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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Hippo on March 06, 2004, 09:00:22 am

Title: Aargh!
Post by: Hippo on March 06, 2004, 09:00:22 am: (http://www.sectorgame.com/ahtw/other/e1.jpg)
(http://www.sectorgame.com/ahtw/other/e2.jpg)
:rolleyes: :mad:

Don't tell me i wasted my money... :sigh: :doubt: It doesn't even make sense though...
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Post by: Stunaep on March 06, 2004, 09:05:58 am: Get Service Pack 3 for 2000?
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Post by: Hippo on March 06, 2004, 09:08:00 am: yeah, i noticed that it wasn't calling sp3 an OS, and put 2 and 2 together... now i'm browsing windowsupdate hoping that it won't be more then 10 MB...

and as for me noticing, i noticed just AFTER i posted the thread...
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Post by: aldo_14 on March 06, 2004, 09:12:21 am: Quote
Originally posted by Hippo
yeah, i noticed that it wasn't calling sp3 an OS, and put 2 and 2 together... now i'm browsing windowsupdate hoping that it won't be more then 10 MB...

and as for me noticing, i noticed just AFTER i posted the thread...

It'll be huge....... took me 3 hours to DL last time on broadband. And then I uninstalled it, because it ****ed up my machine.
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Post by: Kazan on March 06, 2004, 09:14:41 am: think 200 megs
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Post by: Hippo on March 06, 2004, 09:23:55 am: 589Kb actually... (SP4 though, but it says it has all previous packs included)
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Post by: Hippo on March 06, 2004, 09:26:40 am: or not... estimating about 280 minutes to go, 34740 kbs... the 589 was just the installer...
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Post by: Kazan on March 06, 2004, 09:37:22 am: 589Kb... um... yeah that was just da installeration
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Post by: Drew on March 06, 2004, 09:41:50 am: you actually bought 3dsmax?

sucKA :rolleyes: :p
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Post by: Hippo on March 06, 2004, 09:47:37 am: best $500 i ever spent if it works...
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Post by: aldo_14 on March 06, 2004, 09:54:38 am: Quote
Originally posted by Kazan
589Kb... um... yeah that was just da installeration

Nice how they sucker you in, isn't it..........
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Post by: Hippo on March 06, 2004, 09:59:37 am: 225 minutes now :P
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Post by: kasperl on March 06, 2004, 10:06:49 am: good luck dude.

you are using a download manager, right?
Murphy's Law apply's to you too.
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Post by: aldo_14 on March 06, 2004, 10:13:21 am: Quote
Originally posted by kasperl
good luck dude.

you are using a download manager, right?
Murphy's Law apply's to you too.

You can't - IIRC it's windows ****ty self--downloader that gets installed and then tries to DL it, so you can unless DL it with a manager if you want the whole, standalong patch. which is ridiculously large..
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Post by: Hippo on March 06, 2004, 10:14:16 am: no option to (aldo beat me)... usually AOL poops out after about 5-6 mb, but going to a M$ site, or getting a certificate download overrided AOl completely, so as long as my computer doesen't go to sleep, (which w2k doesn't like) or i run too many programs and make it unstable, or allow a car to hit the telephone pole, it should continue...

200 minutes now
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Post by: kasperl on March 06, 2004, 10:17:48 am: 56k?

poor, poor person.
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Post by: Hippo on March 06, 2004, 10:20:48 am: well, the only reason i have w2k, is because apparently, without an ethernet card, you can't use a cable modem on anything less then w98Se... but then the drivers for the modem ****ed up the whole system, so i had to reinstall w2k, and the model never was recodnised by the device manager or bios...
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Post by: kasperl on March 06, 2004, 10:21:44 am: why not buy a $15 ethernet card and plug it in?
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Post by: Hippo on March 06, 2004, 10:28:44 am: this was several months ago, and my parents were already flipping out because they got a popup about how to 'enlarge stuff' and therefore went through every file on the 2 hard drives (40gb of stuff) looking for anything to blame me for... but, they have already told me, as long as i keep my grades up, i'll get my laptop in june/july, and get comcast back then, so that we won't have to deal with usb modems, and can go wireless...
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Post by: Hippo on March 06, 2004, 10:59:04 am: close call: it said the server stopped responding... i clicked retry, and it continues... 160 minutes now...
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Post by: Zuljin on March 06, 2004, 11:13:10 am: Quote
Originally posted by Hippo
close call: it said the server stopped responding... i clicked retry, and it continues... 160 minutes now...

don't worry...it won't stop yet.
Knowing Micro$oft and their windows updater and life in general it will time out when you have 1mb left or something
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Post by: SadisticSid on March 06, 2004, 11:46:10 am: I remember you used to be able to download whole service packs from a HTTP address, and were download-manager compatible... the caveat being they included EVERY possible file in the SP so you'd download 500MB instead of 200. Wonder if you can still do this?
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Post by: redsniper on March 06, 2004, 11:46:37 am: Why on earth are you using AOL? It's just the same old internet for twice the money. If you switch ISPs you'll probably be a much happier person, but that's just my 2cents
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Post by: Hippo on March 06, 2004, 11:49:38 am: not the case here... its $35 for AOL, and $55 for comcast, and $48 for Verison DSL...
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Post by: redsniper on March 06, 2004, 11:56:43 am: can't you just get service from your phone company for like $10 a month? What about Netzero or Roadrunner?
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Post by: Hippo on March 06, 2004, 12:58:40 pm: nope... i've tried to fight all these with my parents, but their mind is set untill july... anyways, 100 minutes...
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Post by: Hippo on March 06, 2004, 02:50:46 pm: yay! downloaded, and installing (in theory)...
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Post by: Liberator on March 06, 2004, 05:30:30 pm: What about PeoplePC?
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Post by: Hippo on March 06, 2004, 05:32:49 pm: too much of a hastle to change emails, and billing stuff etc... plus, if i'm not paying the bill, i could really care less...