I’ve had this hiccup for 24 hours now. It’s annoying, and I’ve never had a hickup last that long. What is a hiccup, anyway?
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Standby problems figured out
My new computer would not go into standby for more than a second. I turned off all the wake-on-LAN options in the BIOS, still no luck. Then I had a look at the device manager: The entry for my network card has extra power management settings that override the BIOS ones: Turn those off as well.
Now the computer went to sleep, but the fans continued to run. Not good. More poking around in the device manager finds a power tab on the keyboard and mouse: Turn off the option to let those devices wake the computer from standby, and voila! the fans stop. Now the only way to wake it up is the power button, but that’s fair enough.
Why did this have to be so hard?
Oslo or Bust!
I spent the long weekend moving my base of operations to Oslo. Anke came along and we went on a road trip through Germany, Denmark and Norway.
Everything went really well.
Scurvy Dog
I am sick as a dog, my fridge is empty after the trip, and it’s raining every minute of the day. If I dont get to a store tomorrow, I feel like I’m going to starve, or at least get scurvy from the lack of fresh fruit.
GDC was exciting, but it has physically left me a wreck. On top of the pre-existing emotional wreckage that I need to take care of. When I’m done coughing my lungs out, that is.
Quad Power!
I caved in and bought a new PC. The thing that really strikes me is how long it takes to set up a new PC with Windows compared to Ubuntu. In any modern Linux distribution, I just insert the CD, select the software I want from a huge list and let it do the magic while I do something else. And in an hour, everything’s done.
Meanwhile’ I’m in the middle of day two of my Windows installation. Windows itself is a hassle to install: Missing RAID drivers mean I have to bake a new ISO image and can’t use the regular install CD. Which starts by finding a PC with a CD burner, finding the drivers on the net (because Intel only included 32 bit drivers, hooray), finding a floppy drive in the basement because the drivers are distributed as an executable that formats a floppy (oh, how convenient is that?), building the CD, blabla…
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Desktop Exhibitionism
My little sister showed off her desktop because a contact of hers said “show me your desktop and I tell you who you are”. Not sure there’s a lot you can see from mine. These are my two PCs at work:
This is gorilla, the machine that I develop The Longest Journey on, and a low-end testing machine for other stuff and as an X server for debugging the Anarchy Online server. It was also the machine I used for most of my work on Dreamfall.
This is orangutan, a dual-core AMD running XP64. I use it to develop the Anarchy Online client on.
At home, vishnu is from a time when I didn’t name all my PCs after near-extinct species. It’s an AMD 2400+, the PC that I develop Eressea on and my main workhorse. With a GeForce 3, it doesn’t play many games.
My laptop, rhino, is a Pentium 150, and the only one of them running Linux. It’s right beside my bed and makes it easier to stay in bed all day on weekends.
And now I’m curious to hear what those desktops (not the PCs) say about me.
My teeth are killing me
I was at the dentist on Wednesday. One of my lower wisdom teeth had a hole, and it seemed like a good time to pull the bastard, so that’s what she did. Only during the procedure, the crown broke off, and a piece of the root was left in my jaw, where it wasn’t possible to get it out without major surgery.
So tomorrow (one week later) I’m going to see a surgeon. In the meantime, the tooth (or what’s left of it) hurts. Or more precisely:
It HURTS!
I’ve eaten nearly 30 ibuprofen tablets since wednesday, and they give me about 4-6 hours of peace before I’m screaming again. Luckily, I can sleep even with the pain, the whole thing seems to calm down. And I’m drinking camomille tea, in the hope that it helps against something. I seem to remember that’s what my mother gave me as a child.