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[Weeble]

Lady,

You just keep your head down and your loved ones safe.

Extra prayers headed your way!!

weeble

[Distracted]

Thanks, weeble. I'll do my best to keep you guys posted. If you don't hear from me, though, no need to worry. My internet access is through the phone company, so if we lose service I may be incommunicado for a day or two. Just carry on. I'll be back.

[Cogito]

I'll be back.

I hope you wrote that while wearing a black leather jacket and sunglasses, with a pump-action shotgun slung over one shoulder.

Best of luck, anyway.

[Kotik]

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Kotik's Idiocy of the day.

Topic of my less than diplomatic thoughts at the moment is a company called STEAM. Yeah, exactly the stuff coming outta me bloody ears right now. What happened? Well me being away from home spending endless boring evenings in a hotel, I thought I buy me a computer game - Stronghold 3 to be precise. Box sayz I need to have a STEAM account to activate it. Ok, not problem, these days you have to create an account with some sleazy data merchant for taking a blood crap, so methinks, what are my junk email accounts for. Said, then done. Me creates account, game gets activated and then the thing springs a 4.3GB download at me. Me checks DVD -> surprize 4.3GB of data on it. And since this hotel has the most useless wlan in history, which never makes it past 20 KB/sec that STEAM junk tells me that the download will take a mere 72 hours Pardon my ignorance, but why does this bleedin' thing download the same crap that I just bought on a bloody DVD??? Heck, whatever these numbnuts've been smoking - I want some of that *facepalm*
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[Cogito]

Steam seem to have a policy of auto-updating your software, and it has probably been updated since the DVD was burned. Any possibility of getting it to install in offline mode?

[Alelou]

Good luck, Distracted, to you and yours.

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

Pretty much!

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[Kotik]

Steam seem to have a policy of auto-updating your software, and it has probably been updated since the DVD was burned. Any possibility of getting it to install in offline mode?

I got it to install from DVD - get this:

I started the download and disrupted it by cutting the network connection. Then I selected 'delete local files' to delete what had already been downloaded. Then I killed the application via task manager, opened a cmd-window and started it with steam.exe -install d: then it hung a few times but the 5th attempt after 3 hours worked. How's that for a workaround (Gat that particularly ingenious idea from a search through several forums full of disgruntled STEAM customers) What a travesty!

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

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[Kevin Thomas Riley]

There is nerdy stuff and then there is even more nerdy stuff...

[Distracted]

I'll see your one horrible alien and raise you a teddy bear Spock. : )

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

Cute! He must live long and prosper...

[Kotik]

Seriously, the Fins are the coolest people in the world

I just came back from a two day business trip from Finland. Day before yesterday my colleague from Helsinki took me on a tour through the night-life. I noticed that most clubs in Finland have *very substantial* bouncers. But my colleague reassured me that it wouldn't be a problem as long as I managed to memorize to say

Olen Hullu Saksalainen

Guess what, it worked. In fact many a bouncer was transformed into a rather amused mood. Asking my friend Google today, I now know why. I went all over Helsinki introducing myself by saying : "I'm a crazy German"

[Weeble]

Hey Kotik,

At least you were accurate, and the Finns are obviously quite observant.....

[Entilzha]

That reminds me the time I visited a heavy metal night club in Tampere Finland. Now that was a night my liver got so confused about the alcohol I was drinking that I had the lightest hangover ever considering that the only types of alcohol I didn't drink was wine and champagne(I managed to empty the bar of its absinth) .