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You know how some people have trouble getting their promised rebates for in-store purchases of electronics and what-not?
Yeah, I never got my rebate from SOYO which has soured me on getting anything from them in the future.
Also soured on Maxtor (now Seagate). They took nearly five months to repair a drive that died under warranty, the new drive failed exactly the same way in a week. I'm not even sure I want to return it again because I'm going trust that drive a heck of a lot less than I can throw it.
I suggest contacting Seagate and seeing if they will replace it with a similar-sized Seagate drive, this time.
I'll probably do that. I've been just sitting on it because I've been busy and won't be going out of warranty anytime soon.
I replaced the drive after I sent it in since it was my Mythbox's drive. I'm not exactly sure where I'll put it once replaced. Maybe I'll stick it on my slug for more backup space.
Hi hive mind. Last night I learned a new game... or rather one that is credited as the oldest known boardgame. Senet. There is a website that you can play online. But it won't load on any of my browsers (Firefox, Safari, Camino). All say it needs an unknown plug-in to play. Could someone tell me what plugin it needs? Will it play on others computers? Is it just hating my Mac?
TIA. Here is the [link]
IE7 on XP tells me it's an ActiveX control. But it doesn't work there either.
OK, Firefox on XP tells me it needs Shockwave 10.1. So I installed that, but now it says it's missing a Shockwave decompression XTRA. Then I get A Shockwave error: "Error playing Director Movie."
Hope that helps.
edit for decompression thingie....
OK, I opened up Firefox in Windows (thank you Parallels) and it works just fine. Most curious. Thanks Tommy for your help.
Microsoft announces WiFi bus route for employees
Ha! Love that it runs on Linux for the MS employees. Dunno. Just a twist of irony.
Omnis, See if you can unistall, then reinstall Shockwave on OSX.
The Shockwave Player installer for Macintosh also functions as an uninstaller.
HELP! I was working on a Word document, and went to save it, and got some message that the table was corrupt or some shit and blah blah blah, and I hit "OK," because that's what I do, and the document is GONE. Not on the thumb drive it was saved on, not anywhere in my C: drive, no where, as far as I can tell. How could that be?? And is there anything I can do to get it back?? Fuck.
