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Cumputer hassles
Mar. 17th, 2008 09:35 amMy plans for the weekend.
Saturday - Do some coding. I want to play around with flight physics. Applied maths can be fun. And I really want to play with some umbers because while I understand roughly what makes a plane go up, I'm not 100% certain about what other factors keep the equlibrium and keep the plane level.
Except I didn't get that far. It started Friday evening. My computer froze. I went to my friendly local computer shop. Seems computer guys aren't early risers so they open at 10:00. The place eventually opened at 10:20. Sadly, nothing in stock and the guy there was not remotely enthusiastic. So that was a waste of time. Ended up going to PC World. I actually got helped by someone who knew more or less what he was talking about.
So, I now have a nice speedy Pentium Core Duo and a GeForce 8 I also have a spare AGP GeForce 5 kicking about. And either a working Athlon CPU or a working Athlon motherboard. Not sure what to do with either of these.
Still, by the time I got home and got everything installed, working and tested, it as time for lunch. So that was the morning gone. I spent most of the afternoon trying to work out how to use the GLFramework Library. It has a usueful utility for loading textures from files but I need to use it to handle creating windows as well, otherwise it won't work. Kind of annoying. That took up most of the day.
Sunday I just wasn't in the mood.
On the positive side, I did gatecrash a friend's dinner party and chatted to some friends I hadn't seen for a while, and some FoFs I hadn't seen at all. Also saw my parents, ate some of their food and helped my dad with moving some wood.
Saturday - Do some coding. I want to play around with flight physics. Applied maths can be fun. And I really want to play with some umbers because while I understand roughly what makes a plane go up, I'm not 100% certain about what other factors keep the equlibrium and keep the plane level.
Except I didn't get that far. It started Friday evening. My computer froze. I went to my friendly local computer shop. Seems computer guys aren't early risers so they open at 10:00. The place eventually opened at 10:20. Sadly, nothing in stock and the guy there was not remotely enthusiastic. So that was a waste of time. Ended up going to PC World. I actually got helped by someone who knew more or less what he was talking about.
So, I now have a nice speedy Pentium Core Duo and a GeForce 8 I also have a spare AGP GeForce 5 kicking about. And either a working Athlon CPU or a working Athlon motherboard. Not sure what to do with either of these.
Still, by the time I got home and got everything installed, working and tested, it as time for lunch. So that was the morning gone. I spent most of the afternoon trying to work out how to use the GLFramework Library. It has a usueful utility for loading textures from files but I need to use it to handle creating windows as well, otherwise it won't work. Kind of annoying. That took up most of the day.
Sunday I just wasn't in the mood.
On the positive side, I did gatecrash a friend's dinner party and chatted to some friends I hadn't seen for a while, and some FoFs I hadn't seen at all. Also saw my parents, ate some of their food and helped my dad with moving some wood.
