Oh joy, another one...
I’ve been dealing with this error for about 6 months now. Ever since I moved to Vista 64 I’ve had numerous driver issues from my scanner and printer not working to this display driver. It seems to pop up at least 5-20 times a day depending on use of the computer. In most cases nothing really happens other than the screen going blank and then recovering, but in rare cases the program I’m working in doesn’t recover.
Photoshop CS4 seems to be one of the few programs that this has an adverse effect on. I’ve had to move back to CS3 until I resolve this issue.
I’ve replaced the Enermax 620W Liberty Power Supply with a Zalman 720W. I hoped this would solve the problem as many of the posts on nVidia’s forums mentioned that power was an issue. Yet… nothing changed. As soon as the new PSU was in I received my favorite “Display driver stopped responding and has recovered” error again. I next tried pulling out all RAM sticks except for one and then tried switching between the sticks of RAM to see if one was more stable than another. Still no change. I even tried running Windows 7 beta just to see if it was possibly a Vista issue that had been fixed or addressed in the new OS. Nothing. Rats.
Today I called up EVGA (as Nvidia’s support system send you to your cards manufacturer) and requested an RMA (as per microsoft’s suggestion). I guess we’ll see if this has any effect on my driver issues…
Until I get the card back, it looks like I’m back to my old 8800 GT. I’ll post an update in a few weeks on whether anything has changed.
This is going up in my room; as soon as it is shipped that is.
A Simple Pledge
I recently decided to try my hand at becoming Mayor of San Luis Obispo.
Yes, you read that right. This isn’t just some hairbrained scheme, I actually AM interested in becoming Mayor of San Luis Obispo sometime in the future. I came to this conclusion through a few different influences. One being Landmark Education (always pushes my bounderies) and two being my reflection on politics and feeling helpless to enact change. What better way to take action then to get involved. Right? I’m not sure why I didn’t think of that before but c’est la vie, I am now!
What would be your first action towards becoming Mayor? Mine was to call a resident expert and ask him. I hopped on the internet (imagine it’s a horse, a very speedy horse) and brought up the white pages to find Dave Romero’s phone number. In case you’re not aware he is the current Mayor of San Luis Obispo.
I told my butterflies to shut up and sit down and dialed his number. After a few brief “hello” and “how do you do?” I popped the question: “Mr. Romero, do you think you could mentor me?” After a bit of clarification, as I think he was a bit confused, I got a, “Come down to my office tomorrow at 10am and we’ll talk.” I was thrilled. Not only was he super accessible but he was a downright friendly guy.
I sat with Dave for about an hour I think and wrote down everything he had to say on the city, past campaigns, current agendas, mayoral duties, etc. I put together a plan of attack for myself on how I would prepare myself. First of these steps was to get on an advisory body to the City Council. I immediately interviewed for the Planning Commission (my absolutely favorite and most influential advisory body). I didn’t make the cut. Although Eric Meyer did and I think he is doing an excellent job! I’ve watched him work at a few of the Planning Commission meetings and I couldn’t agree more with the City Councils pick. He doesn’t have a background in planning (like me) but he is representing our community exceptionally well and even catches a few mistakes that none of the seasoned professionals do. So kudos to you Eric, great work. By the way, I still love your shoes.
My second round of interviews was last week. This second time I had applied to every advisory body available. I didn’t think that was unusual but the city called me and told me that was a first for them. Apparently that’s not entirely kosher. I figured what better way to get onto one than to apply to them all. They didn’t agree. At least not initially. They helped me prune my list down to a scant four: Joint Use Committee, Architectural Review, Bicycle Advisory, and Promotional Coordinating Committee. I’ll admit my two favorite (after the interviews) were Joint Use and Promotional Committee. I thought I actually had a lot to offer to both bodies however all of them I think I could have been useful on.
It’s a waiting game now. I finished my last interview on February 12th for the Promotional Committee and I’ll be waiting to see if I made any of them. I’m hoping to get the Joint Use Committee and I believe I was suggested as a candidate for that committee but anything can happen. If I don’t get on to any of them this time around, I’ll just be back next time!
For anyone thinking of getting involved in City Government, do it. I can’t tell you how amazing everyone I’ve met in the city government is. They’re all extremely friendly and full of ideas on how to get things done. Alan Settle was so fired up during my Joint Use interview that we had a plan of attack already hashed out for an exchange between Cal Poly and the city of San Luis Obispo. Which plays right into my platform that I’ll be running under for Mayor: Unity. Our city seems to be disenfranchised with itself.Over time the college, the city, and each demographic of citizens has grown apart. Each division has gotten a little bit wider and a little bit higher. The college students dislike the city, the residents dislike the students, so on and so forth. I think we can all get along and do it with style and fun. After all, each demographic of San Luis Obispo really only has things to gain from each other. So the more we work together the stronger, more efficient and more effective our city will become. Who doesn’t want that? Now that you’re all fired up, please wait 4-6 years before voting for me, please. I will be taking donations though. Seriously.
I’ve decided to get back in the gym. And there isn’t a better gym on the Central Coast than Athlon Elite. I’ll be keeping a running tally of what I accomplished each week and a photo to track my progress. I’ll always link the photo so it’s not like anyone has to look at my rippling, or as the case may be today jiggling, abs. Turning 30 does seem to make getting into shape a tiny bit more difficult than it used to be.I remember sitting on the couch playing video games and burning about 500 calories. Unfortunately I think those days are gone. I’ll pour out a little Fluid in memory.This week I started it off with some measurements:
And after a brief 10 minute work out:
Athlon Elite also took my body fat measurements, height, and weight. I weight 175lb and I’m just under 5’11″. Body fat measurements will be posted later.
I’ll preface by saying this is something I sent around in an email within work acouple years back so it was never formatted for the web. I have recently neededto reference it when talking to a few clients so I’ve put it up here for othersas well. I will come back and format it better later on but for now this will haveto do. I’ll also continue to update it and add new links as I see fit.
I recently saw your link over on Keith Byrd’s San Luis Obispo Real Estate website. I actually tried one of your pizza’s recently and was quite impressed. It was very good and although a bit more expensive than I’d like for a pizza different enough to warrant me buying a second one sometime soon. However this isn’t about your food, it’s about your website.I’d like to make you aware of some issues with an all Flash (that’s the animation and multimedia technology used to deliver your current website) website:
It’s in your best interest to make things very simple and easy for your users and give them exactly what they want from a restaurant website: A menu, a phone number, an address and possibly a nice logo and easy to read text. You don’t really need anything else. If you have any questions give me a call or better yet contact your web designer and get this all sorted out. Ask for a simple one page informational website. It will help your business rather than hurt it. You’ll thank me later.
And stop torturing your customers! I know you’re one of the most personable restaurants I’ve ever had the joy of eating in, that should show up in spades through your website too.
My iPhone and I have a very strong love/hate relationship. Although just like in any human relationship all you hear about is the bad. Which is the case today with my iPhone. First I suppose you’ll be wanting a brief history of my iPhone so here’s the short and skinny of it. I’ve gone through two iPhones.
The first one consistently crashed almost as if it was sneezing. We’re not talking about the Safari instability of the first 3G’s but just general use it would crash to the home screen in the middle of calls, texts, browsing, app usage, whatever. It crashed. A lot.
The second one did pretty much the same although a little less frequently. However now it had acquired a new personality. One that loved to delete or in its case “forget” all my contacts. So rather than getting a phone call from “Joe Smith” it was “867-5309″. This makes it rather difficult to know who is texting you without being slightly rude and having to ask everyone “who is this?”. So iPhone #2 was traded in for iPhone #3…
iPhone 3 pretty much has all the same problems as the first two (I’ve seen no obvious improvement from trading them in). In addition to the problems of the first two it now also doesn’t switch from headphone mode back to normal. I’ve manage to outsmart it with the contacts forgetting by using a microsoft exchange server to sync my contacts and all information and as soon as I reboot the phone all that will come back now. Take that you confounded device, I’m smarter than you, you hear me?! No… I see.
Now I reset a few times more a day. I’m not sure what my average is but if I could make a recommendation to possible iPhone buyers… wait. The honeymoon while amazing and the memories of it resurface daily, the day to day nagging and inability to function as a “phone” will definitely get old. Fast. This doesn’t include the AT&T “service”. The quotes indicate that there is none. AT&T’s service is incredibly bad. I used to be a subscriber about 10 years ago and switched to Verizon due to the exceptionally bad service. After the second version of the iPhone came out I decided to switch back. Two versions should be enough for them to iron out the bugs. Right? I was wrong. The phone is buggy, the service is atrocious and I’m left pining for a second phone phone. You know one that actually can make and receive calls without dropping them and can send and receive MMS?
And what is so hard about coding copy & paste? Why oh why doesn’t this smart phone have copy & paste? I don’t get it…
With that I go back to my lovely iPhone. The phone with the best web browser of any smart phone and a user interface to die for. I love you iPhone… and yet, I hate you.
An interesting article and while I agree with most of it as with every piece of information you get, take it with a grain of salt. Branding in any context is definitely important. Always be thinking of your customers and make sure you’re not making them think. Make everything exceptionally easy and in respect to your brand, make sure it’s communicating exactly what you want it to communicate.
Something I suggested to my father’s San Luis Obispo jewelry business is to get a new sign. There is a sign making company in San Luis Obispo now that is absolutely beautiful. I need to track them down at some point just so I can give them compliments.
And if for some reason you can’t bother yourself with clicking on the link and just want to know what the three misconceptions are:
If you’ve ever found yourself saying one of those check out the article and Jason VanLue’s response.
