Tuesday, April 22, 2008
*doonk!*
OK, so I've gone through Touch Me, I'm Sick by Tom Reynolds (and damned funny read, even if the author has a tendency to ramble and sometimes never gets to the point).
While I was reading it, an idea struck me - I'm going to remix some of the more commercial tracks that are featured in the book.
I'm seriously considering getting a myspace for all this crap I'm coming up with, too.
In other news, been spending half of the day trying to update GPGnet so that I can play Forged Alliance online. After realising that my install of GPGnet was out of date (it wasn't immediately obvious that the client was an older version, let alone the fact that there were newer versions out there), I tried updating it. After downloading the update (a 40MBish file), it attempted to install and...died. It proudly presented some sort of error that gave no indication of whether it was an issue with linking to the game itself, with something in my registry or whether it were simply some generic problem relating to man-eating sharks.
I downloaded the update again, hoping that it was just a corrupt file, let it install and it died at exactly the same point that it did before. Probably not a corrupt file, then.
Uninstalled GPGnet altogether with the intention of grabbing the latest installer online. Oh yes, I am a crafty one when I want to be. The uninstallation went as smoothly as I could hope for, so I went to GPGnet's website to grab the client.
...
It didn't seem to be anywhere immediately obvious, so I looked around a bit more.
...
I eventually gave up and googled the latest version. Nada. Nothing useful anyway. I eventually found it linked in GPGnet's official forum but it wasn't the latest version, meaning I'd need to install the out-of-date version then update it. Not likely to work but I had no choice - I clicked the big red button and commenced downloading GPGnet.
70 very large megabytes later I double-click the .rar file with the installer in it, locate the setup file, drag it onto my desktop, double-click the...oh, it couldn't be extracted from the .rar file. It's corrupt, says a dialogue box. In it, an exclamation mark grins cheerfully at me from its yellow, triangular home.
...
Damn. After reflecting on the irony of why these things are called dialogue boxes by some folk - this one was really just talkin' at me, not with me - I try it again. Download the stupid 70MB file from the stupid forum link, extract the stupid file and...nope. Isn't happening. What, is my desktop really that unsanitary?
Sorry to put you through that. I'm about to go to bed, having given up on getting this damn thing working.
While I was reading it, an idea struck me - I'm going to remix some of the more commercial tracks that are featured in the book.
I'm seriously considering getting a myspace for all this crap I'm coming up with, too.
In other news, been spending half of the day trying to update GPGnet so that I can play Forged Alliance online. After realising that my install of GPGnet was out of date (it wasn't immediately obvious that the client was an older version, let alone the fact that there were newer versions out there), I tried updating it. After downloading the update (a 40MBish file), it attempted to install and...died. It proudly presented some sort of error that gave no indication of whether it was an issue with linking to the game itself, with something in my registry or whether it were simply some generic problem relating to man-eating sharks.
I downloaded the update again, hoping that it was just a corrupt file, let it install and it died at exactly the same point that it did before. Probably not a corrupt file, then.
Uninstalled GPGnet altogether with the intention of grabbing the latest installer online. Oh yes, I am a crafty one when I want to be. The uninstallation went as smoothly as I could hope for, so I went to GPGnet's website to grab the client.
...
It didn't seem to be anywhere immediately obvious, so I looked around a bit more.
...
I eventually gave up and googled the latest version. Nada. Nothing useful anyway. I eventually found it linked in GPGnet's official forum but it wasn't the latest version, meaning I'd need to install the out-of-date version then update it. Not likely to work but I had no choice - I clicked the big red button and commenced downloading GPGnet.
70 very large megabytes later I double-click the .rar file with the installer in it, locate the setup file, drag it onto my desktop, double-click the...oh, it couldn't be extracted from the .rar file. It's corrupt, says a dialogue box. In it, an exclamation mark grins cheerfully at me from its yellow, triangular home.
...
Damn. After reflecting on the irony of why these things are called dialogue boxes by some folk - this one was really just talkin' at me, not with me - I try it again. Download the stupid 70MB file from the stupid forum link, extract the stupid file and...nope. Isn't happening. What, is my desktop really that unsanitary?
Sorry to put you through that. I'm about to go to bed, having given up on getting this damn thing working.
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