Screwed around a bit in L4D2 tonight. Rendering the intro sequence right now. What used to take 6 or 7 hours shall be done in an hour and a half. Worth the investment.
Holy Fuckatron!
I took a nap after work and woke up at about half after seven. Scared the shit out of myself because I thought I slept until 7am. So I thought I was late for work. I’ve calmed down since then but damn… was I ever worked up about it.
Guess I’ll get the rest of this out of the way.
You Can’t Do That On XBox! Ilogic City
Tomala’s past self goes through a journey via the magic goffik TARDIS, traveling through time and space only to discover possibly the most bizarre campaign ever to be made.
Open Thread
Work went pretty smoothly today. Something about BSing before work (offline or not) seems to put me in a better mood. Decided to verify my RAID while I was at work and found 3 errors it fixed. I just had a couple B52’s and I’m fixing to lay down in a bit. Maybe when I get up after my nap I’ll release the next episode.
Lets hope this lasts a little longer.
I’m now at the point where I stopped when the RAID splooged all over the system. I’m gonna take a break from it for now. Both sides are secure. Antivirus is installed, firewalls are up, games are in place, backups are made and shit is lookin’good.
My shit is still there!!! Sorta.
I’ve got some good news. I recovered everything important from the hard drives! Some of my raw footage for reviews were ruined though, so I’ll have to do another film session. But pictures, audio and compiled videos are all safe, sound, and backed up onto other drives and computers. I can still do stuff! Which I’ll need to soon because this downtime has caused me to fall somewhat behind on projects.
Finally up yet again on windows 7. Tomorrow I’ll tear into XP yet again… This time I’m not touching the microsoft administrative tools to format the drives. Mini partition tool will do the trick. I use that anyway for on the fly drive resizing.
Anyway, the next three days I’ll be ordering bread. Time to go back to that nap trick I did last time so I won’t go completely insane.
Just when I saw a light at the end of the tunnel, a boulder rolls into view.
Had a bit of a setback last night while formatting one of the new 1 TB drives. For whatever reason the drive controller didn’t like it when I tried to format 2 things at a time. Which is strange because under XP and 7 there is usually no issue, it’ll just do it. Not in this case…
For whatever reason it tore apart the RAID I had. I lost everything but the two operating system drives. Things like my games and video footage/completed episodes might be gone. I say might because right now I’m running Disk Internals RAID recovery. I’m using that and have managed to possibly recover my Steam drive. Most of the files seem to be there. I opened up one folder to export the contents and the program seems to be taking it’s sweet ass time opening it. I’m going to guess it’s the one folder that had half a million files in it… Just my luck.
This means I’m going to be down even longer than anticipated. My drive tables are completely fucked. I’ll have to redo everything as soon as I try to recover all of the important files.
Almost finished up
Built my RAID configuration tonight and got most of XP done. Aside from having to tweak XP and 7 I’m pretty much ready to go to town. At this point in time I’m formatting one of my hard drives for the first time. It’s taking forever…
Decided while I had downtime that I’d spend some time cooking tonight. Made some nice spicy fried rice and tomato flower soup. Very colorful and warming on a very cold evening.
Now to read up on what I’ve missed while doing some personal engineering.
My Triumphant Return To Teh Internetz
I’m finally up on the new system. So far it’s been working beautifully. Installed Windows XP in less than ten minutes. The Win 7 side took a bit longer, but that’s to be expected as it has more stuff and things.
I’m almost done configuring the Win 7 side. I’m going to pop over to the XP side and get as much of that done as I can so I can start moving things about.
On another note I don’t have to cashier after all. Talked to my boss and he talked to the store director. I don’t have to check after all. Celebrated last night by having 5 straight shots. Would have posted last night, but you know… Tomala + 5
You Can’t Do That On XBox! Blood Hospital
In this episode Tomala reviews what is supposed to be a hospital disguised as a shopping mall with various flaws and other random stupidity. Is it awesome? Probably not…