Stijn!!

[GH85Carrera]

My old work computer at Pro Photo was a 66 MHz 486 with I think 4 meg of Ram. On one big job it would take 8 hours to do a save. So work on a big composite image all day, and hit same and go home. It was a 1 gig file. At Ace Aerial, every scan of a negative was a I gig file. The slow i5 would rotate that file is seconds and save it in 15 seconds. That is just a tiny image now.

[GH85Carrera]

I remember the first 8x10 that I scanned at 300 DPI. To be accurate is is PPI but so what. Anyway it opened in PhotoStyler (the first photo editor for PCs) as a vertical. I clicked rotate just to make it a horizontal. It took over 12 hours. That is when I told the boss we HAD to have more RAM on the computer. It was a couple of grand to put a RAM extension board and 2 MEGS of RAM in there to get it to 4 MB. Then it could rotate in only 45 minutes. PhotoStyler was bought by Adobe and much of the interface was used in the new Photoshop.

Today I will start gutting the old computer of its good parts. The GeForce GTX 1080 Ti with 16 Gig of video ram will be ripped out and transplanted and added to the new system. I will remove all the various storage drives in it, and replace all with the 5 10 TB drives to make the new RAID 5 box.

Greedy mean old boss has me down at the office working on Sunday morning! I may have to drink one of his prized Erdinger beers with dinner tonight.

[RKDinOKC]

Service guy replaced a fan motor on my 20 yo fridge. It was starting to whine like the bearings were on their way out. Now it is really quiet. Freezer gets to 10 below freezing like before, but fridge doesn't get below 45°F. It used to maintain 38°F. Something ain't right.

[RKDinOKC]

Good Morning and Have a Great Day!

So there.

[GH85Carrera]

It likely is low on coolant. Many fridges are two stage and have separate circuits for the fridge and freezer. You will HATE the new fridges. They all seem to have a ton of useless bells and whistles, and are as reliable as a 1970s British or Italian car. And they all have expensive water filters for the ice makers that HAVE to be changed regularly and often.

I worked most of the weekend with the boss man keeping me in my chair in front of the computer. This morning as I was getting dressed I was trying to remember what day it was and I was thinking it was Thursday for a while, and then remembered in was Monday. The good new is the big pain in the butt project that I spent two entire days on is mostly done.

[RKDinOKC]

It has always been that if I reduce the temp on the freezer it makes the fridge colder. Think they are connected. It was built back when ice makers were optional. Because of the filters and problems with water didn't get an ice maker. Use trays (the old fashoned way).

Looked a fridges a year ago. None are the right width to fit the fridge hole, either too wide or 8 inches too narrow. Thought might be nice to get a counter depth since single and don't need that much space.

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all. long weekend. 4 hours of driving for 40 minutes of jazz. But since the kids was playing its worth it.

[RKDinOKC]

The bleeding has started. Dropped the Cayenne off this morning at the Porsche dealership to get a free recall. Also fixin a couple of things and checking it out. The service soon light came on while driving the 2 miles to the dealership?

My rule of thumb is that people usually don't sell a vehicle that has nothing wrong with it. If it didn't have anything wrong, they would still be driving it.

[GH85Carrera]

My 911 has never once, had the service engine soon light come on. EVER!
Or the ABS light, traction control light, or had a water leak. The totally analog tire pressure monitoring system still functions as designed by the factory, as does the airbags and backup cameras.

[RKDinOKC]

Jazz...

Need to take pictures and put my alto saxophone on ebay. It supposed to be worth $5,000 to $6,000 dollars!

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by Porsche-poor

My sophomore year I took a IIe class is basic. We has an exchange student who kept getting props from the teacher for using variables to spell words from his country. He finally let the rest of us in on his little gag. They were Finish cuss words.

We set it so that when one of our classmates, we will call him Jay, entered his name it did not say "Welcome Jay", it said "Welcome Poopyhead". He was torn between getting mad and laughing his head off.

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

At one point I got a Mac 6400 VEE (Video Editing Edition)
It was a small tower with video card that imported and exported S video with software to digitize and edit video.
That was cool for the time, but not the coolest.
It had a poster in the top of the box that showed how to plug everything in.
Then when you turned it on, this girl walked out on the screen and explained how to use the keybord, mouse, menu options, Everything including all the software.
Not only did she tell you, she would point at what to click, and it would be highlighted.
If you went to help, she would pop up and explain stuff.
Did not need it myself, but wish they had something like that now for people like brother bob.

Sounds much better than "Clippy".

[flipper35]

Back when I used to do ray traced images on the Amiga it would take several hours to process one image. High res and all you know! It would fit on a 3.5" floppy when you saved it.

My favorite was a B2 in the clouds took longer to render than the CAD drawing. No idea where all those files are now.

[RKDinOKC]

Ice box repairman came by. Now not only is the fridge part not getting below 45°F the freezer is about 10 degrees above freezing.

hope I don't have to get a new fridge. They are freakin ex-pens-ive!

[GH85Carrera]

Golly, fun with computers.......

My old computer was gutted yesterday, and today I was going to spend "a few minutes" putting the 5 drives in for the RAID5 that goes to my partners house. 1/2 a day latter, it is done.

Why in the ever loving (expletives deleted) can't things be easy. The first 3.5 inch format drives that hit the market 36 years ago had the mounting screws in the same place as most drives made today. BUT, the 10 TB drives I bought for the RAID only have two screw holes. And of COURSE they are in different places that my hard drive rails have. Grumble grumble. Who oh why? I guess they saved .001 cents by not drilling that hole on the drives that are 10TB.

So, off to the garage, set up the drill press and the clamp that holds the pieces to be drilled and dig out a 0.1495 diameter bit., (just over 9/64th) and drill new holes in the plastic rails in just the right spot. Of course the perfect spot is just where the clip that holds things in position is. So dig through my collection of computer screws and find screws of the right size head and threads to hold the rails in place, and the head of the screw is now the part that holds things in place.

It only took a few hours to get everything drilled, and installed in the computer. Next step is fire it up, and set up the RAID. Oh joy.

[RKDinOKC]

The help girl did not give her name. And she could have been Euoropean, african, native american, or asian, any or all of them. Racially androgynous.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

Ice box repairman came by. Now not only is the fridge part not getting below 45°F the freezer is about 10 degrees above freezing.

hope I don't have to get a new fridge. They are freakin ex-pens-ive!

Richard, I would bet money you have never owned an ice box.

And yep, refrigerators are silly expensive. But just think, you can hook it up to the internet! Why anyone wants a fridge on the internet I don't know, and I don't care. I guess so the washer and dryer and the thermostat can all talk to each other.

[RKDinOKC]

None of the fridges i looked at had any internet stuff.
Must be looking at the small ones.

[Jim Richards]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Richard, I would bet money you have never owned an ice box.

And yep, refrigerators are silly expensive. But just think, you can hook it up to the internet! Why anyone wants a fridge on the internet I don't know, and I don't care. I guess so the washer and dryer and the thermostat can all talk to each other.

I wonder what they’d talk about. The quality of electricity? The craziness of humans?

[RKDinOKC]

They talk about the water heater.