The Mind Of OverlordTomala
Computing

I know what my weekend project is going to be.

Updated to the latest kernal under Fedora 20 this morning only to have more grief happen. I lost communication in mumble (everything turned horribly autotuned) and even before the kernal update mumble was giving me slight problems. Each time I started mumble it kept doing a sigterm on an audio process. Since my video drivers haven’t been working properly under Fedora 20 anyway, I’ll just go say fuck it and go back to 19. The few bugs I had in 19 were in 20 anyway with extras thrown in.

Oh well, I was bored and had my little adventure. 😛 I think tomorrow I’ll start copying off my files again. Luckily Linux doesn’t take forever to reinstall like any version of Windows. I can be up and running at full throttle in half a day without having to take freaking forever to install updates and restart over and over again.

Rants

Oh god I’m still awake…

Damn you TF2 for keeping me up late! Actually, it helped me get out some aggression. I found out tonight that two of our co-workers are getting laid off due to lack of hours to give. According to our boss the company is allowing 700 hours for the whole department, but our store manager says that’s too many and that we can only use 500. Which means for some reason we have to lose two extra people and become even more horribly understaffed.

On top of that a long time co-worker is retiring soon. She was originally going to stay longer because our boss said she was needed, but then she changed her mind again when her hours were cut too. Obviously she wasn’t needed that much…

I talked with her a bit during my lunch tonight. Since I’m going to be on the national healthcare plan I’m contemplating looking for other places to work. Since I don’t depend on them for insurance anymore and I wouldn’t even be able to qualify due to the lack of hours given to me (I have to have 24 or more in a work week or it gets lost. Lately I’m lucky if I can even get 20), so I’m thinking if things don’t get better (which they probably won’t) I’ll look for other places in town to work. I just need to keep an eye out for openings.

All in an Overlord's day / Animation

Sunday Morning Open Thread

Haven’t posted in a few days, been a bit melancholy about a couple things I’d rather not talk about. So mainly I’ve been sorting through my things, playing some games trying to bury it in the back of my head.

During my cleanup session in Source Filmmaker I unearthed a mocap test animation that I never used. It was one where I experimented with locking items (a hat in this case) to a model before adding the animation.

Here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh0gMGfNgAs

I’ll need to setup some time to do some serious animations… well, as serious as my personality will allow.

Computing / Server

If it isn’t one thing it’s another…

So I decided to upgrade from Fedora 19 to Fedora 20, so far the only problem seems to be related to my video drivers (everything else works exactly as before), I had to uninstall my beta drivers under windows to make the random black screening go away (fun!) and for the icing on the cake I had to ram my head against the MvM server because now it doesn’t seem to startup in quickplay mode anymore despite having all of the convars correctly placed.

I was all for the new update in the beginning, but this is turning into a royal pain in the ass. I wish Valve could put some straight forward guidelines on how to get setup, and what you can and can’t use in quickplay. The current list they provide leaves too many questions unanswered.

All in an Overlord's day / Computing / Gaming

Open Thread

Not much to report. Been working, experimenting with streaming/linux/hardware/etc. I’m planning to also upgrade to Fedora 20 for the hell of it since reinstalling Linux is a breeze compared to reinstalling and reconfiguring Windows. Oh, and the updates are better. I don’t have to restart Linux a bajillion times to get all the updates to install.

On the bright side of hardware, the R9 290 works perfectly under Linux. I can max out all of my 3D Linux games and still have frames to spare. 😀

Gaming

Streaming steam

I got into the steam streaming beta. Been testing streaming between my desktop and laptop. So far it seems to be handling well between two windows OS’s with lag only on a couple games. I think the next test will be streaming windows games to my Linux side. See how well that handles. 😀

This will be very beneficial for people wanting to build their own htpc’s and also dedicated streaming systems to play games in the comfort of the living room.