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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,605
    edited January 2016

    I've considered this high priced graphic card situation and come to the conclusion that it's out of my league.  For my artwork I'm perfectly satisfied with what I do with what I've got.  There are a lot more important things I can spend $1000 on.  All this new IRAY stuff for me is without merit.

    I've even considered the need to get yet another computer of any sort.  I have four now capable of running Windows 7 or 8 or even 10 if needs be.  They are rarely ever all on at the same time and two of them are rarely on at all.  With care and a few spare parts they'll probably last longer than I will.  I do admit the need to get some device capable of staying up with technology for safe web browsing and shopping and banking, etc but those are rapidly approaching the category "appliance".  If I can avoid the "gotta have the latest gadget and gotta have it NOW" mentality I should be OK till the moment when on my deathbed I have my computers all gathered around me and grab a shotgun to blow them all to bits.  (Advice to mourners: stay of of my bedroom at the end of my time.)

    Still snowing, but lightly.  Tomorrow I'll have to grapple the problem of getting the driveway cleared without having a heart attack, and diplomatically telling the young tenants in the other half of the house that they're lazy, cheap SOBs.  Considering parking my car at the lower end of the driveway and see how they like it when they come home from work.

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    i'll have to stop wimping out and go to work tomorrow,

    remember the fun of lining up the motherboard with the jumpers?

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,442

    I wanted to get Gia 7 but had to pay my phone bill instead.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,605
    edited January 2016
    MistyMist said:

    i'll have to stop wimping out and go to work tomorrow,

    remember the fun of lining up the motherboard with the jumpers?

    I think the "funnest" part of my career was in the early 70's when computers consisted of multiple circuit boards that plugged into a wiring backplane and you had to configure the jumpers on the backplane to route data and control signals from one card to the next.  Manuals spelled it all out but the wizard in the room knew the manual by heart and watched the apprentices with amusement when the computer didn't work and then handed them the manual.  But the best part was when the wizard could see the lightbulbs go on in the apprentice's head when they grok'ed the importance & logic of the jumpers.

     

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  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

    Morning. Gentle raim falling from a luminous grey sky a few drops at a time, just enough to freshen things up a little and wash some smoke from the air :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    MistyMist said:

    i'll have to stop wimping out and go to work tomorrow,

    remember the fun of lining up the motherboard with the jumpers?

    hard core binary programming :)

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,064

    Everyone gets PC prices for a day...?  Megh, I missed that too... 

    I'm having a crappy time with 3D coat... I bought it last week (or thereabouts) and today was the first day I really got to try and make something with it... I keep finding bugs and it's really annoying... I can't even get started. Very, very frustrated.

    Now I'm waiting for some answers over on their site... I feel impatient.

    That and apparently I've starting drinking like a Viking... Lately I keep tilting the glass back to fast or too much and for whatever reason I get whatever I'm drinking running down my chin... Like right now, I have water all over my collar.... What the hell... I feel like such a slob.

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,064

    I'm not even gonna mention this anywhere else but here, but now I've confirmed this happens and it's not my vivid talking raccoon filled imagination....  You know how when you click on a thread you have visited before and it takes you to the last page you were on?  It's been confusing me lately, but now I'm pretty sure for whatever reason the thread randomly loads incompletely... Right before I made my last post above, I read the other posts on the last page it showed... 62. But after I made my post it showed there were 63 pages.  I definitely looked and saw it was on the last page, which was 62... The last post on 62 was like 4 o'clock, it was 6:11 when I just made my last post... So it's not like a bunch of people posted all of a sudden...

    Megh, whatever... It's not the apocalypse... Wait, it isn't, is it?... It doesn't seem like it. Whatever.

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,442

    I want coffee, but I am afraid it will make me wake up in the middle of the night

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    nice cuppa tea?

     

    brrrr

    Tue 6pm
    Temp (°F)    26°
    RealFeel®7°
    Wind (mph)20 NW

    5 planets to make rare alignment in early morning sky  
    http://www.accuweather.com/en/features/trend/space_rare_mercury_venus_mars_jupiter_saturn_alignment_astronomy/54881846

     

     

    Antares - thaz the song Lt Uhura sang,  had the 45, eons ago

    vulcan harp songs smiley

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    McGyver said:

    I'm not even gonna mention this anywhere else but here, but now I've confirmed this happens and it's not my vivid talking raccoon filled imagination....  You know how when you click on a thread you have visited before and it takes you to the last page you were on?  It's been confusing me lately, but now I'm pretty sure for whatever reason the thread randomly loads incompletely... Right before I made my last post above, I read the other posts on the last page it showed... 62. But after I made my post it showed there were 63 pages.  I definitely looked and saw it was on the last page, which was 62... The last post on 62 was like 4 o'clock, it was 6:11 when I just made my last post... So it's not like a bunch of people posted all of a sudden...

    Megh, whatever... It's not the apocalypse... Wait, it isn't, is it?... It doesn't seem like it. Whatever.

     

    al packed a fruit loops?

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    ps1borg said:
    MistyMist said:

    i'll have to stop wimping out and go to work tomorrow,

    remember the fun of lining up the motherboard with the jumpers?

    hard core binary programming :)

     

    remember when you had to terminate scsi?  

    and thin ethernet bus?  was like christmas lights one went down was the end of the line.  chatty nic cards, was endless funfilled days lol

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    LeatherGryphon said:
    MistyMist said:

    i'll have to stop wimping out and go to work tomorrow,

    remember the fun of lining up the motherboard with the jumpers?

    I think the "funnest" part of my career was in the early 70's when computers consisted of multiple circuit boards that plugged into a wiring backplane and you had to configure the jumpers on the backplane to route data and control signals from one card to the next.  Manuals spelled it all out but the wizard in the room knew the manual by heart and watched the apprentices with amusement when the computer didn't work and then handed them the manual.  But the best part was when the wizard could see the lightbulbs go on in the apprentice's head when they grok'ed the importance & logic of the jumpers.

     

     

    irq conflicts laugh

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,605
    McGyver said:

    I'm not even gonna mention this anywhere else but here, but now I've confirmed this happens and it's not my vivid talking raccoon filled imagination....  You know how when you click on a thread you have visited before and it takes you to the last page you were on?  It's been confusing me lately, but now I'm pretty sure for whatever reason the thread randomly loads incompletely... Right before I made my last post above, I read the other posts on the last page it showed... 62. But after I made my post it showed there were 63 pages.  I definitely looked and saw it was on the last page, which was 62... The last post on 62 was like 4 o'clock, it was 6:11 when I just made my last post... So it's not like a bunch of people posted all of a sudden...

    Megh, whatever... It's not the apocalypse... Wait, it isn't, is it?... It doesn't seem like it. Whatever.

     

    Yeah, now that you describe it, that's happened to me a few times too.  I just thought I was senile, so I didn't mention it.

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,442

    It is probably too late for coffee as it is seven pm and I do want some sleep tonight.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,605
    edited January 2016
    MistyMist said:
    ps1borg said:
    MistyMist said:

    i'll have to stop wimping out and go to work tomorrow,

    remember the fun of lining up the motherboard with the jumpers?

    hard core binary programming :

    MistyMist said:

    remember when you had to terminate scsi?  

    and thin ethernet bus?  was like christmas lights one went down was the end of the line.  chatty nic cards, was endless funfilled days lol

    Yep, I was digging through my spare parts box a few weeks ago and found a SCSI terminator for a Sun computer, a couple of BNC "T"s, and a BNC terminator for thin Ethernet.  I even had a vampire tap for a thick ethernet cable. surprise

     

    BNC_ T_abd_Terminator.jpg
    220 x 89 - 4K
    SunSCSIterminator.jpg
    300 x 244 - 9K
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  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,442

    vampire tap?????

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,605
    edited January 2016
    Kulay Wolf said:

    vampire tap?????

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

    Or possibly a device used to get beer out of a barrel during a stag party at Dracula's castle.

    Or possibly a device to pierce the boundary of Hell and drain it of vampires.

    Or possibly a song danced to using fancy footwork by a vampire with cleats on his shoes.

     

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  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    MistyMist said:

    i'll have to stop wimping out and go to work tomorrow,

    remember the fun of lining up the motherboard with the jumpers?

    hard core binary programming :)

    MistyMist said:
    ps1borg said:
    MistyMist said:

    i'll have to stop wimping out and go to work tomorrow,

    remember the fun of lining up the motherboard with the jumpers?

    hard core binary programming :)

     

    remember when you had to terminate scsi?  

    and thin ethernet bus?  was like christmas lights one went down was the end of the line.  chatty nic cards, was endless funfilled days lol

    hehe yes the small computer satanic interface needed jumpers to tell what device was where otherwise the whole SCSI chain looked like it died XD  

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    modelling a deputy sheriff badge.  trying new ways.  got the duplicate with symmetry to do something,  yaysie

    used subdivide too soon. >.< shoulda tested the normals are in correct direction first.

     

    oh mann after midnight. 5.5 hours to sleep if i make it to work tmorrow

    my sinuses are throbbing, hurrrrts

    and finished putting my new desk/table together.  adjustible height cuz i'm a shortie, 5ft in my socks.  it's so comfy, can put my legs under the table.  folding table i was using had little leg room.

    need aleves and a cuppa tea. woes

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    oh dear, snow dump comin, very windy says the accuweather

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

    Is quite the opposite of snowing here :)

  • Subtropic PixelSubtropic Pixel Posts: 2,388

    I wore shorts and a t-shirt today.  And sandals.  Until I had to go out; then I put on real shoes.  cheeky

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

    i'll have to stop wimping out and go to work tomorrow,

    remember the fun of lining up the motherboard with the jumpers?

    ...glad not to have to deal with that anymore.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    feelin kinda germy today.  stayin home mainline tea all day.

    gave buppies new wubba tug toy, i love watchin them play with new toy.  
    he's got it, no she's got it, they both got it, run run run, run around, squeaky squeaky
    wuh ohs school bus threatening yard and toys, better go bark at it and scare it off

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    hmm was my post deleted from the locked thread or did i forget to hit post?

    wanna go back to sleep, but a 4yo is stomping on ceiling. 

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,442

    I feel so tired but I do not know why

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,189
    McGyver said:

    Everyone gets PC prices for a day...?  Megh, I missed that too... 

    I'm having a crappy time with 3D coat... I bought it last week (or thereabouts) and today was the first day I really got to try and make something with it... I keep finding bugs and it's really annoying... I can't even get started. Very, very frustrated.

    Now I'm waiting for some answers over on their site... I feel impatient.

    That and apparently I've starting drinking like a Viking... Lately I keep tilting the glass back to fast or too much and for whatever reason I get whatever I'm drinking running down my chin... Like right now, I have water all over my collar.... What the hell... I feel like such a slob.

    I suspect someone is punking you with dribble glasses,

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    less gross than the ole fly in the ice cube gag smiley

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

    Morning. Soft lit day under a luminous grey tropical storm that seems to be raining everywhere else but here :)

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