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Ah, thanks guys. That's what I figured, but the Bloke brought a game back from America to play on my console. He asked and they said it would work fine, but I guess the shop dude didn't know what he was talking about.
There are a number of "mod chips" on the market that can be used to circumvent the codes and play all PS2 games on a particular. The installation is easy - if you're comfortable with opening up electronics and screwing around with wires and a soldering iron inside. Otherwise most vendors have a service where they'll do it for you for a nominal fee. It's well worth it if you plan on playing a lot of foreign games, but NSM for just one.
Someone found a message on the new Mac OSX for Intel software: [link]
I wonder if they put that there as a "legal warning" or as an admonishment?
Ouise -- I have a workbook here that does that. I didn't write the macros, but I use it every month. I could probably send you code snippets if you ever need them.
Thanks for the offer, Jon. I managed to throw something together without too much trouble, so I'm ok now.
Cool! It's not that difficult, IIRC (once you know how!).
So no one has any experience with IX Webhosting?
Sorry Jon, can't help. I need to look around for a new host myself, so I'm interested, too.
Well, I signed up with them. My annual contract with my current provider (who have been reliable, but relatively expensive and not nearly as full-featured as IX) doesn't expire for another month or two. My plan is to transfer a domain name I don't currently use to IX and set up a parallel web site. If they suck, I'll take advantage of the 30 day money-back guarantee and stick with my old place.
I couldn't log into AOL this morning, and got a note to call AOL member services.
My account was used to send bulk spam. They said I could have a trojan on my computer and made some suggestions...but all are for windows peeps. I have a mac.
I changed my password, but I'm without a clue as to how to check my mac for a virus...because it's a mac. I've been using macs for lessee....15 years. Never an issue.
So, anyone have any recommendation for a virus scanner for a mac, or how to check to see if I'm infected? I don't even know where to start!
The fact of the matter is that there are no known viruses for Macintosh in the wild. It's far more likely that your AOL password was compromised.
However, convincing AOL of that could be difficult. It's not impossible that there's something nasty on your computer.
If you want to run a couple of programs and send the output to me, I can take a look at them and see if I can spot any anomalies:
- Run /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor
- Go to File...->Save... and save the output to a file
- Exit Activity Monitor, and run /Applications/Utilities/Network Utilities
- Click on the "Netstat" tab, check the "Display state of all current socket connections", and click on the "Netstat" button.
- Go to Edit->Select All, and then copy and paste the output into an email message.
- Send it along with the Activity Monitor file you created to me.
