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cabbitzillaOkay, I'm now back in Bowie; today proved to be, for the most part, a dead dog run. No, I'm not going to explain it. :p
There were a pair of IBM RS6000's in the back of the Explorer, and one single-wide full height drive enclosure. I managed to wrestle the drive cabinet out this morning, in the process dropping the damned thing on my foot. Currently, it's sitting right behind me, where I'll strip it and label it as discard.... there is NO GODLY REASON why a FOUR drive enclosure should weigh 80 fisking pounds. Crys, if you by chance see this while you're on the road, please let Kelly know that the enclosure does in fact house four drives... four narrow SCSI, fifty pin drives... four incredibly mammoth 2gb drives.
Ugh.
Anyway, after the lovely experience with the drive cabinet this morning, I decided that I simply -had- to have the hand truck that was sitting at the apartment. There was no way in Shal-Mari I was going to be able to handle the main cabinets myself; each was twice the size of the drive cabinet, and looked to be the same construction. So I packed myself up, checked the water for the cats, and hauled freight for Glen Burnie... I figured since it was a mostly dead run -anyway-, that I could wedge a tote or two of laundry into it somewhere and at least get -some- use from it. With the drive cabinet out, I was able to rearrange and make room for one of the big blue totes. Cool. I paused briefly to update the QT install on the G3; the Classic mode version was too old for the game I had to run. Game now works, except for the video sequences - Wibbble and Fox, you two are my Mac gurus... any idea what's causing the FMV sequences to give me full sound and an utterly black screen?
With a borrowed vehicle, I lapsed into 'limo' mode; cruise control gets set dead on the speed limit and just let it roll. Rolling down US 1 towards MD 175, I got the joy of discovering just HOW strong the Explorer's brakes were when a Geo Metro (one of the dinky three cylinder jobs) shot two stoplights, a red light, and landed in front of me going a breathtaking 5 MPH. *shakes her head* Stupid people shouldn't breathe. Problem solved. No contact between vehicles, no damage besides me being tossed into the suddenly locked safety belt... and the sudden roar of brakes on his ass scared the Metro driver off the road and into a parking lot. Win/Win situation, if you ask me. I pulled off at a service station and crawled around to make sure the load inside the truck hadn't shifted, and then checked the tires, and everything was fine. I had a cigarette, sitting on the curb, until my nerves had settled and I no longer wanted to take a crowbar to the Geo owner, then resumed my loop through the apartment.
No further excitement. Picked up the hand truck, rearranged again to make -it- fit into the truck, then pondered the cases. Hrm. Doubt set in... the one I'd moved about in the two reshuffles was heavy enough to make me wonder if I could even get the fool thing out of the truck alone. That problem was solved by ambushing Fuzzy as he came out of work (just south of the machine's and my destination); he looped up long enough to help me get them into the cellar and then headed home for a shower and plans he'd already made.
So here I sit, with a half ton of mini-computer hardware in the cellar (for reference, personal PCs and Macs are MICROcomputers :p), a bandaged foot, and a mountain of washed-but-still-musty-smelling laundry from Glen Burnie (I'd been using the Mercury for clean laundry storage to keep it out of the house as much as possible) to do. It's going to be a long night. :p
But that's where I am. I'll turn Trillian on, but the install on this machine is buggy and I get no audio cues from incoming messages. I'll try and remember to ctrl-tab out of RO from time to time to check for messages. For now? Ciao.
There were a pair of IBM RS6000's in the back of the Explorer, and one single-wide full height drive enclosure. I managed to wrestle the drive cabinet out this morning, in the process dropping the damned thing on my foot. Currently, it's sitting right behind me, where I'll strip it and label it as discard.... there is NO GODLY REASON why a FOUR drive enclosure should weigh 80 fisking pounds. Crys, if you by chance see this while you're on the road, please let Kelly know that the enclosure does in fact house four drives... four narrow SCSI, fifty pin drives... four incredibly mammoth 2gb drives.
Ugh.
Anyway, after the lovely experience with the drive cabinet this morning, I decided that I simply -had- to have the hand truck that was sitting at the apartment. There was no way in Shal-Mari I was going to be able to handle the main cabinets myself; each was twice the size of the drive cabinet, and looked to be the same construction. So I packed myself up, checked the water for the cats, and hauled freight for Glen Burnie... I figured since it was a mostly dead run -anyway-, that I could wedge a tote or two of laundry into it somewhere and at least get -some- use from it. With the drive cabinet out, I was able to rearrange and make room for one of the big blue totes. Cool. I paused briefly to update the QT install on the G3; the Classic mode version was too old for the game I had to run. Game now works, except for the video sequences - Wibbble and Fox, you two are my Mac gurus... any idea what's causing the FMV sequences to give me full sound and an utterly black screen?
With a borrowed vehicle, I lapsed into 'limo' mode; cruise control gets set dead on the speed limit and just let it roll. Rolling down US 1 towards MD 175, I got the joy of discovering just HOW strong the Explorer's brakes were when a Geo Metro (one of the dinky three cylinder jobs) shot two stoplights, a red light, and landed in front of me going a breathtaking 5 MPH. *shakes her head* Stupid people shouldn't breathe. Problem solved. No contact between vehicles, no damage besides me being tossed into the suddenly locked safety belt... and the sudden roar of brakes on his ass scared the Metro driver off the road and into a parking lot. Win/Win situation, if you ask me. I pulled off at a service station and crawled around to make sure the load inside the truck hadn't shifted, and then checked the tires, and everything was fine. I had a cigarette, sitting on the curb, until my nerves had settled and I no longer wanted to take a crowbar to the Geo owner, then resumed my loop through the apartment.
No further excitement. Picked up the hand truck, rearranged again to make -it- fit into the truck, then pondered the cases. Hrm. Doubt set in... the one I'd moved about in the two reshuffles was heavy enough to make me wonder if I could even get the fool thing out of the truck alone. That problem was solved by ambushing Fuzzy as he came out of work (just south of the machine's and my destination); he looped up long enough to help me get them into the cellar and then headed home for a shower and plans he'd already made.
So here I sit, with a half ton of mini-computer hardware in the cellar (for reference, personal PCs and Macs are MICROcomputers :p), a bandaged foot, and a mountain of washed-but-still-musty-smelling laundry from Glen Burnie (I'd been using the Mercury for clean laundry storage to keep it out of the house as much as possible) to do. It's going to be a long night. :p
But that's where I am. I'll turn Trillian on, but the install on this machine is buggy and I get no audio cues from incoming messages. I'll try and remember to ctrl-tab out of RO from time to time to check for messages. For now? Ciao.
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Date: 2004-10-07 11:47 pm (UTC)Most FMV sequences don't seem to actually use QuickTime. They tend to use whatever format the video sequences are on Windows, with a custom decoder for the game. Well, pre-rendered ones do - these days 'FMV' doesn't exclude in-game rendering.
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Date: 2004-10-10 03:49 pm (UTC)Tell me what game it is and I'm sure we can reach a reasonable solution. Or, I'll just whip off a second CD and send it to you.