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Another possible cause for WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR: Overheating?

2014/08/15 Leave a comment
  1. Problem:
    1. Win8.1. System experiences terrible slow downs.
    2. Eventually  even BSODs with whea_uncorrectable_errors crop up.
  2. Root Cause:
    1. Trying to do root cause analysis, I consider:
      1. Search for “Windows woes after 8.1 upgrade” (online searches lead to results, but seem not applicable here).
      2. Internet (speed test shows normal): image
      3. Virus: I have Window Essentials, but also try Malwarebytes – prognosis negative.
      4. GPU (Bitcoin miner?), CPU. GPU-Z shows no problem there : image
      5. CPUID HWMonitor to the rescue: GPU utilization looks good here also, but what is this with the CPU temperatures?!?! image
    2. On opening up the case and examining the CPU: poorly managed cable blocked the fan heat sink.
  3. Solution: Cable ties! (This new video card install proved more expensive than it should).
  4. Other thoughts:
    1. Why did Windows Performance Metering show the apparently throttled CPU still as mostly idle (It still showed single digit percentages for CPU utilization even when computer was positively crawling)?
Categories: e-infrastructure, hardware Tags: , ,

How to fix Expression Encoder not outputting to a Silverlight template

2014/07/28 Leave a comment
  1. This glitch has bugged me once too often, so now I am writing myself a mental note:
  2. Problem:
    1. On some projects, Expression Encoder outputs only media files, while I need a web-publishable HTML container that calls Silverlight: image.
    2. And I cannot find in the interface where to re-enable  this output option.
  3. Root cause : Something turns the display of the Template Tab off.
  4. Solution:
    1. To show the Template tab, in an existing “Transcoding Project”, go to menu: “Window”, check “Templates” :image
    2. Makes all the difference: image Smiley
    3. Now select something else but “None” which  your prior transcoding defaulted to.
    4. image
    5. Voilà: image
Categories: e-infrastructure, Glitches&Errors, mental-notes, multimedia-recording Tags: ,

A Project Management Life Cycle–with some communication problems

2014/07/20 Leave a comment

Not my content (but forgive me for not remembering the source), just my animated GIFs: 1, 2, 3. Smiley

Categories: animated-GIFs, e-infrastructure, Glitches&Errors, service-is-project-managing

How to fix “Print to OneNote”, “OneNote cannot find a page on which to insert your printout”

2014/07/16 2 comments
  1. This error kept popping up for me on OneNote 2013, but I gather it is a classic.
  2. I should have just taken the error message seriously and literally: Could I do better than OneNote and find a page where OneNote says it cannot?
  3. First, to find out where I and OneNote are supposed to be looking for this page, go to File / Options/ Send To OneNote and check which “print to “location you have set.
  4. This one here looks obviously suspicious (and does not exist – one would wish still when this location goes out of scope this could be flagged with a more transparent warning):
  5. image
  6. Change the location :
  7. image
  8. to one that actually exists:
  9. image
  10. or better maybe, for lack of a more transparent error checking if page goes out of scope, chose one of the other,  hopefully more robust options: image
Categories: e-infrastructure, Glitches&Errors, office-software Tags: , ,

Protected: LRC calendars requirements and configuration management

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Categories: e-infrastructure, service-is-documenting, service-is-project-managing, Spreadsheets Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

Protected: LRC headset organization

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Categories: e-infrastructure, headphones

How to sort a Pivot table by a calculated field column

2014/07/12 Leave a comment

(Click on image for original size version, now bigger.)
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Categories: animated-GIFs, e-infrastructure, mental-notes Tags: , ,

How to work around broken links and visible “Machine generated alternative text”issues with images from MS-OneNote in Windows Live Writer

2014/07/08 Leave a comment
  1. Problem: Sometimes when you use Windows Live Writer (2012) to post images copied from MS-OneNote (2010, 2013), the result (on WordPress) can get messed up, like so (post has since been fixed as described below): clip_image001
    1. The image is missing (“src=” link broken).
    2. The “alt=” text is visible instead (and you did not want to post this “alt=”text anyway. (MS-OneNote OCRs images to make the text therein searchable; this text is put into the “alt”when pasting from MS-OneNote).
  2. Root cause:
    1. Windows Live Writer converts the pasted content by
      1. removing the “alt=”Machine generated alternative text: [deleted for brevity]”
      2. creating from the pasted content thumbnail images
      3. which it links in the “src=” tag, and links the thumbnail image to the full-size original image.
    2. If something – unclear what – prevents this conversion, Unfortunately, this is not obvious from the “edit” tab view or elsewhere within Windows Live Writer. But when posted, will result in “Machine generated alternative text” from MS-OneNote in place, but even  break the image src link: image.
    3. What exactly triggers (and would allow you to force) a successful conversion within Windows Live Writer I do not know. However, there is a simple:
  3. Workaround:
  1. After pasting your images, be patient : The trick seems to be to give Windows Live Writer enough time (more apparently if you have pasted multiple images) to finish
  2. Things you can look for in Windows Live Writer to make sure the conversion is finished:
      1. edit tab: you can tell the difference by the resizing of the image on the edit tab:
        1. before: image
        2. after (= conversion finished): image
      2. source code  tab: A somewhat radical solution, but here beneficial  is that the conversion removes the imported “alt” text of the image.
        1. before: alt=”Machine generated alternative text: [deleted for brevity]” src=”$clip_image006.jpg”
        2. after: alt=”clip_image006″ src=”$clip_image006_thumb.jpg”
Categories: e-infrastructure, Glitches&Errors, service-is-learning-materials-creation, service-is-testing-troubleshooting-debugging Tags: , , , , ,