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  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,333
    Mistara said:
    ps1borg said:

    Hot day. Hot hot hot wind and bone dry 90, is not too good storm-wise in these parts when the ocean gets warm in December :o

     

    keep your electrolytes up!!  

     

    When I was a kid in the '50s my mother had an Electrolyte.  God awful heavy horizontal tank type vacuum cleaner with heavy cloth and metal hoses and metal attachments.  It would kill you if it slid down the stairs onto you, as she warned me as I watched her vacuum. surprise

    Oh,... wait,... it was an Electrolux.  Never miind. blush

    That was back when machines were machines, and could be repaired over and over and could last a hundred years.  And when they did die they had a second life as boat anchors. yes  The one below is from the '40s and I found the image on eBay.  So that's what... 70 years?

    My mom had one when I was a kid.  It always looked like a little rocket!   laugh​ 

    I have a Rexair Rainbo.  I sold them to get money for my upcoming marriage.  I ended up buying my demo model.  Still in use, works great.  I got married in 1974!

    Dana

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,333

    Ghaaa...., I'm out of paper.  Print queue stacking up and I'm out of paper.  And snow's coming tomorrow.  I don't want to make a run to the city in the snow to just get paper.  Complaint worthy?

    Very!

    Dana

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,246

    I want to try out kubuntu but having difficulties.

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    Chohole said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    frank0314 said:

    My wife just bought me an air fryer yesterday after I was telling her what you said about it. She also watched some videos on it and thought it was cool and can be very useful.

    Excellent!  May you have many years of frytastic fun!  I recommend regular olive oil for fry duties, just a touch.  I'll be experimenting with cooking stuffing in mine this afternoon. :)

    70f outside, obnoxiously sunny.  No chill temps until next Friday., upper 70f's from now until then.  I would actually enjoy some cool air...

     

    Hmm,    we got the first snow of the year today     Snow

    I do not like it in my eye!

    I do not like it from the sky!

    I do not like it, Chohole-I-Am

    I do not like FROZEN WATER FROM THE SKY!!! :-o

     

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242

    Ghaaa...., I'm out of paper.  Print queue stacking up and I'm out of paper.  And snow's coming tomorrow.  I don't want to make a run to the city in the snow to just get paper.  Complaint worthy?

    VERY complaint-worthy!!!!! Blech!

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,246

    Finally getting somewhere with kubuntu.

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    Mistara said:

    hungryy slow cooker slowww

    Yam has been in the air fryer for 45 minutes and is barely half done.  Slow is right.

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    Mistara said:

    what do you think of mashed turnip?

    it's never been my veggie of choice, but mebbe is tasty in the right mashmix?

    Never tried turnips, parsnips are good mashed with butter and salt.

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,333
    NVIATWAS said:
    Mistara said:

    what do you think of mashed turnip?

    it's never been my veggie of choice, but mebbe is tasty in the right mashmix?

    Never tried turnips, parsnips are good mashed with butter and salt.

    Never cared for turnips.  Grandma always had them at Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner.  Just didn't like them.

    Dana

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242

    Cooking a turkey bones and mushroom soup right now.  Very gothlike.  Poor, poor, turkey.  Poor, poor, tasty turkey.  Poor tasty turkey.  Tasty, tasty turkey.  Oh wow, how did that happen?  laugh

     

    Mistara said:

    complaint, dont want windows 10. want 7 pro.

     

    Petercat said:

    Welcome to the club.

    You should both be aware that Windows 7 (and 8.1 in the future) won't run on some newer processors.  So if you want to upgrade an older computer or build a new one and run an older version of Windows on it, beware of this.  This was known 2 years ago.  Article here:  Why Windows 7 Won't Work On Intel's Current and Next Gen CPUs

    The pull-quote gives some reasoning:

    “Windows 7 was designed nearly 10 years ago before any x86/x64 SOCs existed. For Windows 7 to run on any modern silicon, device drivers and firmware need to emulate Windows 7’s expectations for interrupt processing, bus support, and power states, which is challenging for WiFi, graphics, security, and more. As partners make customizations to legacy device drivers, services, and firmware settings, customers are likely to see regressions with Windows 7 ongoing servicing.”

    And it won't be restricted only to Intel CPUs, either.  AMD and Qualcomm have said they're going to do something similar.

    Of course, if you never ever upgrade your PC and never ever buy a new one, then you won't be affected.  wink

    Dell doesn't support Win10 on my hardware because they never implemented the special NVidia drivers to run both the onboard graphics and the Quattro silicon.   So I'm stuck witn Win7 Pro and happy about it. :)

     

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    Tjohn said:

    More Thanksgiving today. Brother made cajun turkey. Death by turkey but so good!

    Sounds good.  I killed off the turkey gravy and the last of the dinner rolls today, omg sooo good, an entire meal of rolls and gravy.  1/2 my giant yam is cooking now, that and some Summer sausage and cheese will be dinner.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    daz store is turning into the horror store.

    sorted lo to high, there more horror stuff. like vicky with a syringe in her eye.

    not what i want to see this time of year.  mean mr grinch is bad enough

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,333
    Mistara said:

    daz store is turning into the horror store.

    sorted lo to high, there more horror stuff. like vicky with a syringe in her eye.

    not what i want to see this time of year.  mean mr grinch is bad enough

    They're not going to remove things from the store just because it's not Halloween anymore.  Once it's there, it's there.  Besides, horror stories have no expiration date.  Look at movies like Jack Frost (not the cutesy one).  There is horror all year long.   And it's always time for Killer Klowns from Outer Space!   cheeky

    Dana

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242

    Managed to kill off everyone in my way and now am in a corrupted monastery full of goat-men, super-fast tiny demons, headless monsters, oh and swordswomen in horned masks and leather tights.  Some artist for Blizzard has a serious leather fetish!  Picked up a new Paladin power, Holy Fire - everyone within a certain radius takes fire damage as long as they're in the field.  Fun to watch monsters burn to death without having to do anything, or watch them run for it.  Wish I could pull that off in real life...

    *grump old man mode* Pleasant night except for the rejects playing 'music' at top volume in their cars.  Really wish I had a plasma rifle...

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    DanaTA said:
    Mistara said:

    daz store is turning into the horror store.

    sorted lo to high, there more horror stuff. like vicky with a syringe in her eye.

    not what i want to see this time of year.  mean mr grinch is bad enough

    They're not going to remove things from the store just because it's not Halloween anymore.  Once it's there, it's there.  Besides, horror stories have no expiration date.  Look at movies like Jack Frost (not the cutesy one).  There is horror all year long.   And it's always time for Killer Klowns from Outer Space!   cheeky

    Dana

     

    never trust a clown.  or tomato  lol

     

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,847
    Petercat said:
    Mistara said:

    complaint, dont want windows 10. want 7 pro.

    Welcome to the club.

    ...ditto.

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

    Morning. A little weather here, lightning, wind, enough rain to gloss our streets a little and 25 degrees cooler was nice to wake up to after a long sleep :)

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,246
    ps1borg said:

    Morning. A little weather here, lightning, wind, enough rain to gloss our streets a little and 25 degrees cooler was nice to wake up to after a long sleep :)

    Good night as it is time for me to sleep.

  • Not really a complaint, but I'm rewatching the Transformers movies, and man that Optimus Prime is one sexy-ass robot.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,847
    edited November 2017
    Mistara said:
    ps1borg said:

    Hot day. Hot hot hot wind and bone dry 90, is not too good storm-wise in these parts when the ocean gets warm in December :o

     

    keep your electrolytes up!!  

     

    When I was a kid in the '50s my mother had an Electrolyte.  God awful heavy horizontal tank type vacuum cleaner with heavy cloth and metal hoses and metal attachments.  It would kill you if it slid down the stairs onto you, as she warned me as I watched her vacuum. surprise

    Oh,... wait,... it was an Electrolux.  Never miind. blush

    That was back when machines were machines, and could be repaired over and over and could last a hundred years.  And when they did die they had a second life as boat anchors. yes  The one below is from the '40s and I found the image on eBay.  So that's what... 70 years?

    ...classy. I love the font they used for the name.

    Yeah, they don't make things to last like they used to.   Where I used to work we had two Heidelberg "windmill" presses (so named because of the mechanism used to grab and feed the paper to the printing platen) which were about 60 years old.  Still reliable and ran flawlessly.  Could probably sink a .45 caliber bullet into them and they'd still work whereas if you looked at the (then) brand new 1$ million Xerox I-Gen printers we had in our digital print department cross-eyed, they would go out of calibration.requiring the tech to come in for a good part of the day. 

     

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  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    ps1borg said:

    Morning. A little weather here, lightning, wind, enough rain to gloss our streets a little and 25 degrees cooler was nice to wake up to after a long sleep :)

    Good morning!  Sounds like a pleasant day. :)

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242

    Not really a complaint, but I'm rewatching the Transformers movies, and man that Optimus Prime is one sexy-ass robot.

    *worried look*

  • NVIATWAS said:

    Not really a complaint, but I'm rewatching the Transformers movies, and man that Optimus Prime is one sexy-ass robot.

    *worried look*

    He's been my robot babe since 1989. winkyes

  • PetercatPetercat Posts: 2,321

    Cooking a turkey bones and mushroom soup right now.  Very gothlike.  Poor, poor, turkey.  Poor, poor, tasty turkey.  Poor tasty turkey.  Tasty, tasty turkey.  Oh wow, how did that happen?  laugh

     

    Mistara said:

    complaint, dont want windows 10. want 7 pro.

     

    Petercat said:

    Welcome to the club.

    You should both be aware that Windows 7 (and 8.1 in the future) won't run on some newer processors.  So if you want to upgrade an older computer or build a new one and run an older version of Windows on it, beware of this.  This was known 2 years ago.  Article here:  Why Windows 7 Won't Work On Intel's Current and Next Gen CPUs

    The pull-quote gives some reasoning:

    “Windows 7 was designed nearly 10 years ago before any x86/x64 SOCs existed. For Windows 7 to run on any modern silicon, device drivers and firmware need to emulate Windows 7’s expectations for interrupt processing, bus support, and power states, which is challenging for WiFi, graphics, security, and more. As partners make customizations to legacy device drivers, services, and firmware settings, customers are likely to see regressions with Windows 7 ongoing servicing.”

    And it won't be restricted only to Intel CPUs, either.  AMD and Qualcomm have said they're going to do something similar.

    Of course, if you never ever upgrade your PC and never ever buy a new one, then you won't be affected.  wink

    Yeah, there was a thread about that in this forum. I got rid of my Win ME/400mhz AMD K6 a couple of years ago, but only because the motherboard failed.
    I tend to hang onto computers as long as they'll do what I need them to do. My current Win7 setup will last until DAZ ports Studio to Linux.
    In other words, forever.

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242

    Ahhh, planned obsolence!  Well, you have to keep the stockholders happy, and modern stockholders want quick big returns, which means corporate profit and growth, and nothing spells profit like selling your customer the same product over and over! 

    Now, guitars, I had one for 12 years that was still going strong when I sold it.  They do make throwaway guitars but most musicians don't buy them, and it's not a mass market so per-unit profit is still good because there's not a huge downward pressure on price.

    Technology will drive turnover to a point - most people have no use for an octa-core 32GB laptop to run office apps and Moms casual games, so it's the hardcore folks - gamers, content creators and scientists - that drive the sale of bazillion-core Xeon CPUs, and who cares if it costs $1200 just for your CPU or GPU? Profits on those things are pretty decent.  Fab cost isn't too high, it's investment in manufacturing tools that can crank out nanometer wafers.. it ain't cheap, have to recoup the cost from someone.

    Working for Philips was an eye-opener.. fab cost for a basic 8051 based SOC was in the pennies, at a bulk buy cost of 25 cents a pop the profit was incredible.  Semiconductor fab is a tricky business.. go obsolete and go bankrupt.

    Taking a break from being massacred  by horned demons that breathe lightning and have a paralytic touch. they  keep getting me, argh.  Even with my holy fire aura, damn, 6 at a time jump me!  I need to run for it sooner, string them out, and axe them to death one at a time.  No bondage babes to be seen, though, sigh.

    Nibbled my yam to death - took forever to cook, being 3 inches thick, but omg so worth it! An organic jewel yam from Sprouts,one yam = 2lbs!  Half of it sits uncooked 'for later'.

    Going to buy parsnips and turnips next delivery, curious as to how they cook in the air fryer.  The yam did well cut in half, I think yam slices or chips would have been faster and just as tasty.

    Sipping Diet Dr. Pepper and potato wodka, enjoying the cool outside air, not so much the bugs.  I need a citronella candle for the windowsill.  Or an AI-driven bug laser...

    Moving the laptop 5ft from one desk to another dropped me from 3-4 bars to 1-2 bars and crap bandwidth.  Range extender/repeater ordered from Amazon, will arrive Wednesday.  Line-of-sight for the router to my location goes through 4 walls and a staircase!  No wonder WiFi sucks, but the repeater has 2 extra-sensitive antennas and serious output power, so it should do well if it doesn't melt the wiring in the walls.

    Turnip chips dipped in mayo, hmmm, yummy sounding.  Will post the results of my air fryer experiments here!

     

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    NVIATWAS said:

    Not really a complaint, but I'm rewatching the Transformers movies, and man that Optimus Prime is one sexy-ass robot.

    *worried look*

    He's been my robot babe since 1989. winkyes

    It's always good to know what you like and stick with it.  I can't talk, many of Sorayama's 'sexy robot' images warm up my klystron tubes... *blush*

     

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    Petercat said:

    Cooking a turkey bones and mushroom soup right now.  Very gothlike.  Poor, poor, turkey.  Poor, poor, tasty turkey.  Poor tasty turkey.  Tasty, tasty turkey.  Oh wow, how did that happen?  laugh

     

    Mistara said:

    complaint, dont want windows 10. want 7 pro.

     

    Petercat said:

    Welcome to the club.

    You should both be aware that Windows 7 (and 8.1 in the future) won't run on some newer processors.  So if you want to upgrade an older computer or build a new one and run an older version of Windows on it, beware of this.  This was known 2 years ago.  Article here:  Why Windows 7 Won't Work On Intel's Current and Next Gen CPUs

    The pull-quote gives some reasoning:

    “Windows 7 was designed nearly 10 years ago before any x86/x64 SOCs existed. For Windows 7 to run on any modern silicon, device drivers and firmware need to emulate Windows 7’s expectations for interrupt processing, bus support, and power states, which is challenging for WiFi, graphics, security, and more. As partners make customizations to legacy device drivers, services, and firmware settings, customers are likely to see regressions with Windows 7 ongoing servicing.”

    And it won't be restricted only to Intel CPUs, either.  AMD and Qualcomm have said they're going to do something similar.

    Of course, if you never ever upgrade your PC and never ever buy a new one, then you won't be affected.  wink

    Yeah, there was a thread about that in this forum. I got rid of my Win ME/400mhz AMD K6 a couple of years ago, but only because the motherboard failed.
    I tend to hang onto computers as long as they'll do what I need them to do. My current Win7 setup will last until DAZ ports Studio to Linux.
    In other words, forever.

    Heh.

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    Not really a complaint, but I'm rewatching the Transformers movies, and man that Optimus Prime is one sexy-ass robot.

     

     heart  i watch the 1st 3 in all day marathons.   

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,847
    NVIATWAS said:

    Ahhh, planned obsolence!  Well, you have to keep the stockholders happy, and modern stockholders want quick big returns, which means corporate profit and growth, and nothing spells profit like selling your customer the same product over and over! 

    Now, guitars, I had one for 12 years that was still going strong when I sold it.  They do make throwaway guitars but most musicians don't buy them, and it's not a mass market so per-unit profit is still good because there's not a huge downward pressure on price.

    Technology will drive turnover to a point - most people have no use for an octa-core 32GB laptop to run office apps and Moms casual games, so it's the hardcore folks - gamers, content creators and scientists - that drive the sale of bazillion-core Xeon CPUs, and who cares if it costs $1200 just for your CPU or GPU? Profits on those things are pretty decent.  Fab cost isn't too high, it's investment in manufacturing tools that can crank out nanometer wafers.. it ain't cheap, have to recoup the cost from someone.

    Working for Philips was an eye-opener.. fab cost for a basic 8051 based SOC was in the pennies, at a bulk buy cost of 25 cents a pop the profit was incredible.  Semiconductor fab is a tricky business.. go obsolete and go bankrupt.

    Taking a break from being massacred  by horned demons that breathe lightning and have a paralytic touch. they  keep getting me, argh.  Even with my holy fire aura, damn, 6 at a time jump me!  I need to run for it sooner, string them out, and axe them to death one at a time.  No bondage babes to be seen, though, sigh.

    Nibbled my yam to death - took forever to cook, being 3 inches thick, but omg so worth it! An organic jewel yam from Sprouts,one yam = 2lbs!  Half of it sits uncooked 'for later'.

    Going to buy parsnips and turnips next delivery, curious as to how they cook in the air fryer.  The yam did well cut in half, I think yam slices or chips would have been faster and just as tasty.

    Sipping Diet Dr. Pepper and potato wodka, enjoying the cool outside air, not so much the bugs.  I need a citronella candle for the windowsill.  Or an AI-driven bug laser...

    Moving the laptop 5ft from one desk to another dropped me from 3-4 bars to 1-2 bars and crap bandwidth.  Range extender/repeater ordered from Amazon, will arrive Wednesday.  Line-of-sight for the router to my location goes through 4 walls and a staircase!  No wonder WiFi sucks, but the repeater has 2 extra-sensitive antennas and serious output power, so it should do well if it doesn't melt the wiring in the walls.

    Turnip chips dipped in mayo, hmmm, yummy sounding.  Will post the results of my air fryer experiments here!

     

    ...yeah going to stick with older tech for the next build (when I ever get my retro benefits). Dual 10 or 12 core Xeons (40 or 48 threads),128 GB of four channel DDR3 (for what we do DDR4 is not really all that necessary).   This system will pretty remain offline as it is designed to be a CPU render powerhouse.  Just too much obsolescence built into GPUs for my taste and I doubt that NVIDA would cut their own throats by offering a consumer card with as much or more memory as their more expensive pro grade line.   I like Iray, just not happy that it requires a specific brand of GPU for rendering (and for the most memory, a very expensive one at that) so looking to get as much bang as I can out of CPU rendering.

    Non complaint  Daz has a new beta of Hexagon in the works that crushes many of the bugs with plans to go 64 bit (finally).  Happy Time:

    Second non complaint, Wisconsin shut out Minnesota 31 - 0 and Alabama lost to Auburn so the Badgers are now the only undefeated team in FBS college football.

    Third non complaint.  Rendo has a store-wide Black Friday sale all weekend with everything at 50% off.  Finally picked up the model of the Greyhound Scenicruiser highway bus I've been wanting like the one below.

  • Petercat said:

    Cooking a turkey bones and mushroom soup right now.  Very gothlike.  Poor, poor, turkey.  Poor, poor, tasty turkey.  Poor tasty turkey.  Tasty, tasty turkey.  Oh wow, how did that happen?  laugh

     

    Mistara said:

    complaint, dont want windows 10. want 7 pro.

     

    Petercat said:

    Welcome to the club.

    You should both be aware that Windows 7 (and 8.1 in the future) won't run on some newer processors.  So if you want to upgrade an older computer or build a new one and run an older version of Windows on it, beware of this.  This was known 2 years ago.  Article here:  Why Windows 7 Won't Work On Intel's Current and Next Gen CPUs

    The pull-quote gives some reasoning:

    “Windows 7 was designed nearly 10 years ago before any x86/x64 SOCs existed. For Windows 7 to run on any modern silicon, device drivers and firmware need to emulate Windows 7’s expectations for interrupt processing, bus support, and power states, which is challenging for WiFi, graphics, security, and more. As partners make customizations to legacy device drivers, services, and firmware settings, customers are likely to see regressions with Windows 7 ongoing servicing.”

    And it won't be restricted only to Intel CPUs, either.  AMD and Qualcomm have said they're going to do something similar.

    Of course, if you never ever upgrade your PC and never ever buy a new one, then you won't be affected.  wink

    Yeah, there was a thread about that in this forum. I got rid of my Win ME/400mhz AMD K6 a couple of years ago, but only because the motherboard failed.
    I tend to hang onto computers as long as they'll do what I need them to do. My current Win7 setup will last until DAZ ports Studio to Linux.
    In other words, forever.

    This is going to delay my upgrading to newer architecture for a long time if Microsoft continues the direction it has with Windows. Windows 8 is fantastic for tablets but irritates me greatly on PC, and 10 has so many problems I don't ever want to deal with. Why eat my GPU. Why force updates. Why run an ungodly number of apps in the background, why assume I want them installed to begin with. Windows is becoming the bloatware I used to have to remove on prebuilt PCs.

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