schnopi

Old Republic's subscription Scam

2011-12-31T12:00:00.003-07:00

what a rip off!!!

You have 29 days of play time remaining. You must sign up for a recurring subscription plan or redeem a Game Time Code before you can play. If you sign up for a recurring subscription, you will be billed automatically at the end of your current remaining play time.

Let's check that again. I have 29 days of play time remaining. I can't actually play however. I can't play because even though it's in my free month I have to subscribe using a credit card or add game time using a game card.

This is scam. I have a free month but I don't have a free month.

And of course anyone who pays by game cards must buy two months worth of game time even if you had only wanted to play your free month then decide later.

Dont make the mistake signing up, read the terms and conditions and you will be so scared off what fine print they have put in that you definitely will not sign up and enter your credit card number

Firefox flash plugin prompt to install every time

2011-04-26T12:14:00.001-06:00

issue on my W7 32 and 64 bit with firefox 3.6.16. as well as 4

pluginreg.dat has plugin listed after install but it's gone after re-boot

work around:

copy the file NPSWF32.dll

from your C:\windows\system32\macromed\flash

to: C:\program files\mozilla firefox\plugins

now open firefox and flash will work also it's now listed in pluginreg.dat in your profile

cant wait for an update :)

Cheers,
schnopi

Netflix DRM Error in Windows 7

2010-11-26T18:09:00.000-07:00

Netflix Digital Rights Management (DRM) Error

The date on your computer is set to xx/xx/xxxx, which may be incorrect

To fix the error delete this file : mspr.hds (located in "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\PlayReady")

windows 7 RC1 up-great windows 7 ultimate

2010-02-13T08:01:00.001-07:00

Here's what you can do to bypass the check for pre-release upgrade IF YOU REALLY REALLY NEED TO:

Download the ISO as you did previously and burn the ISO to a DVD.
Copy the whole image to a storage location you wish to run the upgrade from (a bootable flash drive or a directory on any partition on the machine running the pre-release build).
Browse to the sources directory.
Open the file cversion.ini in a text editor like Notepad.
Modify the MinClient build number to a value lower than the down-level build. For example, change 7100 to 7000 (pictured below).
Save the file in place with the same name.
Run setup like you would normally from this modified copy of the image and the version check will be bypassed.

worked great for me :)

ZENWorks Device should re-register itself with the zone with a new GUID

2009-12-02T09:49:00.001-07:00

1. zac unr (should remove the device object from the zone)

2. zac fsg -d (deletes the GUID)

3. clear image safe data using ziswin - save the settings, don't set

the "just imaged flag"

4. deleted devicedata and deviceguid from c:\program

files\novell\zenworks\conf

5. If C:\Program Files\Novell\ZENworks\Conf\Guid.txt exists, delete it

6. Delete the directory "C:\Program Files\Novell\ZENworks\Cache\zmd"

7. rename "C:\Program

Files\Novell\ZENworks\Conf\initial-web-service.bak" to

"initial-web-service"

8. Reboot - (Device should re-register itself with the zone with a new

GUID)

extract files from a .msi file using the Windows command line

2009-11-19T10:41:00.001-07:00

Every once in a while I need to extract the content of a .msi file in order to customize a deployment for a particular network environment. Sometimes initializing the .msi installer will temporarily extract the files into C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Temp, but those files are removed once the installer exits.

To extract files from a .msi file at the command line, type:

msiexec /a PathToMSIFile /qb TARGETDIR=DirectoryToExtractTo

For example, to extract files from f:\zenworks\zfdagent.msi into c:\zfd701 you would type:

msiexec /a f:\zenworks\zfdagent.msi /qb TARGETDIR=c:\zfd701

The destination directory does not need to exist prior to running this command.