http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:eelsleeves&section=today deviantART RSS for by:eelsleeves en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:14:46 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://eelsleeves.deviantart.com/journal/28773010/ http://eelsleeves.deviantart.com/journal/28773010/ Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:45:39 PST
gfx: ATI mobility radeon HD 3450
vista: home premium, SP2 [6.0.6002]

i occassionally get the error out of the blue, no real cause and/or ram overusage
"display driver has stopped responding and has recovered"
_{(i think that's the error? i'm using german vista)}

what sometimes happens is, that the screen goes black for a second, then recovers and all works fine again, but sometimes the error pops up quite a few times, slows down the entire system, after a couple of times everything stops working and the screen displays completely screwed (well... like the usual gfx death screwy pixel screen). after that i can't do anything, system completely froze and i have to re-start by hitting the off-switch a few seconds. after that everything works just fine... until it eventually happens again. i guess it happens around 2-3 times a day.

from what i gathered this seems to be pretty common with vista, ati and even nvidia gfx cards and isn't all too harmful other than being creepy, but i heard people just let it pass with a blue screen, and not with a completely fucked display. and the fucked display is what worries me, it looks like my card is dying.
and in that case, i'm not sure if i can get a gfx card replaced that easily and/or fast. :c that's my only working computer right now...
also, my book is only a year old, and i haven't used it much until now... i... don't really think the card can be any damaged. from what? also, the book worked fine back in the day, i've been using it for a couple of days nonstop and never had that happening, then laid it back into the pocket for a few months because i was happy with my desktop (which is fucked now until i can get a new motherboard and new fans and a gfx that works and has an onboard fan because i used to run into overheating gfx problems there hahaha).

anyone knows what's going on? only one thing, yeah, i haven't tried re-installing the gfx driver, because why? it's the newest one, i update everything regularly, and frankly i'm too lazy to try. if, however that's a proved, ultimately working solution then... okay. ;;

(please don't tell me vista sucks, because, yes, IT DOES, i am aware of that. why am i not switching over to 7 and back to XP? well... it's an HP book, drivers might not be available and i'm very unsure about notebooks. i'd not ask about anything if it was a desktop because that's where i know what i'm doing. i'm currently looking into grabbing a copy of 7 and/or getting in contact with HP about the upgrade service.)

]]> *eelsleeves http://eelsleeves.deviantart.com/journal/28667971/ http://eelsleeves.deviantart.com/journal/28667971/ Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:51:10 PST yeah, wow, that was... silly.

also uguggh drawing overheats my notebook so bad, i bought a cooler but not sure when it'll ship, the payment was sent though, so i guess pretty soon, yaaaaaaaay. notebooks still aren't my piece of cake for overheating reasons though.
i also am not exactly fond of the silver design of the HP pavilion dv5 :C should have bought a lenovo (austrian brand) or acer with no sparkly silver glossy plastic keyboard/touchpad.

]]> *eelsleeves http://eelsleeves.deviantart.com/journal/28626042/ http://eelsleeves.deviantart.com/journal/28626042/ Sat, 28 Nov 2009 08:55:02 PST
also RIP my computer... e_e *pets notebook* at least vista doesn't seem to hate me... yet.

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]]> *eelsleeves http://eelsleeves.deviantart.com/journal/28368401/ http://eelsleeves.deviantart.com/journal/28368401/ Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:43:00 PST tervuren ^{[original journal]} is taking commissions in the price range of 7$ - 15$ and what you get are beautifully rendered portraits-

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]]> *eelsleeves http://eelsleeves.deviantart.com/journal/28226780/ http://eelsleeves.deviantart.com/journal/28226780/ Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:37:33 PST
=ChimeraRae - refunded
~SirTrips - pending (shabby sketching phase!)

uff, i don't know what else to write, hah. well, my birthday was some weeks ago, we celebrated nice, got lotsa money, but not sure yet where this money goes into... most likely furniture and/or funds for moving out int he future. who knows, part of it will be saved for sure... or in case my intuos 3 breaks... because the cord is in a horrible condition, gah!

]]> *eelsleeves http://eelsleeves.deviantart.com/journal/27765928/ http://eelsleeves.deviantart.com/journal/27765928/ Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:59:21 PDT i have a few ideas for pictures, and a lot of ideas basically for concept, laaaaa~

i sort of wonder if i should get an intuos4? i heard the nibs wear down really fast, the surface is rough close to paper. that's not good, considering i draw a lot and the nib apparently wears down in a day?
but i heard intuos4 has a smoothing function like in sai. is that true? i like sai a lot, but i'd not mind to have it over in photoshop once in a while. and the intuos 3 surface is really slippery and the pen moves almost too fast for me, even though i use the 9x12" one. also, by now i... really think i should get a new drawing sheet for mine... XD
i also just noticed my tablet has a tiny tear where the cord comes out... ugh, i'm going crazy if this thing really breaks. >_> i'll get rubber tape tomorrow to fix it...

]]> *eelsleeves http://eelsleeves.deviantart.com/journal/27711520/ http://eelsleeves.deviantart.com/journal/27711520/ Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:02:18 PDT
i'd really like to drag myself back up to a level where i could say i'm sort of emotionally pleased, but recently my cat, charlie started acting weird and getting more and more lethargic. by now his front legs are completely paralysed and numb. he can't walk, let alone stand anymore, and the suspects are either brain tumour or FIP (FIV, additionally?)- FIP is very likely because according to the first blood tests he has a worringly little amount of white blood cells. sadly, there's nothing you can do against it... tomorrow we get another, additional results if he has FIP and FIV now. i really don't know what the hell is the case though, his behaviour is sometimes really odd, a few days ago he sometimes acted like he had absolutely no idea who wether me or my mother was. but now he's doing fine, other than the fact he can't walk and/or stand, he just sits in a chair next to me now, for hours, i just switch his position every now and then... putting him on the litterbox is impossible. let's say he is... very fickle about being watched, let alone held while doing his business, but otherwise he'd just fall over. he's still eating, doesn't want to drink though, but he gets water and sometimes a little bit of milk fed by syringe. and playing with him gets his attention completely, even though his forelimbs are paralysed, and all he can do is watch. it doesn't seem like he's suffering, which makes it questionable if we should put him to sleep... but he can't do a thing on his own anymore...
i've been whining on and off about it to friends and anyone who got in contact with me recently, i feel bad about it, but talking about it helps me, i don't really expect anyone to do something about it (considering there is nothing that can be done about it anyway). i sort of wonder what i should do though to... get him to, uh, do his business peacefully, because i don't want him to do it right where he sits. of course i'd (and have already) clean it up once it happens, but ehahgh, i think it might be a good idea to grab him diapers or something tomorrow..? currently it's newspaper, but he gets so messy- and i don't want to stress him with cleaning him.

edit. charlie was put to sleep today, he had FIP and a brain tumour according to the official results...

]]> *eelsleeves http://eelsleeves.deviantart.com/journal/27387166/ http://eelsleeves.deviantart.com/journal/27387166/ Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:59:30 PDT
my working desktop (drawing, webdesign and execution of) stopped working today, i don't exactly want to call it broken, because it's just the gfx card that fried itself for no reason. actually, i could recall a reason- it's some cheap gfx without onboard fan and there we go, mystery without the need to say more solved. for these, um, emergencies i have my HP book which works fine, even though it's vista and it's really slow for that reason e_e. i might clean my workdesk and move some things around so i can maybe start dual-desktopping later, because the 15" screen of my book is far too small to cooperate with my tablet. i'm not going to buy a new gfx card though (with what money?), that just wouldn't pay off anymore, because there are other components in that machine that are slowly dying (the mainboard is cuckoo, really o_o) and i'd better be off if i bought a new one, but... i have no clue how that's going to be possible financially.

as for commissions, i wanted to refund these so much earlier, i still owe stuff to =ChimeraRae and ~SirTrips! i hope it's sort of acceptable if i say i'll get around to refunding next month. i've been drawing for myself, yes, in my free time, but i just can't get your stuff right, and i don't want to send anyone a piece of crud and get away with that. ._. i hope it's okay to wait, and no, i've never, and usually do not use the money before i haven't finished commissioned work, but recently there have been emergencies and now i really hope next month is going to be a little bit "wealthier" so i finally give you your money back.

hmm, that's... all, i guess, sorry again.

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