Computer work

Busy Weekend

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Brought home another computer to work on for the weekend. Seems to be having similar issues to the previous one, seems that the latest Windows Update has claimed another victim. Only in this case the system seems to give off a Blue Screen Of Death randomly when playing WoW. I’m going to do a clean reinstall, and have him step back a build. It’s one of those Alienware Steam Boxes. All in all it has good parts in it. He only uses it for WoW. Should have it back in his hands either tomorrow or in time when I head back to work.

I also made some more SFM progress; completed two renders, need to do two more. But before I do that I’ll need to extract some audio from a couple recent recording sessions with Yutram. I’ll be working on the ending sequences, then once I finish and export those I’m done and can return to Shotcut to piece things together for both videos. I’m thinking the endings may take awhile, especially for the second one. I might work on that one before the first one just to get it out of the way.

I also went on a bit of a shopping spree yesterday. I bought some stuff for renovating my closet a little, and some teas. One is a Cherry Rhubarb and the other one is supposed to be a Red Velvet cake. I haven’t had a chance to try them yet, been enjoying some flowering tea. I think I have one more brew I can get out of it before moving onto something else… might give one of the new teas a try tomorrow.

4 Days Later

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I’ve been really busy these last couple of days. A co-worker of mine wanted me to look at her husband’s two laptops to see if they could be fixed. I managed to factory reset the first one (and took pity on the poor bloke and installed Waterfox because no one should suffer with Microsoft Edge), and the second one I’m working on at the moment seems to have a bad hard drive in it. Both laptops seem to show signs of being dropped just by reading the hard disk information, with the latter one being the worst of the set. I’m going to recommend for him to upgrade both of his drives to SSD instead of the 5400 RPM drives that currently inhabit both systems, they’ll perform much faster AND won’t be as susceptible to large bumps and drops (and tell him POLITELY to take better care of his shit). :trollface:

Meanwhile at work, one of my co-workers told me that the new Tomb Raider has 1980’s Lara Croft, and when I asked him about it he meant Lara from the original game, then when I told him that came out in 1996 he said he thought the graphics looked “80”s like”. O_O He has now been demoted from nerd to digital dork. :trollface: I was entertained by his excuse of being “just a kid when it came out” to which I replied that I was only one year older than him… then it turned into a conversation about me not looking entirely ancient (despite having white hair). 😛

Speaking of Tomb Raider I did notice that its having quite a sale right now despite only being out for about a month. I’m still a bit on the fence in getting it, mainly because of my own time constraints and using Linux more lately, resulting in another game in an ever expanding library that I still need to sift through. Ohhhh but it is indeed a test.