Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

When you reach for the stars, anything is possible.

Merry Chrsitmas and Happy Holidays!
Mike

In the name of the Lord, I cast thee into the trash...

Quote of the day...

"Strive for excellence, not perfection."

  -- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

When a song starts with "Yeah"

...I say... "no". Next :)

Taking a break from Battlefield 2...

I was starting to play Battlefield 2 even when I didn't feel like it or when I was bored. That's what they call addiction. :) Now I try to be somewhat constructive - playing guitar on ninjam.com, reading a book, chatting online, exploring music on irate radio, etc. I'm not much of a TV watcher except for Adult Swim, so that's good. Telling friends I fragged a bunch of dudes last nice just doesn't sound very exciting. :)

Quote of the day...

"Most people don't spend a lot of time regretting their wrong decisions, the deep regrets are usually for the decisions they never made." -- Rita Emmett

Uncanny resemblance

Check out iRate radio

What it does is download independent and/or creative commons music, and let you play and rate songs. Some songs are really good, and some are, well, not so good. For me it's worth findings songs in different genres that I may not have found otherwise. Another plus is that it's cross platform.

http://irate.sourceforge.net

Simple php script to regulate download bandwidth

Speed Limiting File Downloads

Descriptions of most any exe in Windows

http://www.processlibrary.com

If your Windows task list has a bunch of non-descript names, you can find out what they're for and if you can safely remove them.

EA patch problem found, thanks 'Ponster'

[The EA workaround for this is to edit this key in the registry :

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersionProgramFilesDir

It points to "C:\Program Files" by default.

If you change the value to "E:\Program Files", the patch will look for 3000 MB free space on drive E instead of C.]

Source Message

Does EA Tech Support speak (write) English??

After a couple back and forth messages between me and EA support about installing the latest Battlefield 2 patch, I got this one - which seems to be written by some guy in Russia(?). And of course, has nothing to do with my problem.

"Hello,

Thank you for contacting Electronic Arts. I’m sorry for the inconvenience.

Battlefield 2 is not compatible with any language but English while installing patches. Please, follow the following steps which can possibly resolve the issue.

---> Press Start - Right click on 'My documents' - properties
---> What you need is direct under 'accommodation of a final folder' (smth like that, have Rus version of XP)
---> Path to your documents must be all in english, change it to, for example like C:\Documents and Settings\User\My
documents (inc your username) and don't forget to copy your Battlefield 2 profile files in it or you won't be able to
log into your account.
---> at install location screen
C:\Documents and settings\YOUR USER NAME\my documents\(INSERT ) Battlefield 2\Patch_x.xx
---> Run Patch

Please let me know if the steps resolve your issue.

Should you require further assistance about this or any Electronic Arts games in the future please visit our website and review our extensive Self Help knowledgebase (http://support.ea.com)"

msnbot.msn.com is a rude bot

November: msnbot.msn.com - 1738 hits

That's a lot of hits for one month - almost 60 hits per day average.

Here's some information on how to block bots like these:
http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess.shtml

Two miles from ground zero

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/sfeature/foxhole.html

Telco powered devices

http://www.sandman.com/telco.html

Do it yourself BattleMech