Art Attack Central
Fixing stuff, myself included…
Almost 80 Years Later…
Oh no, it’s not time travel again, is it?
No, time travel would be much easier to talk about.
So about 80 years ago, was World War II. Why talk about that now?
I watched the movie, “The Pianist” yesterday. Set in the Warsaw ghetto, = witness the survival of the Jewish pianist against all odds. The cruelty and death in the ghetto foreshadow our world today. As I watched, I just kept thinking/feeling, the horror over and over, the horror. And so in 80 years only the targets of hate and fear have changed. Muslims, Syrians, refugees, people from “shithole” countries are not welcome here. Many Syrian cities are rubble. Those who can get out are fleeing, some with nothing more then the clothes they are wearing. Just as we stood by while Hitler and his henchmen murdered the Jews, we have done little to stop Bashar al Assad from murdering innocents. The world is still a dark place for so many. I can’t say anymore about it.
Why not?
It’s so terrible; in truth it was very hard to watch the movie. I had to watch, I think we all should be reminded not to forget history. Although it’s in the history books (except holocaust deniers), it doesn’t seem we learned how to avoid being cruel and hateful human beings.
Now What?
Yeah, that’s right now what? You’ve got the “machine” all tricked out; what you gonna do with all that power?
Going back to some tutorials for Blender. I was making progress last spring, before my dad went on the downhill slide. Too much time has gone by for this old mind, and I’ll have to begin again! Downloaded the current version yesterday, and so begins the play.
Geekbench Scores
Geekbench sees my 2009 Mac Pro as a 2010, because of the firmware hack. More than satisfied with this machine as it stands now.
CPU Replace = Success!
So… how did it go?
Not too scary. The new/refurbished 6-Core processor arrived yesterday, and I put it in the Mac Pro today. The Northbridge heatsink is under the the giant processor heatsink, and the plastic rivets on it the were holding fine. The sink was; however, full of dust; a good blow out with compressed air has the Northbridge Chip running 10C cooler! With not much going on the chip reads 53c instead of 63c.
What about the Geekbench results on the cpu?
The multi-core score did almost double and the single-core rose somewhat. I’ll post the particulars tomorrow.
Stuck…
Yes, I’m stuck trying to implement a jQuery toggle for comments. Unless you want to leave a comment, you shouldn’t have to see that form under every post! Had plumbers in the house all day; spent a lot of time trying to figure out comments.
So did you get it done?
Plumbing work got done, but I gave up, after fiddling for hours with various scripts for making comments act the way I wanted them to. Removed the numerous changes I made in several files, and now have no comments. That’s fine.
Whew… lots of WORK to do
Broken links, irrelevant links, linked blogs that have disappeared, software that is way outdated, missing flash files. Where the hell are they?
Ha I knew you couldn’t resist asking a question.
So where do we go from here?