May 2006 Archives

I recognised Ian Wright on the TV. I don't care one jot about football. It's official, I should be down t'pub to watch footie games.

Oh well, Springheeled Jack won. Dangnabbit.

Things are often left unsaid. I regularly don't say what's on my mind where my emotions are concerned. This has been a disaster as far as relations are concerned. I had one more chance to say what was on my mind, but no, I chickened out. Now I'm depressed. How much longer will it take to say things?

It's my own limited homage to Samuel Beckett. :-)
Direct3D 10 (AKA DirectX 10) is a Vista only item. Considering the driver model changes for Vista I can see how you would have a problem shoehorning the API back into XP. The problem is that they keep delaying the release for various reasons meaning that the games keep being delayed. The longer you delay the OS the later it will be adopted. I'm not planning on an upgrade until I've heard a reasonable amount of feedback as I can't afford to waste time troubleshooting problems. Considering that everything native I'm developing has to be backwards compatible with Windows 2000, my upgrade path has been restricted somewhat.
The new toy has the dreaded 'Windows Vista Capable', which is a tad suspicious.

Naah, I just thought I'd put in a title like that to grab a few eyeballs. The brother is going to the Munster Biarritz game this weekend in Cardiff. He got flights to London and is travelling up with the Brother in law for the game. Outrageous price to go to Manchester for the weekend - something in the range of €300, so the mammy has delayed her trip to visit the uncle until early june, where it's a much more reasonable €140. I'm not going to the game, as there aren't any spare tickets. If I'd known that Liz was in the US this week, I could have connived to get the ticked to Brian in New Zealand who promised to come all the way to see the game if he was guaranteed a ticket. That would have been silly.
I'm about half way through the evening course I've bene taking. It's interesting. Some things I knew, some things I didn't, but overall educational to have everything you need lined out in front of you. When I couple it with the Maths grinds for the niece, I'm busy in the evenings, and more than a bit tired. It will be a matter of time before I'm too tired to watch my favourite 'Boston Legal' on the telly. Maybe I should stop watching it pre-emptively; or even record it.
Mark, sorry for not getting in touch sooner. I've been distracted and just haven't gotten back to you.

Christ, but it was annoying - I close the laptop case and shove it in the bag. I pull it out a while later and there's a dialog saying: 'Insufficient system resources exist to complete the API. And my hibernate tab is missing. A bit of googling led me to and entry in Bryce Yehl's weblog. I followed the guide, contacted Microsoft, got the hotfix and now hibernate seems to be working just fine. I'm running Delphi, SQL server Visual Studio have a few mounted CD images and things seem to be just fine - everything hibernates just dandily. All this because I have more than a gig of RAM? That's annoying to say the least.

This is my new laptop. It is extremely nifty. Linux details - Networking is perfect (wired and wireless). The latest NVIDIA driver makes the graphics 3d accelerated, but I lose the console. Solaris wired networking was easy - I added the PCI identifier to the bge entries (14e4,1600) and it just worked (mind you I'm getting spurious SSH failures - could be networking related). The graphics don't work - the NV driver doesn't support the card (too new/too old Solaris Express). I've downloaded the latest drivers from the nvidia site and am just seeing how things work.
It's a really fast computer - scarily so. I can play all my games at full panel native resolution (1920x1200) and it simply rocks. The dual core means that broken programs don't take me down (they tend to be badly written single threaded applications). I think it may be time for an evil laugh!