Here’s hoping your New Year’s Eve was happy and safe and your New Year will be a prosperous one.
I had intended to sit down and write a whole bunch of entries yesterday, but ended up driving out to my brother’s to take another whack at the kid’s PCs as they’re still acting a little flaky. Ended up bringing my niece’s home with me so I could do a complete rebuild from the ground up as it is crashing randomly on us with just about every application installed. Sometimes it’s best to just scrap it and start over from step one and see if the second time around doesn’t work out better. I’m rather disappointed to find that the DVD/CD-RW drives we put in the kid’s machines are incompatible with some copy protection schemes out there. We bought my nephew a copy of Call of Duty for Christmas and the single player won’t run on his system because the Rosewill drive chokes when checking the protection. I just verified with my niece’s PC that it has the same problem so it’s the drive that’s the culprit. The multiplayer works fine because it doesn’t require a CD check. So I’ll be working on my niece’s PC throughout the day today.
I’ll also be trying to get back into posting more entires. I’ve got a Christmas wrap-up entry I’ve been kicking around to put on the site and I’ve got a lot of current events to catch up on. Hopefully you’re not all too hung over to visit the site today.
Got bored over the holidays (man I hate that word) and decided to play around with a few defraggers to see which one I like best. Tried the one that comes with XPMCE then Diskeeper (which is by the same folks I think) and PerfectDisk. One of these fuckers fried my MFT indexing er somethin’ and I’ve been in computer hell for the last 3 days. Whilst doing a boot defrag it crashed, during CHKDSK I think, and then it would just reboot over and over. I’m pretty sure I saw a Blue Sreen of Death flash in there but it would automatically reboot before you got the chance to read a single character.
Pharg!
Luckily I have another machine connected to the net so I could download some drivers.
An easy remedy would be to get Daemon Tools or some other copy-protection blocker. Or even easier just head to http://www.gamecopyworld.com and pick up the no-cd exe. CD’s in drive are ridiculous anyway. Han’t been a game that actually loads from that CD in tray since about 1998 or even earlier. Games nowadays install fully and just require the CD in their as a cheap anti-piracy technique.