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Member #1,507 · 2008-03-10 → 2008-03-15
#1,980 by Dispatches #3,053 by Author Reads #6,348 by Thread Reach Member #1,507 AMD OSx86

@mikormack

InfiniteMac community contributor with 4 recorded dispatches, 1 lead technical dossiers (2,942 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 2,942 historical readers.

Dispatches 4 Ranked #1,980 of 6,691
Author Reads 2,942 Ranked #3,053 · 1 dossiers
Thread Reach 2,942 Ranked #6,348 in reach
Lead Dossiers 1 2,942 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #1,507 Joined 2008-02-27
Active Window 2008 2008-03-10 → 2008-03-15
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
Specs · · Mobo: ASUS M2NPV-VM · CPU: AMD Athlon64 X2 4400+ · Memory: 2x 1GB Patriot DDR2 800 SDRAM · NIC: DLink DGE-530T Gb PCI card · Boot HDD: 80gb Seagate Barracuda SATA 7200 drive
Archive Standing
#1,980 of 6,691 by Dispatches (4 notes) · #3,053 of 3,454 by Author Readership (2,942 reads across 1 dossiers) · #6,348 by Thread Reach (2,942 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #1,507 · Joined 2008-02-27
Hardware & Kernel Topics
AMD OSx86 (1)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 1 technical boards

Leopard 10.5
4 (100%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @mikormack (1)

2,942 cumulative reads on threads started by @mikormack

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
Firefox crashes with 'divide by zero' error
Thanks for all the hard work on the AMD front. After a bit of tweaking and troubleshooting I have gotten a somewhat stable 10.5.2 using Zephyroth's rev. 1 release. There are only a couple major outstanding issues before I can consider my…
Leopard 10.52,942 reads
2008-03-10 · 10 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (3)

Direct links into threads where @mikormack contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Firefox crashes with 'divide by zero' error
“I ran Marvin's on rev. 1 with no real change. Dunno if it's the updated drivers, but rev. 2 seems a lot more stable (and so long as I set maxmem to 3gb) and it no longer crashes -- so I haven't run Marvin's yet. firefox 3.0b4 runs quite wel…”
Leopard 10.52008-03-15
2,942 dossier reads
Firefox crashes with 'divide by zero' error
“upgraded to rev 2, and now at least both cores are detected. firefox 3 doesn't seem to crash as much, and it doesn't seem to have the divide by zero error (which some googling '__gettimeofday divide by zero' seems to have affected others, n…”
Leopard 10.52008-03-14
2,942 dossier reads
Firefox crashes with 'divide by zero' error
“The BIOS actually gives some fine-tuning control. I manually set all the DRAM timings as follows (doing this from memory so I may've gotten the settings off): Memory Type: DDR2 800Mhz Tcl: 5 Trcd: 5 Trp: 5 Tras: 6 Trc: 16 Trwt: 5 1T/2T Memo…”
Leopard 10.52008-03-10
2,942 dossier reads