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Computer outage 2: the PSU strikes back

I know you folks pretty much don’t give a damn about my computer problems, BUT I feel like I need to say it anyway. Since yesterday I started having problems again with my computer. It would not restart in a loop, but this time, just freeze, usually after 10-15 mins. After looking everywhere, I stopped to look at the voltage levels, and… oh crap.

Vcore: 1.48v to 1.608v (set a 1.6v)
+3.3v: 2.7v to 3.08v
+5v: 4.3v to 4.7v
+12v: 11.3v to 11.5v

Holy shit! Look at that +3.3v! Something was definitely wrong with the PSU or the Mobo. I immediately tried with another PSU (a 220w from my HTPC, pretty weak compared to my actual 350w), and bam, levels back to normal.
So I guess all my problems came from the PSU after all…
UPDATE: Well, I was wrong again. My computer just crashed with the temporary PSU. Perhaps I’ll try a more powerful one.

Meh body be hurtin

So saturday night some friends and I went to see Black Bomb A, a french metalcore band, in concert. How was it? Well, I almost broke my nose (I took some guy’s head in the face), my thumb is hurting, my arms/neck/back muscles are soared, and I slept 13 hours straight the night after. To put it shortly, awesome.
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Computer Outage - Not?

There may be a stall in the development of DWMaxx for the next two weeks, because I think my motherboard is dying (Asus P4P800 Deluxe). I spent the whole weekend trying to revive it, it works sometimes, sometimes it doesn’t…. Well, after 3 days and nights and 100€ on a new hard drive, it seems I’ll have to let it go… After all, it’s been on 24h/24 for the last 5 years… And because everything has evolved, I can’t just buy a new mobo, I’ll need a complete upgrade (from the CPU to the GPU). And I’ll do it when I have the money, that is probably at the end of the month!
In the mean time, I’m still trying to make it work again, because I’m not as coffy on the laptop
UPDATE 12/02/2008: It’s alive! True magic involved here. Read on for the whole story.
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DWMaxx going Open Source

I’ve decided that for the good of this project, I may be best for it to go open source. So that’s it, DWMaxx is open sourced! It is distributed under GPLv2 (to prevent people from using it for commercial purposes). Of course, it doesn’t mean that I’m letting this project down, not at all! But I don’t want it to finish like SPrintWindow (I still have to commit the sources somewhere…).
I’ll try to comment the code as often as I can, and write documentations too.

Anyway, you can now find everything on the DWMaxx Google Code project page.

On a side note, I’ve been working pretty hard to get 3D window rotations working. I think I’m on something, but it might be trickier than I thought (because theses things are quite hard-wired inside the DWM). I’ll keep you guys posted.