For those fraction of people who use AVG and have been getting an error when updating "Update failed, general error - not enough memory, write error". I have been having this problem for a while, and am pretty sure it had nothing to do with not enough memory. Did consider to be a general problem that they'd update and it would go away... however, it didn't.
And the threads on their forums haven't helped either. Yay.
But I have found a solution, so am putting it on the web, hope it gets some kind of hit on google so others can find this option. It was really easy.
Go to their update download area. Download the AVG update for Jan 15. Put it in a directory somewhere. Then, in AVG, go to Tool, Update from Directory (as the instruction on the page say), select the directory where you put the file and... cross fingers (if you like that sort of thing)... wait... wait... wait some more... and update without error! Need to reboot, but it's now good.
Finally!
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Sunday, 8 February 2009
AVG 8.0.233 Update memory error
Saturday, 7 February 2009
Playing MiSTie for us
Shout! has taken over from Rhino in producing MST3K DVDs (still four-per-packs, thankfully... makes for about five packs per most seasons, leading to about 40-50 packs in total).
Volume 14 is coming out with another range of episodes (of which I've seen two), but they certainly aren't scrimping with promotions as they have a range of trailers for the movies and the pack as a whole! Nicely done!
(Now all I need to do is buy it!)
(TVShowsOnDVD.com... for all your TV shows on DVD news...)
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Friday, 6 February 2009
SJA's Mad World
I'm currently watching the first season of The Sarah Jane Adventures on the DVD, and for some reason the music in the main menu reminds me of this song...
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Thursday, 5 February 2009
A Needle by any other name
While reading various news stories, I read this one about the upside-down cheerleader.
Lot of work, she's doing well, good for her.
However, there was one line that caught my interest: "I wore a brace around my hips and had to have dry needling every week where a physio inserts a long needle into tense areas to release muscles."
...what? Dry needling? What's that then? Never heard of it before, but suddenly I'm suspicious...
I found this article on Dry Needling, the writing of which was helped by the people on the South African Skeptics forum.
Basically... Dry Needling = Acupuncture! Aaahhh.... oh.... um....
There are lots of people who claim acupuncture works, but there are many people who claim all sorts of things work. The evidence for acupunture is... inconclusive. There is some effect from acupuncture, but there is the same effect from sham acupuncture, putting it largely in the placebo effect. Whatever is going on, it has nothing to do with meridian lines, chi, pressure points, etc., etc. More study might uncover some effect, but there is a large amount of woo.
If Dry Needling has anything real, it's that it's about jabbing the muscle knot directly, not poking into "ancient pressure points". But there is entanglement with woo that needs to be sorted out.
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Wednesday, 4 February 2009
DW: The Story of Martha
Wow, the BBC snuck out an anthology. During the year on Earth between The Sound of Drums and The Last of the Time Lords Martha walked the Earth, telling stories. This is The Story of Martha, and here are her stories.
The main story, by Dan Abnett, is about Martha coming to grips with having to walk the Earth, and being chased by some UCF people. It's a lot of smaller stories by itself, and (to me) seems a rather easy story to write as he's fitting in to what has already been established. And yet, he manages to make everything pear shaped at the end when in Japan... sigh... It's barely worth acknowledging.
The Weeping by David Roben is almost too simplistic, even for Doctor Who. They turn up, go to the tower, go back to the TARDIS... and that's it! This reminds me of a classic Who story, but I can't say which one without giving it all away, but it is quite obvious once you get there.
Breathing Space by Steve Lockley & Paul Lewis is even briefer than the previous one! The Doctor is boasting about solving it in half-an-hour, but that speaks more to the simplicity of the story than anything to actually be proud of.
The Frozen Wastes by Robert Shearman is... a decent story, but doesn't really go anywhere (figuratively or literally!). Not really sure what the point of it is...
Star-Crossed by Simon Jowett is... an interesting idea, but in this case it is crippled by being so short. I can see this being the most that could be developed more, and even turn up on TV (assuming they ever get away from Earth again...).
Overall... meh...
Order: The obvious place for the main story, not clear for the sub-stories.
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Tuesday, 3 February 2009
HC Again
I continued my GMering last session to finish off the mod I was dealing with.
It ended up taking a bit longer than I thought, but we eventually got there. There are some definite things that I had to adapt, but the writers didn't exactly take this group into account. Face Off Continued: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5.
With time to spare, I launched into a short mod idea I had, which basically comes down to "this is a puzzle for the players to solve", and no rolls were going to solve it. While the players did indeed solve it, unfortunately Logan's connection collapsed before we got there, and I had to continue the game without him and without cards. Colour Blind: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.
Then I did actually get to play! Nearly missed the call, but managed to get in. Note that I am not playing Terry as I will most of the August game month so am doing something else. Enter... Doctor Von Scott! Intelligence Gathering: Part 1, Part 2. Alien Nazis: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.
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The Chronicles of Risan: Part the Twenty-Second
Emerging from under the bridge, we found two... three surprises. One, we had lost our dwarf. Two, we found our old paladin (and now he was old). Three, we found a new human warlock by the name of Djenie (or something). Huh.
We moved into the city, and decided to start in on the old slave area, and headed to the first building, merely a cliff climb away. It was a mini fort, with battlements, complete with goblins! Wow... goblins... that's really classic... I head up the battlements while the others go into a nearby room. While I'm dealing with the goblins and get shot at by a troll from inside (who had two minotaurs with him), the others are dealing with something that has tentacles for a face! We finish and rejoin around the same time, and turn our attentions to the three inside.
Have to say that the Warlord somehow can bust out this great ability where he creates these two hands, which grabbed the minotaurs (one hand each) and smashed them together. Pretty much dealt with them entirely by himself. I was shooting the troll from afar, and finally decided to head in for some contact beating up. Unfortunately he died before I got there. Damn him. Oh well.
Moving on to the next building, we open the door and spy a statue, some tanks of dead things... and a Drow Wizard Necromancer (whom I greet cordially, being the only Elvish speaker, with "What are you doing there, Drow scum?"). Yeah, another fight. Complete with another Gloomweb beast and a Web Golem. I concentrate on the Drow Necromancer (there's nothing good there), and smack him around... a lot... although I don't get the killing blow in. After some rounds of smacking, we manage to collapse the forces quickly within each other.
We are progressing really slowly, and after moving to these two buildings and... a minute or so of combat, we turn in for the night...
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