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Question: Computers and speaker magnets.

Question: Computers and speaker magnets

Hmmm... That pretty much narrows it down to Gremlins. Try waving a dead chicken over the tower, then light a small oil candle filled with machine oil and move it around the tower case 3 times clockwise. Chant "go pester someone else!" as you do this.


Steve
 
Hmmm... That pretty much narrows it down to Gremlins. Try waving a dead chicken over the tower, then light a small oil candle filled with machine oil and move it around the tower case 3 times clockwise. Chant "go pester someone else!" as you do this.


Steve
Dang it, now I have to clean off my keyboard. I did a spit take on that one!
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Hmmm... That pretty much narrows it down to Gremlins. Try waving a dead chicken over the tower, then light a small oil candle filled with machine oil and move it around the tower case 3 times clockwise. Chant "go pester someone else!" as you do this.


Steve

 
Hmmm... That pretty much narrows it down to Gremlins. Steve

I'm pretty much going with the guy in the monkey suit. The theoretical math is over my head.

And another thing...can someone explain to me exactly how Kirk made his rank with Star Fleet after shooting out the window of a DC-6 with a stolen .38?????
 
Sorry, gman5250, can't help with Kirk. Probably with nothing much else, either. And good luck with that lava lake; maybe I'd better get over to see Yosemite before your problems really develop! But seriously: have you a friend with a nice, ultra smooth-running FS system who would care to pop on over to your place with it, and see whether the gremlins strike his machine without mercy, too? I guess he'd really have to owe you something, given your exasperating experiences to date. Still, such an investigation should be quite revealing. Best of luck with it all; we'll all be watching.
Bye for now. (Ian / macismatix)
 
I know a Cherokee Medicine Man that might be of some use in figuring this thing out GMAN. He is hell on wheels for ghost stories! As for Captain Kirk, well look what happened to him...Spock wouldn't even talk to him before he died. He must've found out that Kirk cheated to get rank!
Ted
 
Funny thing, the bike I'm sitting in my Avatar belongs to a good friend who is a Paiute Indian. He's been through all of the initiations into the ancient ways...but he doesn't do computer work. lol

OK...serious.

Here is example of an ongoing glitch. Autogen Annotator.

I have three different SDKs installed...FSX, P3D2.5 and P3D3.2. I get the same glitch in all three.

High Definition Satellite Imagery Tile

In the example, I have selected a single autogen square to edit. In the attached photo you see that many autogen polys were selected at the same time, which makes it impossible for me to edit, change or delete only one item. I can add squares or polys, but if I want to delete or change anything I can't select only a single. Also using the select button, I only get multiselect and not the selected autogen type. I get the anomaly regardless when using either a mouse or the Wacom Pen.

Right now I'm dead in the water with any autogen annotation do to the glitch.

The anomaly persists in all of my SDK annotators and only showed up about three weeks ago. I had made no changes to any of my settings prior to the bug showing up.


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gman, are there any single components which have been common to all of your systems (for example PSU, keyboard, mouse, etc.)? Also, do you have a powerline network in your home?
 
gman, are there any single components which have been common to all of your systems (for example PSU, keyboard, mouse, etc.)? Also, do you have a powerline network in your home?

That's the quandary, I've gone through multiple keyboards/mouse sets, moved over to the Wacom about a year ago and no networks. The only common denominator left is my IPS, whom I've had for 15 years. My wife runs a MacBook out of the same house and has no issues. The issue with the autogen cropped up well after I had made any keyboard/mouse/tablet changes.

The really weird thing is that the autogen behavior persists across three different SDKs, and appeared in all of them on the same day. I use the Wacom tablet for my autogen work and have not updated any drivers since I installed the pad. One interesting thing is that I have had repeated occasions where all of my preferences in the Wacom tablet software change, not to default, but to other settings without my input. I've had to reset my settings quite a few times.

The only other significant factor is that the frequency of the anomalies increased dramatically after I went to Windows 10 with all of it's proprietary "security" features.
 
Hi again, gman5250. Thanks for the illustrative graphic; I don't know a lot about scenery design, but the nature of this particular (autogen selection) problem seems clear enough. Now, looked at logically (as I think will be the key to your whole extended story) the simultaneous appearance of similar anomalies in three SDK packages must suggest something to, say, a professional software designer or hardware engineer. RAM adddressing? CPU registers? Virus? I don't know, but there has to be a serious clue there. Still - you said earlier that you have been experiencing weird anomalies over several different physical systems and OS versions. Now, 'Vortex' has reiterated the question I asked some days back: are there any hardware components which have been repeatedly incorporated in some or all of these builds? You mention trying a variety of mice, keyboards etc. - but have you made a complete, exhaustive check of all the hardware, including any external HDDs or other storage devices you might have used over time?

If you are satisfied that you have done so religiously, what about the software itself? Have you, for instance, been installing any applications, OS components etc. from a common storage source? Could there be a common source of corruption? Has everything been scrupulously scanned for malware using perhaps several serious A-V programs? Was any new software installed on the day the triple SDK problems arose? Does Windows 10 have any issues with any of the software (or hardware) you rely on?

Again we come back to the need to assess all that's been happening to you in a logical, painstaking systematic way. Magnetics aside, you seem assured that the problems aren't caused by your PC's operating environment (I've looked closely at your locality on Google Earth, and I see the relative isolation) - and the fact that your wife's Mac is untroubled lends weight to that assessment. Okay, then; if it's not the JBL's, your area is RF clean, the mains power is OK and the lava is still miles beneath you, then there's some factor common to either the hardware, OS versions and / or applications, or the way you like to configure your systems - IF the problems across time and different systems fit an observable pattern.

So, I reckon you would still benefit from sitting down to a thorough revision of all the weirdities, noting the circumstances for each, and examining all current and previous hardware and software you have relied on. Great if you could get a tech friend to join in the exercise, someone to whom the whole mess is new. Beyond that, if nothing shows up, I still think it could be revealing to try someone else's system in your place - or even swap systems! (With and without the JBLs, high power audio etc., naturally.)

Okay, I'd better clam up. Best wishes with all this, gman5250!
 
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