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Submission + - CCP destroys users' OS with patch (eve-online.com)

Submitted by on Thursday December 06, 2007 @02:12AM

An anonymous reader writes: CCP's new trinity patch for EVE Online has an option to upgrade to "premium graphics." However, the patching file that upgrades the game to premium graphics deletes the user's boot.ini file from the partition the game is installed in. For the less technically inclined (not the slashdot readership, but whatever) this makes the computer unable to boot up after restarting.

Submission + - EVE Online update corrupts Windows installations

Submitted by on Thursday December 06, 2007 @01:41AM

An anonymous reader writes: The recent EVE Online expansion, Trinity, appears to have an unbelievably nasty bug that makes one question whether the publisher, CCP, has any QA at all; a typo in the patch results in C:\boot.ini being deleted. The patcher adds an extra backslash onto a delete command for "boot.ini" resulting in "\boot.ini", which if the game is installed on C: refers to Windows' boot.ini file. Hundreds of players have reported their computers being unable to boot, and tens of thousands more will likely encounter the same problem when they attempt to turn on their computer tomorrow. Oops?

Submission + - CCP's EVE-Online patch overwrites boot.ini 1

Submitted by Nobo on Thursday December 06, 2007 @01:14AM

Nobo writes: CCP's latest major patch to the EVE-Online client, Trinity, comes with an optional DX9-enhanced graphics patch which dramatically improves the visual quality of the in-game graphics through remade models, textures, and HDR. It also has an unfortunate bug. Due to the incredibly stupid choice of boot.ini as a game configuration file, coupled with an errant extra backslash in the installer configuration, anyone who installs the enhanced graphics patch overwrites the windows XP c:\boot.ini file with the EVE client configuration file, bricking the machine on the next boot. Discussion on the forums is becoming understandably heated.

Submission + - EVE Online Expansion Renders Computers Unbootable

Submitted by

Chuu

on Thursday December 06, 2007 @01:01AM

Chuu writes: "Today EVE Online launched a major expansion named 'Trinity' which included a major engine overhaul. The problem is that because of a bug in the install script, the graphics add-on deletes the system's boot.ini file which renders the system unbootable. There is no official word from CCP about this yet, however many large alliances in game and individuals in the official forums have confirmed the bug. Some discussion about the bug and what to do if effected is here."

Submission + - CCP releases game patch that deletes boot.ini (eve-online.com)

Submitted by frozenphil on Thursday December 06, 2007 @12:48AM

frozenphil writes: CCP, the makers of Eve Online, released their "Trinity" graphics engine patch today for Eve Online. The patch has deleted several users' boot.ini file. Apparently quality control procedures are different in Iceland than the rest of the world. This seems to only affect those using the upgrade patch and not those doing a full install.

Submission + - SCO Delisted

Submitted by Technician on Saturday May 19, 2007 @11:37PM

Technician writes: I have been following the fall of SCO stock. When I checked their stock tonight I found the anouncement of the delisting instead of a chart. http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=SCOX "SCOX has failed to meet NASDAQ Capital Market continued listing requirement(s)."

Submission + - Linux Music DJing

Submitted by

Cocodude

on Saturday May 19, 2007 @08:44PM

Cocodude writes: "I'm moving to a new house in London and as the house IT expert, I want to be in control of computerised music at a housewarming party. I haven't been able to find any suitable automated DJing systems for Linux, where I can queue up some songs to be played with an automated detection of the end of each song and hopefully some rudimentary beatmatching. I don't want to have to run Windows to do this, so how can I, in this simplistic situation, prove that open source software for an open source operating system can do the job?"

Submission + - Linus fires latest shot in GNOME Wars

Submitted by HellFeuer on Friday February 16, 2007 @04:56PM

HellFeuer writes: Linus speaks out against GNOME again. When challenged to use GNOME for a month, he submitted patches to the GNOME project to prove his criticism is *constructive*, saying "The code is actually _cleaner_ after my patches, and the end result is more capable. We'll see what happens". However, he still didn't commit to actually using GNOME.
Where do you stand on Linus vs GNOME?

Submission + - Zune Giveaway

Submitted by

Will

on Wednesday February 14, 2007 @07:10PM

Will writes: "I thought people might be interested in the Zune MP3 player Giveway on MSN. Microsoft is currently running a campaign where users who make MSN their homepage have the opportunity to win a free Zune. The promotion can be found at http://homepage.msn.com/zune."

Submission + - Citizendium failing to gain traction?

Submitted by on Wednesday February 14, 2007 @07:06PM

An anonymous reader writes: Despite the two recent Slashdot articles about Larry Sanger's Citizendium, it appears that the site is having difficulty converting good publicity into new content. Although the project saw impressive spikes in the number of new user registrations on both occasions, neither of them resulted in a general increase in the number of edits made to the site; even the number of article edits for the last 24 hours are lower than pre-Slashdot levels. What does this mean for the budding Wikipedia competitor?

Submission + - Would you trust a virus writer's anti-virus?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 14, 2007 @07:05PM

An anonymous reader writes: Computer users should think carefully about how they remedy virus infections, following news that the Chinese police are to release a clean-up program written by the author of the Fujacks worm.

Submission + - Businesses may die but their webpage lives on

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 14, 2007 @07:01PM

An anonymous reader writes: This may be a statement of the bleeding obvious but I have only just realised it.
I was recently dealing with Linux Tech Toys as the shopfront for Lix Systems, ordered a system and paid my money. They answered my emails up until 3 weeks ago. Since then nothing. Emails to both sites go unanswered. Phones calls can't go to voice mail because the voice mailbox is full. They are unreachable.
Upon revisiting the website to see if there was some other means of contact that I had missed I realised that the website could still accept orders (and your money) even though the business is for all intents and purposes not there.
Just a warning to "Consider: is the business behind the website I am dealing with still actually there."

Submission + - AACS Cracked -- HD-DVD and Blu-Ray DRM Defeated

Submitted by esme on Tuesday February 13, 2007 @02:16PM

esme writes: There's a forum thread over at doom9 where user arnezami has posted the keys needed to decrypt all HD-DVD and Blu-Ray discs. This post has details of the strategy he used for getting the keys, though he pointedly doesn't say which player he used.

Submission + - Your favorite global warming theory?

Submitted by

Michael J. Ross

on Tuesday February 13, 2007 @02:08PM

Michael J. Ross writes: "

Greenhouse gases from humans burning fossil fuels

Variances in solar radiation

Stratospheric ozone depletion

Mini ice age ending

Methane from cows farting

CowboyNeal doing the chili again

"

Journal Journal: IPO 8

Journal by DaytonCIM on Monday February 12, 2007 @07:31PM

A few year back I worked for a startup company. Yup, had the options and everything. I was geared up to receive in the neighborhood of $10 million. Then Y2K and all that it brought and my options couldn't by me a 9cent cup of coffee.

Fast forward to today and... it looks like the company is back and *poof* my stock options have matured into Stock (far, far, far less than the original 10 million) and they're expecting to IPO this Winter...

Funny how things work out.

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