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Yay
Mine's broken :(
The one they sent me to replace the broken one is broken :(
What's wrong with the Rio firmware? Mine's brilliant!
Ah yes, but you've forgotten Rio's inability to write firmware!
The Entropy Is Strong With This One
Times when I don't have any problems, I'm working. It is even more dull than the problems, so I don't bother writing about them :)
Half the reason I write about the problems is so that when they happen to me again (which they will), I'll be able to go back through my archive and see what I did to fix it last time ;)
Should i assume that times when you aren't making an entry on here are times when you actually dont have a computer problem as in "i turned them all on and they all worked" or "i did some code and it didn't have too many / no obscene bugs". Or do i assume that those other days things are not as interesting computer problems. ~:P
Windows Update
It's bloody annoying! Fucking retards at microsoft!
YAFB (Yet Another Flash Bug)
OMFG! Not Java! Damn, you must hate Flash and AS so much, WOW!
rm /etc/localtime
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/GB /etc/localtime
All fixed
violently opposed to sport in all forms! even tiddelywinks and the never tireing sport of chav baiting?! mwahahah :p
I Found Some Bugs
Be patient! You have to wait for them to release them :)
they where not bugs, but replicators. Anyway when am I getting any more SG1 DVD's? Its boring arguing with myself in the evenings, I always back down!
Ok, Seriously...
You do realise that computer hardware never goes faulty. It's actually that the PC really hates you!
Steam-ing pile of
I'm awaiting the day when you have to give a set of biometric samples when purchasing any software which are subsequently tested against the sample taken every time you run the thing. For small utilities or low-value software, the test would be something like a thumbprint. For bigger software it would be a test like a retina scan. For anything by MS, it would be a full body cavity search and fluids examination.
If the cleaning becomes a popular activity, I'm sure there are clubs you could join.
Change Of Career
Are you sure that fishing is going to be the right plaice for your talents? Oar cod this just be a brill idea with the sole aim to make Radiac tench and then flounder?
Ok, Seriously...
The PSU does have a habit of being one of those things that makes things go wrong. (That and having dust in your graphics card fan).
I have used my hard drive lots i do long hard drive scans, i process hundred meg files every day for games, i play mp3s from it i treat it like shit. it's survived for 5 yeats and is now sounding a little cranky. ooh i also store my work on it. ~:)
So There I Am
I have just laughed out loud at something said on the internet, for the third time this evening. This is good.
More on the ipod thing!
But only because Rio can't write firmware to save their lives.
Steam-ing pile of
Peter: Grr! Some people have all the luck. And I thought I'd get a DVD because it would be more reliable (haha at me) :)
In the end I copied the CD to my hard drive again and ran the installer from there, and it worked fine. Looks like there was some kind of random corruption reading from the DVD drive.
Now I'm waiting for the game files to decrypt. This copy protection is a bit overkill. Just let me run the game, make me log into a server if I want to play online by all means, but this is overkill. How does can offline LANs play HL2? Joke.
Andrew: I just did a lot of cleaning! There will be a new entry about that shortly :)
I get round all of these things by never playing HL2.
I get round a bunch of other problems by never using my computer. I prefer to do things which don't have advanced copy protection crap on it these days, like cooking and cleaning :)
I must be the luckest person when it comes to computers. I've managed to have no problems with any of the following:
1) Steam
2) Windows
3) IE (until i stopped using it)
4) CD burning
5) Copy protection schemes (even star force)
I d/led Hl2 rather than buy the disc and i have a better copy, which nicely updates itself and i've no problems.
If you can get the gcf files off the DVD then install steam and put those files in the SteamApps folder. Unless Vivendi screwed you over (they made the DVD and put their own copy protection on which has problems with steam apparently) then the files will be the same as those i have and you'll be all good.