Results tagged “computer” from Pumanchu

It turns out, at sweet home Chicago, things are a little too toasty for the Shuttle XPC, and when playing Team Fortress 2, system becomes unstable. Dang. Thanks to the Killing news list, discovered and ordered a quiet Zalman copper VGA cooler. Should arrive soon.

Drawback is, without the sexy Nvidia 7900 GT installed, TF2 can't run and silently crashes on level load. This turns out to be the onboard video's complete lack of Pixel Shaders v3.0. Unhandled of course.

Since I am a serious computing enthusiast, this seemed reasonable; otherwise, it was likely I would be reading various posts, spending time trying out new software, and otherwise pussy-footing around. We got quite a bit accomplished, but it drove me nuts and actually expired some free services I belong to. It also kept me from changing addresses of important financial and other services.

I would not advocate this to other computer addicts, unless faced with a similar life-threatening decision.

Stranger than the movie itself, while watching the ending credits, noticed that Britt Daniel did the music. I immediately say to Cpu that it has to be Katie's brother of Spoon fame. Cpu doubts for a second, but there can't be more than one Britt. And the music seems to fit, although to my chagrin, I haven't listend to any Spoon besides the tape Katie gave us in 1997. We used to work with Katie when ILivedInBeijing. We think to ourselves, neat.

I got it as a gift maybe one year after its release, and managed to play it almost to the bitter end (I think it was the fallen angel encounter magic missiles that I couldn't get past without crashing) on an overclocked Compaq Presario 133mhz -- an earlier gift from the same individual -- like 3 years past its prime. Pass-through Voodoo card and everything.

I loved that computer. But I loved Planescape more than the Compaq.