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Checked out EA Store last weekend and bought Dead Space for pretty cheap. Downloaded it, and guess what: I wouldn’t launch. Instead, an error message popped up telling me that it couldn’t connect to the authorization server. Who the fuck cares? I bought my game and I want to play it. After a few failed attempts, my patience ran out and I downloaded a crack.
Again, thank you for making life that much easier for us gamers.
… and yet totally unrelated but not entirely.
Work is so so, but that is to be expected when you start pretty much from scratch. I’ll get somewhere, soon. I hope. Still waiting for a date to prepare for my thesis defense.
I have been neglecting a lot of my friends lately, not that I have so many in the first place. Note to self: Call friends.
Been satisfying my materialistic desires:
- Apple Keyboard (the one with anodized aluminum, cabled)
- Fallout 3 (yes, it is awesome)
- new monitor (full HD with component and HDMI, sweet!!)
Windows 7 (though beta) is awesome (so far).
The new Seagate 7200.12 hard drives are THIN (even the sales dude was awesomized).
Mother’s day this week. Got gift last week. Well prepared.
Valentine’s day next week. Need gift. May prove too difficult to handle.
Went to London and Barcelona for a week.
Came back.
Got awesome hat.
Saw the following movies:
- Max Payne (sucks)
- James Bond: Quantum of Solace (ok)
- Just Like Heaven (apart from Jon Heder, painful)
- Låt den rätte komma in (ok)
New games:
- Fallout 3 (very good)
- Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (awesome)
- Red Alert 3 (this url: David Hasselhoff)
New Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) is pretty good so far.
The LG Viewty sucks because it can’t handle the interactive answering machine everybody seem to love installing nowadays. Or maybe it can, but it still sucks because it’s not intuitive enough for me to find out. Needs new phone.
Current state of affairs: Not awesome.
So yeah, the trip to Budapest last week was pretty cool. It was kind of like Prague, only … cozier, and a lot warmer. We arrived at the airport to 32 degrees Celsius! Getting back to Norway, and Trondheim, was pretty nice as well. The last few weeks has been hectic and it’s nice to finally being back in the tranquility of my dorm room.
I’ve finally decided to order Mass Effect. I might need to upgrade my graphics card as well but decided against it because of upcoming graphics chips. Hopefully, the older models will get cheaper (or maybe the new models are cheap enough for me to grab one).
Finally found this clip after seeing it on a Japanese TV show two years ago:
I couldn’t get the second song (at 2:14) out of my head for quite some time. Browsing the related clips, I eventually arrived at this clip:
In other news, I’ve just received a job offer from Ementor. The contract is on its way, but the offer seems promising enough.
I haven’t been able to do anything ever since the last exam. I don’t know if it’s because I’ve become sick of everything or that I’m just plain lazy. Either way, I don’t like it. It is not a good position to be in. All I’ve managed to do so far is to install Arch Linux on both the new laptop and the desktop computer in my room in Oslo. Also, Ubuntu on my parents’ media center. XD (I’ve become such a geek.)
I got a new Wii back from service. It happened pretty quick too, within a few days. Finally finished The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (it was friggin’ awesome). I also managed to find copies of Super Paper Mario and Super Mario Galaxy on sale. I ordered the latter one some days after the former but got it first (stupid shop). At least I’ll keep myself entertained this summer.
A month back I managed to brick my N80 with some Hotmags. I was playing with them while waiting for Team Fortress 2 to load and put them down next to the phone. An hour or two later, it stopped responding. So now I’m on the lookout for a new mobile. Current contenders: HTC Touch Diamond, … I’ll probably add some more later.
Otherwise, both my sisters are in Europe. One in Norway, the other in the UK. Girlfriend is in the US, and most of my friends are not in Oslo. Yup.
PS. Job seeking sucks.
Saw Iron Man today. It was better than I would expect from your typical comic book adaption. In fact, I thought it was great.
Windows XP Service Pack 3 was, well, not much of a huge difference. Except from the fact that I no longer have to download tons of updates after a reformat, there aren’t that much to see on the surface. They STILL don’t have AHCI drivers included, so you will have to force-install those post-setup. Apart from that, I guess it’s just Windows XP refreshed.
On a totally unrelated note, these are the registry tweaks I use on my Windows Vista laptop. I’ve uploaded it here not for you, but for me. Feel free to use it though.
I couldn’t wait.
Today, I re-installed my Linux-partition with Hardy Heron. Downloaded the alternate cd and did a command-line installation before apt-getting ubuntu-desktop. The first notable change is that it no longer crashes when I set my harddrives to AHCI in the BIOS. I can finally utilize the full potential of my drives, which is a good thing. GIMP has become a part of the ubuntu-desktop package, so I can no longer remove it without having to remove the meta-package as well. Although this doesn’t really matter much, I don’t like it. I hate GIMP. The sound was muted after the installation. I don’t know why, and it’s not really that big of a deal, but it took a while to find the volume controller. The desktop looks somewhat refreshed but still has the brown look many people dislike. Otherwise, I haven’t played around with it long enough to write anything more extensive. If they’ve fixed the nasty memory leak caused by Nautilus, I’m more than satisfied with this release.
Now, where’s my Windows XP Service Pack 3?