And other tales. For the last couple of days, I’ve been struggling to get Server 2003 installed on a new Dell PowerEdge 2950 III server. I didn’t think ¬¨¬£500 for the OS and Dell to install it was value for money, when I had some spare licences lying around. Unfortunately, wishing to save this money was a real headache. First of all, OS-less Dell servers come with… nothing. No software at all (aside from some drivers). When you turn them …
I hate spinny blades, and I hate crushy doors. So imagine my under-enthusiastic response to the bit in the game I did today. Jumping from pillar to pillar, avoiding crushy doors and spinny blades. Joy! Had loads of Anubiseseseses to kill as well. I do wonder if “hard mode” means “kill three baddies instead of two”. Individual baddies are still easy to wipe out, and jumps can’t really be made any harder than not-quite-impossible, so it isn’t that. And I …
Completed all of the first bit of Egypt (up until the first “suggested” save point), and haven’t really had any problems yet. The pumas are quite difficult to kill (if they’re in packs, anyway), and the jumping and climbing here seems to require speed and timing more than anywhere else previously. I’m now in a large room with a big obelisk in the middle, and four bridges leading to it – only one of which actually reaches, currently.
Although it was large in size, the room I ended up in on my last play was actually pretty easy with simple puzzles. Well, one puzzle. After that, I was through to a submerged area, and finally to the next bit of the Scion. And a boss. Or rather, two bosses. Two centaurs, in fact. It took me ages to figure out how to kill them (you need to pull off their shields with your grapple), and I died a …
Toast for the Mac doesn’t just get things 100% done. Or 110% done. No – that wouldn’t be good enough. Toast will go above and beyond the call of duty by getting things 749,984% done! And that’s only burning one of two discs!
My wife was playing this earlier, so I had to beat her high scores. Naturally, I didn’t. Which is rubbish. I also bought and downloaded the Nightmare Mansion table, which is very small but plays well.
I’m still in Greece, but only because everything seems to take ages to do there. I’ve done the puzzles associated with Midas, a couple of which made me scratch my head a bit, swum through what appears to be some flooded sewers, and ended up in a huge room with crocodiles in it. I’ve killed them, but there’s a load of puzzley stuff to do now.
The pirates are amazing. They’re all dead, and as a result are skeletons. And they act all hard and they’re not scared of anything, until a dog appears, anyway… So found may way into their hideout, did some mundane tasks for them (including killing cockroaches), and then beat up their boss. I found a load of “swag” too, although I’m not really sure what to do with it yet – it just sort of sits in my loft. Oh, and …
23. Once again, the method by which this is decided confuses me, as I did better than usual in terms of time, but worse in terms of age.
Played this quite a lot today, and my 360 didn’t crash at all. Which is most odd. The game did glitch once though – I fell down a hole, but Lara’s death scream never happened, the screen went black, and I could still shoot and bring up the inventory, but not do anything. Very strange. As for how I did today, I killed the T-Rex (without dying, so got an achievement for that!), completed Peru, and have just reached Midas …
I got another reply today. Hello Andy, Thank you for writing Xbox Customer Support! I understand that your “Viva Pinata” and “Eternal Sonata” game discs got scratched even if your Xbox 360 console was not moved in any way, and now your disc won‚Äö?Ñ?¥t play properly. I deeply apologize for the inconvenience that this might have caused you. Andy, we are very sorry to hear about what happened. Movement of the console or strong vibration while the console is reading …
Yes. That is correct. Let me use this strange opportunity to inform you that my site is scheduled to vanish from the internet at some point late Monday night or early Tuesday morning. Not forever though, so worry not! My provider is upgrading things or something. You’ll just have to do something else for those 15 minutes. Like have a wash – you bloody stink.
We got a couple of Philips Freevents 11NB5800 laptops at work this week, and they’re actually very nice. Of course, they come with Vista installed, so we had to remove that. Problem #1 There are no XP drivers for the Freevents 11B5800. There’s nothing in the box (not even a Vista restore disc), and Philips have no mention of any of their laptops on their website. In fact, outside of PC World’s online store, the Freevents doesn’t appear to exist. …