Annoying Questions I'd Like Answered...

...You Lost Me · Post by **...You Lost Me** » Thu Feb 12, 2015 10:10 pm

Yeah I can't do it either. I have no idea what's letting it only use 98 and not XP.

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 1:46 am

I sincerely thank you for trying.

Which leads me to reiterate, "Fuck Mac."

radthemad4 · Post by **radthemad4** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 1:49 am

Have you considered installing Windows? In addition to paint, it'd probably make a lot of other things easier.

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 2:31 am

I've been planning to, but I have neither the technical knowhow nor the means to reach someone who does at the time. (It helps that this computer lacks a disk drive.)

I do love that Mac's response to "our OS can't run shit" is effectively "buy the competition."

...You Lost Me · Post by **...You Lost Me** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 2:49 am

Why do you have a mac if you hate them?

I think your best option is probably one of those crappy free Paint substitutes... or buying a Windows machine, but I assume you don't have $250 to throw around.

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 2:50 am

me wrote:(And before anyone asks why I got a Mac in the first place, it was because I effectively had no choice. It was a gift from my sister after my old computer broke, and I don't want to hurt her feelings by saying her expensive computer sucks for everything I want to use a computer for. Otherwise I'd have returned it and bought a PC, and games to play on it)

...You Lost Me · Post by **...You Lost Me** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 4:57 am

Herp derp I can't read.

For this fix specifically, I think you should go onto wineskin/winebottler forums and ask for help. If you want to use more windows-compatible software, you should use bootcamp.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 7:04 pm

Alright, so I figured out that the constant on the waking up in the middle of the night bloated and in pain thing was some shit pre-prepped garlic bread from Raleys my parents like. It's slathered in butter and the greasiest thing I've ever willingly come in contact with. So I stopped eating that, and lo and behold, no more bloating.

Until today after a 2am meal of Taco Bell. I'm thinking the sour cream was the culprit, but I can eat ice cream at 2am with no problem, so I'm just fucking confused.

Is there some kind of huge difference in the composition of butter or sour cream and milk or ice cream that could account for that?

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 8:46 pm

Why do you think it's a butter? Why not something in the bread?

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 9:07 pm

It could be, but I usually have no problem with carbs of any sort.

Parthenon · Post by **Parthenon** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 10:35 pm

Anyone know any good shareable calendar/booking programs in which you can see the use of up to 12 items each in their own column?

I'm currently trying to use Google Calendar to book 8 rooms out to people, as well as other random events, and it's a huge hassle trying to work out which ones are in use and which are available. It's worse since lots of them get booked by the hour and the hours are arbitrary, so they can be say 11:00 to 12:20. I can have 25-30 bookings in one day, and 6 or 7 at one time.

Google calendar is not working. A lot of the time I can only see three characters on the calendar entry.

At some point in the nearish future I'm going to be increasing that to 9, and hopefully in the next few months it'll be 12 or more.

fectin · Post by **fectin** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 11:36 pm

MSG, maybe?

tussock · Post by **tussock** » Sat Feb 14, 2015 12:50 pm

@Prak.

Older people take longer to digest food without troubles. When you get really old you won't be able to eat much after lunch or it'll still be troubling you in the night. Maybe just try not eating anything much after midnight, and then in another ten years not after 10pm, etc.

I mean, you might also have something you're struggling to digest in general, but then you'd also get huge gas and pain from it whenever you ate it. I'd imagine the specific problems are just the garlic bread and taco are relatively hard to digest compared to ice cream (which is syrup in disguise, barely even needs digested at all).

But also, you're applying for work, and stress fucks up digestion too. Just try eating like a proper grownup for a while until things settle down.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Sat Feb 14, 2015 7:46 pm

Prak wrote:It could be, but I usually have no problem with carbs of any sort.

You're assuming that there's only carbs in the bread. Try reading the ingredient list.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 4:23 pm

Does anyone here use or know how to use Maya? Specifically the 2015 version.

I need to know how to apply textures (such as images nabbed from the web) to objects.

Hadanelith · Post by **Hadanelith** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 8:25 pm

@Prak: I think your problem might be that you're eating from, you know, Taco Bell. Basically everyone I know has given up on them (me included) because their food gives everyone digestive troubles of one kind or another. Consider finding higher quality Tex-mex.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 9:02 pm

Hadanelith: You're missing the other posts I've made looking for some kind of answer which had nothing to do with Taco Bell.

Whipstitch · Post by **Whipstitch** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 10:17 pm

There certainly is a big difference between ice cream and butter or sour cream: ice cream is often eaten alone and its bulk is mostly just air while butter and sour cream typically comes on something more robust. Fats slow down your digestive processes, but that's usually only uncomfortable if you have a fair bit of stuff in there to work through.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 10:26 pm

That's an interesting point.

This has been a frustrating thing to figure out because I basically have to wait for it to happen and then try to remember what I ate and think back to previous times it happened. I mean, I could seek out what's doing it, trying to induce it, but... that's essentially saying "Hey! Let's figure out what causes me intense intestinal pain and prevents me from sleeping by exposing myself to the possibilities!"

Whipstitch · Post by **Whipstitch** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 10:41 pm

Yeah, I think you're much better served with just keeping a food diary and working from there so you have something more substantial to say if things get bad enough that you want to talk to a doctor about it.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 11:03 pm

Yeah. I've started doing that for calories again anyway, so it should help.

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 7:33 pm

My wife is a little confused about exactly how android open source licenses work. She apparently needs to use an app as part of a few paid training courses that she is developing. She isn't going to be re-selling the app, but since it is still being used for commercial purposes. Would this okay with open source licenses? The two particular licenses she is looking at are:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GNUGPLv3
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#apache2

Artless · Post by **Artless** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 10:17 pm

Shrapnel wrote:Does anyone here use or know how to use Maya? Specifically the 2015 version.

I need to know how to apply textures (such as images nabbed from the web) to objects.

Sorry if this is way late and you've already moved on, but applying textures is basically the same across all modelling programs: you unwrap the UV map and then use an image editor like Photoshop or GIMP to paint the texture on. Most suites have a UV editor built in but they tend to be pretty limited.
It'll work for most models, but sometimes if you use automatic mapping tools the way it projects the model in 2d leads to wonky UVs and you'll have to go and manually unwrap it to get clean ones which is enormously tedious.

I won't direct you to youtube since most tutorials are either part of a 900 hour series or tend to be pretty opaque in their explanations, but Maya's own documentation has a basic lesson on it to get started: here.

Edit: just remembered that the first edition of Vertex had two pretty good articles on this that get a little more in-depth if you're interested: Del Walker's on page 176 and Tamara Bakhlycheva' on 256.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Wed Feb 25, 2015 10:25 pm

How does one go about cleaning a touch screen (like, say, a Wii U game pad)?

Do you just use a damp washcloth or whatever, or do you need to do something special?

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Wed Feb 25, 2015 11:14 pm

The best thing I've found is a microfiber cloth. Unless you've got serious gunkage, you shouldn't even need anything else. I like it so much that I made two 'pockets' out of a microfiber towel to carry my iPod and Ess' Kindle Fire around in so they stay clean.

If you do have major gunkage, you can use something like windex (spray it on the cloth/paper towel/napkin/whatever, not the glass) or mildly soapy water. And then dry with microfiber.

Basically, use microfiber. Really.