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General update...
Had to spend the last couple of days focusing on my dissertation demonstration which was this afternoon. Worked out pretty well I thought - think they got the general idea that my project did something clever, which will hopefully translate it into a good mark. I could really do with a good mark - 55-65 is all I require but a high 60's or low 70's means I can get a first-class for my degree. Which would be nice.
With that out of the way, I intend to finish up the vertex cache demo. Not a lot to be done on it, but a few little tweaks here and there and some updated source code. Probably wont get to look at that till tomorrow at this rate.
My entertainment this evening is a full backup of my system. One of those chores that has to be done every now and then I suppose... but still, clocking up at 10 DVD's its gonna take a few hours and is hardly exciting [headshake]
Although, as a random bit of trivia...
In digging around my "downloads" partition I realised why making it particularly big was probably a bad idea - I've got gigabytes of general crap clogging it up. I blame my fast internet connection.
The Windows Vista beta program and MSDN subscription are primarily to blame - seems I've got eight ISO's of various builds totalling over 23gb [oh][oh][oh]
Once I've got my system backed up I'm going to try yet another install. 5308 worked once, but not on a reinstall... 5342 and 5365 were both DOA. Now we're upto 5381... I really want to get back on with some D3D10 work [sad]. It's been over a 100 builds since it last installed and worked stabily on my config.
Seems that my SATA/RAID array is confusing Vista, so if 5381 is DOA as well I might try disconnecting it from my motherboard during install. I'm quite worried that this will screw up the partitions and RAID mirroring, hence the full backup first.
Had to spend the last couple of days focusing on my dissertation demonstration which was this afternoon. Worked out pretty well I thought - think they got the general idea that my project did something clever, which will hopefully translate it into a good mark. I could really do with a good mark - 55-65 is all I require but a high 60's or low 70's means I can get a first-class for my degree. Which would be nice.
With that out of the way, I intend to finish up the vertex cache demo. Not a lot to be done on it, but a few little tweaks here and there and some updated source code. Probably wont get to look at that till tomorrow at this rate.
My entertainment this evening is a full backup of my system. One of those chores that has to be done every now and then I suppose... but still, clocking up at 10 DVD's its gonna take a few hours and is hardly exciting [headshake]
Although, as a random bit of trivia...
In digging around my "downloads" partition I realised why making it particularly big was probably a bad idea - I've got gigabytes of general crap clogging it up. I blame my fast internet connection.
The Windows Vista beta program and MSDN subscription are primarily to blame - seems I've got eight ISO's of various builds totalling over 23gb [oh][oh][oh]
Once I've got my system backed up I'm going to try yet another install. 5308 worked once, but not on a reinstall... 5342 and 5365 were both DOA. Now we're upto 5381... I really want to get back on with some D3D10 work [sad]. It's been over a 100 builds since it last installed and worked stabily on my config.
Seems that my SATA/RAID array is confusing Vista, so if 5381 is DOA as well I might try disconnecting it from my motherboard during install. I'm quite worried that this will screw up the partitions and RAID mirroring, hence the full backup first.
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