They are my oldest and deadliest enemy. You cannot trust them.
If Hitler invaded Hell, I would give a favourable reference to the Devil.

Just A Gigolette*

So that's how you make easy money in the Sims. Make friends with someone rich, then invite them to move in.

I'll have to try that on my single-mom-with-three-kids family, who are struggling a bit.

* Most of my current Sims are female.**
** Feel free to psychoanalyse in the comments. I don't mind, you're probably right.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 12:27 AM | Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Post contains 63 words, total size 1 kb.

Air RAID

Fedora Core 3 supports RAID 6, which allows for two sets of parity, so it allows you to keep going even if two disks die unexpectedly. Which would have come in useful back when.

Meanwhile, there are lots of MuNu nominations in the 2004 Weblog Awards. You know what to do!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 08:50 PM | No Comments | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Post contains 55 words, total size 1 kb.

No Shit, There I Was

Playing Sims 2, and my computer blows up. Just goes bang and the magic smoke comes out the back. So I had to go into buy mode and replace it, because heaven forbid my sims go without their online chat for even a minute.

Meanwhile, my banana is on its way, in the form of a Gainward GeForce 6600GT Ultra1960XP GS VIVO. (Or "Bob", as he is known to his friends.)

Oh, and the koala has been defeated by TKO after leading on points for the first three rounds.

Update: We have banana!

Update: Auugh! The koala snuck up behind me and bashed me over the head with a chair! Cheat! Cheat!

Update: Pow! Dropped a piano on that furry nuisance, and he's now so much koala puree.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 05:42 PM | Comments (3) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Post contains 138 words, total size 1 kb.

Reboot, Reinstall, RedHat

The cure to all of life's little Windows ills. What used to be known as "Service Pack 7.2".

Which is to say, I got my new video card, the Radeon 9250, which I must point out is a considerable downgrade from my old Radeon 9600XT, but is also considerably cheaper. Installed it, which involved rebooting (since my machine had crashed again), uninstalling the drivers, rebooting, reinstalling exactly the same drivers, and rebooting. Three reboots for swapping a video card is actually pretty good going for Windows.

Fired up Sims 2, and used the Pleasants of Pleasantview as my guinea-pigs. Life for the Pleasants soon took a turn for the worse, and within five minutes of coming under my malign neglect they had managed to burn down the kitchen, taking out Mr Pleasant and one of the teenaged daughter Pleasants. Mrs Pleasant came along just as the fire burned itself out and called the fire brigade, who showed up to find no fire and fined her 500 simoleons. Surviving teenage daughter wanders downstairs at this point at makes herself a bowl of Cocoa Pops for breakfast - the fridge being the only part of the kitchen to survive - completely ignoring mother's hysterics.

Cool.

As for the 9250 - it's not the card I'd recommend for playing Sims 2. At 800x600 resolution, it's sort of adequate, but that's a crummy resolution. Judging by the specs it's about half the speed of the 9600XT, and that seems to be reflected by the game. So a 6600GT, which is, again by the specs, twice the speed of the 9600XT, should be just the ticket.

Anyway, I'll just go and cancel out of Pleasant Manor so that they don't have to stay dead, and let it run for a while to see what happens.

Oh, and I spent the day fighting with a koala. More on that later.

Update: It seems to have been the card. No more crashes... Yet.

Update: Sims 2 at 800x600 on a cheap graphics card is better than Sims 2 that crashes every ten minutes. If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it goes.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 03:49 AM | No Comments | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Post contains 363 words, total size 2 kb.