Posts by Acme Tech Support 18 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Sep 2018
Sorry to be pedantic - did you mean AutoDesk Animator?
If so, I remember that - I worked for a VAR company in the UK that sold that software as well as Autodesk 3D Studio.
I don't remember the 2D software too much, but the 3D stuff would take hours if not days to render.
We had users that insisted on fiddling with printer settings. Alas we were unable to lock the control panel (like we could do with other printers) so I changed the language settings to Chinese instead. Since we used HP JetAdmin, we could make any changes remotely
I use a software mouse jiggler program, only if I need to leave a PC running unattended for a while and I don't want the tree hugging power (saving?) mad son of the boss admin putting it to sleep with his group policies that he is "too busy" to change, so I have to do things like this to do my job!
Reminds me of a PC I built recently. The last time I had built one was a Pentium 2, nice brown coloured main board, white case, different coloured cables for reset and power connections
The new one, black case, black cables, black main board, black heatsink on the memory. It did have a perspex panel on the side - tinted black, so couldn't see inside it!
I just mentioned a capacitor story! That was an Intecolor terminal too!
We're you in the UK? The company I worked for imported them from the US.
The other thing was that they used the cheapest possible IC sockets which became faulty, so often replace them too
Some of them yes I agree. Shoot some bloke in a spacesuit with ship mounted heavy weapons and he's immune? Buy a spacesuit for 150K, more expensive than some of the basic ships!
I found with the other sequels that they just weren't as much fun and I didn't get the same I'm flying my own spaceship feel. Even though you had realistic planets you could land on and much better graphics.
On the other hand, refueling from stars watching the corona and waiting for the fuel tank to fill up.
Asteroid mining - find it relaxing watching the drones collecting minerals, and where you find a rock with fissures and can blow it apart...
Used to work with access control systems. Rather than call in proper security installers, they would call in a sparkie - who would then be on the phone to us.....
Part of the software (originally for Win3.1x) made use of the tab key. If I told him to press the tab key, there was a stoney silence, wait a few seconds then "it's the big key upper left next to the Q", I would recline the chair, feet up on my desk and just take it easy for a bit.....
Had to set up some display screens, so used some old PCs that were laying about. Didn't want anyone messing about with them, so disconnected the keyboard. And get the error message come up.
My solution was to remove one of the back plates., take the keyboard apart and remove the PCB. Wrap it up in tape and feed it through the gap and fasten it inside the PC. The cable would still be connected to the PS2 socket so it would detect a keyboard and boot up. Added advantage is that it saves space!
