AHAHAHA, YES! THE ICON IS MINE.
I have laboriously worked up my ladder wins in Warcraft 3 and I have finally attained the first Night Elf icon.
The first level icons require you to get 25 wins with any race/random which is a lot harder and time consuming than it sounds :).
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Acer Laptop Woes
I'll start by saying this is not the first time this has happened to me, I solved the problem before by formatting; but as that was when I first got it I didn't mind as much as I do now.
As sometimes happens I left my Acer 5672WLMi laptop on and I fell asleep, when I woke back up and checked up on the Laptop the screen had turned black.
Restarting the computer solved nothing as the XP logon screen was covered with static and all sorts of graphical errors.
Booting into safe mode worked so I ran a system restore and rebooted into Windows. Hurray! I am now able to boot into Windows! But before I could get myself into a celebratory mood Windows started it's glitching and disabling the backlight/freezing.
I went back into safe mode and used msconfig to put the computer into "Diagnostic Startup" and reboot, XP happily logged on and even after finishing loading it didn't freeze/die!
But as a computer is pretty empty without any services/applications running I eliminated the options of what the problem could be, turning things on one at a time.
First I enabled System.ini and Win.ini as those are core Windows components, then Services, then Startup items.
Once I found the problem to be contained in the startup options I started a process of elimination by turning on things like the Firewall and Antivirus.
But I had a thought while I was doing this, the problem occurs after a time of startup; now what starts up last on the laptop? The ATi application!
As it turns out cli.exe was causing the static/glitching/graphical errors/freezing/etc and the laptop runs happily without it.
As a summary for people having the same trouble: Use safe mode to do a System Restore and msconfig to disable the 'cli' startup entry.
Now I still have the problem of why it's doing this, I was unable to find any related problems through Google or searching forums so it's still somewhat of a mystery for me.
I will try a update of the graphics driver even though it is limited by acer, this problem is somewhat bugging me so I will try to find a proper solution.
As sometimes happens I left my Acer 5672WLMi laptop on and I fell asleep, when I woke back up and checked up on the Laptop the screen had turned black.
Restarting the computer solved nothing as the XP logon screen was covered with static and all sorts of graphical errors.
Booting into safe mode worked so I ran a system restore and rebooted into Windows. Hurray! I am now able to boot into Windows! But before I could get myself into a celebratory mood Windows started it's glitching and disabling the backlight/freezing.
I went back into safe mode and used msconfig to put the computer into "Diagnostic Startup" and reboot, XP happily logged on and even after finishing loading it didn't freeze/die!
But as a computer is pretty empty without any services/applications running I eliminated the options of what the problem could be, turning things on one at a time.
First I enabled System.ini and Win.ini as those are core Windows components, then Services, then Startup items.
Once I found the problem to be contained in the startup options I started a process of elimination by turning on things like the Firewall and Antivirus.
But I had a thought while I was doing this, the problem occurs after a time of startup; now what starts up last on the laptop? The ATi application!
As it turns out cli.exe was causing the static/glitching/graphical errors/freezing/etc and the laptop runs happily without it.
As a summary for people having the same trouble: Use safe mode to do a System Restore and msconfig to disable the 'cli' startup entry.
Now I still have the problem of why it's doing this, I was unable to find any related problems through Google or searching forums so it's still somewhat of a mystery for me.
I will try a update of the graphics driver even though it is limited by acer, this problem is somewhat bugging me so I will try to find a proper solution.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Solaris
The Solaris CDs I ordered a month or so ago finally arrived, it's nice to have things to play with in a virtual machine, my useless dial-up doesn't let me download much so getting things on CD allows me to try thins out. :)
Sunday, March 18, 2007
New Xbox Games
I have bought 3 games that were relatively cheap bargin bin titles:
Dynasty Warriors 4
Lego Starwars 2
Metal Arms: Glitch in the system
Their decent games, although so far i've mainly been playing Dynasty Warriors so I can beat the game once before moving onto Metal Arms, I'll save Lego Star wars for now; Better as a multiplayer game I thinks.
Dynasty Warriors 4
Lego Starwars 2
Metal Arms: Glitch in the system
Their decent games, although so far i've mainly been playing Dynasty Warriors so I can beat the game once before moving onto Metal Arms, I'll save Lego Star wars for now; Better as a multiplayer game I thinks.
Saturday, March 17, 2007
My First Review™
Alright! I decided to write a review for Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne on Gamespot since I added it and play it so often. :)
So go read it and mark it as helpful!
My gamespot review.
So go read it and mark it as helpful!
My gamespot review.
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
CompTIA A+++++++++
I sat both of the new 2006 CompTIA A+ exams last week, part of their new examinations involves sitting an "Essentials" test and choosing one of three exams; I chose the IT Technician exam because it seems to encompass more than the other two specific exams.
The exams were reasonable in difficulty; there's not a lot of material for the new exams, but with the old exams expiring soon that should hopefully change.
I read Mike Meyers 6th Edition A+ book to study for the test; the testing software on the CD imitates the actual exam pretty well, although there was a lot of other stuff I didn't see the point of using on the CD too.
I passed the exams, waited a few days and attempted to sign into the CompTIA website after confirming Prometric had passed me. I can now officially claim to be a CompTIA A+ IT Technician.
Why not just have CompTIA A+ and then specify IT Technician separately I'll never know, but that's the way it appears all over their records of my pass.
The exams were reasonable in difficulty; there's not a lot of material for the new exams, but with the old exams expiring soon that should hopefully change.
I read Mike Meyers 6th Edition A+ book to study for the test; the testing software on the CD imitates the actual exam pretty well, although there was a lot of other stuff I didn't see the point of using on the CD too.
I passed the exams, waited a few days and attempted to sign into the CompTIA website after confirming Prometric had passed me. I can now officially claim to be a CompTIA A+ IT Technician.
Why not just have CompTIA A+ and then specify IT Technician separately I'll never know, but that's the way it appears all over their records of my pass.
Saturday, March 03, 2007
Lappytoppy
Seems that everything on my desktop is pretty much corrupted or not working in some way, the laptop is making for a excellent replacement; especially being more powerful than the Desktop.
Un-installed ZoneAlarm and installed Comodo Firewall Pro, Comodo is actually pretty good; ZoneAlarm was probably the reason behind the blocking of most ICS traffic.
I removed ZoneAlarm because of it's insane slowdown effect.
Un-installed ZoneAlarm and installed Comodo Firewall Pro, Comodo is actually pretty good; ZoneAlarm was probably the reason behind the blocking of most ICS traffic.
I removed ZoneAlarm because of it's insane slowdown effect.
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