Where in the World has the Forum Gremlin gone Now? Complaint Thread

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  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited January 2016
    TroutFace said:

    Friday, Friday.  Low on cash so moving out tomorrow to drop my burn rate WAY down.

    3 calls scheduled from recruiters, had some dude call me from NYC asking if I wante to move there.. uhh, nope.  And at 8:35 in the bloody morning!  Geesh. indecision

    Cutting back on my Web presence to save money, and will likely sell my Win 8.1 tablet and field recording gear as I've used neither in a very long time.

    Downloading as much content as I can before I move.. gotta have things to play with then I'm not sending out resumes' or fielding phone calls!

    *edit* Aaaand, 4 more resumes' sent out.  Suddenly some interesting firmware work in Austin.  Also applied for an entry-level Java developer job, it'd be a bit of a career change but I'm pretty sick and tired of the whole embedded systems thing after 20 years... indecision

    *edit 2* First call over.  Full-time perm job here in Austin, working on lighting controls (heh, done that).. worth applying for, the recruiter seems to think I'd be a good fit.  This kind of thing usually takes 2-3 weeks for a hire, so I don't expect anything overnight (although expecting anything seems to be hopeless as my life appears to be crawling chaos 24/7 the past few years).  It'd be nice to get a perm job and settle down, but I'm not sure that's my fate. indecision

    good luck with it all :)

     

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  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    ps1borg said:
    TroutFace said:
    ps1borg said:

    Morning. Sky iz more of a science experiment than weather today, one that went badly wrong and spread hideous grey goop all over :)

    Take a goop umbrella out with you today!!! surprise

    Just doesn't want to rain this month, the city is starting to smell a little sporty :)

    Sounds pretty sodding dodgy to me...

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    she work harrrd for the money duhduhduhduhn  harrrd for it honey sooo better treat her riiight

    TGIF

    cant remember, bee gees British?

    howw deeeep is your love

     

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    chips, dip, salsa

    ready freddie, crazy lil thing called lov

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    sometimes i read in double entendres where there aren't any

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

    ...

    MistyMist said:

    she work harrrd for the money duhduhduhduhn  harrrd for it honey sooo better treat her riiight

    TGIF

    cant remember, bee gees British?

    howw deeeep is your love

     

     

    whoa Donna Summer yes

    (clicky)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    TroutFace said:
    ps1borg said:
    TroutFace said:
    ps1borg said:

    Morning. Sky iz more of a science experiment than weather today, one that went badly wrong and spread hideous grey goop all over :)

    Take a goop umbrella out with you today!!! surprise

    Just doesn't want to rain this month, the city is starting to smell a little sporty :)

    Sounds pretty sodding dodgy to me...

     

    not that unusual for the monsoon to run out of puff when it gets this far south, it can rip us up as well some years something to do with cold air from the south pole crashing into warm air from the north makes big waves and lotsa wind :)

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    tee hee

    last dance ... last dance for luh uuv uuhv

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    oh lindt ball where art thou?

    complaint - browsing recliner chairs, wayfair.com, etc, you'd think they show a pic of the chair in recline position

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    woes, thought felt like a fever, says 100.1  

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,190
    MistyMist said:

    she work harrrd for the money duhduhduhduhn  harrrd for it honey sooo better treat her riiight

    TGIF

    cant remember, bee gees British?

    howw deeeep is your love

     

     

    Yes, but...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_Gees

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,241
    ps1borg said:

    Morning. Sky iz more of a science experiment than weather today, one that went badly wrong and spread hideous grey goop all over :)

    Sounds lovely!

    Dana

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,150
    edited January 2016
    MistyMist said:

    still searching for my carrara computer.  what's the next big sale holiday, President's day?

    minimum quad core, 8 - 16gb, hdmi out x2 or hdmi&vga, no wireless no bluetooth, usb3.0
    flexible on the HD will put most renders on external drive.
    looks like will have to consider win10, but definitely no win8  shudderhorror

    ...ah didn't' realise you were looking for a system to support Carrara. 

    In that case choice of GPU is not as critical as it is with DAz Studio and Iray though still nice to have something with enough memory to can handle a "busy" viewport. If you plan to animate don't even consider a memory kit below 16 GB.  I'm running with only 12 GB and have exceeded my memory limit on several occasions while rendering in Daz Studio. If you can get it, 32 GB is preferable (although you can always upgrade later) as the more physical memory, the less chance for the system to go into swap mode during the render process which can become excruciatingly slow.  A good fast i7 (4.0 GHz) will help as well.  For the GPU, I would say a 2 - 4 GB AMD Radeon would be sufficient (less expensive than Nvidia). If you do ever go with LuxRender, GPU rendering is supported by AMD's Open CL graphics language.

    Again the Power supply is one of the most critical parts and shouldn't be scrimped on, especially if you plan to upgrade the system later. Better to have the excess overhead than to risk having your system blow up.

    Unfortunately most off the shelf systems today will come with WIn 10 and a lot of useless bloatware. This is again why going ith a vendor/shop that allows for even a minimum of custom building would be the better route. Ask around as some places offer a "downgrade" (in my book, upgrade) to Win 7 Pro.

    For drives, standard HDDs are pretty inexpensive these days and you can get a 2GB drive for around 50$. SSD's are fast but cost more (through prices have been steadily dropping) and I would suggest just getting say a 350 - 500 GB one for the main boot and application drive.

    For cases, you want one that is roomy inside and has decent cooling. Getting a a good solid aftermarket CPU cooler would also be advised, particularly as you will be doing primarily CPU instead of GPU rendering. Sadly, the case that I normally would recommend (Antec P-193) is no longer available

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,150
    TroutFace said:

    Friday, Friday.  Low on cash so moving out tomorrow to drop my burn rate WAY down.

    3 calls scheduled from recruiters, had some dude call me from NYC asking if I wante to move there.. uhh, nope.  And at 8:35 in the bloody morning!  Geesh. indecision

    Cutting back on my Web presence to save money, and will likely sell my Win 8.1 tablet and field recording gear as I've used neither in a very long time.

    Downloading as much content as I can before I move.. gotta have things to play with then I'm not sending out resumes' or fielding phone calls!

    *edit* Aaaand, 4 more resumes' sent out.  Suddenly some interesting firmware work in Austin.  Also applied for an entry-level Java developer job, it'd be a bit of a career change but I'm pretty sick and tired of the whole embedded systems thing after 20 years... indecision

    *edit 2* First call over.  Full-time perm job here in Austin, working on lighting controls (heh, done that).. worth applying for, the recruiter seems to think I'd be a good fit.  This kind of thing usually takes 2-3 weeks for a hire, so I don't expect anything overnight (although expecting anything seems to be hopeless as my life appears to be crawling chaos 24/7 the past few years).  It'd be nice to get a perm job and settle down, but I'm not sure that's my fate. indecision

    ...here's to hoping something comes through soon.

    I've been in that boat before, not a very good ride.

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,241
    Tjohn said:

    Is everything better with sparkles? I do not think so.  I do not want sparkling crap.

    http://www.wired.com/2014/05/scienceblogs0602bats/

    Well that was enlightening!

    Dana

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,150

    ...agh, character cross dressing complaint. 

    Was hoping to use Wanted DOA on the G2F of my KK character but even with the Michael 4 clone for G2M, I cannot transfer the fits cross gender as the clone only works with G2M. This is where the gender split killed Genesis' versatility. Hate it when you spend a lot of time designing a character and then can't give them the clothing they need. Feel like I'm back in the Gen3/Gen4 days again.

    There is really no decent western wear for females. All of it, (including the Sharon Stone looking outfit) still bares the belly and too much cleavage.  No self respecting cowgirl would dress like that.

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    kyoto kid said:
    TroutFace said:

    Friday, Friday.  Low on cash so moving out tomorrow to drop my burn rate WAY down.

    3 calls scheduled from recruiters, had some dude call me from NYC asking if I wante to move there.. uhh, nope.  And at 8:35 in the bloody morning!  Geesh. indecision

    Cutting back on my Web presence to save money, and will likely sell my Win 8.1 tablet and field recording gear as I've used neither in a very long time.

    Downloading as much content as I can before I move.. gotta have things to play with then I'm not sending out resumes' or fielding phone calls!

    *edit* Aaaand, 4 more resumes' sent out.  Suddenly some interesting firmware work in Austin.  Also applied for an entry-level Java developer job, it'd be a bit of a career change but I'm pretty sick and tired of the whole embedded systems thing after 20 years... indecision

    *edit 2* First call over.  Full-time perm job here in Austin, working on lighting controls (heh, done that).. worth applying for, the recruiter seems to think I'd be a good fit.  This kind of thing usually takes 2-3 weeks for a hire, so I don't expect anything overnight (although expecting anything seems to be hopeless as my life appears to be crawling chaos 24/7 the past few years).  It'd be nice to get a perm job and settle down, but I'm not sure that's my fate. indecision

    ...here's to hoping something comes through soon.

    I've been in that boat before, not a very good ride.

    It's less fun than I like.  I have few resources available, and while there is a Plan B it's not a very pleasant one.

    Moving Day!  Final packing and clean-up, then I'm outta here.  Should be back online this afternoon after football.

     

  • kyoto kid said:

    ...agh, character cross dressing complaint. 

    Was hoping to use Wanted DOA on the G2F of my KK character but even with the Michael 4 clone for G2M, I cannot transfer the fits cross gender as the clone only works with G2M. This is where the gender split killed Genesis' versatility. Hate it when you spend a lot of time designing a character and then can't give them the clothing they need. Feel like I'm back in the Gen3/Gen4 days again.

    There is really no decent western wear for females. All of it, (including the Sharon Stone looking outfit) still bares the belly and too much cleavage.  No self respecting cowgirl would dress like that.

    AuroFit to G2M, save as asset, AutoFit that to G2F. Or try using the Cross Figure Resource Kit on the G2M fitted version.

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075

    Last mad dash to download content before I lose the hotel's highspeed Internet.. gotta save bandwidth for emails, resume' posting, stuff like that.

    It's not like I don't have gigabytes of content ALREADY, I just want to be preparedto spend some time rendering stuff in-between bursts of job search.

    Ugh, time to clean myself up, get dressed, and haul out trash and recyclables.  Then the 7-11 to cash in my $2 winnings for a cupof coffee.. indecision

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    it's been a TEA morning.  

    mebbe cawffee l8tr

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    haz to put christmas stuff away.  hoover. take out trash.  change dead lightbulbs.  purge laundry pile.

    need a nap.  close my eyes, chores will disappear 

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

     

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    MistyMist said:

    haz to put christmas stuff away.  hoover. take out trash.  change dead lightbulbs.  purge laundry pile.

    need a nap.  close my eyes, chores will disappear 

    Those littlw domestic tasks add up quick!  It's like being eaten by ants, one bite is nothing but 1000 later you really feel it. surprise

    All packe except the lappy.. rental office opens in an hour and fifteen minutes.  Will download content until the very last minute! cheeky

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    MistyMist said:

    it's been a TEA morning.  

    mebbe cawffee l8tr

     

    Slightly chilly here so it's coffee all day.  $2 scratcher paid for a large 7-11 hazelnut coffee, with change back! laughSmells so good..

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited January 2016

    feelin for yoo, leavin your nifty place.  mebbe you can go back when find some work

    haz powerball tickets, no worries, i'll share 

     

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  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    MistyMist said:

    feelin for yoo, leavin your nifty place.  mebbe you can go back when find some work

     

    We'll see.  If I can haul in a full-time position I might try for a cheap apartment, get a futon, flat-screen TV, and pretend to settle down (lol). I think I'm getting too old for all the jumping around I've had to do the past 5 years... indecision

    And thanks for the sympathy! laugh

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075

    Ok, Visual Studio installed so I can teach myself C#/.NET/SQL, now downloading Netbeans so I can teach myself Java, Javascript, HTML5 and CSS.

    I won't lack for retraining myself - I think that firmware development is dying as most chip companies and board manufacturers are handling that work and the few available positions tend to go fast. indecision

    I'm going to see if I can find a junior job in C#/.NET, or Java, or Web development, and jump specialities.  It's a cut in pay but I have no debt at this point and can easily live on entry-level pay.  Options, options, must expand my options!

    Maybe I can get a job at Home Depot helping people pick out power tools while I take night classes.. lol.. indecision

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,607
    edited January 2016

    Yea, I got a computer fix-it job!  That's another $50 or so to help me through this month.  Computer fix-it jobs are becoming scarce.  I don't advertise anymore and I turn down jobs involving tablets and smart-phones and Windows 10.  I feel like a radio repairman in 1970.

    Set up my lab to do this fix-it job and turned on the music channel of my TV.  Now listening to Rimsky-Korsakov's "Golden Cockerel"  Hadn't heard it in a long time.  Damn, some of his stuff is just so scenic. smiley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgFIQa98Znc 

    Another beautiful mind-scene is his "Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MAI2j3MpfI  Whenever I hear this piece I remember the painting by Thomas Cole "Voyage Of Life - Youth" (see image below)

    Another rarely heard mind-scape created by Rimsky-Korsakov is "Sadko" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zWKe-Jwucw  Don't know what to call it, but it really sets a mood.

     

    ThomasCole_VoyageOfLife-Youth.jpg
    800 x 544 - 65K
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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited January 2016

    snacks, SNACKS!

    vacced 2 rooms, washed 2 windows from inside and outside, took out trash, flattened a dozen amazon boxes, changed 3 ceiling lightbulbs to the led bulbs.  enlightened
    pooooped! - (american slang for tired)

    woww light reaches to my kitchen sink, can see whats in it O-O cool
    gonna need new light algorythms for physically based renders

     

    spring window cling-ems haz flutterbys smiley

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    can i ever have enough tech corridors?  ns sale still goin.  mebbe i should get one more

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