[Jeff]

I didn't think I would have enough room on my desk for three monitors, but it was a tight squeeze. Had to move some stuff off, but I managed to fit all the monitors on there.

[Sangman]

486DX2, on 14 May 2013 - 08:58 PM, said:

DEFINITELY NOT SAFE FOR WORK

Spoiler

I would move that spider out of the way.

[Master Fibbles]

I got a job!


I got offered two jobs today and found myself in the exact position I wanted to avoid and felt like I was going to find myself in: I had to choose between two awesome opportunities that aren't permanent and aren't rich living *(one richer than the other). And now I have to turn down an interview that would be in a job that pays well but might not be rewarding otherwise.

I had to debate and I had a whole morning and part of an afternoon to debate internally. I ended up going with a less paying job that will hopefully turn into a permanent position with a company that I enjoy and support.

[Forge]

congrats.
not everybody has the ethical fortitude to sell third rate porn out of the back of a van

[Master Fibbles]

I know. But I am trooper. I believe in the job. Not everyone has the same beliefs, but I think selling porn out of a van is the way for me to go. One could even say, it is where God is calling me.

[Jimmy]

He knows how many lonely masturbators there are.

[Master Fibbles]

That is true. God cares.

[Jimmy]

I wouldn't believe that. If God cared he wouldn't have created anything.

[High Treason]

Windows XP doesn't seem to like dual-booting between PATA and SCSI drives.

I give up, 98 can run from a PATA drive and suffer the performance penalty. Presumably it won't affect it too much if I run everything else from the SCSI drives.

I have seen so many Format and Install screens these past three days that I don't know if I ever want to see them again!

[Lunick]

[Jeff]

So after wrestling with the Unreal Engine to try and figure out this texture popping issue for a couple days, it came down to a simple tweak in Nvidia Inspector. Just reset the profile for the game back to the default settings. Problem solved.

I guess what was happening, was the game's LOD bias and the Nvidia inspector LOD bias were playing tug of war with eachother. I had all the game's LOD settings set to -1 (highest mip level I believe), and the Nvidia Inspector settings were something like -3.00. I feel kind of silly for not noticing it, but I'm glad it's fixed. Kind of drove me a bit nuts.

Must have forgot about the setting since my judgement was a clouded when I spent days deleting configuration files and changing all those settings.

[blackharted3]

Jeff I wouldn't worry too much, if I was in your shoes that computer would've learnt to fly.

[Jeff]

Duel, on 17 May 2013 - 01:05 PM, said:

Jeff I wouldn't worry too much, if I was in your shoes that computer would've learnt to fly.

There's something I haven't done in a while. Maybe I should give all this tweaking a rest and fire up Flight Simulator X. Haven't done a short trip in a while with my 737 NGX aircraft. Probably collecting dust.

[Micky C]

I hate spiders.

[Master Fibbles]

I am looking at plane tickets to go to my sister's wedding and I'm realizing that I can't afford to go to more than one wedding every six months. It cost too much to travel that much. Well, I should say, I can only go to 1 non-local wedding every 6 months. At least for my sister's wedding, I don't have to rent a tux. I should buy a new suit (which I was going to do anyway), but that is a better deal than renting a tux. You pay over $100 to look damn good for a day when you rent a tux. You pay a little more and you can look damn good any time you want when you buy a suit.

[Lunick]

Lunick Prime, on 17 May 2013 - 05:50 PM, said:

I hate spiders.

Uh huh.

[Fox]

[Lunick]

[Fox]

[Forge]

[Fox]

[ReaperMan]

[Hank]

[Micky C]

Micky C, why did you make your avatar a picture of an armpit?

[Kathy]

Mr.Flibble, on 17 May 2013 - 06:01 PM, said:

I can't afford to go to more than one wedding every six months.

Are you going to a lot of weddings?

[Lunick]

Lunick Prime, on 17 May 2013 - 10:45 PM, said:

Micky C, why did you make your avatar a picture of an armpit?

Because I'm sexy

[Master Fibbles]

Cathy, on 17 May 2013 - 10:53 PM, said:

Are you going to a lot of weddings?

A lot of my friends are getting married, so I've gone to a wedding every 6 months or less the last year or so. I missed one or two because I just couldn't afford the trip. Being part of the wedding party is worse since I end up having to rent a tux too. I mean, it is fun as hell and all, but it is expensive.
I have to buy plane tickets for my sister's wedding and it is going to cost me like $400. The fact that I just got a job that pays more than peanuts is going to make it a little easier. It does eat into my luxury budget.

[Jeff]

Getting rid of some old hard drives. Have to erase them, then I'm going to go recycle them.

I'm doing a US Department of Defense grade erase on these. It erases 7 times as well as it creates these encrypted files on the drive, then deletes them.

[Hank]

Jeff, on 18 May 2013 - 09:29 AM, said:

Getting rid of some old hard drives. Have to erase them, then I'm going to go recycle them.

I'm doing a US Department of Defense grade erase on these. It erases 7 times as well as it creates these encrypted files on the drive, then deletes them.

What software do you use?

[Hank]

another double post