Years ago i ran into something like this.  We had an old HP mini that did payroll.  Used to have several ports run to all the buildings in the plant. bla bla.  eventually got upgraded to use a network. Te disk cabinets the size of a small beer fridge.  Was neat stuff really.

One day came in and saw the lights on the front were flashing red. Oooooh, this isn't good.. 

Wasn't my job, i was PC support guy, not the HP or Vaxes..   We called HP..  "OK, what is it flashing"  "Hmmm hang on"  guy got back on phone,. ok, that means the 5 volt power supply died. We will have to replace it. We have 2.  Unfortunately one is not in this country. But the other is in California, we will have it on a plane tonight and should be there in a couple of days. "

Umm ok.. im thinking was its just a 5 volt supply i am sure i could rig something until they get here as i am an EE and access to all sorts of stuff in a plant...   Tear open the back.. started fishing around..  Noticed the 5v bus was copper pieces about 1/8 of an inch thick that ran the length of the machine, bolted down to various parts that needed power.  Ground, was even thicker..  All just to handle the current.  "um, nope, we better wait, i dont want to die"

Mon Feb 26 2024 17:54:01 EST from darknetuser

Expensive old machine at work was toasted during operation. Official tech support is overseas and they said the machine is too old for them so support it at all, so the boss came to me and asked me if I could do anything.


Long story short, I managed to get the machine to start and the controls to work, but some proprietary component that is the core of having the machine do actual stuff is cooked and I find no replacements anywhere.

I am so disappointed since I nearly had it. Fixing this thing would have made my useless studies useful for once :(

Good news is the boss invited me to a nice bottle of smuggled beer for the effort.

Ironically i did the one hand thing without even thinking..  Its been too long to remember for sure, but I think this was "only" in the 200A range, either way, bad day for you if it bites..   :)

I got bit by a CRT once that i thought i had discharged.. once was enough ... always check twice before you stick your paw in there ... 

Tue Feb 27 2024 10:25:06 EST from fandarel

One hand behind the back rule absolutely applies. 

lol

So as i mentioned we are going to ( eventually ) migrate to service now. We just got training credits this month.  Been taking the intro classes.   Went in today to continue on... its decided i'm Japanese..  lol. 

Ironically i was listening to BandMaid earlier today, i wonder if the AI Bots were listening... 

Bad fires down in TX. Hope our resident cat is doing well..

And of course TrilCat.. with her own version of bad fires..

Wed Feb 28 2024 18:27:33 EST from Nurb432

Bad fires down in TX. Hope our resident cat is doing well..

good to hear. 

Fri Mar 01 2024 09:33:53 EST from darknetuser

Dog is doing great. It seems like she is close to the state she was in before the stroke.

and yet another spy balloon.. this time it fell out of the sky.  going to be turned over to FBI by Alaskan fishermen this weekend 

Will be the last we ever hear of it.. "what balloon"

Commenting to someone a bit ago about "soon the only plants we will have will be in museums". Them the AI image generator spit out a museum.. with tiny trees as one of the exhibits. zero prompt on my part so it was 100% AI.

Sometimes this stuff makes you question the fabric of reality. 

It runs all the time on a server in the other room, just sitting there waiting. ( as does the chat-bot. same server, just dedicated to a 2nd GPU ).   Sometimes i just push the button and I dont give it ANY data to work from.  I will do that often when i'm bored, just to see what it will generate.  Sometimes its neat, other times is garbage. And some times its like this.. Like it was listening to what i was talking about that day or looking for online. its not the first time.

There is random seed involved ( optional if you want to replicate an image to 'enhance' it in some way. ) and these "WTF events " all use random.

Mon Mar 04 2024 19:03:58 EST from zelgomer

What? It generates images autominously? Do you have it running all the time? How did it know?

Since they run as a service here ( im too lazy to start them when i want them :) ), they always use a little bit of CPU, and always show some GPU ram reserved. But the actual resource used is almost nil. In theory they are not "doing" anything until you make an API call ( in my case via a web interface ) other than wait. 

Once you make the call, then it starts analyzing the prompt and sucks up all the resources you allocate to it..  When there is no prompt ( in my case ) then it just creates using its own imagination, via the random seed.

Mon Mar 04 2024 19:15:00 EST from zelgomer

So is it actually using processor time all of the time? I always thought these things were blocking prompts. There is no way in hell I'd run that shit in my house.

Oh, and i have heard of people running 2 instances, with a shared interface so they can talk to each other...   in that case they would be actively doing stuff.  But mine, isn't. 

Thread started in bottom feeders. but   i guess it was not just meta that was having issues today..   lots of internet outages and troubles at the same time.  even some smaller phone companies had reports.     of course, no word of cause. 

Wonder if there was a balloon overhead we were not told about, again.

Bot says hi..

Mon Mar 04 2024 19:15:00 EST from zelgomer

So is it actually using processor time all of the time? I always thought these things were blocking prompts. There is no way in hell I'd run that shit in my house.

lol "breaking news, FBI Keeping secret records on many of us gun owners"

Really? No kidding. 

Breaking news, bombshell. terms need removed from our language.