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14 years ago
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In case any of you were wondering, I'm not writing new material. I'm not doing art. I'm not coloring.
I'm waiting for high-end technical assistance to help me install a completely recalcitrant Windows 7, so I can use any of my thousand-plus dollars worth of new hardware and software. It hangs five minutes in demanding a CD/DVD driver, despite the hardware (including the CD/DVD) having the latest firmware and Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor assuring me everything is hunky-dory.
And I'm learning CSS basically from scratch, since despite everything I did to try to not to have to hand-code my site from the bottom up by myself like I did last time, I am now once again forced to hand-code my site practically from the bottom up by myself -- because Step 5 of every install is "To change anything, start editing the CSS, which we've changed since we wrote this so best of luck figuring it out. You know how to do that, right? I mean, all of us here do."
Over the years I've learned HTML, JavaScript, ActionScript, PASCAL (of which JS and AS are both versions), COBOL and FORTRAN just for fun. This is now at least the third, at most the fifth, time I have had to do this, and every time it's some new special flower version of an assembly language I have to learn to make everything run something like properly in a browser. It never gets any easier, and I teach it to myself because the few people who know any of it have their own sites to work on and anyway, if I'm reading a book or website on it I can't possibly have any questions can I? And I don't have anything else to do but figure this out on my own.
I estimate that I'll probably not be posting any art for at least another month. I've installed a server on my local machine so I can test my site's code before uploading. No, I'd never done that, but I read a bunch of sites and spent a day figuring it out by myself.
No, don't bother, I've probably got it figured out by now. I don't need to hear it.
I'm waiting for high-end technical assistance to help me install a completely recalcitrant Windows 7, so I can use any of my thousand-plus dollars worth of new hardware and software. It hangs five minutes in demanding a CD/DVD driver, despite the hardware (including the CD/DVD) having the latest firmware and Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor assuring me everything is hunky-dory.
And I'm learning CSS basically from scratch, since despite everything I did to try to not to have to hand-code my site from the bottom up by myself like I did last time, I am now once again forced to hand-code my site practically from the bottom up by myself -- because Step 5 of every install is "To change anything, start editing the CSS, which we've changed since we wrote this so best of luck figuring it out. You know how to do that, right? I mean, all of us here do."
Over the years I've learned HTML, JavaScript, ActionScript, PASCAL (of which JS and AS are both versions), COBOL and FORTRAN just for fun. This is now at least the third, at most the fifth, time I have had to do this, and every time it's some new special flower version of an assembly language I have to learn to make everything run something like properly in a browser. It never gets any easier, and I teach it to myself because the few people who know any of it have their own sites to work on and anyway, if I'm reading a book or website on it I can't possibly have any questions can I? And I don't have anything else to do but figure this out on my own.
I estimate that I'll probably not be posting any art for at least another month. I've installed a server on my local machine so I can test my site's code before uploading. No, I'd never done that, but I read a bunch of sites and spent a day figuring it out by myself.
No, don't bother, I've probably got it figured out by now. I don't need to hear it.
I also knew a gunsmith who learned HIS trade solely for fun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g42-w17dzNY
All home built RGB light modules, driven by my own design of LED driver card. AND controlled by my own computer code (which is not only so much fun to create that I do my own holiday lights, but I've created a business with a simplified version of it -- http://www.hobbylights.net )
Coding is as much fun as building hotrods, gunsmithing, or any other form of building. And just like those, you can make some money once you demonstrate mastery to the world and the world wants you to make stuff for them. It's not everyone's thing, no. Neither is gunsmithing (I still don't grok how rifling is done to the inside of the barrel.) But for those of us bent the wrong way (heh) making computers scream is as much fun as making dragsters scream.
Oh and putting the grooves of the rifling in the barrel is done by a broaching tool. It needs specialized hydraulics, and other support to work, but basically think of it like a wood plane, except with 4 to 6 radial bladed, and those blades are stacked front to back on a shaft, with blades of ever increasing size, all aligned so that the shaft turns slowly, imparting the spiral to the grooves. Make sense?
Scott
Mostly I was taking affront with the notion you put forth that coding is not fun. Perhaps it is not if it is not your thing. I don't personally see what's fun about drawing, although I can see the fun in writing and in coding and in building hotrods (and yes, building guns too.) Different strokes for different folks. But the first time you write some code and watch 1000s of dollars do your bidding, it's a rush. You then start up the ladder until you get to the peak of space avionics and watch BILLIONS of dollars do your bidding. Ah, what a rush...
Ah, so it's a shitload of hydraulic pressure ramming blades through the breech? I get it. Somehow I thought that superhard barrels would make such a technique impossible -- maybe I'm erring in applying modern metallurgy to older designs. Thanks!
The thing that really irks me is that I hadn't intended to do this again, by myself, and all the devices which are supposed to be time savers (like Wordpress, its plugins and themes) have turned out to be just another box of parts that you have to assemble yourself with bloated, confusing, or in some cases nonexistant instructions. It used to be I could write HTML pages and open them into a browser to test the code. Now I have to install, set up and activate a XAMPP server on my drive, install the themes and "upload" at least some of the files in order to test the code. This is saving me time how?
Once it's all working, I'm sure it will be great.
If the fault continues, you may have the drive AND a hard drive on the same cable, both as master or both as slave. This causes such problems too.
Me, I moved away from IDE because faults on the drive cause it to drop to PIO mode which is dog slow. SATA DVD drives never have that problem and transfer data faster besides.
I feel your pain with CSS... I've got to go learn that so I can better tweak my WordPress sites. And if I were you, I'd try Shockwave's suggestion about deleting the CDrom driver and rebooting.