NHL2005 wil NOT install due to cloneCD. EA's fix was to uninstall cloneCD.
Hell, it get's better with that. Some of that crap like Splinter Cell2 bitches about Nero and other legit burning programs also. Sometimes, just the back that you have a CD/DVD Writer that is also a CD-ROM pisses it off.
And their answer is always "uninstall". God forbid honest game purchasers actually have a CD/DVD Writer and software to write and backup files to.
I honestly don't know which I hate more right now, the craplock CDs or the POS Steam servers. I spent more time waiting on those damn servers last night that I did playing the game. That seriously sours any thoughts of purchasing any other game ill-powered by Steam.
I have the other problem. One day one of my domains was gone without warning. They had moved it to the AM without notice. Not only that, but they assigned it to someone else.
This was about 2 years ago. Eventually they fixed the domain back to me, but it stayed in the AM. They were supposedly going to move all of the domains to AM, but apparently never did.
Before I read your post I sent and email to their support asking about transfer locks. I expect the same answer.
Geez, even NetSol has the feature and even defauled everyone to REGISTRAR-LOCK.
I am sorry to inform you that the domain transfer request will be approved within 5 days if you fail to respond to the confirmation email. Register.com may provide the facility of locking domain names in the near future.
Well, I guess they'll be losing all of my domains then.
That's it. They lied. My vote didn't count. I had a mail-in ballot and they've declared the presidency before any of the mail-in ballots have been recieved. None of them counted. None of those votes matter. You don't matter.
I voted for Kerry. Bush won. Fine, I can cope with that. I too still have strong feelings that votes will go uncounted just because they won't change the outcome. If a citizen took the time to vote, it needs to be counted as a matter of principle regardless of the outcome.
And how many in-dash CDR/CDRW head units read Ogg? Oh yeah, not a damn one. MP3. maybe. but almost always WMA files. Sure as hell not Ogg.
So, I can use Ogg, feel secure in my geek status as a slashdot approved MS hater, and not be able to use any of the comsumer products on the market, or I can go with non-Ogg and play my shit in most things I can purchase for my car and home.
I never said I would take the whole collection and put it on everyones PC. See, there's this new technology called portable hard/usb drives..maybe you've heard of them.
I may have my full collection at home, but who says I won't snag a few artist directories and take them with me to listn too?
90% of all users can play Ogg? I call bullshit on that one. Maybe among geekery, but certainly not average users or their computers.
Great points. To be honest, one of the only reasons I didn't go with MP3 under WMA was that I didn't thing the encoder was all the great.
And file size wise, it jumps from 57MB/128Kbps to 86MB/192Kbps. I'm kind of fond of the mid-range 69MB/160Kbps to save some disk space but no too much sound quality.
Actually, I use Firefox and Thunderbird and I have FreeBSD servers at home.
Don't go lumping everyone into the MS lovers club just because occasionally they use a single MS program rather than having to install 3 other programs and encoders to do the same thing.
I wouldn't call having to rip 200+ CDs and choosing a tool [not 3 different tools just because you hate MS] that does everything in one "lazy".
Why is WMP? Because every damn windows box I may have to use has it installed, and would run my files from a portable HD. I can't go around installing shit on everyone's PC no can I.
I've done EAC. I've done CDEX. They're all good programs. Ogg IS a better format. MS does suck monkey.
I'll admit to those things. But when I've got 200+ CDs to rip, I'm going to go with something where everything works in one player: the rip, the album cover, the ID tags, and the playlists.
No extra third party encode/decoders, playlist translators, and widgets. And no praying for a comsumer portable music device w/ Ogg support on a firmware update "coming soon" that never arrives.
I hate MS as much as the next person, but there is something to be said for an All in one WMP10 in which every feature works, rather than having to fight a shitty DirectShow filter for Ogg.
I used to be an Ogg fan. I stopped doing Ogg because when I set out to rip my entire collection (200+ discs), it's a lot easier to pop a disc in a let WMP10 do it's thing to WMA then it is to do the same w/Ogg. Yes, most Ogg rippers will do the same autorip thing, but it's all integrated into WMP playlists. And it's faster.
Aside from that argument at all, once I had Ogg files, they were worthless in situations where only WMP10 was available. The WMP plugins to play Ogg have crappy support for reading the Id tags and their overall WMP integration sucks.
Don't get me wrong, I hate WMP for the most part, but it has turned out to be a whole lot easier to rip group and play my CDs in WMP than to futx w/Ogg.
I must admit that the thought of paying for a single data [DSL] line and getting my phone [VoIP], tv, and internet over a single connection seems damn cool.
However, there is no way in hell I'm going to buy into HDTV via IP if I'm forced to use MS Media Center or the like. I don't have to use Windows to get to the internet. I sure wouldn't put up with having to buy XXX brand television to watch TV now, and I certainly wouldn't by XXX brand phone to place a land line call. Why should HDTVoIP be any different.
It's bad enough these fargin machine don't work right, but the courts there just ruled provisional ballots invalid. Meanwhile, states like Ohio rules them completely legal.
I don't feel so confident on the election results when there seems to be no way that we'll even know for sue what the true ballot count is. Hell, we can't even agree on where the ballots can come from.
It's completely unaware of any Mozilla or Thunderbird hostory/cache/bookmarks.
For that matter, it won't touch anything other than my C:\ drive. COnsidering all my Moz/Thunderbird stuff is on my USB drive on F:/, that's a double Whammy.
Nice idea, but it seriously needs a plugin architecture. For that matter, at least let me tell it to index more than just the C:\ drive.
I've installed 1.0PR on three machines as a clean install. All three of them lose their bookmarks after each firefox restart. Plus they don't show up in the toolbar anymore using drag and drop.
Some extensions won't install complaining about version = 0.9.3 required, even though they are the same xpi files as found on the authors website; which install just fine outside of updates.mozilla.org.
The Live bookmarks has serious issues with XML, mimetypes and certain feeds.
Mark it as you will, but 1.0PR blow goats compared to 0.9.3.
Unfortunately, the RSS support has a quirk or two in the mix, especially when it comes to viewing the content of each RSS item. I've abandon RSS in Thunderbird already due to it.
When viewing email, it's safest to choose View -> Message Body As -> Plain Text. This keeps viewing unknown emails rather safe sans/HTML/image bugs/cookies.
Unfortunately, this setting is not account specific, it's global. So now, my RSS feeds show nothing in the preview window unless I switch back to View -> Message Body As -> Simple HTML
1. Purchased HP N5450 Laptop + Extended Warranty
2. Power jack dies after a year and a half.
3. Take to Best Buy on Dec. 22, 2002 for repair.
4. Wait 2 weeks. They order motherboard and don't use it.
5. Wait another 2 weeks. The order jack and resolder the motherboard.
6. Pick up laptop on Jan 17, 2003. Boots fine in the store.
7. Return home. Laptop stops working after the 15 minutes.
8. Return to Best Buy that night. Laptop boots. Got excuse about power surge.
9. Return home. Laptop still won't boot plugged into UPS.
10. Remove battery. Won't boot in the morning.
11. Return to Best Buy for re-repair.
12. Call manager on Jan 20, 2003. Will "rush repair".
13. Call repair center on Jan 27, 2003. Laptop hasn't even been touched.
14. Motherboard arriving today, Jan 29, 2003.
15. Install mobo today ot tomorrow.
16. Ship back to Best Buy on Thirsday, Jan 30th, 2003.
17. Best Buy called today, Monday, Feb. 3rd, 2003.
18. Arrive at store. Laptop is there. They forgot the fucking power adapter!!!!!!. Now keep in mind, they asked for the power adapter to be sent with the laptop this time. It's in the computer and on the packing list when it was sent. And of course, the repair checklist was check marked and verified on the "verify accessories" option.
19. After numerous "nothing I can do" excuses, they "find" an adapter.
20. Plug it in. Power it up. It appears to work.
21. Return home.
22. Plug laptop in. No fucking sound. I should've checked at the store, but I figured it was at 0% volume where we usually leave it.
23. Shut down laptop. Try turning it on and using the front panel controls as a CD player. Nothing. Not one fucking thing on the front display works.
24. Call Consumer Relations at 1-888-BESTBUY (1-888-237-8289)
25. Talk to tier 1 idiot. Ask for manager.
26. Talk to manager. "Take it back for them to check". Yeah, wait for them to ship it back to their service center for another 2 weeks. Fuck you.
27. Won't give me Regional Supervisor name. Click
After another trip and a lot of bitching, they finally replace the laptop.
I have another friend who is suffering from almost the same treatment. soldering the power jack. Nice.
"Reverse" firewall huh. That sounds a lot like Egress filtering to me. Don't all real firewalls do that?
I wouldn't trust stateful packet inspection on my "modem" as far as I could throw it. The firewall built into my old (not-so)Efficient 5861 DSL router was horrible. It had no statefuly packet inspection, so you were letting in packets on ports outside the realm of established connections. The firewall built into my Cayman 3546 is smarter, but not very configurable at all. It's either on or off and I could map some ports, but it's not nearly as configurable as others.
The only thing I trust is my PF/IPF firewalls in place around the crappy DSL modem firewalls.
Now that I have that out of my system. Does anyone know if PHP5 Unicode is any better than PHP4?
Admittedly I've done about 10 total minutes of PHP coding in my entire life, but I do follow it as closely as possible when I'm not thinking about Perl. I always got the impression the Unicode working in PHP4 was a little lacking compared to the latter versions of Perl.
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Powerplay was all BS anyway. A lot of babble, and no substance or working product.
:-)
So, nothing has changed with Steam then.
Hell, it get's better with that. Some of that crap like Splinter Cell2 bitches about Nero and other legit burning programs also. Sometimes, just the back that you have a CD/DVD Writer that is also a CD-ROM pisses it off.
And their answer is always "uninstall". God forbid honest game purchasers actually have a CD/DVD Writer and software to write and backup files to.
I honestly don't know which I hate more right now, the craplock CDs or the POS Steam servers. I spent more time waiting on those damn servers last night that I did playing the game. That seriously sours any thoughts of purchasing any other game ill-powered by Steam.
I have the other problem. One day one of my domains was gone without warning. They had moved it to the AM without notice. Not only that, but they assigned it to someone else.
This was about 2 years ago. Eventually they fixed the domain back to me, but it stayed in the AM. They were supposedly going to move all of the domains to AM, but apparently never did.
Before I read your post I sent and email to their support asking about transfer locks. I expect the same answer.
Geez, even NetSol has the feature and even defauled everyone to REGISTRAR-LOCK.
Well, I guess they'll be losing all of my domains then.
I voted for Kerry. Bush won. Fine, I can cope with that. I too still have strong feelings that votes will go uncounted just because they won't change the outcome. If a citizen took the time to vote, it needs to be counted as a matter of principle regardless of the outcome.
And how many in-dash CDR/CDRW head units read Ogg? Oh yeah, not a damn one. MP3. maybe. but almost always WMA files. Sure as hell not Ogg.
So, I can use Ogg, feel secure in my geek status as a slashdot approved MS hater, and not be able to use any of the comsumer products on the market, or I can go with non-Ogg and play my shit in most things I can purchase for my car and home.
Good link. Thanks.
I never said I would take the whole collection and put it on everyones PC. See, there's this new technology called portable hard/usb drives..maybe you've heard of them.
I may have my full collection at home, but who says I won't snag a few artist directories and take them with me to listn too?
90% of all users can play Ogg? I call bullshit on that one. Maybe among geekery, but certainly not average users or their computers.
Great points. To be honest, one of the only reasons I didn't go with MP3 under WMA was that I didn't thing the encoder was all the great.
And file size wise, it jumps from 57MB/128Kbps to 86MB/192Kbps. I'm kind of fond of the mid-range 69MB/160Kbps to save some disk space but no too much sound quality.
Actually, I use Firefox and Thunderbird and I have FreeBSD servers at home.
Don't go lumping everyone into the MS lovers club just because occasionally they use a single MS program rather than having to install 3 other programs and encoders to do the same thing.
I wouldn't call having to rip 200+ CDs and choosing a tool [not 3 different tools just because you hate MS] that does everything in one "lazy".
Why is WMP? Because every damn windows box I may have to use has it installed, and would run my files from a portable HD. I can't go around installing shit on everyone's PC no can I.
I've done EAC. I've done CDEX. They're all good programs. Ogg IS a better format. MS does suck monkey.
I'll admit to those things. But when I've got 200+ CDs to rip, I'm going to go with something where everything works in one player: the rip, the album cover, the ID tags, and the playlists.
No extra third party encode/decoders, playlist translators, and widgets. And no praying for a comsumer portable music device w/ Ogg support on a firmware update "coming soon" that never arrives.
I hate MS as much as the next person, but there is something to be said for an All in one WMP10 in which every feature works, rather than having to fight a shitty DirectShow filter for Ogg.
I used to be an Ogg fan. I stopped doing Ogg because when I set out to rip my entire collection (200+ discs), it's a lot easier to pop a disc in a let WMP10 do it's thing to WMA then it is to do the same w/Ogg. Yes, most Ogg rippers will do the same autorip thing, but it's all integrated into WMP playlists. And it's faster.
Aside from that argument at all, once I had Ogg files, they were worthless in situations where only WMP10 was available. The WMP plugins to play Ogg have crappy support for reading the Id tags and their overall WMP integration sucks.
Don't get me wrong, I hate WMP for the most part, but it has turned out to be a whole lot easier to rip group and play my CDs in WMP than to futx w/Ogg.
I must admit that the thought of paying for a single data [DSL] line and getting my phone [VoIP], tv, and internet over a single connection seems damn cool.
However, there is no way in hell I'm going to buy into HDTV via IP if I'm forced to use MS Media Center or the like. I don't have to use Windows to get to the internet. I sure wouldn't put up with having to buy XXX brand television to watch TV now, and I certainly wouldn't by XXX brand phone to place a land line call. Why should HDTVoIP be any different.
It's bad enough these fargin machine don't work right, but the courts there just ruled provisional ballots invalid. Meanwhile, states like Ohio rules them completely legal.
I don't feel so confident on the election results when there seems to be no way that we'll even know for sue what the true ballot count is. Hell, we can't even agree on where the ballots can come from.
OK, maybe a 7. :-)
You are right. The install is as easy as it gets. It does follow "It Just Works" to a T.
It's completely unaware of any Mozilla or Thunderbird hostory/cache/bookmarks.
For that matter, it won't touch anything other than my C:\ drive. COnsidering all my Moz/Thunderbird stuff is on my USB drive on F:/, that's a double Whammy.
Nice idea, but it seriously needs a plugin architecture. For that matter, at least let me tell it to index more than just the C:\ drive.
I give it a 5 out of possible 10.
Which was my original point. It's a shame 10.PR is getting more attention than 0.9.3 because 1.0PR is not very good compared to 0.9.3 stability wise.
Troll huh. I'll play.
I've installed 1.0PR on three machines as a clean install. All three of them lose their bookmarks after each firefox restart. Plus they don't show up in the toolbar anymore using drag and drop.
Some extensions won't install complaining about version = 0.9.3 required, even though they are the same xpi files as found on the authors website; which install just fine outside of updates.mozilla.org.
The Live bookmarks has serious issues with XML, mimetypes and certain feeds.
Mark it as you will, but 1.0PR blow goats compared to 0.9.3.
It's a shame there was this interest for 1.0PR instead of 0.9.3.
1.0PR sucks IMHO. It's much worse than 0.9.3 in terms of things not workink; like bookmarks, extension loading, etc.
And don't give me the "Preview Release" speach. They're ALL preview releases up to 1.0 final.
Unfortunately, the RSS support has a quirk or two in the mix, especially when it comes to viewing the content of each RSS item. I've abandon RSS in Thunderbird already due to it.
When viewing email, it's safest to choose View ->
Message Body As -> Plain Text. This keeps viewing unknown emails rather safe sans/HTML/image bugs/cookies.
Unfortunately, this setting is not account specific, it's global. So now, my RSS feeds show nothing in the preview window unless I switch back to View -> Message Body As -> Simple HTML
Bummer.
It's about time that someone kicked Best Buy in the ass.
Here's my Best Buy horror story.
1. Purchased HP N5450 Laptop + Extended Warranty
2. Power jack dies after a year and a half.
3. Take to Best Buy on Dec. 22, 2002 for repair.
4. Wait 2 weeks. They order motherboard and don't use it.
5. Wait another 2 weeks. The order jack and resolder the motherboard.
6. Pick up laptop on Jan 17, 2003. Boots fine in the store.
7. Return home. Laptop stops working after the 15 minutes.
8. Return to Best Buy that night. Laptop boots. Got excuse about power surge.
9. Return home. Laptop still won't boot plugged into UPS.
10. Remove battery. Won't boot in the morning.
11. Return to Best Buy for re-repair.
12. Call manager on Jan 20, 2003. Will "rush repair".
13. Call repair center on Jan 27, 2003. Laptop hasn't even been touched.
14. Motherboard arriving today, Jan 29, 2003.
15. Install mobo today ot tomorrow.
16. Ship back to Best Buy on Thirsday, Jan 30th, 2003.
17. Best Buy called today, Monday, Feb. 3rd, 2003.
18. Arrive at store. Laptop is there. They forgot the fucking power adapter!!!!!!. Now keep in mind, they asked for the power adapter to be sent with the laptop this time. It's in the computer and on the packing list when it was sent. And of course, the repair checklist was check marked and verified on the "verify accessories" option.
19. After numerous "nothing I can do" excuses, they "find" an adapter.
20. Plug it in. Power it up. It appears to work.
21. Return home.
22. Plug laptop in. No fucking sound. I should've checked at the store, but I figured it was at 0% volume where we usually leave it.
23. Shut down laptop. Try turning it on and using the front panel controls as a CD player. Nothing. Not one fucking thing on the front display works.
24. Call Consumer Relations at 1-888-BESTBUY (1-888-237-8289)
25. Talk to tier 1 idiot. Ask for manager.
26. Talk to manager. "Take it back for them to check". Yeah, wait for them to ship it back to their service center for another 2 weeks. Fuck you.
27. Won't give me Regional Supervisor name. Click
After another trip and a lot of bitching, they finally replace the laptop.
I have another friend who is suffering from almost the same treatment. soldering the power jack. Nice.
"My name is Justin Spence. You kiled my server. Prepare to die."
"Reverse" firewall huh. That sounds a lot like Egress filtering to me. Don't all real firewalls do that?
I wouldn't trust stateful packet inspection on my "modem" as far as I could throw it. The firewall built into my old (not-so)Efficient 5861 DSL router was horrible. It had no statefuly packet inspection, so you were letting in packets on ports outside the realm of established connections. The firewall built into my Cayman 3546 is smarter, but not very configurable at all. It's either on or off and I could map some ports, but it's not nearly as configurable as others.
The only thing I trust is my PF/IPF firewalls in place around the crappy DSL modem firewalls.
PHP is dead. Long live PHP!
Now that I have that out of my system. Does anyone know if PHP5 Unicode is any better than PHP4?
Admittedly I've done about 10 total minutes of PHP coding in my entire life, but I do follow it as closely as possible when I'm not thinking about Perl. I always got the impression the Unicode working in PHP4 was a little lacking compared to the latter versions of Perl.
For example: PHP does have limited unicode support and Joel on Software.