the enemy], would change the tide of the war by showing what the 3rd Army was made of. You cant imagine my pride. So if you want to hate me, go ahead. But realize I know someone who hated me more than anyone, that fascist wallpaper hanging bustard in Berlin!

We can all look at war as a great failing of mankind, but it often takes war to focus a group to do a job beyond expectation. To then focus its resources with knowledge, putting forth this combined might to then smite at thyn foe without quarter. If you don’t believe me, ask Rommel, I always guaranty a good fight!

For this is the lot we draw. To go forth and fight battle after selfless battle in a seemingly endless war. But all things eventually come to pass. As for what we are and what this will become, with the gentle guidance of The All Mighty, we shall prevail!

As you were,

Gen. George Patton
US 3rd Army.

[Courine salutes all that have gathered, proudly with the empowerment of all the souls that have ever fallen in battle. Then she starts to pull out of the delusion. She wonders where the helmet came from. Weak from the attack, she sits down and notices a newspaper ad:]

Oh my! Im missing the “White Sale at MACY’S”!!!!

Gotta run, btw leave it on! bbl