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Old 06-04-2007, 10:07 AM   #681
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Now we know why the screen savers by 3DPlaneSoft have huge load times. I'm not complaining of course. It's more than worth the wait for some of the ones they've done.

The SereneScreen logo and maybe a few bubbles will be a great lead-in.
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Old 06-04-2007, 10:20 AM   #682
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Old 06-05-2007, 04:03 AM   #683
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Sounds like Jim is making significant progress.
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Old 06-05-2007, 05:11 AM   #684
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Old 06-15-2007, 01:00 PM   #685
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I know you hate these questions Jim, but at least its not a time question.

Overall in your estimation how much have you gotten done on MA3?

40 percent? 50-60 percent? more/less?
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Old 06-15-2007, 01:13 PM   #686
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He will probably answer that question, in October!
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Old 06-15-2007, 01:24 PM   #687
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I think I know what Jim's response will be:

In my best Jim voice: Because it is so difficult to estimate how much time each part of the aquarium will take, it is impossible to assign a percentage of completion. What I mean by that is - he could be *almost* done - and get hung up on one tiny detail that could take a huge amount of time to finish. ....or, feel that he is about 99% done, yet that last 1% takes about as long as the 99%.

Of course, I'm often wrong - so he could be typing up a post right now that says he's 80% done. ...maybe I should just keep my mouth shut.
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Old 06-15-2007, 01:38 PM   #688
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hehe, this is why I dodn't mention time in the equation

He might be 70 percent done, but still take longer than he figured to finish. Basically what I am asking is pertaining strictly to the physical program mechanics. ie. 60% of the textures are in place. 50% of the mechanics are in place, so maybe slightly over 50% in total.
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Old 06-15-2007, 01:58 PM   #689
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he is @ 99% he told me this on the phone.
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Old 06-15-2007, 04:05 PM   #690
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Ah. Thanks for that, Highlander. Meanwhile, I've got this really cool bridge you might like to buy!
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Old 06-15-2007, 04:45 PM   #691
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Old 06-16-2007, 12:51 AM   #692
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Ah. Thanks for that, Highlander. Meanwhile, I've got this really cool bridge you might like to buy!  
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Old 06-16-2007, 09:20 AM   #693
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I had a bad day yesterday, but got things straightened out last night. My daughter brought her laptop home from college because it seemed to have a virus. The symptom was hanging during boot-up, and reporting that files were missing or corrupt. The last two times I saw this happen, a rootkit virus wiped out the hard drive so badly that we had to buy new computers. In one case I paid $700 to recover about 20% of the files on the drive.

So this time I had told her not to try any further boots, and just bring it home. I removed the mini-drive from the laptop, got an adapter cable and mounted it in my machine as a second drive. I let Norton Antivirus work on it for several hours, then copied all the files to my drive. After re-installing it in her computer it booted fairly normally, with the message that Windows had recovered from a serious error.

Having that problem out of the way, I tackled her second complaint: that the computer has not been able to connect to the Internet for the past several months. After trying several different combinations of router settings, cables, and reset sequences, I lost all Internet capabilites for all our computers. The whole day was spent trying to troubleshoot this. It's no wonder that nearly 50% of all routers are returned to the store because they are just TOO HARD to get working. And this was a router that was just working a few minutes before. Well, after about 10 hours of trying I finally got the right combination of settings, cabling, and startup-sequences.

I even (accidentally) found the problem with her Internet capability. MSN Explorer just WOULD NOT connect even though the system seemed to have a strong wireless signal. Out of desperation, I happened to click on Mozilla, and Bang!, it connected. So I did a Google search for "Why will my computer connect to the Internet with Mozilla, but not MSN Explorer?", and amazingly, got some valuable hits. One mentioned proxy server settings, so I researched how to check those. There was an IP address set as a Proxy in Internet Options, so I removed it. The problem instantly disappeared.

A very frustrating day, but at least it's over and I'm back to work on MA3.
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Old 06-16-2007, 09:49 AM   #694
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Now you are making us all feel guilty...

Any how! ... Welcome back to normality!
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Old 06-16-2007, 09:49 AM   #695
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Oh my, what a terrible experience! I can relate to some of it, the router and data lost from viruses.

Today is another day, and hopefully a more productive one.
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Old 06-16-2007, 12:18 PM   #696
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Jim,

As you know, all of those are signs of malware. If you ask me (insert joke here), your daughter's computer is still compromised. There are so many kinds of malware, you never know what they actually do. Besides, anti-malware products might be able to remove the malware, but rarely actually fix the damage to windows, IE, etc. In the furture, she will probably have some quirky things happen. Reformat and reinstall.
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Old 06-16-2007, 12:27 PM   #697
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Well, I could spend a couple of days doing that, or working on MA3.
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Old 06-16-2007, 12:33 PM   #698
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Have her do it.
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Old 06-16-2007, 01:42 PM   #699
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I've read about people who could actually do things for themselves, but I've never actually known any. My whole life, I've always had to do everything for everybody.
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Old 06-16-2007, 03:58 PM   #700
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OMG, I can relate to that one. That is until Lauren, that little girl can do anything that I teach her to do.
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