SO, if you think you're just about done with your preconceptions about films you should watch "The Holy Mountain."∴
Even better than listening to June on the West Coast on a 5am drive home.
∴If you already have, then "I conquered the holy mountain horizontally! Horizontally!"
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Friday, July 24, 2009
Under construction
I bought a Radeon Powercolor HD3850 about 6 months ago, to add a year or two to my aging AGP system. It seems like it's been one long blue screen of death since I installed it.
My computer has always had its quirks, and even though I've been able to play Runescape almost turned all the way up since installing the card, I can no longer deal with the constant bsoding, crashing and failure to boots that have come with the new hardware. I could do nothing but ٩๏̯͡๏)۶ when I tried playing KOTOR for nostalgia's sake and my machine straight up bsoded. I acquired a copy of KOTOR2 and the same happened. Once again, I could do nothing but ٩๏̯͡๏)۶.
Mind you, I've tried every solution, patch and hotfix I've found on the tubes, but to no avail.
I will try to fix my system one last time before giving up hope of ever finding a solution. I will document my last attempt here.
First, I'll uninstall my current 8.5 drivers. I'll (hopefully) reboot, run drivercleaner (thank you afterdawn) and reboot again. Then I'll install SP3, shut the system off and see if I can feed the card more power. Start up again and change the AGP aperture to 256 from the BIOS (I read somewhere that Powercolor recommended this.) Boot Windows, install the 9.6 hotfix drivers. Anything that can be fixed should be fixed at this point. I'll (try) update this entry before I go to work.
-Update-
Fail. Working on safe mode.
Did all that and increased the AGP voltage to 1.6 and it still BSODed when I booted. I'm gonna try to start it up again in an hour and/or after work. If it boots like before then at least I'll have SP3 and new drivers. If not then I'll just read Atlas Shrugged instead of playing KOTOR. At least Rand understands my troubles...
-Update update-
Hurrah! I didn't try to start it until this morning and it worked, to my surprise. Catalyst Control Center is pretty cool. And I don't know if it's the new drivers or Catalyst or SP3 but my display is way sharper. Now I can play DotA with AA. Mama mia!
TL;DR version:
New graphics card=bsod. New driver, bios setting and control center later still does, but performs better.
My computer has always had its quirks, and even though I've been able to play Runescape almost turned all the way up since installing the card, I can no longer deal with the constant bsoding, crashing and failure to boots that have come with the new hardware. I could do nothing but ٩๏̯͡๏)۶ when I tried playing KOTOR for nostalgia's sake and my machine straight up bsoded. I acquired a copy of KOTOR2 and the same happened. Once again, I could do nothing but ٩๏̯͡๏)۶.
Mind you, I've tried every solution, patch and hotfix I've found on the tubes, but to no avail.
I will try to fix my system one last time before giving up hope of ever finding a solution. I will document my last attempt here.
First, I'll uninstall my current 8.5 drivers. I'll (hopefully) reboot, run drivercleaner (thank you afterdawn) and reboot again. Then I'll install SP3, shut the system off and see if I can feed the card more power. Start up again and change the AGP aperture to 256 from the BIOS (I read somewhere that Powercolor recommended this.) Boot Windows, install the 9.6 hotfix drivers. Anything that can be fixed should be fixed at this point. I'll (try) update this entry before I go to work.
-Update-
Fail. Working on safe mode.
Did all that and increased the AGP voltage to 1.6 and it still BSODed when I booted. I'm gonna try to start it up again in an hour and/or after work. If it boots like before then at least I'll have SP3 and new drivers. If not then I'll just read Atlas Shrugged instead of playing KOTOR. At least Rand understands my troubles...
-Update update-
Hurrah! I didn't try to start it until this morning and it worked, to my surprise. Catalyst Control Center is pretty cool. And I don't know if it's the new drivers or Catalyst or SP3 but my display is way sharper. Now I can play DotA with AA. Mama mia!
TL;DR version:
New graphics card=bsod. New driver, bios setting and control center later still does, but performs better.
Friday, July 17, 2009
For your convenience
A couple of friends of mine
decided to apply at Ralph's a few days ago and I came along to support them spiritually and make sure they were in top minimum wage job application-filling shape. This all fell apart when I noticed the mobility scooter next to the application computer.
It all started innocently enough: I had just gotten from work that night--my legs ached terribly and I sought nothing from the scooter except a little relief from my pains. But just as Satan tainted Iscariot's heart when the bread of the Last Supper fell into his traitorous hands, so my heart was filled with a delinquent desire as soon as my buttocks fell into the inexplicably warm leather seat of the scooter. I rode off into the great unknown of Ralph's. Everything seemed so different; I'm used to walking around with a 6ft eye level, but while on the scooter I must have been at least a foot and a half shorter. It took all my willpower to keep the huge shit-eating grin off my face when I passed the other customers. It wasn't until I tried to parallel park the scooter in one of the isles that I lost it, the beeping sound emitted when I went in reverse made me laugh pretty hard. I wouldn't have been satisfied unless I completed a full circuit, even though it required me to scoot past the registers and the manager. She gently requested that I get off the scooter unless I needed it when I passed her, bringing my journey to an end.
It was decided that we should make up for my transgression by loitering in front of the store. We hadn't gotten 5 minutes of good loitering before a heavily tattooed man approached us and asked us if we were there Hey Mistering people. An employee happened to be walking by right then, and to everyone's delight he suggested that we were engaging in illegal activities, a statement which was not only original but also quite amusing.
My friend that first applied has finished at this point, and my other friend went inside. The tattooed man came out of the store and began to tell us about his life after a brief introduction: his four year incarceration and the riot during which he stabbed a child molester 26 times (I gave him the brofist when he told us this, though I regretted it when he told us the guy almost died) his fortieth birthday celebration, etc. My friend seemed a little uncomfortable with the dude and lied when he asked for our names and ages. I thought he was awwwright.
Shortly after the manager came out of the store and I wished her a good night. A guy was bumping Loveline on the parking lot when we left.
So
I'm 5 weeks into my summer and I've had relatively little excitement. I'm halfway through my financial goal; maybe a little ahead.
And as much as I enjoy dippin' my pudding pop in milk, I couldn't help but dip a little into horticulture (paperwork pending.)
I hope to have something a little more interesting to write about next time.
p.s.
MHFU rocks.
decided to apply at Ralph's a few days ago and I came along to support them spiritually and make sure they were in top minimum wage job application-filling shape. This all fell apart when I noticed the mobility scooter next to the application computer.
It all started innocently enough: I had just gotten from work that night--my legs ached terribly and I sought nothing from the scooter except a little relief from my pains. But just as Satan tainted Iscariot's heart when the bread of the Last Supper fell into his traitorous hands, so my heart was filled with a delinquent desire as soon as my buttocks fell into the inexplicably warm leather seat of the scooter. I rode off into the great unknown of Ralph's. Everything seemed so different; I'm used to walking around with a 6ft eye level, but while on the scooter I must have been at least a foot and a half shorter. It took all my willpower to keep the huge shit-eating grin off my face when I passed the other customers. It wasn't until I tried to parallel park the scooter in one of the isles that I lost it, the beeping sound emitted when I went in reverse made me laugh pretty hard. I wouldn't have been satisfied unless I completed a full circuit, even though it required me to scoot past the registers and the manager. She gently requested that I get off the scooter unless I needed it when I passed her, bringing my journey to an end.
It was decided that we should make up for my transgression by loitering in front of the store. We hadn't gotten 5 minutes of good loitering before a heavily tattooed man approached us and asked us if we were there Hey Mistering people. An employee happened to be walking by right then, and to everyone's delight he suggested that we were engaging in illegal activities, a statement which was not only original but also quite amusing.
My friend that first applied has finished at this point, and my other friend went inside. The tattooed man came out of the store and began to tell us about his life after a brief introduction: his four year incarceration and the riot during which he stabbed a child molester 26 times (I gave him the brofist when he told us this, though I regretted it when he told us the guy almost died) his fortieth birthday celebration, etc. My friend seemed a little uncomfortable with the dude and lied when he asked for our names and ages. I thought he was awwwright.
Shortly after the manager came out of the store and I wished her a good night. A guy was bumping Loveline on the parking lot when we left.
So
I'm 5 weeks into my summer and I've had relatively little excitement. I'm halfway through my financial goal; maybe a little ahead.
And as much as I enjoy dippin' my pudding pop in milk, I couldn't help but dip a little into horticulture (paperwork pending.)
I hope to have something a little more interesting to write about next time.
p.s.
MHFU rocks.
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