fractaltiger's Journal: Be ashamed!

I)
Nobody helped me out with the DV issue. I figured something out, and I'm not happy. Windows XP has a video mixer program that you must download --it's new. And then with that, you can mix your streams and there's a DV format that works just like other file types, except for its humongous 4MB+ per second sizes. So even a 27GB drive only contains about half an hour of video.

That explains why I wasn't able to find small hard drives on sale anywhere. Tigerdirect.com has 20GB ones but for 75% of the price of a 40GB that I bought at a regular store --150% x 1 year into the past. It still seems directly against the pricing rules in computing that follow Moore's law, and I can't believe a drive suddenly seems to have almost matched the price of one twice as good, 18 months later.

II)
I've started with my new employer. We have various teams of techs, all small on different shifts. I quickly got beyond basic policy drills and into the good discussion issues like how such-and-such should be forced on a user. The kinda questions where we don't wanna let the user suffer in the future but it's hard to act subtly in the present and get away with a robust, durable fix. Result? My trainer is begining to say "you decide." So we're getting to the real things already and I won't be mothered for long.

I've been far from /. since about tuesday, and I've decided not visit from work. So I'll be out of touch. On the other hand, I've already found a linux crowd. How? They were running the Mobius ring screensaver... then another box had anime wallpaper, and at our exit time, a bunch of other people I hadn't seen all day were there mumbling something about "compilation." So it's all there. Cool. Too bad my hands are tied to Tech support level 2 tickets, which we know never stop coming in. But it's much quieter than the help desk call area