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oh it burns XD
Your storm has made the radio news here :>)
We had some football across the pond today
the pointy ball football? :)
'sall cricket here now XD
Yes the pointy ball one.
Pointy ball season is over here, round balls rule XD
i did not know that people in Australia play cricket. I thought only people in England, Pakistan and India play cricket. I learned something new today.
edited for clarity and grammar
How do you play a game that could last days
Since 1803
Not so much the last-for-days as the no-result draw puts me off watching. But the cricket ppl love it :>)
She can't...her mouth is sewed shut! :ahhh:
Oscar Mike Golem XD
OK, this one is really striking!
Dana
Zombies get a bad rap, vultures are far hungrier XD
Your storm has made the radio news here :>)
...just saw the BBC report. Sounds pretty rough.
...just saw the BBC report. Sounds pretty rough.
Yes good luck with that, sounds quite alarming :>)
gave shade mixer about 5 hours of my life today.
brought my wings project into poser for a test render. over 800 polys, mostly triangles. it's an empty glass. needs some wine to fit inside it.
it feels good to make progress, haven't put up freebies since Wayii left with the challenges.
...just saw the BBC report. Sounds pretty rough.
you have batteries? matches? non-perishable food stuff?
eeks, i hate when it comes during the night.
Hey great, nicely done :>)
...just saw the BBC report. Sounds pretty rough.
you have batteries? matches? non-perishable food stuff?
eeks, i hate when it comes during the night.
Worst storm I was in was new years eve 1999 on a beach down the coast, the world shook and groaned and rattled in the dark for hours \m/
you have batteries? matches? non-perishable food stuff?
eeks, i hate when it comes during the night.
Worst storm I was in was new years eve 1999 on a beach down the coast, the world shook and groaned and rattled in the dark for hours \m/
for me I think it must be the Blizzard of 1978. I worked out of town and the boss didn't let us go home until 3:15 pm. The storm was already well underway. It was normally a 30 to 40 minute drive. It took me about 3.5 hours to get home. I was driving a 1969 Chrysler Newport. People abandoned their cars on the highways in Boston and Providence during that storm. I didn't get stuck once. But I did stop, two blocks from home, to get out and help someone with a little MG sport car get out of a snow bank crossing the main avenue. The Newport just plowed right through that same bank. What a tank that car was!
Dana
...looking pretty good.
Someday I have to figure out this modelling stuff.
...looking pretty good.
Someday I have to figure out this modelling stuff.
Me, too!
Dana
you have batteries? matches? non-perishable food stuff?
eeks, i hate when it comes during the night.
Worst storm I was in was new years eve 1999 on a beach down the coast, the world shook and groaned and rattled in the dark for hours \m/
for me I think it must be the Blizzard of 1978. I worked out of town and the boss didn't let us go home until 3:15 pm. The storm was already well underway. It was normally a 30 to 40 minute drive. It took me about 3.5 hours to get home. I was driving a 1969 Chrysler Newport. People abandoned their cars on the highways in Boston and Providence during that storm. I didn't get stuck once. But I did stop, two blocks from home, to get out and help someone with a little MG sport car get out of a snow bank crossing the main avenue. The Newport just plowed right through that same bank. What a tank that car was!
Dana
Can't imagine what a snowstorm is like. Chrysler, wow
Me, too!
Dana
Wings3D and Hex are pretty good, you don't need a lot of flash for most stuff :>)
Worst storm I was in was new years eve 1999 on a beach down the coast, the world shook and groaned and rattled in the dark for hours \m/
for me I think it must be the Blizzard of 1978. I worked out of town and the boss didn't let us go home until 3:15 pm. The storm was already well underway. It was normally a 30 to 40 minute drive. It took me about 3.5 hours to get home. I was driving a 1969 Chrysler Newport. People abandoned their cars on the highways in Boston and Providence during that storm. I didn't get stuck once. But I did stop, two blocks from home, to get out and help someone with a little MG sport car get out of a snow bank crossing the main avenue. The Newport just plowed right through that same bank. What a tank that car was!
Dana
Can't imagine what a snowstorm is like. Chrysler, wow
...first car I drove was a 69 Buick LeSabre, about as big.
A few years ago we had a two heavy snowstorms hit Portland back to back within a couple days of each other. Very rare for here where usually a couple inches paralyses the city, resulting in school closures and round the clock hour Storm Watch "20XX!" coverage. Some areas had up to a foot and a half of the white stuff, and it was the fluffy almost powdery kind instead of the wet heavy snow we usually get.
That weekend I was riding around town in a big old Mercury Wagon, which had no snow tyres or chains, with a friend who grew up in Alaska . Never got stuck once as these were the conditions she learned how to drive in at an early age. Was sad but also funny to see people in those expensive 4x4 SUVs (with snow tyres or chains) spinning all four wheels and going nowhere while we kept plodding along past them in our old land yacht..
*loves big ol' tech*
Me, too!
Dana
Wings3D and Hex are pretty good, you don't need a lot of flash for most stuff :>)
...Hexagon still has major stability issues and Daz hasn't updated it for about five years. Wings I never got into as the UI was hard to read because the colour choice and contrast between the text and menu backgrounds was poor. Also it seemed just about every few days there was another update or patch to downland and install. Blender is stable and powerful, but its UI requires a graduate level course in cryptology to understand.
...this is why I have done so little modelling.
Me, too!
Dana
Wings3D and Hex are pretty good, you don't need a lot of flash for most stuff :>)
I have the latest build of Hexagon, and I started to work with it. I have some of the tutorials by John "Fugazzi", including two he sold here, using Hexagon. I haven't followed along with those two yet. I was glad he did them, because his other ones over at Renderosity utilize Silo, which has its differences from Hex.
I'll get back to it eventually.
Dana
Wings3D and Hex are pretty good, you don't need a lot of flash for most stuff :>)
...Hexagon still has major stability issues and Daz hasn't updated it for about five years. Wings I never got into as the UI was hard to read because the colour choice and contrast between the text and menu backgrounds was poor. Also it seemed just about every few days there was another update or patch to downland and install. Blender is stable and powerful, but its UI requires a graduate level course in cryptology to understand.
...this is why I have done so little modelling.
Not true, they did some updates for it last year (I think) that people say really helped.
Dana
Background: When computers crash they often give diagnostic information. Unflatteringly, this diagnostic information is often called a "memory dump" or a "core dump"; a term from the 1960's. Yes, you can actually think of "a dump" as the same thing described by the slang of a "number 2", because this really is an apt description! That's because a "dump" contains everything in the computer's digestive system; valuable information for anybody willing to try to understand it (even just a little bit) and sift through it to figure out what killed the patient. :cheese:
Getting Your Hands Dirty: Dumps give low-level crash information, including memory locations and offsets, the module and instruction last executed (for sometimes the "poison pill" instruction was the one just before the one executed). Yes, it's "Geekspeak". Sorry about that...but in my defense, I never promised that this stuff would be easy to do. However, the information is available, should a user be interested in doing some digging. Or annoyed enough at BSODs as to be willing to make an effort. Google is your friend. If you have an inquisitive mind and a can-do attitude, you can figure out more than you give yourself credit for!
Editorial Comment: I stopped calling Windows "Windoze" about ten years ago. I consciously decided that I needed to stop being demeaning with it and do a better job of understanding it and using it. For me, this was the best decision, and has even opened up opportunities for me in my career (which is most certainly creative, thought not quite in the arts fields). Having learned my lesson with Windows, I no longer use disparaging terms to refer to Macs, iPhones, iPads, Android devices, Linux, or UNIX systems either. Oh sure, I will say when something is dumb. But only if it really is dumb in it's current iteration. I just remind myself constantly that many things improve over time. Yes, Windows too! Yes, iOS too! And Mac OSX!
I'm sure you meant "Windows 7 64 bit". I get it that's what you're using. But since you brought up a new topic...
Background: Yes, there was/is/are a couple of Windows/XP 64 flavors; IA 64 for the Itanium CPU architecture, and X86 64. Pretty much nobody in the end-user/home-user space has an IA 64 system, and the X86 version of Windows/XP Pro 64 Bit had a lot of limitations with regards to running 32 bit code in emulation/compatibility mode. Plus, it's pretty much at the same code level as Windows Server 2003, which makes it ... well, obsolete.
What Really Matters: And the reality is that it's very unlikely that anybody reading this is running either version of XP 64 bit for serious or casual 3D artistry. I did not mention it in my initial post because it's a minor point. Explaining minor points to exhaustion sometimes just serves no real purpose except to possibly distract the reader from my main point.
So now to "de-distract" the conversation: At least one of these things makes XP (any version of XP) a bad choice for anybody trying to keep score at home. This is all any of us should need to know.
1. It's 32 bit and is subject to memory addressability limitations of 2GB. 3GB if you use the 3GB switch. But this is really of no benefit for those who put a lot of characters in a scene. 32 bit OS will eventually impair your ability to use newer software.
2. It's not very secure compared to Windows 7 and Windows 8.
3. Security updates stop in February 2014, so it will quickly become even less secure.
4. In time, more and more software will require Windows 7 or better, Windows 8 or better, or will require the 64 bit version of one or the other.
5. Windows XP in any configuration is just plain obsolete. The kernel, memory subsystem, and I/O subsystem were all written ten or more years ago. It is long-past time to retire XP.
Good luck swatting your BSOD. I hope you figure out what is causing it.
Not true, they did some updates for it last year (I think) that people say really helped.
Dana
...the latest I have on my list is a Beta release in May of 2011 (2.5.1.79) which was basically the "new" version of Hexagon released in early 2012.