This accidentally fell out of her pocket when I bumped into her. Took me four goes.

Saturday, February 25

Anime

Hooray!

Chizumatic is back online.

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Wednesday, February 22

Cool

Champagne Socialist Gets What's Coming

In the Neverwinter Nights game, the city of Neverwinter is suffering from a plague called the Wailing Death. In one corner of the city, there's a noblewoman named Formosa who wants you to kill the wizard Meldanen and steal the key to his warehouse so that she can redistribute his possessions to the poor. Not that unusual a mission, but her Marxist rhetoric ticked me off, so when I returned (after acquiring the key, but not killing the wizard), the scene proceeded as follows:
Formosa: So you have returned, my lady. Do you have news?
Teddie Irvine [my character]: I have the key for Meldanen's warehouse.
Formosa: Allow me to see it... Yes, this is the one. I can detect the counterspells on it. Bless you madam. The city will be thanking the gods for you in the days to come.
Formosa: What of Meldanen, himself? What of the sorceror?
Teddie: He lives, and I do not intend to kill him.
Formosa: As you wish, madam. The people may fear Meldanen's retribution and fear to enter the warehouse... hopefully I can change their mind.
Formosa: As promised, here is the necklace. I know it is not much, but hopefully it will suffice.
Teddie: No. Hand over more, or I'll see how much your teeth are worth.

Your actions have shifted your alignment 5 point(s) towards evil.

Formosa: I see. Threats, is it? This is how you respond to a reward, well intended? Or do you simply look on this as some form of back-alley bargaining?
Formosa: Regardless, I won't stand for it. I offered you a reward for your good service and I would hope that you'd accept it gracefully.
Teddie: Hah! Time for you to die, I guess!
Formosa: Treacherous fool! I'll fight you if I must!

Formosa casting unknown spell.
Teddie Irvine attacks Formosa *hit* (16 + 8 = 24)
Teddie Irvine damages Formosa 12 (8 physical 4 acid)
Malla [my familiar, a fairy dragon] attacks Formosa *hit* (15 + 8 = 23)
Malla damages Formosa 7 (7 physical)
Experience Points Gained: 20
Malla killed Formosa


Journal: Day 24, Month 6, 1372

Any task that Formosa might have wanted completed has been indefinitely postponed. She is now dead.

Funny that you get the 5 point demerit for the threat, rather than for actually killing her...

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Friday, February 17

Cool

Indeed


You scored as SG-1 (Stargate). You are versatile and diverse in your thinking. You have an open mind to that which seems highly unlikely and accept it with a bit of humor. Now if only aliens would stop trying to take over your body.

SG-1 (Stargate)

94%

Nebuchadnezzar (The Matrix)

88%

Bebop (Cowboy Bebop)

81%

Serenity (Firefly)

81%

Enterprise D (Star Trek)

75%

Millennium Falcon (Star Wars)

69%

Moya (Farscape)

69%

Babylon 5 (Babylon 5)

56%

Andromeda Ascendant (Andromeda)

56%

Deep Space Nine (Star Trek)

50%

FBI's X-Files Division (The X-Files)

38%

Galactica (Battlestar: Galactica)

31%

Your Ultimate Sci-Fi Profile II: which sci-fi crew would you best fit in? (pics)
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Tuesday, February 14

Anime

Meteor Impact In 3... 2... 1...

I have the Dirty Pair TV DVDs. (They were in the box they were supposed to be in.)

I have a complete set of translations - all but two of them as fully timed subtitle files. Many of the files are in JACOsub format, an old Amiga program, but I have an old Amiga, and anyway, I have a JACOsub to SSA converter. (The rest of the files that are timed are SSA format.) I think Matroska can use SSA format, and if not, there are heaps of programs that can.

Does anyone know if Dirty Pair TV is actually licensed outside Japan? I suppose I could ask ADV. Or Sunrise.

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Monday, February 13

Geek

Geekometer

Instant geek test:

Z80000.pdf

Your response:

1. Huh?
2. Should I download that or something?
3. Don't you have an extra zero in there?
4. Right-click Save As!!!
5. I already have that, thanks.
6. I suppose it's more convenient than the paper version.
7. There's an error on page 310; the instruction coding doesn't match my chip.

Results below. more...

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Anime

Bwahaha!

I've found my copies of the subtitle files for Dirty Pair TV.

Now, if I only knew where the DVDs were...

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Sunday, February 12

Geek

First Time

Not the controller.

The controller (a Highpoint Rocketraid 1640) was just being its usual persnickety self. One of the disks (Seagate Barracuda 200GB SATA) was on its way out, and failing intermittently. The Rocketraid controllers will detect the failure and then complain incessently about it, even if the disk comes back on line after a moment.

I know this, because it just stopped being intermittent. But not until after I'd finished backing everything up.

First time that's ever happened to me.

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Geek

There Oughta Be A Law

Pixy's Law of Duplicity

If the problem resists all your attempts at isolation, consider that you may have two problems.

Pixy's Law of Maintenance

If all logical methods of repair have failed to solve the problem, find two interchangeable parts and interchange them.

Pixy's Law of Human/Computer Interaction

You can press escape all you like, but it won't do anything if the keyboard's not plugged in.

Pixy's Law of Customisation

If you work with computers long enough, sooner or later you will find yourself adjusting a delicate and expensive piece of equipment with a pair of wire cutters.

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Saturday, February 11

Geek

Pixy Misa in the Library

With an axe.

It's the RAID controller.

I just got the RAID array to fail without taking out the computer. The disks are good - I can use them for up to half an hour before the problem crops up. The computer is fine - it kept right on running on the boot drive (and the 300GB external drive I borrowed from work for the weekend). The data is fine. The RAID controller is, in a word, stuffed.

Which is, under the circumstances, the best possible outcome. I can replace that for $60, and then I'll be free of the blasted thing. Now I just need to finish my backups... In thirty-minute installments.

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Friday, February 10

Geek

Joy

I plugged in my Windows box for the first time since I moved house (nearly two months ago). Of course, I have a second Windows box these days, my notebook, so I haven't been Windows-free all that time.

A couple of hours later I tried to check something on the shared drive and it didn't want to play. So I went into the living computer room and there was this beeping noise. I didn't even know the computer had a beeper; I never bother to connect the speaker up. It must be mounted on the motherboard.

A quick reboot and it's decided that it does have a one-terabyte RAID array after all. It's also managed to discover its video card this time around.

Meh. Linux can be a pain to get working (handy hint: when building a new Linux box, never use a video card less than two years old), but once it's working, it stays working.

Update: Gone again. Blah.

Update: It's not a disk failure. It's just weapons-grade flakiness. After about a dozen reboots - the majority of which failed in one way or another - I'm now logged in as administrator and it's running perfectly. It's not just working, it's working better than it ever worked before. The RAID array, which was always mysteriously slow, is now lightning fast. Very very strange.

Update: And - dead again.

I think I have everything backed up. This weekend I check, double-check, triple-check, and then that RAID array is toast.

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