4/29/2023 0 Comments Ia writer vs scrivener![]() ![]() ![]() To me, an app that manages to tick those boxes will be a contender for my daily driver, at which point the choice would come down to the individual nuances of its design, workflow, and additional functionality.Įxamples include iA Writer (and its Pro incarnation, which I’m going to lump into the same name for the sake of convenience), Byword, and now Ulysses.īyword isn’t included in this comparison because I have fallen out of love with it. Your choice of writing environment is a deeply individual thing, so this way you’ll be able to tell if your needs align with mine: In the interest of clarity, I want to lay out my criteria for judging these two apps. For science.ĭoing so helped me recognize what I love about iA Writer, and how Ulysses’ latest update allows me to bring almost all of those aspects to a much more functional and self-contained writing environment. With this revamp, Ulysses levels the playing field, so I knew it was time for me to put the two head to head. Much of that comes down to it being a consistent writing environment across all my devices. Though I’ve admitted I tend to oscillate between several writing apps, I’ve become a faithful user of iA Writer of late. In a strange departure from my normal routine, I did not beta test Ulysses’ update, nor the iPad app. The time has come: Ulysses is now available for iPad, and the Mac app has been given a Yosemite facelift.įor once, I’m experiencing this launch like everyone else. Note: I’ve since written a follow-up piece that revisits this comparison two years later. ![]()
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4/29/2023 0 Comments World community grid boinc manager![]() Thanks for your help with my WCG problem and for offering to send me a suggested fix. It's a simple one-line tweak, and completely reversible - but it would require a Windows restart. If you - or anyone else with a similar APU, and experiencing the same problem - would be prepared to test my suspicion, I could send you the details by PM or email (initial dot surname at btinternet dot com - be careful with spelling). My own iGPUs have performed perfectly since I traced the cause of the problem: but unfortunately, I don't have any APUs here, so - although it seems likely - I can't confirm whether the same tweak will work on the equivalent AMD platform. Steven GaberFrom your original description of the problem, it does sound as if the AMD APU is triggering the same Windows protection mechanism as the Intel iGPU. I guess it depends on how prevalent the issue is within the wider community of users. ![]() ![]() We'll see if they care enough to do something about it. I submitted a problem query via the WCG "Contact Us" link on the main page. What can I do to get WCG admins to fix this glitch? I can't be the only one to suffer these setbacks.īut thanks for your help with this issue. It has a two-core AMD A-6 6400 APU with Radeon(TM) HD Graphics and a Gigabyte motherboard, 8 gigs of RAM and a 1TB hard drive. However, the computer does not have an Intel GPU. I think it's probably best for you to withdraw your computer from the iGPU part of the project for the time being, and watch out for any new version announcements on the WCG project forums. Otherwise, the Scripps programmers are going to have to redesign their application pretty substantially. So I'm not going to post details in public: if anyone else understands Windows internals enough to deduce what I'm alluding to, feel free to use your own judgement as to whether it's safe in your environment. It is possible to disable the Windows watchdog, but it's dangerous: depending on what else you use the computer for, you could encounter other problems far worse than this one. I think they're all too busy to work on it yet. There are several possible courses of action, but most of them would need to be carried out by the WCG project staff working with the Scripps Institute science team. The app continues to run, but isn't actually using the GPU any longer. But for those affected - it's mainly the i5 range of processors and below - the WCG iGPU is simply too slow, and triggers a safeguard/watchdog in Windows. Not every iGPU is affected, which is why they haven't turned off the supply entirely. What follows only applies to that combination: if your situation is different, please stop reading here and post back with details of your GPU. I'm guessing that you're running an Intel GPU (iGPU) under Windows. ![]() Sadly, this is a known problem which the WCG team are aware of, but haven't yet addressed. The computer could be doing some good research crunching, but is not. ![]() It's wasting my computer time and interfering with my other projects and is pissing me off. Why would BOINC repeatedly send me tasks my computer can't process? Somebody said that perhaps my GPU was not compatible with these tasks. Stuff like this has happened several times in the past two weeks. Yesterday I aborted a running task because the time remaining was increasing instead of decreasing, and it was up to 3 days, 17+ hours with no progress being made. The task shown below has been stuck at 01:48:50, occasionally showing 01:48:49 then back to 01:48:50 ![]() |
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