http://www.player0.com random technical nonsense Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:42:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've just spent 120 hours and 41 levels on a pure Destruction mage in Skyrim.  I spent most of this time just wondering when the experience was going to get good.  But I've finished the main quest line and feel left down.  Skyrim started off on the right foot with ... http://www.player0.com/2011/12/19/skyrim-why-magic-sucks/ In 2004 I bought my first new car, a 2004 Subaru Impreza RS.  Each of my previous vehicles had been extremely well used and most had cost less than $1000.  But in 2004 my wife needed a reliable car and we didn't have the money to buy a decent used ... http://www.player0.com/2011/11/19/cost-of-driving/ I was watching a show last night called Invention Nation, and the episode New Cool caught my attention.  One particular segment showed how this one company was adapting refrigerators to use cold outside air instead of the compressor during nights and cold days to save energy.  Now, I'm not a ... http://www.player0.com/2009/07/05/wasted-energy/ In the later part of 2007 I finally had some funds put together to get myself a proper PC gaming rig again.  I settled on the Nvidia 8800 Ultra as my card of choice.  I bought the MSI version for a massive $589 before shipping.  This was actually quite cheap ... http://www.player0.com/2009/04/26/long-in-the-tooth/ I was thinking about tech company organization the other day and I stumbled upon an interesting thought.  In many ways, working in a development house is like working in a restaurant.  You have customers.  They look at a menu, pick what they find appetizing at that moment in time, and ... http://www.player0.com/2009/04/23/ding-fries-are-done/ Things I Hate: Invisible walls.  This is supposed to be a wide open game so why can't I jump over certain walls or get close to others? World layout bugs.  Objects through walls, trees floating several inches too high, etc.  These are all things that take away from being totally engrossed in ... http://www.player0.com/2009/04/23/things-about-far-cry-2-pc/ Data warehousing has become a sort of personal quest of mine.  I've been using computers since I was four and in those few decades I've managed to create, acquire, and loose countless precious bits of data.  It's disheartening to have lost some projects I created in my pre-teen years that ... http://www.player0.com/2009/04/04/the-limits-of-memory/ You can read more about it on the discussion thread here.  Long story short, because resellerratings.com felt that I was infringing on their trademark by using the words "reseller ratings" to describe the activity on one of my subforums. Activity that consituted about half a dozen posts and maybe a few ... http://www.player0.com/2009/03/26/resellerratingscom-forced-me-to-remove-reseller-ratings-from-liquidninjas/ I was feeling up.  By flashing the 1740 and 2320 controllers with special configurations which prevent them from acting as boot drives I am able to have them active on my motherboard at the same time as the ICH10R.  I also discovered that while the 2320 does not work at ... http://www.player0.com/2009/03/22/died-in-its-sleep/ Well, I installed the RAID controller in either of my two PCs and it pretty much keeps either from POSTing.  That's a total bummer.  I tried to next day another one from the Egg but if I get it before the weekend I'll be surprised.  It sucks to have to ... http://www.player0.com/2009/03/19/highpoint-2320-fail/