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Good news: I fixed an out of memory problem in the game we're working on at the moment through sexy coding, and I checked the fix in last night
Bad news: I got this this morning:
I've now lost an entire morning reinstalling windows (Windows XP repair install did a fantastic job), getting my USB ports to work and getting around "FLOPPY DISK SEEK ERROR" messages. Which is interesting, because this PC doesn't have a fucking floppy disk drive.
I really hate this piece of crap Dell PC - I've heard that most people's experiences with Dell hardware are positive, but we've had no end of problems with all of our ones at work, and we haven't had time to get them fixed (We have way too much work to loose any time getting PCs repaired and sorting people out with temporary replacements). Personally, I think that all these PCs have got bad motherboards in them.
Good news: We finally got our deposit posted to us from our last place - 3 and a half months after moving out.
Bad news: They spelled both of our names wrong on the cheques. My ex-flatmate's name is Ruan, and they wrote the cheque to Ryan, and my surname is Macpherson and they wrote it to McPherson. My cheque will probably be alright, but the bank may be a bit funny about my ex-flatmates.
In other news, I'm procrastinating a bit. I haven't touched the video texture tutorial code since I last said I was going back to DirectShow. I've been looking at IO Completion Ports instead, and I'm vaguely considering writing a 2D MMO (Some of you may recall that I was working on one a long time ago). I know it's a big task, but I can do it in small steps, and turn each step into a tutorial as I go along - if I manage to get completely to grips with IO Completion Ports that is, I'm not going to write about anything I don't understand completely.
Well, end of lunch and I have a mornings work to catch up on...
Semi-edit: Well, it took an hour to upload that image... Damn file manager is slooooooow...
Bad news: I got this this morning:
I've now lost an entire morning reinstalling windows (Windows XP repair install did a fantastic job), getting my USB ports to work and getting around "FLOPPY DISK SEEK ERROR" messages. Which is interesting, because this PC doesn't have a fucking floppy disk drive.
I really hate this piece of crap Dell PC - I've heard that most people's experiences with Dell hardware are positive, but we've had no end of problems with all of our ones at work, and we haven't had time to get them fixed (We have way too much work to loose any time getting PCs repaired and sorting people out with temporary replacements). Personally, I think that all these PCs have got bad motherboards in them.
Good news: We finally got our deposit posted to us from our last place - 3 and a half months after moving out.
Bad news: They spelled both of our names wrong on the cheques. My ex-flatmate's name is Ruan, and they wrote the cheque to Ryan, and my surname is Macpherson and they wrote it to McPherson. My cheque will probably be alright, but the bank may be a bit funny about my ex-flatmates.
In other news, I'm procrastinating a bit. I haven't touched the video texture tutorial code since I last said I was going back to DirectShow. I've been looking at IO Completion Ports instead, and I'm vaguely considering writing a 2D MMO (Some of you may recall that I was working on one a long time ago). I know it's a big task, but I can do it in small steps, and turn each step into a tutorial as I go along - if I manage to get completely to grips with IO Completion Ports that is, I'm not going to write about anything I don't understand completely.
Well, end of lunch and I have a mornings work to catch up on...
Semi-edit: Well, it took an hour to upload that image... Damn file manager is slooooooow...
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