‘Assassin’s Creed 2′ DRM will hurt sales. Ubisoft will undoubtedly blame pirates.
The article says you can't even start the game without Internet, as you will be greeted by an error message. Making matters even worse, you are still kicked back to the main menu if the game loses connection to the "Ubisoft Master servers," which may not even be your fault.
Sprint international text charges on Samsung Moment
This is just a journal of my issues with Sprint charging international text charges when none of our contacts / texts / anything are outside of the USA.
This is a posted rough draft, that I will beautify later.
I have two lines, both sharing one plan. an exert of the bill (with personal information removed) is below.
HP total fail.
Last year my wife and I purchased two HP Pavilions (DV 9830-US). Fine laptops, aside from my ram being bad, her hard drive's death, and, one month out of warranty, the video chip on mine decided it had enough of the poor cooling and took a permanent break. This model of laptop was a portable furnace. This was a known issue, but this specific model wasn't in the class action lawsuit... lucky me. They refused to replace it. Rather than argue any more through a language barrier made of water and sand, I purchased a new model that boasted it ran cool. It did.
A fix needs to be published, in English.
Windows 7 users:
ACPI\ENE0100\3&33FD14CA&0 == IR receiver.
Open device manager, show hidden devices, select above, and select update driver, "browse my computer". Point to the folder created when extracting the archive. Do not run the EXEs contained within the archive.
Seeing as the first link to the file had vanished, I looked around and found that asimobile has moved their files to a FTP server.
Google Wave
I hate AJAX with a passion, mainly due to its overabundant use for benign tasks. That aside, this is amazing!
Cleanup Ubuntu.
A simple cleanup script by David Francos.
Y="\033[1;33m"; R="\033[0;31m"; E="\033[0m"
function cleanapt(){ apt-get clean; }
function emptytrash(){ rm -rf /home/*/.local/share/Trash/*/** &> /dev/null && rm -rf /root/.local/share/Trash/*/** &> /dev/null && rm -rf /home/*/.Trash* && rm -rf /root/.Trash*; }
function removeconffiles(){ dpkg -P `dpkg -l|grep "^rc"|awk '{print $2}'`; }
function removeoldkernels(){ apt-get remove --purge $(dpkg -l|awk '{print $2}'|grep -E $LINUXPKG |grep -vE $METALINUXPKG|grep -v `uname -r|cut -d. -f1,2`-`uname -r |cut -d\- -f3,4`|grep -v `uname -r|cut -d\- -f1,2`); }
if [ $UID != '0' ]; then
echo -e $R"Error: must be root, cleaning user's trash"$E
rm -rf $HOME/.Trash* $HOME/.local/share/Trash/*/**
exit 1
else
echo -ne $Y"Cleaning apt cache ..."$E && cleanapt 2>/dev/null ; echo -ne $R" Done\n"$E
echo -ne $Y"Removing old config files ..."$E && removeconffiles 2>/dev/null ; echo -ne $R" Done\n"$E
echo -ne $Y"Emptying trashes ..."$E && emptytrash 2>/dev/null ; echo -ne $R" Done\n"$E
echo -ne $Y"Removing old kernels ..."$E && cleanapt 2>/dev/null ; echo -ne $R" Done\n"$E
fi
I NO TWEET!
OMG U SHIT! FIRST!
orckaiwin you get a twitter account yet?
godsyn no
godsyn i no tweet
HP is a bitch
I have/had an HP dv9000 series laptop. I used it for work, and for play. The GPU blew out (overheated) while sitting idle on a desk just one week after the one year manufacturers warranty expired. I called, referred from various class actions, other blogs, and general forums about those with similar or the same issue, and they denied any responsibility of their product.
The calls: This occured at around four o'clock, and I called for support, thinking they would just suck up the loss and send me a new laptop. I was mistaken. After battleing with their voice prompt IVR, which only understands Indian (dots, not feathers) accents, I was forwarded to (suprise suprise!) someone who didn't speak english. I'm not implying his accent was bad, as that would be an understatment. The human on the other line skimmed over an ??? to english book, and said "ok, I are can be now doing technical supports now, sir.". I was greeted, and my name was taken. Then my account was verified. Verification of accounts and serial numbers is a painful process. "one, two q as in queen." "ok, dat iz ha-one, two, g as in geen (I believe he meant green)." After the static data was transferred, I explained my problem, which he didn't understand. Apparently "gpu" isn't something you need to know as technical support for personal computers, as I had to explain that it meant "graphical processing unit" many times. Ultimately he said that if I wanted technical support, that I would have to pay $49.95 per incident as my warrenty had expired. My reply was that technical support was not what I was calling for. The "support" portion of the issue had been resolved personally. I knew what the issue was, I just needed technical repair. He gave me another number, and told me to call back later. I call back, and get someone a little more accent nerutal, but just as stupid. He explained that in order for me to repair my laptop, that I'd have to ship it to their repair location, and it would cost me over $800 to repair. Seeing as this is a known issue I asked if the $800 repair would come with a warrenty. It of course, did not.
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