[Lunick]

I would do nasty things for the Total Meltdown mod to be released soon.

[LeoD]

Lunick, on 21 August 2014 - 09:33 PM, said:

Tyrannobirdus Rex.
Btw, C. Wiederhold sold me a book yesterday.

[Lunick]

LeoD, on 23 August 2014 - 04:56 AM, said:

Btw, C. Wiederhold sold me a book yesterday.

Is it a good book? Suppose I shouldn't ask until after you have read it.

[LeoD]

Lunick, on 23 August 2014 - 05:02 AM, said:

Is it a good book? Suppose I shouldn't ask until after you have read it.

I don't expect much. (Dan Brown: Inferno) Just some pastime once I have new glasses. Btw, I didn't talk about our community member ofc. (unless he had a gender change and moved to the land of his(->her) fathers). It was just funny to read that name on a badge right after making a maphack file for his Hookem level.

[Altered Reality]

[Lunick]

Doesn't that mean it is DRM Free but also comes with a Steam key that you can use...?

[Altered Reality]

It could also mean that it's "not compulsory" as in "We're not forcing anyone to activate the game on Steam: you only have to do that if you want to actually play the game you bought!"

[Lunick]

It doesn't mean that though, it is DRM free with an additional Steam key...

Edit: Gamersgate makes it very clear if a game requires an account etc:

[Fox]

They should make it more clear.

[Jeff]

So I read somewhere that Explorer creates thumbnails using Windows Photo Viewer by default. I changed the default program for typical image files like jpg, bmp, gif, from Windows Photo Viewer to a third party photo viewer (Irfanview), and folders load thumbnails lightning fast now. Normally the folder would sit there while the thumbnails loaded, but not anymore. I suppose I could use GIMP to do this as well.

[Fox]

Moral of The story: Microsoft software integration sucks, as expected.

[Gambini]

I hate that my XP used to load all kind of image format´s thumbnails in no time, and now with W7 I have to rely on a 3rd party app called Mystic Thumbs which is slow as shit and doesn´t support all the image formats stock XP did.

[High Treason]

I rarely use thumbnails... Probably comes from still spending long periods of time in DOS or using remote control where it isn't feasible.

Spent way too much time in DOS lately, one good thing about the delay with those prototypes is that it has given me time to patch up the systems I planned to run them on. One of them kept freaking out in Windows and turning up drive failures when nothing was wrong with the drive - had me scratching my head for ages before I noticed I'd left ISA/BUS Clock set at 1/2 (On a 40MHz BUS) which doesn't tally well with a primarily VLB system - especially with a flaky VLB Host Adaptor on the list of things I need to replace.

The second one really did have a faulty hard drive (And doesn't have a BUS Clock setting) but it takes an unusual type of small floppy drive which doesn't work properly. The onboard NE2000 clone (UK0022) is also lacking a boot ROM and I just used up my last EEPROM. This meant that the drive had to be set up on a different machine, that was fun; try setting up Windows 3.11 drivers for devices that aren't in the machine, it gets mad very quickly and moans about networking often - if that doesn't lock it up entirely. I guess the /N option is there for a reason.

The last one is a Pentium 60 on an Intel Batman board with the RZ-1000 controller, I probably shouldn't have to explain why these are a problem but to cut a long story short; The controller is almost guaranteed to corrupt the hard drive, everything overheats, the PCI pinout is not standard in Slot 3 and can actually screw up some newer PCI cards beyond repair, the headers are also a non-standard pinout (but the COM ones don't work anyway), it uses silly amounts of electricity, enabling LBA mode causes POST to lock the machine, enabling PnP also crashes the system in POST, it doesn't do floating point math properly (despite being a model known not to have the FDIV bug, SX974), it heats the room, it performs inconsistently and it is very very touchy about what RAM you can use... I put Parity RAM in it once, won't do that again because not only does it freak out (Disco Mode!) I discovered that it causes the DS12887 to become corrupt causing me to have to set the CMOS up again - then again, that happens randomly anyway and there are only around 15 options to set and most of them are "Off" because none of them work, heh, it's a novelty machine.

At this moment in time I cannot sleep because my teeth are absolute agony. On the plus side I have a dentist appointment tomorrow and enough loopholes have been found that I no longer have to pay for this stuff. Previously they refused to rip the bad tooth out, wonder if they'll change their mind no that I don't pay anymore.

If the dentist refuses I don't know what I'll do, it's driving me nuts. Might just walk out of the room and smash the tooth up on the railings (dentist is on the second floor where there's this walkway looking down onto the first floor) then walk back in giving them no choice.

I don't want to keep going back every couple of months, the tooth can't even take amalgam fillings as they just make it hurt and part of the tooth behind broke off at some point unknown. The concern they had with ripping it was that it might make the other teeth go out of line, personally I think having broken decaying ones stuck between them has the potential to mess things up worse as the decay could spread.

[Jeff]

Fox, on 25 August 2014 - 05:57 AM, said:

Moral of The story: Microsoft software integration sucks, as expected.

Mmmm. A lot of my software is third party (eg. defrag, AV, firewall, plus many others). I just haven't gotten around to switching out the thumbnails until recently.

[Lunick]

[Hendricks266]

Chuckles & Knuckles.

Unlike Sonic I don't chuckle. I'd rather flex my knuckles.

[Kyanos]

[Jeff]

One of the cool things about not wearing glasses anymore is that I don't have to worry about my lenses fogging up in cold weather or hot steam from an oven.

[Altered Reality]

Weird Al Yankovic has just earned some more respect from me.

[Jeff]

Time for an update on X-Files:

DVD:


HD:


Starting with season 3, it seems they switched the film from Super 35 w/common top (season 1 & 2) to either the one on the top left or top right of the linked image.

For the OAR issues, there is nothing wrong with the season 1-2 format. Since it's the film type in the middle of that linked image, then what you are seeing is normal. I've been watching 24 lately, and the framing is similar to X-Files season 1-2 HD screenshots. When someone is holding the phone, on 24, part of their wrist would be cut off (unlike the above screenshot), so I guess 24 uses the same kind of film that X-Files did for season 1 & 2.

[High Treason]

Had my tooth pulled out today... Smarts a bit but that won't last forever, actually isn't as bad as the feeling from when the tooth was in there.

I also got to keep the tooth, a rather large chunk of bone came with it it seems.

[Fox]

http://duke64.duke4.net/
Meh, it's showing a blank page... god damn php!

[Alan]

I write PHP for a living/for fun. I can help if you need it.

[Fox]

I have no idea. Something to do with php version.

[Alan]

Sounds like the PHP version should be updated. What's throwing the error, though? Could probably suggest an alternative.

[Fox]

I think the Wordpress themes are not up-to-date with the host php version.

Edit:

[The Commander]

It's not a Mysql error is it?

[Master Fibbles]

It is probably a PHP error. It opens the body but then nothing happens. That means something is wrong with your code. Maybe the index.php file is missing a call to the body or something. That is where I'd look if it were my page.
I'm pretty sure a sql error would not prevent the page from showing anything.

[The Commander]

Vladimir Putin said:

"it's best not to mess with us, I want to remind you that Russia is one of the leading nuclear powers"

His bombs are heavy, Kiev's weak, his troops in Crimea already Scarin John Kerry! He tries so hard but can't quiet the protests in Moscow
Hes nervous but on the surface he calm and heady; to drop bombs but he keeps forgetting the protests in Moscow, they're so loud
Fuck the pacifists, but he can choke em out. Peace times over the game's up WORLD WAR NOW. Back to the travesty, up there goes diplomacy

[High Treason]

I don't need no stinking iPod, but my old Boombox (Sharp GF-555) was getting a bit long in the tooth... Actually it's nothing short of an abomination by this point. So I bought a new boombox;



Meet my new Sharp GF-575, I would have liked a GF-777 but the cost is prohibitive, no problem anyway, I already love this thing. It works completely - aside from the function switch having some dirty contacts which is an easy fix - is loud as hell with good bass (the point of a boombox) and has line-in. It also has line-out that works properly which is fun because I can hook that to the input on my old boombox to make even more noise.

It got here just in time actually, the cable used for my stereo system (which I use for the sound from my computer) has disappeared and is an unusual fitting meaning I can't use that until I can make a new cable up, gotta love how easy it is to hook up a boombox to almost anything; Take a standard 3.5-to-Phono lead from the cables drawer and away it goes.



As for my tooth, he pain is now completely gone and the hole in my gum appears to be healing normally. Damn it feels good not having one whole side of my head aching, I'd forgotten what that was like.