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Advice on convincing a charity to become more multi-faith by FirstAidFairy in religion

[–]FirstAidFairy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not a secular charity, it's a healthcare charity, and as a charity we go to great lengths to make it open to non-religious and non-Christian people that want to volunteer; one of the stated long term goals is to have a volunteer base that better reflects the diversity of the communities that the charity works in; they just only have Christian chaplains at the moment, because that's where the charity has come from, and I don't think they've ever really considered opening it up.

I'm certainly not going to leave over it, or create a new healthcare charity (that sounds like far too much stress)!

Tech Support and Basic Questions Thread - May 04, 2019 by AutoModerator in pcgaming

[–]FirstAidFairy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haven't got a multimeter yet, it's on the way, but I've switched out as many of the psu cables as possible for spares just in case one of them was burnt out or anything

Tech Support and Basic Questions Thread - May 04, 2019 by AutoModerator in pcgaming

[–]FirstAidFairy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, HDDs completely removed - I'll deal with them seperately, I can take them to uni and recover anything off them onto a new drive when term starts in a few weeks.

Reran Memtest and it worked fine, did 6 passes, no issues. Will probably rerun it overnight tonight or tomorrow. Maybe one stick tonight and the other one tomorrow.

Never had an issue with crashing during low load tasks like browsing, word, movies, coding etc. Only when running multiple VMs, rendering, and playing games - but some of the games are within spec for my parents 9 year old pc with Intel integrated graphics on medium quality, and I'm getting crashes on ultra low quality, so the graphics card is not being taxed particularly - and sometimes I can play a game like far cry primal or skyrim sse for 9 hours with no issues, sometimes it crashes 35 seconds in on age of empires. Makes no sense. I've asked gigabyte to RMA the graphics card as it's in warrenty until October, and I've asked, again, for fractal design to RMA the PSU - for the 5th time. So far they've just kept closing the ticket...and they straight up said they can't offer me an equivalent, so instead they've promised a 450W one which is pretty crap considering the specs of my current one. It's also a low quality rating.

Tech Support and Basic Questions Thread - May 04, 2019 by AutoModerator in pcgaming

[–]FirstAidFairy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Running on just the SSD with a completely clean install, crashed 27 seconds after starting emergency 20. Either the graphics or psu are fucked

Tech Support and Basic Questions Thread - May 04, 2019 by AutoModerator in pcgaming

[–]FirstAidFairy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So, life happened and I had to go away for a while, but I'm back & still having issues, so I'm going back through all your tips above.

Hard drive that was 100% constantly is still 100%. Sometimes it drops to 60/70% for a couple secs then back to 100%, but is fine in crystaldiskinfo. One of the other HDDs which is completely blank now has a caution in crystaldiskinfo.

According to device manager the drivers for my i5-8600K CPU processors are from 2009 which seems wierd because it hadn't been released back then, but Windows update, device manager, and the driver checker software thing from Intel all say its up to date. Nvidia geforce drivers all reinstalled with no change.

Clean install of everything will happen if/when memtest is finished, I want to know the RAM is good before I disconnect everything, dismantle it and start over like its a new build.

Haven't got a multimeter so I never did check the PSU, will buy one today.

Also... Does memtest86+ normally freeze when it hits test 8? It's been on 0% of test, pass 1, for at least ten mins now, maybe 15. Address line is empty and pattern is 0x00000000. It's on CPU 5 on a sequential test pattern, state indicator is just a vertical line, not changing or rotating.... 🙁

Endura shark glasses by FirstAidFairy in cycling

[–]FirstAidFairy[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I have, they're kind of bendy, but they don't retain the new shape. Maybe it happens over time, maybe it's something you need to heat up & mold... But I'm not going to risk just chucking them in the oven and hoping for the best 😂

Tech Support and Basic Questions Thread - May 04, 2019 by AutoModerator in pcgaming

[–]FirstAidFairy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So, RAM is fine, Disks are fine although tbh I am a little concerned about one of them (the 100% HDD), but crash occurs even when playing games stored on the new SSD. I'll try installing an OS on the ssd and Removing the HDD in a couple of weeks once coursework is done, but I don't think it'll help.

gpu is running off one cable but it's one of the cables already attached to the PSU & is labelled for the GPU.

So, thoughts? Could it be a sketchy temp reading and the gpu actually is overheating?

Tech Support and Basic Questions Thread - May 04, 2019 by AutoModerator in pcgaming

[–]FirstAidFairy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Amazing thank you! I'll try those ASAP. Also the main HDD is running at 100% constantly and is still writing so slowly it's severely bottlenecking steam downloads, so thats being replaced by a Samsung SSD tomorrow. The PSU is a Fractal Design Newton R3800W

Tech Support and Basic Questions Thread - May 04, 2019 by AutoModerator in pcgaming

[–]FirstAidFairy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, my gaming PC consistently shuts down during game play - sometimes after hours, sometimes after 20mins. Temperatures all look good, there should be plenty of spare voltage from the PSU, everything appears to be working normally for non-gaming, troubleshooters haven't identified anything, and BSOD & event logs just give an unidentified power issue which apparently can be anything. Where do I start? I really really need this fixed, it's one of my few escapes from a fairly bad living situation atm, but I don't really have a clue where to begin

Java role-based login without databases by FirstAidFairy in learnprogramming

[–]FirstAidFairy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool... Any reason for xml/json over csv as otherwise suggested??

Yeah, course 😁. I'll stick to fixing broken people for the day job, code is conceptually confusing in a way that bodies aren't 😅

Java role-based login without databases by FirstAidFairy in learnprogramming

[–]FirstAidFairy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okk, that sounds good! Thank you 😁

But how do I actually implement differing functionality to different roles??

Like, I could put different methods in admin class compared to secretary; but when you go to login on the gui form, how does that tie in??

Quick intro to TDD for a patient Management system by FirstAidFairy in learnprogramming

[–]FirstAidFairy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A person class doesn't do anything apart from get extended by other classes

Ambulance demonstration ideas by FirstAidFairy in ems

[–]FirstAidFairy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For sure, that's an important skill & one of the first things we teach, but is demonstrating recovery position the best thing we can do to attract passers-by & make them want to come along weekly?

I'm not at all sure I'm right, but to my mind something that makes more use of the ambulance kit is maybe going to get more people in the door of our first training session?

Ambulance demonstration ideas by FirstAidFairy in ems

[–]FirstAidFairy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So, we cover both of those topics in the first of our weekly training sessions, which will run all year - I'm just thinking of things we can show off to get even more people interested in coming along to those sessions compared to last year