windows had a fit

Around 5 days ago I got my mainboard back after sending it in for repairs, now when I really started to use my computer again I noticed that if I moved stuff to the desktop it would be locked, as in I could not move copy or open the thing(I do not remember the files being read only). the next day I found that the my documents folder was acting the same way and decided that maybe the other bits of my HD were fine but that my system needed a reinstall anyway.

So to start the reinstall i popped in a flash drive containing boot n nuke which consequently gave me an error 20% of the way through wiping(I think my SATA RAID was causing problems). after giving up wiping I popped in my windows automated installation DVD(love the auto install and if ya reinstall windows a lot I really recommend it) and waited. When I came back an hour later the system was ready to use. Now all I have to do is tweak the thing.

This is a story of windows bugging out and of the fast recovery that the auto install DVD gave me.

technorati tags:error, reinstall, windows, evil, annoing, auto

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Wii interface for your PC!!

WiiLi.org WiiFronted Beta - current version: 0.030b

While browsing for wii hacks (of which I found nothing worth the trouble of buying a mod chip) I found a little app for a windows PC that is a front end for the PC that looks like the wii's front end. After just looking at it I saw that it had lots of work still to be done. First it was low res and the icons looks bad. Second the little channel channel boxes are too skinny. And third it is really hard to actually use the computer. Although it is kinda pointless it is cool but I think that if someone did this with a program like desktop x it would come out much better and would probably be quicker and easer to make.

I say that if you really want the wii experience that get a wii but if you like a challenge that go and help with the coding.

I rate it

usefulness:0

Coolness:7

total:4

technorati tags:wii, fun, open

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MY mainbord just died

I have an asus a8n sli deluxe motherboard and a long time ago on of the pci x16 slots started to work erratically, then a week or so ago the whole thing died. The first thing that I did was look for a loose connection then I completely rebuilt the thing, it still did not work. My next step was to get the homebuilt looked at by a pro. That pro said that it was not the CPU as I had thought but that it was the mainbord (a much cheaper component the the CPU) and that it would have to be replaced. I did some research and found that the thing will be returnable for the next 2 years and I am now working to get the thing returned.

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The Not so Free Internet

Since the year 2000 the Internet has started to host some of the most successful multimedia companies in our time, an examples being iTunes. When you download a song from iTunes or any other site like this that content has something call DRM or digital rights management, for iTunes this means that you can't play it on more that 5 computers and you cant play it on anything but iTunes and iPod. Now you may be thinking that this is fine after all musicians should own their music, but this also means that if you suddenly buy say a 64bit computer where iTunes doesn't work you will not be able to play your music.
The Internet was made so that anybody could share content with the world, this is where DRM becomes a problem, it undermines the ability for people to share content like music. This may sound like sharing content is pirating but say one of your friends really loves a song and you want to listen to the whole song and see if you like it, then if you do you go and buy and album of that person.
My final opinion is that this issue is still evolving and with time we will see if the Internets content is owned by the people or by the business.

Cool flash web site

This is the site for a flash design company and as you can guess it has some nice flash. it really reminds me of a whole system.

The site is located here

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rrrrrr flock will not post on my mac and that is really what made me want to start blogging agan anyways. I do remember that it was hard to get the PC to work but I think that this is near impossible. O wait never mind I got it I had to enter my email for my kogin name.

Command and conquer

I have most probably already said that this is an cool game but now I own the command and conquer first decade. I mainly bought this for cnc tiberum sun and that is one of the best games in there, but I am reallying enjoying red alert too. The thing that really struck me about the older games is the full motion video and how well polished they all are. When I first set eyes upon the first GDI cut seen I was like, is this really a cut seen or is it a movie. The truth is that it is both, is turns out that Westwood (the game development company) hired actors for the cut scenes and in CnC 3 they have them again. As for how polished the game is they have really made the two sides have really different tactics and the game looks really goon (for the time).

    Now I do not want to make it sound like there are no bad parts to this game because there are some. The first is that the AI gets harder as you make the game speed faster, and the other one is that if your construction yard is destroyed you are dead. The game also has that annoying problem of ion storms but I think that adds more strategy for some advanced players.

    My rating out of 10 for this collection is

cost: 10

Fun: 9.8

graphics: 8

overall: 9.5

[any comments on spelling would be welcom]

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