MonTemplar's Journal: I am teh bored!

No work to do today, apart from keep the CD printers running. *yawn*

Ordered Doom3+HalfLife2 from Amazon UK yesterday, something to look forward to in September.

Anyone here recieved XP SP2 via Automatic Update yet? Anyone? Bueller?!

Was doing some rendering work on my PC last night, good thing I've got the laptop handy, I went onto DA with that whilst the beast was busy. Took about 2 hours to render to my satisfaction - at 9000x6000! Yeah, baby! :) Only problem was that the PC crawled afterwards due to the delay in releasing memory back - with 1GB of RAM you'd think this wouldn't be so much of a problem - damn you Bill! *shakes fist* Had to restart in order to get back to a usable state.

I also discovered that DA will not allow you to log in from two different machines at the same time - log in on one, you get logged out on the other.

Speaking of which, here is the result of my labours. Not finished yet, I'm going to try hand-paint some extra details on it later this week...

XPSP2

[Oculus Habent]

I got SP2 via Auto Update, but I'm perhaps a special case. I traded up to V5 [microsoft.com] and got XPSP2RC2 beforehand, then it notified me of SP2.

Re:XPSP2

[MonTemplar]

Ah, so you had special dispensation from His Billness, then. :)

-MT.

['Slashdot requires you to wait 2 minutes between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at posting a comment.' In my own Journal? Puh-lease!]

SP2

[ncc74656]

Anyone here recieved XP SP2 via Automatic Update yet?

It must've gotten pushed to my parents' computer, as I can no longer ssh into it. I'll have to fix that the next time I visit.

I had it on a couple of my computers, but ended up removing it because it broke too much stuff I use at work (stuff like nmap, for instance). When you're writing/troubleshooting/fixing networking code, SP2 ends up getting in the way.

On the bright side, at least it uninstalls cleanly. I've not had any trouble with either