Fucking Genius

As per: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7005061.stm

The channel UKTV G2 has ditched its somewhat unwieldy name in favour of "Dave". Yes, Dave. A TV channel called Dave. Apparently because "everyone knows a bloke called Dave". I'm willing to bet a fair wad of cash that this idea was dreamt up one night in the pub - very close to last orders.

Even better, Dave will replace UKTV Bright Ideas on freeview. I don't know what UKTV Bright Ideas broadcasts, but from the name I'd guess endless repeats of Changing Rooms interspersed with adverts for Dulux.

Genius I tell you, Marketing bloody Genius.

Adobe CS3 Master Collection

Let us take a hypothetical situation; say that you have Dreamweaver CS3 installed on your computer & you've got an install disk for Adobe CS3 Master Collection, which you put it into your computer. Then let us say you get the Autorun menu come up and then you click on the Install button. Perhaps you would assume that the program would then go on to install the requested applications, but you'd be wrong.

What would actually happen is that you would get a nondescript "Critical Error" message suggesting that you consult the installation log. If you take the time to do this, you will find absolutely nothing of use.

After a few reboots and relaunches of the installer, resulting in the same "Critical Error" message, you'd probably get angry and give up.

However, you'd be a crazy fool, as all you actually need to do is to remove Dreamweaver CS3 and re-run the installer. Apparently for all their money, Adobe are unable to write an installer than can deal with the bizarre and implausible situation of someone already having one of their products installed on their computer.

Morons.

Bastard Blogger

Bloody thing won't allow me to republish my sodding blog. You would think that as a service providing Blogging facilities, they would at least manage to keep basic blogging features functional.

But no. Bastards.

MSI Motherboards - Fucking useless

So I managed to brick my computer on Tuesday night.

Ran a BIOS update, which reported success, rebooted and it now gets halfway through the POST before rebooting.

No backup BIOS, no Gigabyte-esque Dual BIOS, no automatic recovery. Nada.

After googling around a bit, I found a section of MSI's website, not linked to from the BIOS download page or any other part of their support site that I could find, with BIOS recovery instructions, which do not work.

In 10 years or so of messing around with computers and doing BIOS updates I have never had any problems at all, even when I really should have done - you'd think that these days the whole process would be a little more efficient that having to boot off a floppy and run it from the command line. Every other mobo manufacturer seems to have mastered Windows BIOS Updates, except MSI apparently.

So now I've had to order a new motherboard (Not MSI, never again) and go without a proper PC for most of the week, which is annoying and expensive.

Bastards.

Comedy

So sorely lacking in most things these days or at the very least reduced to the modern equivalent of someone kicking someone else in the backside, I discovered a welcome change by way of Slashdot (of all things) in the form of Zero Punctuation.

Follow the link provided here --> LINK! <-- in order to experience it in all it's audiovisual glory.

Warning! May contain words and images that are unsuitable for those without a sense of humour, those who are too far up their own backsides to extract themselves or those in a work environment with unsympathetic co-workers.

Enjoy.