The latest trick from nVidia to screw everyone over is an inability to playback video when using an nVidia graphics card on the new nForce 7 chipsets. From the FAQ on their site, they are now aware of the problem (only took a couple of months) and are "working hard" to fix it.

I figured that the nForce boards must have improved since the old nForce2 days but apparently they just cost more and crash more frequently. Not to mention the fiasco to do with wireless drivers and nForce chipsets that cause a system lockup.

Fuck nForce boards. Do yourselves a favour and buy an Intel board. For more links to what the video corruption problem looks like and a plethora of complaining customers (pretty sure nVidia is calling us 'suckers' by now) check out this post on the nvidia forums. Or search something like nForce video artifacts in Google to be swamped with reports of this occurring.

Here is my open letter to nVidia which you are more than welcome to support by leaving a comment...


Remember to shut down any virtual machines or videos while reading this site so your pc doesn't lock up. Unless of course you bought Intel, in which case.. Swap you?
Maz

Just tonight I had a couple more people ask me to email them the original (full size) images from some of my journal entries and I thought leave a note here about it.

The larger images are given out for free for non-commercial use. I.e. you are free to use them for things like desktop wallpapers or print them for your wall.

If someone asks you where the photo is from, please point them across to my site.

If you would like a larger copy of one of my photos, please send an email to request at maz dot net dot au with a link to the original post or image and a description of which one from that page. I'll try get them out to you as soon as I can, normally within a day.

Please keep in mind that these are between 3mb and 6mb when not resized.

If you modify them in any way or use them in a photomanipulation, please email me back a copy of your end result so I can have a look.

Thanks and enjoy!
Maz

(More photos will be up tomorrow morning.)

So my few photos are basically ruined by the fact that I didn't run back and grab my tripod. Woe for moon flare as well.

So #$%@!

And I can't blame you. I can't even be stuffed updating it most of the time. Life is boring, workdays are long. I did buy rollerblades during the week so that has certainly been a bit of adventure. For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to consume vodka then strap wheels to my feet and roll home. This might have worked if it weren't for the significantly large hills along the way. Going up was fine, albeit a bit slow. Down was the exciting part. Having had rollerblades for about 2 days at this point and not rollerblading at all in the last 10 years or so meant that I was a bit fuzzy on the idea of stopping, (i.e. I had no idea). As soon as I started to pick up speed I was totally out of control. I crashed into a dozen fences along the way. The most exciting was when I had totally lost control and there were no fences or space to stop on either side of the path and I was heading for a busy intersection. I reached out and grabbed onto some random sign post and I was going fast enough that both my feet were lifted off the ground as I spun around before landing on my face. On the upside I wasn't hit by a car, but the downside was nearly ripping my arm off. So for the last 2 days I have just been practicing stopping. The next part of my adventure home was to give up trying to stop, and just keep going until I started going uphill again. This worked until I went across a road, and on the ramp thing back up to the footpath on the other side was some non-slip tiles. These sent me veering to the left and towards a water fountain. Just at the last second I managed to regain control or I probably wouldn't be writing this right now. In the end I made it home with just a few scrapes. My blades took significant damage but still work.

What's next? Finishing my new website. I know I have been going on about this for over a year and honestly, I haven't looked at it in months, but I will be finishing it soon because I want to use it. Added to the proposed feature list has been a rich-media module. Designed to integrate video into my posts easily and neatly. After that there might be some exciting watching as I crash into things on rollerblades. The funniest bit being the look on people's faces just before I hit them.

Just joking.

Take it easy!
Maz

Too early to think, who needs to think?:


Early morning mishap:


Tapping in on bad puns:


The pier, (with awesome weird flare due to not having a lens hood):
Note: Flare may not be visible due to being saved as a jpg