Random thoughts thread

[Giccin]

Originally Posted by M-17

Oh and @Giccin I don't know how you can drive that car you have. That Yaris is soo small, but for some reason I found the the Fit EV wasn't that bad to drive.

I'm only 5'0ft.

That's how I drive it. haha

[OrbitalEllipses]

Originally Posted by NickD

Last week: found out my thyroid hormones are out of whack

This morning: pass out while standing up, hit my head/hip/ribs, brought to emergency room

This afternoon: cat scan shows arachnoid cyst on my brain





At least I still have my fr-s, lol

You have a spider in your brain? I think MY arachnophobia is going to make me pass out.

[kanundrum]

Originally Posted by NickD

Last week: found out my thyroid hormones are out of whack

This morning: pass out while standing up, hit my head/hip/ribs, brought to emergency room

This afternoon: cat scan shows arachnoid cyst on my brain





At least I still have my fr-s, lol

Happiness/Humor is the best medicine man. Do what you gotta do to have a good time!

[monkie]

Hang in there @NickD hope you are feeling better and the docs can get to the bottom of this so you can enjoy you FR-S for many years to come :happy0180:

[wrxgoose]

apparently monday was national hug day. if i'd known, i woulda gone to see ashe.

[Giccin]

Originally Posted by wrxgoose

apparently monday was national hug day. if i'd known, i woulda gone to see ashe.

e-hug.

[monkie]

Just put fuel in for the first time since owning the 86

$1.91 Lt for 98

For my US Peeps that is $7.23 a Gallon

3.78lt in a Gallon thinks that's rigt

[Spd229]

Originally Posted by Dimman

It mentions parallel computing on the site, and I briefly skimmed a few articles on Beowulf clusters. Interesting stuff.

But I need to learn to crawl before I can run. I don't even know how the cores' resources are allocated. I would just expect that more would be better, given that a virtual machine is basically turning one computer into two less efficient ones.

I've got some catching up to do...

Somewhat related, beowulf clusters and ps3s. Fun stuff.

Lol..makes me wonder what you could do with this bench software you're looking at if you "simply" used your current pc to send the data processing work to a few ps3s running linux. Too bad ps3s aren't $150 a pop, if it was proven to be effective you'd probably come out cheaper to setup your own "supercomputer."

If they could be used that way and could actually do the calculations and rendering for that software...anyway. Was just a fun idea that came about from your mentioning beowulf clusters.

edit---
I wonder what even a single ps3 could pull off with those calculations after reading a bit on what they've actually been used to compute.
edit2--
Make a folding@home Dimman edition, ft86 club members will lend you their ps3s to explore ways of making the FA20 more efficient....or whatever dubious plans he may actually have.

....easy to tell I'm finally feeling better after having whatever cold/flu/death it was I had. Thinking of off the wall stuff.

[Dimman]

Originally Posted by Spd229

Somewhat related, beowulf clusters and ps3s. Fun stuff.

Lol..makes me wonder what you could do with this bench software you're looking at if you "simply" used your current pc to send the data processing work to a few ps3s running linux. Too bad ps3s aren't $150 a pop, if it was proven to be effective you'd probably come out cheaper to setup your own "supercomputer."

If they could be used that way and could actually do the calculations and rendering for that software...anyway. Was just a fun idea that came about from your mentioning beowulf clusters.

I found a forum which has users support for the software, but I may be over my head. Complicated stuff. But user-friendly and open source aren't a common match I guess.

The cluster thing I looked into because I'm imagining pretty intense resource requirements. The closest situation I've experienced was 3d rendering software back in the day. Me and my buddy bought Caligari Truspace 2, and were running it on either a Pentium 90MHz with 8MB ram or a 133MHz with MMX and 16MB (it's been a while so my memory is foggy...). It had full ray-tracing with radiosity, squared fall-off lightsource options, anti-aliasing. Really good feature set for the era. But rendering a detailed scene in 640 x 480 24bit colour could take over an hour or two. Per frame. (We were mostly just using it for backgrounds, and short sprite animations.)

[Jayde]

Originally Posted by wrxgoose

apparently monday was national hug day. if i'd known, i woulda gone to see ashe.

Don't worry, I didn't get any hugs yesterday either.

[Giccin]

8 hugs a day makes you a happier person.

[NickD]

Finally being discharged, yay

[Spd229]

Originally Posted by NickD

Finally being discharged, yay

The doctor may not have done so, but I'm afraid the forum is going to have to prescribe you some time in the FR-S as recovery requires.

[Giccin]

Originally Posted by NickD

Last week: found out my thyroid hormones are out of whack

This morning: pass out while standing up, hit my head/hip/ribs, brought to emergency room

This afternoon: cat scan shows arachnoid cyst on my brain





At least I still have my fr-s, lol

Whoa. Just read your post.

Did you get it removed or drained? o: