Hi Jim, it looks like you’re having problems with your display. Let’s see, the screen itself seems OK, so it’s probably a loose connection on the box.
Turns out that the graphics card wasn’t seated correctly on the motherboard, wasn’t screwed in either. All the jiggling had loosened it, and then it simply refused to work.
ten minutes of sweating and reseating later it was all up and working correctly, but by God I was sweating like a pig with the worry over having fried the card by jiggling it incorrectly.
Let that be a lesson to me… never touch another man’s graphics card. It reminds me of that sexist Harry Enfield sketch about cars and women…
Money money
I have the sinking feeling that my housemate has fled the country just before everything comes together for his big drinks deal. If that’s the case then I think I may be moving house within the week as there is no way on the planet I’m going to be around when the Garda
Lookalike
Anyone from our group notice that Jonothan from the Guild in London looks really similar to Josh Ritter? I was just looking at the Hello Starling record and he seems quite similar.
Post handfasting blues
I am so tired at the moment. I was at John and Marina’s handfasting which was held on Friday evening so I had an 8 hour trip down the country to get to dingle. It would have taken 6 hours if I could drive all the way down the country, but someone in the car was ill with the ‘flu and wanted breaks in the journey.
The handfasting itself didn’t start until later in the evening (about 9.15), and was quite a bit of fun for everyone. I was shattered and fell asleep around the 1.30 – 2am mark. The journey and the long hours in the office all added up.
The Saturday consisted of a long walk (5 hours) in the intermittent sun. I had put on sunblock before I left the house, but surprise surprise I missed a few spots and got burned. Only noticed it the next day, but jeez I have to take more care with this – I never got burned as a child so something has changed with the sunshine.
Saturday evening was more beer and food and music until about 1.30 in the AM.
Sunday I had to get up and drive to Castleisland to visit the folks. Of course I forgot that they go to 10.30 mass in the morning so I messed up the arrival time until just 10am, so they left about 15 minutes after I got there.
Needing to pick some people up from Dingle again, I turned tail and headed back there. In case you’re wondering this adds up to between 2.5 and 3 hours driving for the morning alone.
We started the trek back to Dublin about 1.40 in the afternoon, and had an hour stop off in Castleisland so I could show the parents what a handfasting looked like as well as to put up the family face for that aprt of the month. It being hte third time I got to Kerry in the last month I’m getting really tired of all the trips up and down the country. It’s 9 hours up and back again which tends to add up on the shoulders and back.
so I got in the door of the house and pretty much fell asleep within minutes of hitting the pillow. I am still tired today and it’s two days later.
Then my portable Hard Drive died… less than 12 hours after it was loaned to one of the housemates.
Sun Hardware
I’m stunned at the places you tend to find sun hardware … in major banks, running evil corporations that mutate monkeys into something evil. Sometimes I have to ask myself am I working for a good company or have I been lulled into a false sense of safety by our cool and groovy features for making the typical Evil Genius’ program to control genomes run up to 50% faster, with added bling (dtrace), Or to encapsulate their servers into virtual containers so a lone hacker can’t take over the entire network (zones), of the ability to make sure that every byte of data that is stored in system is summed, checksummed and cross-checked (DynFS I think) in case an explosion damages some of your storage devices.
Yes, Sun Microsystems… we put the ‘Evil Genius’ into Far Cry 🙂
Oh My god
Straight from popbitch:
A German couple who went to a fertility clinic after eight years of marriage have found out why they are still childless – they weren’t having sex. The University Clinic of Lubek said “We are not talking retarded people here, but a couple who were brought up in a religious environment.”
dear god are these people completely dumb?
(still waiting for a machine to reboot).
For Sale?
the linux kernel mailing list isn’t terribly spam-heavy (or at least that’s what my filter tells me). Today, however some twat had spammed it with an ad for the ‘cheapest oem software’ going — namely it was an advert for one of those fine Microsoft products. I know that most of the addresses are reaped from some database, but this one particularly shone as to their lack of intelligence. Sometimes I wonder, but then I stop because they’re not worth the time.
I had planned on getting to town to get some coffee before the KTD at 6, but looking at the time – 4.30 that seems unlikely, it would take a minimum of 1/2 hour to get through town and then it only leaves me with an hour to get home and prepare. Looks like I’ll be taking this call from my desk once more.
Joy of joys.
Coffee
What is it with the coffee shop in the Business park, you’d swear they think they are the only folks in town. Their coffee is burned and bad. I’ve drank better instant and that’s not saying much.
I only deigned to have the coffee because I ran out of my own stuff and I will have to say that they are just as bad now as they were several months ago. Maybe they need someone to tell them how to make it so that it isn’t burned?
As it is it’s cheaper to get the coffee on the bean from Gloria Jeans in town and grind and make it myself rather than drink the muck that they consider to be coffee. I must go in there today and get myself another couple of punds of the good stuff. that will keep me going for a couple of weeks at least and keep me from wanting to throw boiling water over the folks in the shop.
Splinter Cell 3
Someone recommended I check out some of the details about splinter cell 3. Based on the little review over in IGN, I am mightily impessed. In fact I’m scarily impressed. If this is going to be the quality of the game I so can’t wait until it ships.
Ah well, back to work this line of green won’t paint itself.
Font preferences
I’ve been using the font called ‘proggy clean’ for all my programming needs for the last while and find it a very capable font for editing programs. Everything is clear and easy to work with.
It came up today as it is a great typeface for use in LCD projector demonstrations. It’s available from http://www.tactile3d.com/tristan/