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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Bobboau on January 21, 2005, 07:47:09 pm

Title: me == screwed
Post by: Bobboau on January 21, 2005, 07:47:09 pm: my computer is dead, would happen on an early fryday night, something is fubar with XP and I can't find the install disks

woh is me :(

and for some reason the forums are unreadable with the background and text all white on this PoS computer I'm useing right now. :mad:
Title: me == screwed
Post by: Grey Wolf on January 21, 2005, 07:49:43 pm: I would suggest using an alternate browser, such as Firefox, but from your post I doubt you could read this.
Title: me == screwed
Post by: WMCoolmon on January 21, 2005, 07:50:43 pm: I thought Monday was supposed to be the Bad Day...
Title: me == screwed
Post by: Grimloq on January 21, 2005, 08:01:42 pm: bleh, sorry to hear, bobb.

and he can still highlight it, i think... >_> cant he?
Title: me == screwed
Post by: Nuke on January 21, 2005, 08:03:47 pm: that sucks i hope you didnt loose the animation code.
Title: me == screwed
Post by: Bobboau on January 21, 2005, 08:21:17 pm: I'v regained some sembelece of controle back, I aparently never removed the previus install, this may temporaraly alow me some capability to use my computer for a while, but I need to find those disks.

good point Nuke, I'm uploading a tarball as I type this

to here
http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/blackwater/code.zip
Title: me == screwed
Post by: Nuke on January 21, 2005, 08:29:18 pm: i learned a long time ago not to update windows and infact install as little of it as possible, using 3rd party applications for as much stuff as possible.
Title: me == screwed
Post by: Grey Wolf on January 21, 2005, 08:36:32 pm: My plan to use W2K on the computer I'm building over the summer gains more support....
Title: me == screwed
Post by: WMCoolmon on January 21, 2005, 08:49:41 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Nuke
i learned a long time ago not to update windows and infact install as little of it as possible, using 3rd party applications for as much stuff as possible.

Like I say, the secret to using Windows is to use as little of it as possible.
Title: me == screwed
Post by: Bobboau on January 21, 2005, 09:11:17 pm: well it was working perfictly fine this morning when I turned it off, so I wonder what the hell happened to it...
Title: me == screwed
Post by: Setekh on January 21, 2005, 10:16:34 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Bobboau
I'v regained some sembelece of controle back, I aparently never removed the previus install, this may temporaraly alow me some capability to use my computer for a while, but I need to find those disks.

good point Nuke, I'm uploading a tarball as I type this

to here
http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/blackwater/code.zip

Glad things aren't totally messed up, but is that the wisest/most reliable place to put your backups?
Title: me == screwed
Post by: Nuke on January 21, 2005, 10:30:57 pm: dont worry im keeping a copy, i designed that last shiip to use it :D
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Post by: Bobboau on January 21, 2005, 10:40:03 pm: well I figured a few people would download it, and the Vwatch servers have never let me down, I'm realy starting to wonder if they will ever cach on that I've been useing there FTP server as my own personal upload space for years with little to show for it.
Title: me == screwed
Post by: MatthewPapa on January 22, 2005, 12:10:14 am: Well, the domain expires soon IIRC so i wonder what they will end up doing about that.
Title: me == screwed
Post by: Grey Wolf on January 22, 2005, 11:25:13 am: You could still access it using the IP address.
Title: me == screwed
Post by: Bobboau on January 22, 2005, 04:10:02 pm: if the domain expires Ill pester someone at HLP to get me an FTP accound again, the only reason I haven't got one now is becase the BWO FTP was still running and I didn't feel like going through the hassle of getting gamespy's FTP working for me.

and one good thing about this whole ordeal is I've finaly moved over to firefox.
Title: me == screwed
Post by: Bobboau on January 22, 2005, 04:11:14 pm: oh, yeah and I found my install disk
Title: me == screwed
Post by: BlackDove on January 22, 2005, 04:15:45 pm: I'm trying to find my dildo. Can you help me with that?;)
Title: me == screwed
Post by: Bobboau on January 22, 2005, 05:20:33 pm: ...have you looked in your ass?

what would people recomend as a WMP alternative?
sence I'm spending all this time reinstalling everything I might as well remove all the default software this time
Title: me == screwed
Post by: WMCoolmon on January 22, 2005, 05:36:49 pm: Winamp 5. :p 'Capsule' is a pretty good skin (Doesn't seem to be on winamp.com tho)

If you're feeling particularly MS-hating, there's also Geoshell (www.geoshell.com/)
Title: me == screwed
Post by: pyro-manic on January 22, 2005, 05:38:26 pm: Media Player Classic. Get it off sourceforge. :)
Or VLC media player. Plays pretty much anything.
Title: me == screwed
Post by: Grey Wolf on January 22, 2005, 05:39:49 pm: I prefer Media Player Classic for movies and sound clips, and iTunes for music.
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Post by: Bobboau on January 22, 2005, 05:43:41 pm: I do have VLC, but it's controles are a little unintuitive IMO, though I do like utilitarian designs. I use VLC for files I otherwise can't get open, and has only rarely let me down. but it isn't good for a general media player unfortunately.

and I would like a tv tuner software alternative from the ATI standard (becase they suck, but also becase the installer refuses to work)
Title: me == screwed
Post by: BlackDove on January 22, 2005, 06:22:59 pm: General Video playing = VLC and Media Player Classic

General Audio playing = foobar
Title: me == screwed
Post by: Bobboau on January 23, 2005, 12:08:09 pm: hey were was the most recent version of VPview model view and aniview?