Things that please you...

Today I'll be pleased that I have the perspective to put my problems into context.

We live in Ekurhuleni and we've been plagued with irregular refuse removal for a long time. The council decided last week to appoint private contractors to assist with the backlog. On Saturday morning one of these contractor's truck got torched. Eye witnesses say the driver was standing next to the truck weeping - I assume both due to shock and the loss of his truck. I hate to think that this could be a one man band and that his truck may have been his only means of income. Why is our nation so angry? (rhetorical question)

satanboy said:
Maintenance removing light bulb from flashing light.

Now no light.
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Frankly, I'd rather work in the dark then work with a flashing light. But I assume you agree as this is the things that please you thread.
 
Lupus said:
As much as I moan about City Power normally, the fact that they are actually mitigating Load shedding for a change is impressive. But I guess the repair costs outweighed the paying of an IPP.
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Well take that back :(
 
Some of the residents in our complex has put down bowls of water in the shade for the various birds and doves that frequent our area. It's been very hot here lately with very high humidity so I am sure they appreciate it.

They seem to have also attracted some crowned plovers and spotted dikkop to the area :)
 
PhireSide said:
Some of the residents in our complex has put down bowls of water in the shade for the various birds and doves that frequent our area. It's been very hot here lately with very high humidity so I am sure they appreciate it.

They seem to have also attracted some crowned plovers and spotted dikkop to the area :)
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We have tarentaal, dikkop and plovers on our smallholding.

Plovers = burglar alarm, when it start to make a noise, you then know something's out there.
 
The_Librarian said:
We have tarentaal, dikkop and plovers on our smallholding.

Plovers = burglar alarm, when it start to make a noise, you then know something's out there.
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We also see some guineafowl every now and again, but they never come into the complex. We also have some wild rabbits in the field nearby, and the odd owl from time to time. And rock pigeons, enough to drive one mad!
 
Lovely to see nature life all around you.

Except for the mice and rats, the doggos have a most frolicsome time should they find a mouse or a rat.

I found the remains of a half-chewed rat once, just left it, and it was gone later on. We don't put poison out due to concern for owls and other wildlife which preys on rats and mice.
 
This app

Win10 support for my onboard 7.1 sound card being difficult no longer matters as I found an alternative app, have to use L&R to split but meh

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Equalizer APO is the bomb diggety

My only gripe is that if you use USB sound devices and you unplug and plug them back in you need to restart your PC to link it back in to APO to work.

I use it to put a -20dB gain on my Corsair headphones that are ridiculously loud at 2% and threaten to give you permanent tinnitus at 8%
 
Forgive me if this has been said before:

All the little bleeps and squeaks and little lights coming from everywhere once the power comes on again .
 
PhireSide said:
Equalizer APO is the bomb diggety

My only gripe is that if you use USB sound devices and you unplug and plug them back in you need to restart your PC to link it back in to APO to work.

I use it to put a -20dB gain on my Corsair headphones that are ridiculously loud at 2% and threaten to give you permanent tinnitus at 8%
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Do those headphones function as their own output device? If so that would cause your symptom yes, although closing EQ APO via task manager to restart it may solve this issue.
 
gamer16 said:
Do those headphones function as their own output device? If so that would cause your symptom yes, although closing EQ APO via task manager to restart it may solve this issue.
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I don't have them nearby but I think it's a Corsair Vengeance 1500.

It's basically a headphone and mic setup but M$ sees it as a sound card as the audio processing happens on the headset side.

I haven't tried closing it via taskmgr yet; I'll give it a go when it gives me hassles again. An unrelated issue is that using it with Jabber it keeps on changing my default input device to SPDIF after the laptop resumes from sleep. So my first phone call each day is a one way conversation until I remember to switch it back to USB Audio Device.

It's a known issue apparently: https://community.cisco.com/t5/coll...ving-audio-settings-after-reboot/td-p/2781833
 
gamer16 said:
Makes life much more difficult that.
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You should see my setup at home. I'm pedantic about certain things, and my home PC is an Intel NUC that only has a 3.5mm jack on the front of the unit. My ancient Creative speakers use 3.5mm.

So in the interest of neatness I chose to rather plug the speaker input into my monitor's 3.5mm jack, and pass the audio through the HDMI cable and back around to the 3.5mm jack on the display than have the cable plugged into the front of the NUC.

Yes, I would rather have the audio randomly disconnect when some applications go into fullscreen mode and have it stutter when I alt-tab out than have a cable plugged into the front and look all out of place.

No wonder my girlfriend says there's no hope for me.
 
PhireSide said:
You should see my setup at home. I'm pedantic about certain things, and my home PC is an Intel NUC that only has a 3.5mm jack on the front of the unit. My ancient Creative speakers use 3.5mm.

So in the interest of neatness I chose to rather plug the speaker input into my monitor's 3.5mm jack, and pass the audio through the HDMI cable and back around to the 3.5mm jack on the display than have the cable plugged into the front of the NUC.

Yes, I would rather have the audio randomly disconnect when some applications go into fullscreen mode and have it stutter when I alt-tab out than have a cable plugged into the front and look all out of place.

No wonder my girlfriend says there's no hope for me.
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I am sort-off in the same boat as you ( minus my girlfriend isn't as clever ans your's, although this has benefits :cool::cool::cool:) I am pedantic about what signal is sent where as I have a simple stereo amp running mids & high then a dedicated amp running the sub for mid low to low, so I need each to be filtered, low and high pass, which is easy via the normal sound card software, but windows 10 doesn't support it easily,. so running with win legacy software (2 channel) and using EQ APO I have been able to use left channel as mid-high and right as mid-low if you pay careful attention to my settings posted, I am happy it really works well.
 
gamer16 said:
I am sort-off in the same boat as you ( minus my girlfriend isn't as clever ans your's, although this has benefits :cool::cool::cool:) I am pedantic about what signal is sent where as I have a simple stereo amp running mids & high then a dedicated amp running the sub for mid low to low, so I need each to be filtered, low and high pass, which is easy via the normal sound card software, but windows 10 doesn't support it easily,. so running with win legacy software (2 channel) and using EQ APO I have been able to use left channel as mid-high and right as mid-low if you pay careful attention to my settings posted, I am happy it really works well.
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That sounds like quite the convoluted workaround, but if it works...I am not going to argue! Aanhouer wen :thumbsup:
 
PhreakBoy said:
Used Brasso on the front door knobs. Looks way better now.
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Just don't use it on any other knobs ;-).
Renovations are now 99% done after almost a month, ceiling boards, replaced or repaired where necessary. Two new doors for the bedrooms, tiles and rhinolite in my sons room, rhinolite in the dining room, new glass for broken windows, painting, new wall around pool, paving around braai area and screed in braai area.
 
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