Thursday, June 26, 2008
post://8714019405679459031/I submitted a photoshop to'day. It's only using paint... so I guess it's a paint-shop. In any case check out the submission. I've also got the original.
Only 3 more days to watch "Back to You" on Hulu!
I found I really liked it once I checked it out - turns out it's because it comes from the creators of Frasier and Just Shoot Me, working together. Don't get too attached to Gracie... I still say they're mad for changing (ie: "...going in a different direction.")
Oh yeah... catch up on your ALF!
Labels: fun, graphics, photoshop, tv, video
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
post://4296121579900533304/I went back today and found some previous 3DMark06 Scores since I was finally able to get my 3DMark06 up and running. I still had my old VISTA x64 install on my extra HD (haven't needed to reformat it for space yet) so I installed everything (didn't work) and then copied over all the OpenAL32.dll to both system32 and syswow64 directories. I removed 3DMark06 and reinstalled from my Crosshair driver CD (w/ professsional SN) but when I went to submit it said a newer version was available. The patch wouldn't install (said 3DMark06 wasn't installed???) so I just copied the 3DMark folder over as well.
All in all I got it to work, but I'm thinking I need to turn the Cancel or Allow back on, this shit didn't happen when I had it ask me to do everything. I still haven't reinstalled SP1. I'll certainly make sure everything's working proper before I do it, but it's ineveitable.... inevietiiable... invevieitiaitiablale!
So it's running and I got a 10,333 base v1.0 - so here are some past 3Dmark scores nVidia 7800 - December 16th, 2006
Asylum GeForce FX 5900 w/ 128mb RAM
I found these doing a picosearch, still works... just re-indexed - give it a try
Labels: 3dmark, games, hardware, nostalgia, SLi
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Sunday, June 15, 2008
post://7579065082664969228/I picked up another card to do SLi this weekend. I wanted more, I wanted 2560x1600. I priced out what it would cost me to get a 9800GX2 including the trade-in from EVGA and it was going to be like $350+, so I instead spent $170 for another 8800 GTS - which were getting scarce so I moved on it.
I tested using 3D Mark Vantage (for VISTA) as my existing 3D Mark 2006 is not working in VISTAx64 because it says OpenAL32.dll is not present (which it is).
I'd rather use 3DMark 06 as it's a more accurate guage given my past configurations were also based in 2006 but with Creative software not installing for some weird error they can't solve I'm just working with what's working for me.
In any case, you'll see the difference with the score of 1 8800GTS vs 2 in SLi
1 x 8800GTS 640mb
Score: 4383
- CPU: 4228
- GPU: 4437
2 x 8800GTS 640mb in SLi
Score: 6642
- CPU: 4275
- GPU: 8145
I might post another score if I try some overclocking. It's nowhere near the 20,000 score reached by an individual with a QuadCore, 9850GX2, and PhysX card but I figured it out and I'm 118260 out of 155217 total, so that's a decent standing with a 76%.
Labels: consumerism, games, games for windows, hardware, SLi, technology
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Sunday, June 08, 2008
post://9045782568072414742/I found a virtual lab for Visual Studio 9. This particular one is for building web applications, but if you're interested in teaching yourself you can get your start with the virtual labs and then even download Microsoft Visual Studio Express for free!
Labels: download, programming
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Thursday, June 05, 2008
post://6948603993605328803/I just paid $4.19 for Super using CASH. I could have paid $4.39 if I used credit. Separate cash and credit prices?? Way to go back to <1984. I was amazed, I guess they just started this tdoay and it's just weird. I understand saving $2 for 10 gallons (in my particular case) but that could ammount to 5 to 10 dollars for SUV owners, and even more for truckers.
I listen to Bubba the Love Sponge (Sirius: Howard 101) now, a lot more for the past year or so and he's just as good as Howard in many a case. They're always advocating for the truckers so I'm a bit more understanding. I just can't conceive how someone who is an owner operator could possibly be making a living - let it be known, you've at least got a break if you're paying cash for gas in Holyoke, MA... go to the Shell station by the mall.
Out of principal I paid cash. I took it out of the business. I know a lot of people are running on credit card leins right now and it's kind of scary. I am doing ok, we're cutting down on groceries, and bought our big ticket items prior to this whole crunch, so all in all we're doing ok.
I got gas at this hour because I'm headed in to work early tomorrow for a big release party - hardly what it sounds like, we're switching our phone operations so I'm going to be there bright and early in case anyone has any issues. I've been working all this week to make sure we're ok a this point and it looks like we will be but I'll be there at 5, which means waking up at 4... and I'm not really down with that, and certainly not expecting any gas stations within my 30 miles to empty radius to be open. Considering I'm still up at 10:14PM EST --- I'm probalby going to be feeling it. My plan is redbull. Claratin D and redbull.
Labels: lament, materialism, politics, work
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Sunday, June 01, 2008
post://2279815248762638880/If you thought Crysis was cool:
Video: First look at FarCry2
They did it even better with FarCry 2, without aliens.
Top 100 Best Tech Products - top 10 are right on... minus a few (like Facebook, XP?!!). I had never heard of the SD card that turns your camera into a wifi device.
Labels: games, games for windows, graphics, video
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Sunday, May 18, 2008
post://6319280356957756505/My Niece has a Melon
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Thursday, May 08, 2008
post://7270195168885293291/So I'm working from home today, collected a few tidbits durring my hours upon hours of meetings:
There is still no concrete info on the Wii pole dance game
EA PR is spinning, Tech is confirming they suck
Ever wonder if your local sewage treatment is up to snuff? Holyoke's isn't.
Kind of a dramatic image of an old Iraqi woman not quite the caliber of the Afghanistan girl from Time, but still powerful.
*update* gotta hand it to MSN, they find some cool stuff, particularly Jott - a free service where you can dictate text messages.
Labels: commentary, environment, games, games for windows, Iraq culture, link
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Sunday, May 04, 2008
post://1153126327478132177/After a long time of being unable to find a chance to hang with anyone the past 2 weeks have been great. I think I can finally hunker down and maybe do some work. After seeing what Justin has been able to do with his free time, I'm inspired.
It started two weeks ago when I was able to finally get together with Josh & Katie, of course Nicole had a previous engagement she realized after we made the plans but that was fine, still time to go grab something to eat first.
Note to self:: the Eastside Grill in NoHo is a full-night affair. An hour of waiting with drinks chit chatting it up for a table, an hour for appetizers, an hour without appetizers, and hour for food, and what seemed like an hour waiting for the check, all in all I think we were in it for at least 3 and a half hours so divide that up accordingly.
I at least got a free dinner and a beer out of it because they had brought me the wrong type of beer on accident. I asked for informational purposes (I have a red-ish beer I need to stop drinking and switch to water in order to be responsible) and they wiped it off the bill for me - mmmm free Gorgonzola Ribeye...
Eventually we got back to the house pretty late but there's always time to show off the TV and play some games.
Saturday I spent the day brewing beer with Bryan, the girls went to a knitting fest, and we spent the evening Wii-ing all over the place.
This weekend Friday was a party at Jay's for his birthday. We went out after work and had a buncha fun. Once everyone started showing up, I was already onto my 4th beer. It compounded for there and I continued to drink water for the rest of the night to stay standing. There was a young girl with breasts out and father in tow (it's just as weird as it sounds). Creep factor +12 for the camera... but I'm going to see if I can find the Myspace photos so you can see for yourself. (FOUND THEM!)
Finally last night was a wine tasting at Justin's. We hung out all day after sleeping until 11 or so - we finally got back to his place and got to sleep at like 3 or so. We'll be having one at our place in September. I wasn't a huge fan of the wine itself and I really can't see paying $27 for a bottle including the shipping but hey - they might just get some people who want to have one at their place.
We just have to have to buy the food to go along with it, but all in all it was pretty fun. It was great to see Justin and Tracy, and I'm very impressed with his self-motivation. It's more then I can do working full time and still getting to the work that's waiting for me at home.
Labels: booze, friends, fun, games, party, pics
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
post://7782757885757208656/I picked up GTA IV this morning, and by some odd cooincidence also had today off. I popped it in, it did a file copy to the HD (about 5 to 10 minutes) which is like 3+ Gig.
I got in it and it looked blurry... I checked the box, 720p, 1080i, 1080p... and then I checked the TV - 720p. There were no settings in the game (guess I'm too used to PC games) so I went out to the main PS3 menu. There are normally settings when hitting /_\ but not in this case - nothing relevant other then it's a parental control level 9 game :)
In any case I finally weeded through all the tiny text in the back of the game manual to find the technical support line. I got through after not too long (they'll probably get a bunch later on) and spoke with the guy. I was skeptical at first because he told me it was the display settings of the PS3. He told me (in a cockney accent) that I'd need to set it to 1080p. I said I was in 1080p and the main menu was displaying in 1080p, so I knew it was working. He put me on hold to check.
Apparently in the display settings you can check all the boxes for the resolution(s) your TV can handle. I had 720p, 1080i, and 1080p checked. Per his instructions I unchecked 720p and left 1080i/p.
Saved, went back into the game... and voila 1080p.
So if you're experiencing issues with GTA4 getting HD res, you need to take 720p out of your settings. I assume they'll fix this with an update down the road, but if you're checking it out day 1, you may want this handy little tidbit.
*sidenote*
After some additional confusion regarding the multiplayer aspect, simply press Up on the D-pad and then X when the phone is up to get the sub-menu.
Check out the Getting Started in Multiplayer for GTAIV PDF. It's got both PS3 and XBox360 but I bet XBox Live users didn't have such a difficult time with it ;)
Labels: games, ps3, technology
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008
post://8139086312421466235/Graff.
I'm finally back online.
let me just start with the fact that Virtual Machine 2007 started this... wait... maybe MixMan DM2 started this... yeah...
I've recently gotten a bit of DJ gear. Nothing special, a turntable, then a mixer with the phono on one side and MP3 player or MiniDisk player on the other, followed by a SB Audigy FAT4L1TY. I'm really craving a way to have samples within easy reach. I have the midi keyboard but that was a bit large for what I wanted - here comes sexy DM2 (for XP). Just assign a sound to each little block, and decky decky blip blip at will.
But oh no, it doesn't work on VISTA - let alone VISTA64 - and I didn't have my XP or XP64 because my RAID 0 (<--0 is VERY important to the story!!) wasn't working because of what I thought was a bad bios on my motherboard. I figured a virtual machine might be just the ticket - I'd just run XP32 on top of VISTA64! (spoiler alert - it was my power supply - suddenly insufficient with the addition of the new soundcard I got). Lo and behold upon installing VM I was 15Gig less in my HD, USB doesn't work for VM and I was in a world of hurt in my config. My system had a layer of virtual everywhere I looked. I couldn't uninstall it right, it retained the tendrils and my network cards were kablooi due to the extra layer.
Countless hours of drivers, new drivers, wrong drivers, no drivers, anything to get it to work! Finally I put in an old PCI LAN card I had about... popped it in, popped in the cable, clicked the switch - baroooom, click. Huh? clicked the switch again - barom| click. ???? clicked the switch again and a nice ozone filled the air, pulled the plug, and lamented in the fact that my power supply had now gone kablooi.
Fast forward to a week and a half later (extra half for shipment from Puerto Rico to CA, only to re-ship to me in MA. New power supply, and finally able to get my computer up and running - set up the bios - yeah, everything's good. Put in the rest of the hardware and set up the RAID in BIOS - turned it on - BOOT DISK BLAH BLAH, INSERT SYSTEM DISK... and it did it in capitals just to smak me around.
Oye, so I tried the 3rd non-complicated-RAID disk for VISTA 64 that I had been running in all this disillusioned BIOS time. It also failed to boot. OK - so it's because I never had raid running in VISTA64? BSOD due to nvRAID driver? OK, I can understand that... disabled - same issue. DISKCRC.DLL even in safemode! GRAAA!
Finally put in the VISTA DVD and booted from it to do a repair to the system.
Repair worked! I could boot to VISTA 64, but alas, even once booted I still had no RAID - oh it showed up as a drive - 320G of space but no partitions, no drives, and no luck. Windows Update had some nvidia chipset drivers - oooh, I'll try those, nvidia raid, nvidia networking... all good stuff.
Rebooted, still no raid but I had networking. Put the computer to sleep.
Fast forward to today when I found a raid recovery program today at work - I was all ready to go... but no network?!! Try Try try... same issue I had before the whole system went kaput! ARG! FF>> 3 hours later and I've disabled nvidia onboard LAN ports (plural, 2 x gigabit) I inserted 1 x Intel PCI 100tx... and I'm online.
Never underextimate the replacement factor. I still think Vista is hoarked, I'm never getting the 15G back from the virtual machine reservation... looks like I'm in for a restore anyhow. Time to put the RAID to RAID 1 - mirroring, and buy 2 more drives for striping - where the very NONessential files will be kept. I've lost over 120 gig of music I've collected (maybe 110 is in other places - HDs, CDs, DVDs, etc) but mainly my purchased software, serials, and documents. I'm putting it all on my mac disk in the future. I'm sick of losing the stuff I pay to download. I want CDs dammit!
So now things are running (kinda) I can at least get back into the music. Nicole got me the expansion drive for my birthday so I can output to optical (which enables me to record to minidisk) and have some straight RCA ins. She also got me some real headphones, so I'm looking forward to letting loose on the deck when I'm not so hardware stressed.
So the lesson is RAID 1... RAID 0 is tempting, until you can't even restore it because it's a conglomerate mass of poo!
Labels: hardware, lament, onomonopia, technology
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Thursday, March 06, 2008
post://4806146996928478727/I was practicing some scratching this evening - have a listen...
Cicada Ramada (50% VBR 10mb)
Cicada Ramada (320k Constant 25mb)
(a la roach motel)
I cut it up a bit... I'm thinking my hard drive needs a defrag because right as I was hitting it up style the recording goes all wanky. In any case most of it was still good so I got creative with what I had.
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Sunday, March 02, 2008
post://1158894317230614428/now for a bit of lighter fare:
10 Futuristic Computer Designs - some make use of connectivity, but the impressive stuff makes use of flexible organic displays.
10 unusual places to stay on vacation - includes a giant dog, underwater, and cave dwellings.
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Among New Yorkers?!! They were attacking AMERICA, it was an attack on everyone that happened to happen in NY. Now I may be inclined to forgive who wrote this since it's an AP wire, but I sure as hell hope that the writer of this article is not Amercian or I'd like to remind that (potentially) snooty shit hole what they HAVE forgotten.
Pearl harbor was another catastrophe, but there's a difference. They were all Military. I'm sure there were some civilians, but this was all Civilians... innocent people not wishing to take part in a jihad.
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Saturday, March 01, 2008
post://179204888476567451/It's been a long time since I needed to download something I couldn't find on a web page, and I guess that's why I've stayed away from Torrents.
I am digging through my pile of older games now and after trying Gothic 3 again (yes, it did the same stuttering crap - guess it's not compatible with the 7950GX2) I tried Aliens VS Predator 2.
I had the CD along with the insert that has the serial key. Apparently there is also a disk 2, as I was prompted for it when I got about halfway through the install. I checked the AvP2 box (one of the larger game boxes) and it's got all my other game manuals in it, but no CDs.
... so I'm not sure where it would be - so I go looking on the internet. I really only need the disk 2 ISO because I have the serial and the first disk, the play disk - so no crack needed and after I get it all installed - fully legit.
If it was easier to call a company and request a disk it might not be necessary... but it's also instant gratification (almost - I've got about 1:30 left)
I came accross this little baby for Torrents - BitComet. I've used all sorts of different ones in the past but this has got quite a bit of stuff and I had to bypass minimal junk when I installed it. If you're in need of a torrenterorer, give it a shot.
Labels: commentary, games, hardware, nostalgia
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
post://1477551146515693538/Check out Esquire's list of how to be a mindless clone.
Labels: commentary, link
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Sunday, February 17, 2008
post://668723420553350208/GTA IV (as ususal) looks AMAZING
Change the number at the end of the url to see other random pics:
http://www.rockstargames.com/IV/screens/GTAIV_53.html
http://www.rockstargames.com/IV/screens/GTAIV_17.html
http://www.rockstargames.com/IV/screens/GTAIV_21.html
http://www.rockstargames.com/IV/screens/GTAIV_45.html
Labels: fun, games, games for windows, screenshot
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008
post://4474023180464340924/So I was forwarded this little utility for finding random music. I'm still not sure of the full story behind it but I've tried typing in many a random song name and it found something. I'm not sure if it's similar to what I searched for but it's rather difficult to not have something come up.
Hint: Try Song Name - Goose, no Author
Also - I am posting this because I got it to turn out remotely how I wanted it to. I actually redid this one because the one I did last night didn't involve MY NEW MIXER! (and the channels were unbalanced).
So please - listen to DJ WijX - Thrice Baby (Once Removed).mp3
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Monday, February 11, 2008
post://211761023653040712/Did you know that Hillary is Tracy Flick?
Labels: funny, politics, video
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Saturday, February 09, 2008
post://273113161210045347/Some random stuff for today. I was trying to use the VISTA dictation but it's very difficult. It types when you want to select something on the screen and it selects something on the screen when you want to type. It always seems to assume the opposite of what I actually want to do.
A creepy message to Scientology ~ where do I sign up?
Newsweek article about it.
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008
post://118971903657824975/Nicole and I couldn't find a Clarissa Explains It All drinking game so we made up our own:
Keep in Mind:
~ Both the DVD and the real show (should you see it somewhere with commercials) still have commercial bumpers.
~ you shouldn't try level 2 unless
a) you're only watching 1 episode
b) you're so super hard core, there's no need to pull punches
c) glrealjrlj .... get nakked! blrgl.. *hic* auuuuuuuuuuuuughhhhhh...
Level 1 - Lets Watch the Whole Disk! / Marithon
Update/Report (Clarissa Report, Clarissa Financial Report, Clarissa Update, etc)
- 1 Drink
Clarissa Calls Her Brother a name other then "Ferguson"
- 1 Drink
Clarissa Actually Calls Her Brother "Ferguson"
- 2 Drinks
Clarissa Talks to the Camera
- 1 Drink
(while oblivious to everyone else in the scene)
- 2 Drinks
Time Speeds Up
- 1 Drink
Clarissa's Mom creates a soy-based food
- 1 Drink
Commercial Bumper (Both To and From)
- 1 Drink
Clarissa creates a Computer Simulation
- 1 Drink
Computer Animation / Marker on the Screen
- 1 Drink
Clarissa Mentions One of Her Teachers
- 1 Drink
Clarissa uses a word above her grade level
- 2 Drinks
Elvis Reference
- 1 Drink
Oversized Prop (as in wouldn't actually fit out her door) in Clarissa's Room
- 1 Drink
Level 2 - What the Hell Are We Doing / OK, Maybe We'll Watch 1 Episode
(Combine with Level 1)
Someone says "Clarissa"
- 1 Drink
Someone says 'Sam"
- 1 Drink
Opening or Closing Credits
- 1 Drink
You See Clarissa's Bedroom
- 1 Drink
You See Their Kitchen
- 1 Drink
You see their Living Room
- 1 Drink
Labels: booze, games, nostalgia, tv
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- awesome!! i have a suggestion - every time Sam comes in a window, 1 drink. every time Sam comes in a door - finish the drink you've got!!
also, every time Ferguson mentions his political aspirations, drink.
every time Dad refers to his architecture job, drink!
- Brilliant!
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...look for all your favorite red-headed actors such as the guys from "Pete & Pete", "Salute Your Shorts", and "Clarissa Explains it All".
Check out the Clarissa Explains It All Drinking Game we made up.
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Thursday, January 31, 2008
post://9181081154937968277/An interesting article - blue eyes are related to Melanoma.
EA announced "Battlefield Heros", due out this summer. It's from the Battlefield 1942 and Battlefield 2 team and it's FREE. However before you go screaming in delight like a little girl... it's cartoon (cell shaded?) and there will most likely be a ton of kids playing. They'll probably use it as a springboard for all their other games and/or something 12 year olds like.
Labels: games, games for windows, history, link
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Saturday, January 26, 2008
post://1831564796362732751/I've been needing to revamp the whole computer situation, and I think I've finally got it all in hand for the main PC: WinXP, WinXP64 on my SATA 3G RAID Striping HDs, and VISTA64 on my single SATA 3G. I've got to rebuild the VISTA boot menu to include the older choices, but that's just a matter of indicating which partition they're on.
The motherboard itself is acting wanky in the main machine. I bought an ASUS Crosshair so I could do dual 16x SLI and it appears to be having some sort of short related to the Clear BIOS switch. The LED and the included MB light (a light that illuminates the motherboard in case you're doing upgrades in the dark - which I often do) appear to be acting wanky after I cleared the CMOS (again). Hitting DEL to change the BIOS settings results in the computer turning off.
I dispise power issues, shorts, insufficient power... all bains to the otherwise straightforward process of assembling a computer.
So now the configuration is this:
TV PC running XP (since it's the only OS that will recognize my TV card) in the bedroom with the monitor. Main PC in the office running VISTA64 (with the others for backup should I need them) and this occured to me today - 160 Gig ATA133 with all my old TV shows and movies can go in the iMac which can be put in the living room and hooked to the TV. Since it's not HD there's no reason to go putting a big ol computer there. I'll also have the happy little iMac in the living room, it's silent and more of a living space sort of computer. I can record shows on the TV computer, edit and share them for the rest of the house on the network, so I can either watch them in bed or in the living room.
It's a much different arrangement then I was thinking before, but I think it works, especially given the ability to have the monitor upstairs with no fuss.
Here's some neat freeware I found:
Restoration - undelete even after emptying
Double Killer - find those duplicate files
Labels: hardware, materialism, media
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Saturday, January 12, 2008
post://2895705533467000436/I'm building a web site for my mom and practicing my Silverlight.
What is Silverlight? It's a JavaScript front end for VB. I can write limited VB and use it on the web, so all the stuff I'm familiar with how to do can be translated to a flash-like experience, animated, rich gui application (webpage).
If you're interested, check out the following:
Silverlight introduction
Silverlight Quick Start
Silverlight Reference
Silverlight Gallery
Labels: programming, web
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Monday, January 07, 2008
post://9172134586271175690/All these mulititudes of core... no code to back them... what a shame.
Step up and code in paralell!
Oh, and here's a fun little Red Sox vs Yankees tit-bit.
Labels: link, programming, video
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Wednesday, January 02, 2008
post://6803360186600616537/Here are some of the best Fark headlines from 2007
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Saturday, December 15, 2007
post://7510775520533038749/I think I'm done with computer gaming. I just don't have the money to do it well. I invested for the monitor - and it's served me well, but I just can't believe what NVidia just announced - SLi x 3. I have 3 major problems with this:
1.) Cost - If you want 3 8800 GTX Ultra cards you are spending 3 x $700, that's $3000 just on video cards. I've never been one for building a $5000 PC, and this is hands down the way to do it.
2.) Space - Who has room for 3 oversized, extra long cards that suck 200 watts each? 1000W minimium is going to become 1500W, then 2000W.
3.) I jumped on Quad-SLi and there has been no further development. They're DX9 so that's it... not even next gen optimizations. There's so much more that could be done with them as ususally all 4 are not being used properly... why optimize when you can just throw another one in.
I'm very curious to see what happens with Spider from AMD/ATI. I have not like ATI in the past, but I expect AMD will do good things with them.
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- Quad SLI gaming in VISTA update:
none, don't bother - even when it works in "Single SLI" mode I see a line between the top and bottom sections of the screen, when I try 4 x SLI alternate frame rendering I see differences in the smoke, and issues when there is more going on in one section then another.
VISTA is a further example of PLRGLMPHLLLLL....
Thursday, December 13, 2007
post://485170465868416589/I guess Jerry and Co should have made sure no one else had the trademark on "Give Bees a Chance".
Beeceuticals had it first, sounds like really good stuff.
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No list of players right now, but check out the extensive report on steroids in baseball.
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post://8460487275883317634/
Crysis x32 vs x64 DX9
Crysis x32 vs x64 DX10
Granted, it's the DEMO but if you're going to include separate bin32 and bin64 directories then why isn't it native? I think Crysis intended to do it right and then EA swoopt down with their bagful of money... and pooped out the game.
Labels: games, games for windows
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007
post://6623514275047193929/So I had heard about "S.T.A.L.K.E.R." a while back and was quite excited by it. I looked it up and wow... it was already out, and had been out since March! That meant it was only $30 now, so I went to go pick it up.
It ran like crap, and ran even worse at lower resolutions which shouldn't happen. Every other time I'd run it I'd get really good frame rates in the rendered intro scene and then it would get better rates in the game but still nothing too good.
I was rather disappointed by the whole thing... I certainly don't have the best video cards but they're quad-core, 2 x 7950s in SLi so I expected they'd run ok since the game wasn't brand new. I still think there's a tweak I can perform that will make it run better.
I also got a copy of Crysis - the demo ran like crap, but the full version runs much better - it doesn't work in native 64 bit but that's to be expected with a... second hand version.
Call of Duty 4 is a really great game, I'm currently playing it in 1280 x 800 16x10 res with no AA or AS filtering and I'm getting very strange effect. The lighting is a tad surreal, the edges around the other characters is too bright. The game itself is really good - the squad AI covered my ass for most of it. I tend to jump into the fire, so this was a new experience. Throwing a flash bang into the room while the 2 guys flank the door and then rush in once it goes off was really cool - I think the AI makes this the best squad based game I've played, though I think the last one I played was Swat4 =)
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Friday, November 30, 2007
post://8177810287390640259/So here I am at work, after working last night from 7 to 12:30... getting in at 9... working until 5... to pop back on at 7... I've now had to move around meetings, get people to cover me in some while being there for others.
I have projects that I've had to farm out, getting other individuals working on pieces because I've got so much else to do. I feel important, but it's stressfull. I may not have to do the work, but now I'm worrying if it's done right if I'm not doing it.
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007
post://5332822013358361988/Like seeing whats up with new sites, this was a fledgling service, and I was all on board with it, finally ponied up the dough and blam, they went mega (Yahoo bought them). This is what happened with Blogger (kinda) I had been using Blogger for a while and finally went pro - a few months went by and they decided to thank everyone who actually paid for Blogger with a free sweatshirt. I think they sent the same M size to everyone, but I've still got it and even occasionally wear it.
Try it out, it's pretty neat... and you can vote and other little things like... such as, and henceforth:
Join MyBlogLog
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Monday, November 26, 2007
post://1776816975789130652/I've just posted this message on the MSNBC message boards.
I logged into MSN and saw the question - what do you want to speak out about... it inspired me to turn this ball of thoughts into a few sentences. There's so much more that just bothers me that I'd like to delve as "advice". With my life experience I can't really say it's the answer - but it's at least something to think about. I'd like to hear some discussion on the matter - give me some insight I lack.
I think why I do because I feel I'm open to ideas that can change. I hope others ideas can change too - thats the only way we'll evolve as a civilization. If we get to high up on our steel horses, we may miss what goes on around us.
Labels: oped, politics, ramble
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007
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Happy Thanksgiving!
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007
post://9208238731733463027/like sands in the hourglass, so is the code for the fun new progress bar
do until done = 0
done = done - (done / (file.size - file.loaded))
top = done
bottom = top - done
loop
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\ /
\ /
\ /
\ /
| |
| |
/ \
/ \
/ \
/_______\
Labels: programming
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Saturday, October 27, 2007
post://6542161125107825633/Pirates BF 2 Mod
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They cut off access to Blogger at work, so there hasn't been much as far as spur of the moment updates. I've been doing the (scrolly) links, but not even much time for that anymore. I've been getting in like 7:30-8, working through lunch, and staying till at least 5 in most cases. It's getting to be a grind as of late, especially because I'm not getting the rest I ought to be getting.
I'm just not all that quick about getting to bed because I've been enjoying the time not working. Computer business is slow too - due to my complete lack of patience when I get home. I completely dropped the printing place - I gave him 2 bills for an emergency issue that came up, reminded him twice and I haven't called him and he hasn't called me. I wouldn't mind a little bit more then the current cash flow (zip, zilch, nada) but it's nice not to have the calls at weird hours when I'm already tired.
I bet if I was better about getting rest I might not be staring at Access for hours on end not getting anywhere. I've currently got at least 3 tasks that involve going through endless sets of queries since the person who created them moved to another area. He's supposed to be around for questions - but since he never returns my calls. It's a series of about 7 different processes, each with about 12 supporting queries and tables generated from other queries - it's a massive fistfuck of logic. It's not even really something I can take the source table and work off that either as there are updates all down the line that create stats that everyone expects to see in the reports -- like anyone really reads them anyway.
OK enough complaining about work -- house stuff is on a positive.
I've got almost all the house stuff taken care of. The list was small when we bought the house: new chimney, patch up the basement walls, new dishwasher, new sliding glass door, gutters, and the driveway.
Technically the driveway could stay as is - I don't care, though it may cause issues with a snow blower. Only things left to do are the sliding glass door, driveway, wire up the gararge (they disconnected it when they removed the knob & tube wiring from the house) and maybe a new coat of paint for the house (and maybe gararge too). However, since it's been the same coat of paint since the siding went on in the 50s, I think it ought to last another couple years. Aspestos cement shingles -- durable if nothing else!
All in all things are well - everyone says we're still newlyweds because it still feels like it did before we got married. Truth be told, I'm a little afraid of what'll happen when there aren't any more projects for the house - will I start making up weird shit to do? Will we go do big elaborate trips and such?
Who knows, I think I like it that way.
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Sunday, October 14, 2007
post://3208438134442782042/I just spent this afternoon getting my old PC up and running with XP after 1 of my drives in the Raid 0 array went kablooi. I want a PVR PC, and it's been a long time coming. I had tried VISTA, then XP MCE after VISTA could only access the Digital tuner side of the card. As it turns out MCE uses the same set of drivers, so MCE could only recognize the digital side of the card as well.
So it was back to XP!
I got all the updated drivers from ATI, I've got the official CD for the DVD decoder... all set... and I received a ubiquitous error message:
"setup was unable to find components that can be installed on your current hardware or software configuration"
- turns out that means I don't have an ATI Display card (I'm running a NVIDIA 7800 PCIex) and according to the website, this is the last version of the media player (tv player) that they're making and there won't be any updates - do not pass go, do not collect $200.
I knew there were a few free options for me at this point - no legit version of ATI that worked, so thought these might be helpful to others who may have an ATI HDTV Tuner card with a non-ATI video card:
GBPVR - The first one I heard of back in the day, looks just like XP Media Center Edition.
Media Portal - Another slick interface with available iTunes-like skins
Freevo - Sourceforge based - yet another option, doesn't look quite as snazzy.
Labels: download, hardware, tv
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