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ACHTUNG! NUMPTY! (Get a cup of coffee)
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ACHTUNG! NUMPTY! (Get a cup of coffee) // Rants and Raves
Post by Weevil // Apr 9, 2008, 1:28am
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Forgive me if this goes...slightly off topic from Truespace but in some way it relates back
Well now...Anybody heard of Simbiont Ts? I hope so, and I also can't be bothered to go thread searching for it in here so I don't know, (so shoot me, I'm lazy) regardless, you should have! Great package! You get water and ork skin and it all animates and you get real cool building textures and stuff. Great fun discovering the different things. And I went NUTS with it, really uselful thing, y'know, awsome. And now it's come to my attention that when I come to load up that model of my Arwing (it's in finished work for anyone who cares) it takes Bloody ages, I could rally an army at agincore quicker, and when it does load ye GODS what a lag! And when it comes to render...well...it doesn't...more of does a pootley plop
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And it left me speachless, sure the render quality was quite good. WHEN IT ACTUALLY FINISHED! And by that time...I'd given up.
So I gave every object I owned...and I mean EVERY over the space of...well actually last half term the one hundred million times over for traces of simbiont and normally I could tell how much there was by the time I had to wait for the damn thing to load. Now this makes it sound contagious and my gods it was! You wouldn't BELIEVE the places I found uses for this! And it was a right...for want of a better phrase: 'High heel up my ass' to get rid of. Because for each Simbiont I found, I had to try and match that with the colour mixture, more texture layers and transparancy maps and by the time I came to my Arwing I thought: 'Oh bloody hell' and yes it was, quite literally:
The most said phrase was 'OH!' Following the discovery of yet ANOTHER bit of simbiont, cosmetic surgery and some time 'fixage' ensued.
I felt like my eyes were bleeding by the end of it. (Well actually, it's just my right eye. Just recently it feels like someones lumped me one and yet, no-one has, and I'm not THAT deep a sleeper so nobody could have done it then...)
And finally, yes, it was HELL!
But when I finished, it looked almost as good, and then I saved it...then deleted it to reload it again. I did that and got up to practice 'wonderboy' on my guitar (yes I've managed to get the whole song in before now) and no sooner had I turned around had it loaded! It was so QUICK! Ah! I couldn't resist doing it again just to gloat! And then I rendered it...So much quicker!
Okay, well that said...that render wasn't exactly speedy either, and that's because my graphics card isn't installed, which brings me nicely onto my next subject (Moderately old)
Oh Yay! Once again my PC has decided to prick up worse than Amy Winehouse and her 'attendance' problems. This time...it's...well weird...really, really weird. It started back at the beginning of July 2007 (my birthday actually, I'm so grateful). And there was a bit of slowdown, I didn't think anything of it, I thought it was just the game I was playing slowing it down. I wondered what it was when there were bits of slowdown when everything froze for about half a second, moved for two, then froze again. What gives? I turned it off, and on again, and it was fine. It did it again a week later.
Now, just after Christmas it really started to get BAD. I had just finished rendering some fire and then went to play a game. Aabout fifteen minutes in everything froze. The sound did that 'bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb' thing when when your computer's died. Not even Ctrl alt delete worked. So I shut it down with the button.
Now, the problem was, Windows just didn't start, it froze on startup, I got the occasional Bluescreen...just...randomly and it took at least three tries just to get to my desktop. And it got worse, one time I started up and it said the config files were missing from system32, so I told my dad, he started it up, went 'Ah, bugger'. Shut it down, got the XP disk and restarted it, and the bloody file came back and it booted up. I'm not kidding. This happened again and this time it really went for it. This time it was Kernel I was missing so my dad said 'hang on, I'm going to look for something' and came back with loads of sheets of paper, and did...something...and it's still there, in blanket C/, file 307545 and it's a self extracting cabinet?
That didn't help, well, it did but it made an admin account AND password. Now the thing is, how can you crack a password that doesn't exist?
Then it went down again so my dad said 'stuff it, we're going to reinstall windows...now which disk is yours?' So we reinstalled windows, my christ what a pain in the ass that was. And it doesn't stop there. All my fils were there (after a scare about my documents missing, it had all my coursework in it, we found it though) I mean, nothing was missing, except for the fact that well...the programs didn't show up on the task bar. So my dad just said, oh well, you'll just have to dig to load the programs up. So I did that, first one I tried was...I think word. Said it wasn't installed. I tried Truespace, it asked for the serial number. I tried Dreamweaver, said it wasn't installed...
Bugger!
But the problem is, same went for the graphics card and the sound card so I can't even load moviemaker! And my dad said 'I'll install them'. Yeah...thanks. Oh, and windows says I have 22 days now to activate it. The problem with that is if they suspect anything, they won't give me the code.
Starting to get worried, I tried my copy of Maya 7. It says I need the liscense. Now that's an even bigger problem because they are more likely to say 'piss off' than microsoft. Granted I got it on that college student deal (not that I'm a college student (we explained that, don't worry)), my dad sent off for it for me so we got it for £60 I think it was (I think that's what he said).
If I seem a little hysterical sometimes...
Now this bit is updated. We reinstalled Windows. We got a little further so then it just crashed at any given point.
We reformatted the sodding thing had to get all the liscences again for Maya and windows...Still no.
Now...I wrote this bit a while ago, for someone else, so forgive me about speaking in the future tense about that bloody satelite (yay we shot it down (what a suprise)):
Now here?s another thing I found funny and deserves its own place in the museum of amazingly shouldn't be funny things in between the remains of the egg that hit Mr. Prescott's head and the shirt Blair was wearing on that sweaty day.
We all now know that NASA forgot to use Duracell and have lost control of a satellite and should start clobbering the local shrubbery somewhere ?between February and March?.
Good one. 'Now on to other News Ashleigh Cole has been allegedly sleeping with'...
Now the thing I find funny is (I doubt it would happen, we were told it would break up, unless a little bit bonks some person in France or whatever) is that they didn't know where it would land. Imagine that, the home insurance people read it.
Destroyed by satellite
What are they going to say to that?! Act of God?!
I mean, what are the odds? You'd get LOADS for that.
And thinking about that reminds me of that car advert where he parks the car in some remote space, being very careful, minding shopping trolleys, then a satellite hits it.
I bet they didn't use Duracell in that one either.
Here comes another piece of pure British diabolical inability. We boarded a Japanese whaler, why? To save them whales Dammit! Not really. They tied them up and carried on, because we?re not used to the direct approach, we weren't expecting it. It?s because we spend tones of time fannying around, like that debate to build six runways on some marshland, so what the environmentalists did was pull a bird out and saying we?re killing them. Bosh! Down at the First hurdle, no runways!
There was a similar thing when the Chinese officials were building the Yangtze Dam. The environ-maniacs wheeled out a dolphin. They solved that problem by shooting it.
So boarding Japanese vessels? Not clever, why do you think the US didn't even THINK about it during the war?
Let's face it; Britain is a bit of a Wombat on the quiet (I'm patriotic, didn't you know?). Half of parliament thinks that their politics shake the world, when actually politics is really just another way of declaring open war with the other half and the rest of the world don't care aside from remembering to duck when good ol' Gordon swings his arm, checked under your desk for those child benefit reports'
I mean, no amount of verbal acrobatics is going to change what you mean; it's about this playing the silly buggers, things would get to the point quicker if:
'So I propose we bring back the hanging sentence.'
'You?re wrong.' BOSH! And smacks opposition in the face
Simple, Parliament brawl, makes headlines, Britney Spears doesn?t make the headlines so those 'Leave Britney alone-ers' can't complain.
Two birds, six runways, a Britney, Mr. Speaker, a Dolphin and tones of whales with one satellite.
Ha! Yeah right. Ooh look, a tree's just uprooted what fun. |
Post by Steinie // Apr 9, 2008, 1:49am
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Sorry to hear about your two birds, six runways, a Britney, Mr. Speaker, a Dolphin and tones of whales with one satellite, Duracell battery, faulty computer, Simbiont problem.
Have a nice day...:confused: |
Post by spacekdet // Apr 9, 2008, 5:19am
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Take note folks, this is how to write a Rant. Magnificent.
I'm interested in seeing this tale illustrated.
Sounds like just the thing to take on in the Speed Model Challenge.
On your mark, get set, GO! |
Post by Improv // Apr 9, 2008, 6:03am
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Take note folks, this is how to write a Rant. Magnificent.
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How can you be sure that it's a rant? :confused:
Looks more like a budget speech or the new coffee menu at Starbucks!
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Post by spacekdet // Apr 9, 2008, 7:54am
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How can you be sure that it's a rant?
Of course it's a rant, he had to reinstall Windows, didn't he? |
Post by Improv // Apr 9, 2008, 8:41am
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Of course it's a rant, he had to reinstall Windows, didn't he?
Nooo...Windows reistall also brings on hissy fits, wanton destruction of technology, raving lunacy and...oh ya-acid reflux! :p |
Post by jayr // Apr 9, 2008, 8:56am
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Nooo...Windows reistall also brings on hissy fits, wanton destruction of technology, raving lunacy and...oh ya-acid reflux! :p
Insanity and regicide can also be a side effect. The fall of the plantagenets can be traced back to the blue screen of death |
Post by Igor K Handel // Apr 9, 2008, 9:09am
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Very funny.
I nominate you to represent your Country in the Olympic Ranting Competition. At least a Silver is definite.
Being a dad of course he has to be seen to be super computer fixing hero, it is part of the role. Just a shame that Dad courses at college omit this section of blatently obvious things Dads should know, from their prospectus.
On the subject of Dads, where does it say that just because Dads are Wi**y drivers, they MUST clear up dead birds, catch spiders, and check theres not a burglar downstairs... I mean not once have I had to use my Wi**y to carry out these dangerous tasks!! Take that you spider ... Splat! :cool:
IK
PS when you don't delete programs but delete and reinstall Windows, all the program registry entries get deleted.. So no surprise there... But yeh its SUCH a pain! |
Post by Improv // Apr 9, 2008, 10:45am
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Insanity and regicide can also be a side effect. </quote>
I'm ok with regicide as long as Emperor Bill is involved! <evil grin!>
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The fall of the plantagenets can be traced back to the blue screen of death
And here I thought it was the black death-sorry, wrong colour! :p |
Post by Improv // Apr 9, 2008, 10:50am
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Very funny.
PS when you don't delete programs but delete and reinstall Windows, all the program registry entries get deleted.. So no surprise there... But yeh its SUCH a pain!
I hear that William Wales has his own personal windows valet who does nothing but re-install Windows for him and curse MS for him! Ah, the life of a spoiled young English prince! :banana: |
Post by Weevil // Apr 10, 2008, 4:38am
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You're going to LOVE this bit. (it's one of my favourite moments in life)
IT WAS THE S.A.T.A CABLE ON MY HARD DRIVE
Sod it.
That is all |
Post by Steinie // Apr 10, 2008, 5:00am
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That's it?!!!
Nothing about uprooted trees?
Warmongers?
Remains of the Vitelline Membrane?:confused::p |
Post by W!ZARD // Apr 12, 2008, 6:40pm
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Wow - I'm impressed - someone wrote a longer post than me! Funnier too.
Still, I'm glad you got your glitch sorted Weevil - I just love happy endings;) |
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