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I like mine in a tikka masala. Mmmmm.
Tikka yes, Masala, no :)
...pretty impressive.
Interesting that teh 34th anniversary of Mt St Helen's eruption was two weeks ago Sunday. That was quite the experience. When I got to Seattle I remember in the days that followed, watching the weather reports that not only gave the chance for rainfall, but "ashfall" as well. On July 22nd of that year, there was another large ash eruption which occurred in the early evening just as I was walking through the UW campus to a class. It was a clear day out so it was quite a sight. I believe it shot up to something like 48,000'.
...needless to say I was late for that class.
I remember that! I live in central Alberta and we were completely hazed over from that.
Thanks for sharing the story about the eruption of Mount Saint Helens. The following is kinda off topic but my uncle invited me to visit him in Calgary.
Thanks for sharing the story about the eruption of Mount Saint Helens. The following is kinda off topic but my uncle invited me to visit him in Calgary.
I haven't been down there in over 10 years! Nice view of the mountains, we don't get that up here, but it's close to the tourist trap we call Banff.
I haven't been down there in over 10 years! Nice view of the mountains, we don't get that up here, but it's close to the tourist trap we call Banff.
I remember the F-Troop episode about the Burglar of Banff. :-P
Dana
used my last scoobydoo bandaide. meh. no wanna use plain old bandaid. rutro raggy
My daughter will happily share her Dora the Explorer bandaids.
Morning, Mynah birds whistling and cackling and grubbing for breakfast in our garden woke me up well after dawn today, boy am I worn out from last week still :)
Terrific Saurian Draggy, is going to have colour as well *hopes* ?
But in the end the only thing that makes a real difference is a necktop, version 1 :)
Awesome Fyre, and thanks for the story before :)
...you need one of those new Macs that Ps1borg has 12 hyperthreading cores (on one CPU) & 64G of RAM. All your HDDs, SSD's would be external though as it has no drive bays.
SSDs are nice but very expensive, especially the big ones. I find an SSD to be more valuable for a notebook as it has n moving parts to get knocked out of alignment, and takes less power (PSUs on notebooks have a much smaller output compared to workstations and re not easy to swap out).
I'd just settle for a couple standard 2TB HDDs for backup storage (I have room for five more in my system)..
The only way you can get close to a TB of RAM is to win the Powerball or Mega Millions and get a Cray.
"...umm isn't that a Cray XK-7?
"...yep"
"...what do you use it for?"
"...rendering in Daz Studio"
"...OK, how fast is it?"
..."well when I click "Render", it finishes the job twenty minutes ago. Have to watch out for those pesky quantum singularities that pop up once in a while though, last one took the cat and sent him to the the 10th dimension I think."
Teh awesome shininess still won't run Skype tho Whisky Tango Foxtrot - but at least it is a not my problem kinda thing, a complete network reinstall with bog standard default settings didn't fix it either :lol:
eta oh I meant to say before the KB vs Mouse thing for modellers is down to selection/picking, you pick/select with mouse and use KB to invoke tools. Or pick/select with KB and use mouse to invoke tools, don' think you can logically expect both functionalities at once :)
I haven't been down there in over 10 years! Nice view of the mountains, we don't get that up here, but it's close to the tourist trap we call Banff.
It sounds real pretty. One thing about Aus you notice straightaway is teh awesome flatness going on forever :)
I haven't been down there in over 10 years! Nice view of the mountains, we don't get that up here, but it's close to the tourist trap we call Banff.
It sounds real pretty. One thing about Aus you notice straightaway is teh awesome flatness going on forever :)
Sounds like Saskatchewan.
Terrific Saurian Draggy, is going to have colour as well *hopes* ?
The sketch I did? Unlikely but possible.
In other news, I think my laptop's in trouble again. Fan's been acting up a lot even when the computer isn't using much power or running a lot, and is heating up very fast. I have a fan blowing on it right now to keep it cooled. On top of that the monitor is experiencing issues, not wanting to come back on if I close the lid. The keys and stuff will light up, but the screen remains black no matter how long I leave it open...
Got my desktop turned on for the first time in a while, to play a game that I got on my laptop but wasn't running too well (Worms: Ultimate Mayhem) and it runs flawlessly. Only problem? My desktop itself.
> 1hr in Steam's downloading the game. At 36% the computer freezes.
50min ~ 1hr 30min Game is installing, and computer freezes.
Have been playing for around 30 ~ 50 minutes, computer freezes.
Only been playing for 10 ~ 20 minutes, computer locks up.
Yup. Pretty much why I don't do overnight renders on my desktop anymore. I've done every possible scan imaginable, and nothing was picked up. So I'm pretty sure it's a hardware issue, and we've cleaned the thing to the point there's not a speck of dust on the inside or outside of the case or fan.
Oh yeah, and after updating my laptop's graphics driver Photoshop tends to lock up from time to time. Not a crash with an error message, but just a freeze that I have to use ProcExplorer to kill.
Ah well.
But in the end the only thing that makes a real difference is a necktop, version 1 :)
:coolsmile:
Dana
The countryside is kinda pretty. The cities can be far apart.
I found a car that has the steering wheel on the right side. The minimum driving age in most states of Australia is 17 but Julie is younger. lol
Photo courtesy of Yasser Alghofily https://www.flickr.com/photos/4yas/6140034948
My daughter will happily share her Dora the Explorer bandaids.
We just ran out of SpongeBob bandaids.
Zbrushing again.
thank you!I second this Thank you. I have found many happy days listed here. Some of which I will soon enjoy again. But silly question time, I have not seen Xcom the original. It was one of my favs back in those days. Anybody got a link?
Teh awesome shininess still won't run Skype tho Whisky Tango Foxtrot - but at least it is a not my problem kinda thing, a complete network reinstall with bog standard default settings didn't fix it either :lol:
eta oh I meant to say before the KB vs Mouse thing for modellers is down to selection/picking, you pick/select with mouse and use KB to invoke tools. Or pick/select with KB and use mouse to invoke tools, don' think you can logically expect both functionalities at once :)
...ahh, but my workstation isn't really primarily set up for Net usage anyway. That's what the Notebook is for. This way I can watch a tutorial and work through the issue at the same time.
As to a "point & click" vs. a keyboard driven UI it is so much easier to learn the basics of the programme and the concept of what one is trying to learn with the former. Crikey, you have to know keyboard shortcuts just to be able to manipulate the camera in Blender. So much simpler with a pointer/cursor setup.
I've really come to like the Camera Cube in Daz Studio.
...Hexagon does the same. In my book that still is a "crash" as you lose whatever you have done up to that point and have to restart the programme.
People still use Photoshop? :ohh: It is expensive $$$ I use Gimp instead. :p
I'm still using Photoshop CS2. It's the last upgrade I could afford. I didn't pay nearly that much for it!
Dana
...same here, as well as PSP.
nvm
The countryside is kinda pretty. The cities can be far apart.
I found a car that has the steering wheel on the right side. The minimum driving age in most states of Australia is 17 but Julie is younger. lol
Photo courtesy of Yasser Alghofily https://www.flickr.com/photos/4yas/6140034948
I used to dive in the caves at Port MacDonnel not far from Mount Gambier. Gambier is an old (really really old) volcano, has a bottomless lake that is quite marvellous on the edge of a couple of deserts :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Lake_(South_Australia)
http://portmacdonnell.sa.au
Teh awesome shininess still won't run Skype tho Whisky Tango Foxtrot - but at least it is a not my problem kinda thing, a complete network reinstall with bog standard default settings didn't fix it either :lol:
eta oh I meant to say before the KB vs Mouse thing for modellers is down to selection/picking, you pick/select with mouse and use KB to invoke tools. Or pick/select with KB and use mouse to invoke tools, don' think you can logically expect both functionalities at once :)
...ahh, but my workstation isn't really primarily set up for Net usage anyway. That's what the Notebook is for. This way I can watch a tutorial and work through the issue at the same time.
As to a "point & click" vs. a keyboard driven UI it is so much easier to learn the basics of the programme and the concept of what one is trying to learn with the former. Crikey, you have to know keyboard shortcuts just to be able to manipulate the camera in Blender. So much simpler with a pointer/cursor setup.
I've really come to like the Camera Cube in Daz Studio.
Best way to mouse a camera is to lock the camera to some target geometry or null using (usually) a "point at" function, that way you can pick the target geometry and move it to reposition the camera, instead of switching to a camera tool all the time. Camera shouldn't be an issue for modelling, you want orthographic views instead :)
It sounds real pretty. One thing about Aus you notice straightaway is teh awesome flatness going on forever :)
Sounds like Saskatchewan.
what a great-sounding place name :)
It sounds real pretty. One thing about Aus you notice straightaway is teh awesome flatness going on forever :)
Sounds like Saskatchewan.
what a great-sounding place name :)
It's bald, and flat-flat-flat.
And windy.
Ok, the north has trees, but south...holy crap, it's flat. Common Saskatchewan joke: My dog ran away....took him 3 days.
The name is derived from Cree meaning swift flowing.
Oh...Atmospheric camera+IBL=Forevaar! I need more ram. I have 16gb now, but I'd like 32, but for that I need a new motherboard. and likely a new processor to go with it.....
it never ends....