h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I'm pretty miffed, so thought I'd do my ranting in my journal instead of flooding the current thread over at Lil's.

So I re-downloaded a game - a shockwave game. It's nothing fancy, fairly simple. But when trying to start it, I get

GPU cannot support large textures!



Of course it can! I've played this game several times before updating!

And Steam seems to think I have a completely new computer

Sometimes I despair when I can't fathom what's going on, with computer geeky type stuff. You have my sympathy.

Thanks Lanza

All my old stuff has been saved in a folder named Program1. Copying and pasting them into the now Program Files folder doesn't work.

That means I have to spend hours and hours downloading the games I had in Steam

*wanders off to play some simple online game instead*

Oh, that must be so frustrating! I was moved to a new laptop which had Win7, and I don't have much in the way of software and games on it, so I find it ok. But losing access to stuff you *have* must be maddening!

YOu could join us on Facebook and play some Jelly Splash or Pepper Panic, Ti

Nah, I'm trying to stay away from FB - don't like the way some people can break their rules without any consequence while some stuff is censored right away, no continuity. And no matter how many users report some stuff, it isn't censored until media start drawing too much attention to it.

A noble sentiment Ti. I use it so my aged mum and other relatives can stalk me.

People fret over how much info Google is gathering about themselves, but I think FB is at least just as bad - just look at the customized ads.

I don't get those because I use AdBlock - and by the way the authorities know anything about you anyway so the best you can do is feed them false information. The noble art of counterespionage

That's my attitude too Pierce, I often google really random items, both in research for the Guide and for total curiosity. Plus my settings for the Ads are locked down.

I get a little amusement as google and/or facebook try to sell me things. Yesterday for instance I was exhorted to 'book my pony party early before they got booked up' I blame 2legs. This was twinned with a course in Spanish for Android programming.

I was going to get a gmail account but when the boss was quoted for saying "we don't regard contents of emails as private information" I thought better of it

It's one thing to check things you can easily check - like emails - but downright disrespecting peoples privacy like that is another, I feel

Here's two links about that:

http://www.itpro.co.uk/data-protection/20407/gmail-users-have-no-“reasonable-expectation”-privacy

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/10289798/Google-goes-to-court-over-Gmail-scanning.html

Back to topic: found the reason, the update failed to include the latest drives for my graphics card. Things are now running much smoother.

Very impressive Ti! I'm chicken when it comes to anything apart from typing on this laptop.

Well, I've always sneered at Micro$**t's hints that updates should always be handled by s - surviving one on my own, I wonder if that makes me a semi-?

In my book you're a fully fledged geek Ti.



Watch it though, else Pastey will start teaching you how to code....

Codes?

The only codes I know are HTML tags, and how to personalize a Java code (a fold-out menu) created by somebody else (and yes, credit to the orignal creator who offered it up for free is still included in the code).

And some dabbling in the pref files of some games - but only after googling.

*ponders*

I probably should have stopped long enough to think of where I wanted to go next long before I turned 50.

I'm still not sure what I want to be when I grow up

Same here Ti. Apart from the following two facts


the only thing I really meddle with are the contents of saucepans.

I am a decade further along the path of not growing up yet than you

Well, I take comfort from the words of Astrid Lindgren:

Some people grow old from the outside and in, but will always remain a child at heart.

Or something like that, can't find the original quote in Swedish nor English.

There was the opposite to, about people growing old from the inside and out, and those people 'never had a childhood'.