prophetik music

basically. =)

And that is why, ideally, you don't rely on a single partition. Reformatting Windows becomes so routine that losing all of one's precious shit ceases to be a problem if you store it all on something other than C:\. You know, as long as the drive itself doesn't die. But that's why you then use a combination of optical media for backups and maybe even a second hard drive. Still though, multiple partitions FTW. As to the original problem, the "thinking light" is the HD access light (it'd be awesome to have a front gauge for CPU usage tho) and heavy HD access on startup is unsurprising for most Windows systems, especially those that haven't been reformatted in a while. My suggestions there are to defrag the drive, and either remove some things from startup, or just remove some things altogether. Even with 1GB of RAM (which is pretty much standard these days) HD thrashing will still occur, especially if you're loading a lot of stuff, and killing explorer.exe won't help because Windows Explorer doubles as the Windows shell. I also suggest replacing Task Manager with SysInternals Process Explorer (it's free), since Process Explorer is a much better tool for figuring out what could be causing a bottleneck in performance. EDIT: Or just use this to figure out wtf is causing the HD thrashing on startup. i said it DOESN'T do anything after it logs on - it just sits there, saying that windows is doing some really insanely powerful. i actually use process explorer. it still just lists explorer as automatically going up to 100% CPU load within a minute of it loading. i thought for sure it's gotta be some sort of virus because it never really did that in the past, and i'm only loading some five small applications on startup. i never run more than 44 processes at a time, according to the sysinternal tool, and only six of them are non-essential files. i ran that autoruns thing, and didn't notice anything strange in there. would you mind taking a look at it and telling me what you think of it?

lifestream is, by far, my favorite song in the game. i might do some sort of compilation thing. the ideas that lifestream has fit really nicely with the main theme, and i think that the main theme would fit nicely on a large set of saxophones. now, can i get the arrangement done fast enough to record before i go home on friday?

this isn't really an option. i have too much stuff on here that i'd not be able to back up without possibly just dumping the virus into my backed up stuff. i need to find some way to clean it straight up.

the only other problem now is i can't get a good connection anywhere for online gaming. i constantly lag out of everything, and the WOW kids seem to have a fine connection wherever they go. know any way to optimize my connection? i'm on a college line that's fine for gaming on Xbox and other stuff, but for some reason it doesn't work well with Guild Wars.

well, it'd be appreciated if you did.

ok, since i've not seen updates in a month, i'm canning Chavous and i'm seriously thinking about canning DrumUltimA. i've not even seen either of them in a month. PLEASE get me updates soon or else email me, or you're off the project. that said, we still need mixers who will finish their tracks!

i'm in.

have you looked at the front page of the website recently?

WIP DEADLINE

after jamming my system twice into a freeze, it finally got through about half my system in 3 hours. didn't really help. anyways, removing smitfraud seems to have fixed the cpu problem. now, i just need to figure out why it's opening all these pop ads (in both IE and firefox). adaware, spybot S&D, windows defender, and Norton don't find a thing.

i still am pissed that i can't go to this AND mag.

apparently, it's caused because of the only virus i can find on my computer...'smitfraud'.

definitely don't have the discs i need for it. i'm running windows defender and the malicious software tool that windows puts out right now, so we'll see what they say.

i'm running windows xp home edition with service pack 2, and i'm running norton antivirus/internet security. i did a super-scan in safe mode, and it only detected one thing - an adware thing called zangosearch which i've found before. i took it off, and restarted my computer, only to have it jump up to 100% cpu usage with explorer again. i'm currently locating some discs for the windows file protection utility now. this is SO annoying. i think it's causing my extreme lag when i play my mmorpg, as well, because i'm having trouble getting anything going lately with that either, and it's roughly mirrored the worsening of my computer's condition.

Well you know where to find me. no offense, but i'm not going to OK your account until you're officially a part of the project.

so, i've got this problem with windows. every time i start my computer, windows explorer (the GUI interface, not IE) jumps to 100% CPU usage. my computer isn't thinking or anything, it just doesn't DO anything. it acts like it's running some really huge processes, but the 'thinking' light doesn't even turn on, and the computer just lags really really bad. so i close 'explorer' with the task manager, and it runs fine. i've got more than a gig of ram in this computer, i've got a huge amount of space on my hard drive, i virus-scan my computer every week, and i know there's no spam on it. i THINK this started after running what turned out to be a bad keygen which tried to install a bunch of viruses on my computer. virus checker caught them before they were installed, and i was fine. this started about 2 weeks after that. what's causing my CPU problem? it's REALLY annoying not being able to access my icons in the desktop, and all that. does anyone have any idea? please just don't tell me to buy a mac, or run linux. i want a solution, not a retarded answer.

That mission was so fun! I had just gotten the elite enchantment Unyielding Aura. We were in such a bind towards the end and that skill proved really useful. We didn't do very good, but it was a great/fun struggle. i beat it last night. there were 5 lvl18+ guys and me, and we walked the whole damn way from LA to there. it was retarded...we got attacked by 26 level 24 minotaurs at one point. we did more than half the mission with at least two of us dead =) but we beat it, and i'm now almost a level 17 because of the 4k exp. we actually only beat it because of a lvl 18 monk who was absolutely awesome...good monks are ard to find, fo sho. oh, and xerol, where are you? i'll be online tonight and tomorrow some also - if you just want to whisper me, we can do some stuff together, provided you're not past divinity coast.

distortion on saxophone doesn't really sound all that hot usually, at least when i've used it. vocoder sounds really sexy, sometimes, as well as some really aggressive delay techniques. i'll show you sometime. but yeah, just send me the background and tell me where to go, and i'll go.

the date's in just a few days, people! i'm really hoping to see some updates really soon at the project forum. if you need to get the link for the forum again, just contact me via pm and i'll send it to you. can't wait to hear the new wips!

Brendan is actually planning on designating official "meetup" times for OCR, in the lounge, to help people get to know each other. They'll probably happen on Friday and Saturday afternoons. A lot of us already know each other, and I'm sure people will spots others in OCR shirts, but I'll post those times whenever he schedules them. i'm seriously debating wearing my OCR tshirt all weekend for this reason, but i'll probably break down and just take a white shirt and write 'the prophet' on it in sharpie.

i've been stuck around LA, trying to get out to do the garnath mission or whatever the hell it's called. i get fried before i even get to where the damn mission is supposed to take me. there's too many brute creatures out there ganging up on me. i died six times tonight - more than in the last week altogether. anyways, if you want to give this a shot, i'll be on tomorrow around 9ish EST. send me a whisper if you're a tank or a motank - i'm getting raped every time i go through there, and it's starting to piss me off.

i'm in. EDIT: i know we talked about doing acapella stuff in the bast as well in the old thread. are we going to be able to do barbershop-style stuff or whatever now? or do we HAVE to do stuff with zircon's background?

boo

didn't taucer suggest 'balls' a while back as our project name? anyways, if we don't want to do that, my girlfriend suggested just now the name 'Primary', because they're blue, red, and yellow. it sounds much more innocent that way. LOL.