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Posted: 9/3/2010 5:55 AM
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Walker_Boh
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I just finished reading The Ruins of Scott Smith (there's also a movie). Quite good actually! I saw the movie first, so I had the scenery installed already, but the book is better. And if you haven't read it yet I can strongly recommend Joe Abercrombie and his First Law trilogy. It's fantasy, but very different with.. odd heroes.
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Posted: 7/29/2010 8:25 PM
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One of the best TAS'es I've seen. Never knew Alucard could move that quickly. And when he already was on crack and the viewing experience was awesome, he started to fly through walls, outside the castle, through a third glitchy looking castle and oh man. Definate yes vote from me. I thought I knew this game pretty well, but nope, that was not the case at all!
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Posted: 5/14/2010 11:37 PM
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Hehe, I'm afraid not. But I'm very interested in knowing what the errors are! So if you want to report them I would be very grateful (I can send BoD a mail and ask them to correct any errors that might pop up)! I've worked hard to proof read and correct spelling errors/typos, but if there are any left... :) Also, as I posted on my forum, if more free chapters would be of interest for reading, I might put them up there :) I'm very open to suggestions. Thank you very much for the positive feedback though Warepire!
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Posted: 5/14/2010 10:35 PM
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That's freaking awesome! Not all of the stuff is correctly translated, but most is! And enough to make sense at least! Thank you very much NitroGenesis! Very awesome indeed! That means more people can read my stuff, granted you want to of course :) The short story "Game box" is meant to be "Musical box" however. Anyway, big thank you!
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Posted: 5/14/2010 9:27 PM
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Hello again! I have just recently created my own web site for me and my writing. There I've included a few "taste" chapters from my book, and also two short stories that I've won first and third price in 2008's and 2009's competition for "Fantasyklubbens novelltävling" (fantasy book club in Sweden) respectively. It also has a forum for those who want to hang out there. For those interested the adress for this awesome site is: www.hansolsson.net The only downside to this is that it's entirely in swedish :) Right now I'm trying out facebook ads. I really don't like commercial in general, but those ads are actually kinda harmless. If you don't like them, just ignore them. And so far I've got lots of views and a few clicks, which means a few people has actually looked at my book. I think that's the hardest part, to get people to know about a new fantasy book in swedish. Oh well, hopefully it'll generate some kind of interest at least.
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Posted: 4/30/2010 9:41 AM
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I don't know if this has been posted before, but it's absolutely awesome :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLZFexXiJsM
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Posted: 4/7/2010 6:17 AM
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Thanks for all the kind words again!
flagitious wrote:
Congrats, although I cannot read swedish also. Is it published via ebook also out of curiosity? (might be worth doing if nearly all your profit goes to the publishing cost).
I'm still not sure I want to publish it completely on the web yet. Personally I like the feeling of a book in my hands. Reading a text on a screen can be great, sure, but a book is always a book :) I probably will concider it in the future though, depending on how it goes with this one. Right now I'm trying to post it at different forums so people knows it exists. And yes, I still need to sell loads of them to make up for the publishing cost that I've already paid, but to me it's worth it anyway. Guess we'll see where it ends up.
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Posted: 4/1/2010 9:00 AM
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This is one of the most retarded things I've ever read. So you're willing to throw away years of work and joy just like that because the initial timing isn't what we thought? That's ridicoulus. What about the games themselfs? The common knowledge about bugs, glitches and various tricks that this community knows must be among the biggest there is. And how much this knowledge has helped in various ways. In speedrunning, I bet in programming, in ways to think in real life. Me personally have learned a lot from TASing. I write, and TASing has contributed to one short story that I'm really satisfied with. It has also contributed to a certain way of thinking, which has helped me write a book, and also got me the job I have now. Maybe that is exaggerating the truth a bit, but the TAS-way of thinking is there now and it can be applied on things in the real world and create good ideas. This community is also the best I know on the internet. Filled with skilled people full of knowledge about games and other things. You guys has helped me more than once with various none-TAS-related things. I'll be very sad to not be able to come here and poke around anymore. I've been part of this community since 2004 something and even though it's impossible to agree with everyone, this is the best place to be. And this you want to throw away, a few of you, just because you suddenly realized that the initial timing of games can't be emulated. That is, to say the least, fucking retarded. You just neglect all the other aspects of TASing. Bah. Change the rules, keep the site alive, and maybe get rid of some certain people that doesn't see longer than the tiny difference between an emulator and a real console.
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Posted: 3/31/2010 8:57 AM
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Bump-ish! Yesterday I published the prologue and the first three chapters of my book online to try to get people interested in it. It's available here (still in swedish though) for those who might be interested: http://www.kapitel1.se/hans-olsson/sokandet-efter-elementstenarna And if you want to and like it you can rate it, which will also increase my chances of more people reading this small part of the book :)
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Posted: 3/18/2010 7:05 AM
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This morning I managed to solve the install problem! I just moved the install file to C:\Users\My user\ and ran this exact command from a command prompt: C:\Users\My user>msiexec.exe /package TortoiseSVN-1.6.7.18415-win32-svn-1.6.9.msi /qr What I missed before, and don't ask how, was the actual name of the .msi-file. Well, once you know it's fairly simple. Big thanks for the help Dromiceius! I wouldn't have spotted this otherwise.
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Posted: 3/17/2010 12:54 PM
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Allright! Turns out you were exactly right Dromiceius! By actually typing in the right thing, i.e: C:\Users\my user>msiexec.exe C:\package C:\Users\my user\Downloads TortoiseSVN-1. 6.7.18415-win32-svn-1.6.9.msi /qr something actually happend! I got a window with commands I can use. Awesome! Now I just need to figure out how to use said commands and then perhaps this will work as intended! Big thanks again for the help! And yes, you may point and laugh a bit, but I still concider it to be too much magic to care that much :) Lousy computers.
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Posted: 3/17/2010 12:24 PM
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Walker_Boh
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arflech wrote:
I thought TortoiseSVN was the only SVN package you needed...
Might as well be as far as I know, but the problem with installing it still remains. And Dromiceius, yes, that was the command I used. Your interpretation sounds a lot better though. I'll try that asap (got some other stuff I need to attend to) and report back afterwards. Thanks!
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Posted: 3/17/2010 10:18 AM
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I have not tried to alter the VPC:s available space, altough I'm fairly sure it should be enough to install TortoiseSVN. I can try this! What runtime/config options do you mean? I can't see anything out of the ordinary here either I'm afraid. But this is definately something I can poke around with. And lastly: Running "msiexec.exe /package MSIPackageName.msi /qr " via the command prompt gave the same error message as in Start -> search field (should be the same really). It says "The installation package could not be opened. Verify that the package exists and that you can access it...." Well, thank you very much for trying at least! Much appreciated!
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Posted: 3/17/2010 9:40 AM
Post subject: Question about installing TortoiseSVN on Virtual PC
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Hello! Today I have some more questions about the wonders of technology. On the good note, I'm starting to feel less and less dumb about it. Computers really are magic sometimes :) Allright, so on to the problem. At work I want to run a virtual Vista machine on my local computer which is a Windows 7 Enterprise. I downloaded Virtual PC since no virtual machine was included in Enterprise (no, it really wasn't!) and was able to get it running and installing Vista on it. After this I want to install SVN and TortoiseSVN so I can check stuff out. SVN installs fine, but not Tortoise. And this is my real problem. When I try to install TortoiseSVN I get the following message box: "Please wait while the installer finishes determining your disk space requirments." After this nothing happens and I have to cancel the installation. So I've talked to Internal support (which are really great guys) but unfortunately they had no ideas. And I've done my googling. What I've tried so far is to disable Virtual Machine Additions and disabling the UAC stuff. Nothing of this worked for me. I also found this site: http://weblogs.asp.net/jgaylord/archive/2009/05/29/installing-visualsvn-in-a-virtual-pc.aspx which suggests the following command: msiexec.exe /package MSIPackageName.msi /qr this didn't work either. Unless of course I did it wrong? I just simply tried to run it in the Start -> Search field since I couldn't come up with anything else to do it. And the latest thing I found was a site suggesting to have a writeable %TEMP%, but I couldn't get this to work either. I put it directly on C:, but maybe it should go somewhere else? So, does anyone have experience with this problem? I'm very grateful for any help, and it's not a huge issue if this is not solvable. It would be convenient, but not urgent in any way. Oh well, big thanks for any help! /Walker
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Posted: 3/5/2010 11:43 PM
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Thanks for all the kind words! I'm not sure I'm interested in e-book publication just yet. But it's certainly something to think about! Good idea indeed. And about shipping outside sweden I have no idea unfortunately. If the site says no I guess they don't. Crap :)
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Posted: 3/5/2010 2:46 PM
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Ah, the language is swedish (whole book) and it's a fantasy book. I love fantasy! Two thiefs, Tar and Tife, meet by accident because they got the same mission from a mysteroius old man called Valgone. Now they are drawn into a chain of events in search for the magical elemental stones, which in wrong hands can destroy the world. Meanwhile a dangerous moevement called "Skuggorden" (the Shadow order) is killing innocent people in the country Dravanu. The king there is unable to do anything because of a tragic accident. His servant Chratunga is instead ruling the country and he does anything in order to stop the Shadow order. The tracks of them seems to lead to the neighboring country Venlora. But what's Chratungas real motives? That's the basic outline of the story :)
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Posted: 3/5/2010 1:52 PM
Post subject: Book dream come true
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Hello TASVideos! I'm not sure how much I've talked about it here, maybe not much at all. Anyway, I love writing and one of my dreams in life is to publish a book. So about 9 years ago I started out writing one. It's been a long road, but 2 days ago (wednesday 3/3) it finally got completely finished and published! If anyone should be interested in taking a look it's available here: http://booksondemand.e-butik.se/?artnr=1797 I have published my book myself using a company called Books-on-demand specialized on exactly this. The price, should anyone be interested, might seem high. But it's almost the least that the company could take. They have print costs and so on. Anyway, I'm very happy about this and thought I should share it :) /Walker (Hans)
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Posted: 2/17/2010 1:00 PM
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Allright. The problem is apparently twofold. For one this application runs fine if you already have Office installed. If I would have that still (I removed Word 2007 which I don't like in order to install Word 2003 which I do like yesterday) I wouldn't need a new Word in the first place. Then it seems to be this wonderful issue that for some it works perfectly, and for others it doesn't work. So I'm in the unlucky category two. Well, open office it is instead. Thank you for your help anyway!
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Posted: 2/17/2010 12:20 PM
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Hmm, that sounds very plausible actually. Is there anyway to fix this? I would like to avoid having to drag an USB with me at all times just to have it working. Well, very good idea and thanks for the tips! I'll see if I can fint something out about that. Thanks.
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Posted: 2/17/2010 8:10 AM
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Allright, I will try that! Thank you Arflech. I'll try to rephrase my question a bit then. Is there some sort of common problem in Win 7 that often blocks applications for various reasons? Maybe somewhere around the UAC stuff. Anyway, your solution should hopefully solve my problem, and it's not super urgent. Thanks a bunch anyway!
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Posted: 2/17/2010 8:00 AM
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I just read Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte. Really good book. If you've seen the movie (Ninth Gate) it's quite similar, but none the less a great book.
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Posted: 2/17/2010 7:51 AM
Post subject: Question about install problems on Windows 7
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Hello. Today I got some questions about installing a portable Office package on my laptop. Sometimes I think that I shouldn't be around this much technology, and yet another times I'm wondering why this sort of stuff is creating so much headache when it really doesn't have to. Oh well, I'm asking here in hope that someone knows anything about it. Having Word on my computer is a must for me since I like to write, and notepad just isn't that great for writing longer stuff than a few sentences :) Yesterday I tried to install a portable USB Office package on my laptop. I.e. I tried to install Word. I could not however since my laptop complained about insufficient memory. This is just simply not possible. I got 200gb free disk space on each disk (C: and D:) and 4k RAM. I'm running Win 7 on the laptop which is an ASUS UL30A C2D 1.3 4GB/500 13.3#W7HP. I also tried the portable Office package on my stationary computer and it worked perfectly. So my conclusion is that something is blocking Office on my laptop, but what? And more urgently, how do I get rid of this block? I tried to disable the Windows Firewall in case that had something to do with it, but it didn't help. I also tried to run the exe-file as administrator (right click -> Run as Admin) but that didn't help either. A friend of mine thought it could be some UAC issues (User Account Control) but we weren't able to figure out what. Could there be some other settings that I've overlooked or missed? Of course I tried to google this but I couldn't find any good topics. I also tried to vark it (vark.com) but so far no one has been able to help me. Oh well, thanks a bunch in advance should anyone have any ideas!
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Posted: 1/31/2010 11:52 AM
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Hah! Coolest thing I saw in a long time! Reminded me about Mega Man mostly, but also somewhat Metroid, Kid Icarus and Legacy of the Wizard Definately very cool! Thanks for the info!
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Posted: 1/25/2010 3:10 PM
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Allright, it worked just the way you said Bisqwit. And I'm feeling like a complete moron :) First of all, BIG thanks for the help and patience! It's kinda stressing having an angry russian dude over you when you fail at simple stuff. When I got the error the first time I probably missed something really silly, like a / at the wrong place, and hence my mentor told me to fix something that wasn't really broken. Sigh. Oh well, I'm learning, slowly but steady. At least I learned how to edit the vi editor. Anyways, huge thanks for the help again all of you! I owe you one.
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Posted: 1/25/2010 2:48 PM
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Yes, I'm getting "Type 'svn help' for usage". And yes, it's really frustrating when it really shouldn't be so hard. Thanks for clarifying that Warp.
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