. . . somebody started asking the tough questions of the Democrat candidates. Barbara West is the man.
First, my apologies for not posting in a while. I haven’t been at a computer much in the past few days.
This past week was insanely busy for me. I’ve been working crazy long hours to get everything done that I had committed to. It was my fault for letting everything pile up for one week, but it’s behind me now, thank God. Now it’s Sunday afternoon, and I don’t plan on doing anything else today but blow stuff up (computer games) and relax before church tonight. I am about to go post something to the BoroLAN Forums. Everyone who has an account there should go read that fairly soon as it’s time sensitive information.
I’m off to relax now. Have a great week, and don’t forget to come to The Judgment. A lot of people, including myself, have put a great deal of time and effort into making it possible. It’s going to be a good show. I hope to see you there.
I played around with installing games to ram today. Unfortunately, since I only have 4GB of system memory, I was somewhat limited on which games I could install to it.
I installed Half-Life from cd first. It didn’t work. I found out that the unupdated non-steam version of Half-Life does not get along with Windows XP 64. It can’t recognize the way Windows handles the memory. The error I got kept telling me Half-Life requires at least 16MB of ram. Next I installed steam to RAM and ran Half-Life through that. This time the game launched, and I do mean launched. It was up in mere seconds. The load times were amazing. I hit a loading screen while running down a hallway on my way to get the HEV suit. It looked like the game just stuttered for a quarter second. The only other indication was the text “Loading” that was barely there long enough to notice. The first computer I played this game on took roughly a full minute to load a new area.
I wanted to test with Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2, or Portal, but they all require much more space than I can provide in RAM. With another 4GB of RAM I could make a 6GB RAM disk and that wouldn’t have been a problem. It turns out that no matter how much computer I have I will always want more.