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General => Lobby => Topic started by: Thorin on July 02, 2009, 08:43:57 AM

Title: Where have all the posters gone?
Post by: Thorin on July 02, 2009, 08:43:57 AM
Where have all the posters gone?  And I don't mean the paper things you hang on the wall, I mean Righteous Wrath's posters...

Nowadays it seems like a ghost town in here.  Has everyone switched to Facebook-via-Twitter, or something?
Title: Re: Where have all the posters gone?
Post by: Tom on July 02, 2009, 03:21:26 PM
I've found it often gets slow like this. Days at a time where people won't even check the forums.
Title: Re: Where have all the posters gone?
Post by: Lazybones on July 02, 2009, 05:13:59 PM
I barely have time to read let alone post these days.
Title: Re: Where have all the posters gone?
Post by: Mags on July 03, 2009, 11:12:23 AM
Summer too I suppose. People are just outside do'n stuff more.
Title: Re: Where have all the posters gone?
Post by: Tonnica on July 03, 2009, 04:53:51 PM
Not much to post about lately.

Heh. Would anyone happen to know where I can find a GeForce 8600M GT laptop video card?
Title: Re: Where have all the posters gone?
Post by: Melbosa on July 03, 2009, 07:42:42 PM
Quote from: Tonnica on July 03, 2009, 04:53:51 PM
Not much to post about lately.

Heh. Would anyone happen to know where I can find a GeForce 8600M GT laptop video card?

What!?!?!... those are mostly un-replaceable :(  Video cards in laptops are typically hard-wired to the motherboard or to the pcb board.  You would have to find a similar, if not exact same as the one you have to fix it (if you are indeed fixing - upgrading is a whole 'nother story).
Title: Re: Where have all the posters gone?
Post by: Melbosa on July 03, 2009, 07:44:41 PM
Sorry off this week, so my posts have been lacking.  Just checked the forums for the first time in about a week.

As for posting... well I try, but my posting audience is very limited here now it seems :(.  These forums used to be riddled with Gamers... now not so much, so my news focus doesn't much appeal to the viewing audience.

But alas, I still will weigh in or post stuff that is interesting!  So don't quit on my account!
Title: Re: Where have all the posters gone?
Post by: Tonnica on July 04, 2009, 02:33:05 AM
Quote from: Melbosa on July 03, 2009, 07:42:42 PMWhat!?!?!... those are mostly un-replaceable :(  Video cards in laptops are typically hard-wired to the motherboard or to the pcb board.  You would have to find a similar, if not exact same as the one you have to fix it (if you are indeed fixing - upgrading is a whole 'nother story).

That's the funny thing, the Asus C90s laptop is a bit of an odd duck. The video card, RAM, and hard drive are all pretty easy to remove. The laptop was designed with upgrading in mind. Unfortunately Asus did not hold up their end of the upgrade plan and now the few compatible cards (the 8600M and 8800 MXM GTX/GTS) are out of production and hard to find. The form factor inside the chassis is type II I think so it allows for a certain size of video card.

Man that's about the most interesting thing I can think of to post.
Title: Re: Where have all the posters gone?
Post by: Tom on July 04, 2009, 09:55:46 AM
Both ati and nvidia tried their hand at a modular upgradable GPU. It didn't really get that much consumer attention though. I think some laptops still use a similar gpu card though, just theres no telling if it'll have any customizations making it specific to that one maker or even model...
Title: Re: Do thread topics even matter anymore? ;)
Post by: Darren Dirt on July 04, 2009, 11:06:59 AM
Quote from: Melbosa on July 03, 2009, 07:44:41 PM
This forums used to be riddled with Gamers... now not so much, so my news focus doesn't much appeal to the viewing audience.

Always thought this had started as a guild/general gaming forum, but pretty quickly evolved primarily into a defacto "NAIT buddies and their buddies" meeting place, which it will never stop being :)
Title: Re: Where have all the posters gone?
Post by: Tom on July 04, 2009, 12:41:20 PM
Melbosa, you shouldn't really care about what people are interested in, theres plenty of gamers left (I assume), and with all the stuff Darren posts, it'd be a nice change of pace ;)
Title: Re: Where have all the posters gone?
Post by: Darren Dirt on July 04, 2009, 04:09:18 PM
hey, are you saying I don't got game?
Title: Re: Where have all the posters gone?
Post by: Thorin on July 04, 2009, 09:58:56 PM
Original direction of thread: -->

New direction of thread: <--
Title: Re: Where have all the posters gone?
Post by: Melbosa on July 06, 2009, 08:22:57 AM
LOL
Title: Re: Where have all the posters gone?
Post by: Lazybones on July 06, 2009, 09:41:43 AM
I am not even going to bother splitting this one
Title: Re: Where have all the posters gone?
Post by: Mr. Analog on July 06, 2009, 09:52:57 PM
S'up!

Usually at work I'm too effin' busy to log in on my phone... I have to do most of my surfing through Remote Desktop on another box.

I'm glad to be tearing this app a new one but it's got me tied up, and then when I get home I'm usually doing artwork or reading.

This last weekend a bunch of @%&# kinda fell through and I ended up playing Fallout 3 for the first time in a while... I played 17.5 hours of it...

I haven't found my happy spot at the new place (I may never, it's a @%&#ing gong show at every step, not "bad" gong show, just... everyone in that place is hilariously naive). The only sanity is the senior I work with but he's on two projects which leaves me working with the muppets most of the time...

I wanna get some real dev done, or at least fall back into somewhere comfortable again. I'm also seriously sick of this @%&#ing pager.
Title: Re: Where have all the posters gone?
Post by: Darren Dirt on July 07, 2009, 01:29:18 AM
Quote from: Mr. Analog on July 06, 2009, 09:52:57 PM
I haven't found my happy spot at the new place (I may never, it's a @%&#ing gong show at every step, not "bad" gong show, just... everyone in that place is hilariously naive). The only sanity is the senior I work with but he's on two projects which leaves me working with the muppets most of the time...

I wanna get some real dev done, or at least fall back into somewhere comfortable again.

I'm sorry for your loss.
Title: Re: Where have all the posters gone?
Post by: Mr. Analog on July 07, 2009, 07:41:42 AM
Quote from: Darren Dirt on July 07, 2009, 01:29:18 AM
Quote from: Mr. Analog on July 06, 2009, 09:52:57 PM
I haven't found my happy spot at the new place (I may never, it's a @%&#ing gong show at every step, not "bad" gong show, just... everyone in that place is hilariously naive). The only sanity is the senior I work with but he's on two projects which leaves me working with the muppets most of the time...

I wanna get some real dev done, or at least fall back into somewhere comfortable again.

I'm sorry for your loss.

It's not really a "loss" it's "just a job" though, I don't really feel committed to what I'm doing. I'm still writing kick ass code though, it just doesn't grab me.
Title: Re: Where have all the posters gone?
Post by: Lazybones on July 07, 2009, 08:10:07 AM
It's an Analog post wave! :)

Sucks that work isn't going great, projects in my department haven't been going all that well aswell.
Title: Re: Where have all the posters gone?
Post by: Thorin on July 07, 2009, 11:07:10 AM
Quote from: Mr. Analog on July 06, 2009, 09:52:57 PM
I wanna get some real dev done, or at least fall back into somewhere comfortable again. I'm also seriously sick of this @%&#ing pager.

I hear ya on both counts.
Title: Re: Where have all the posters gone?
Post by: Darren Dirt on July 07, 2009, 02:17:05 PM
Quote from: Mr. Analog on July 07, 2009, 07:41:42 AM
It's not really a "loss" it's "just a job" though, I don't really feel committed to what I'm doing. I'm still writing kick ass code though, it just doesn't grab me.
^ that's what I was talking about vis. "loss". As Larry Donner said in TMFTT "A writercoder writescodes, always" but it's way better when there's a reason to feel passionate about what you're creating...
Title: Re: Where have all the posters gone?
Post by: Mr. Analog on July 07, 2009, 09:18:03 PM
Quote from: Lazybones on July 07, 2009, 08:10:07 AM
It's an Analog post wave! :)

Sucks that work isn't going great, projects in my department haven't been going all that well aswell.

Surfs up! Heh.

I don't it's not really going bad, but it's not really going good.

Darren, you hit the nail on the head... I got into this game for the action not the paperwork!