Jul2005 15

BF2 Bugs Make More Than Me Blue

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Well, I get home after a crap day at work, but it's Friday and time to play some BF2, except this time when I run the game, everything is blue.

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This morning I lodged a support ticket with EA, so I'm waiting to hear any feedback that they have. In other news, the official site says they're currently "testing" the new patch. Maybe there is a light at the end of this tunnel ?

Jul2005 12

OS X 10.4.2 Update

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{mosimage}Apple today released Mac OS X 10.4.2, which the company says delivers overall improved reliability and compatibility for Mac OS X v10.4 and is recommended for all users. It includes fixes for file sharing, authentication, autologin, AirPort/wireless access, several graphics updates, .Mac fixes, Apple's core applications, and more.

The company also included security fixes for a TCP/IP denial of service attack and Dashboard, which may install widgets that override Apple-supplied widgets. It is available via the Software Update for Mac OS X Tiger users. Both a Delta update for Mac OS X 10.4.1 users and a Combo Update for Mac OS X 10.4 users is available on the Web as well.

Jul2005 11

Battlefield 2 - What a cockup !

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{mosimage}Last night, the Official Battlefield 2 website updated the community with this gob stopper - "we recommend that you reinstall the game". Reinstall the game ? Because of your buggy patch ? What about a rollback of the patch ? Surely, they would have included that in the patch process ... No, that would require planning and thought.

Firstly, the game wasn't complete, yet they released it, then the patch wasn't complete and released that too. Who's to say when this hotfix comes out, that it will actually work.

This is just very piss poor programming on EA/DICE's behalf. So much for proper testing. The "memory leak" issue, with the patch, was found within hours of running, so why couldn't EA/DICE do testing too ? They flogged on about their test centres during the developer diaries ...

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Anyway, since the reinstall, I've been dropped 5 or 6 times from servers for "connection issues" and/or dropped to the desktop with memory errors (ala above), bugs like seeing your allies as enemies and now qtracker doesn't work (it worked with the patch though).

Jul2005 02

iTunes 4.9 - Podcast Support

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{mosimage}With Apple's latest version of iTunes 4.9, it now has support for Podcasts via the Music Store (Yes, you'll have to turn it on if you've got it off, since your country doesn't have a store). Now, if you're unfamiliar with the term Podcast, it's origins began about 4 years ago and is basically an audio version of RSS feeds.

The beauty of Podcasting shines with the tool that is used to manage it, on the Mac, I tried awhile some time ago, iPodderX, a shareware program. It was ok, but in the long run, I saw no overall benefit to me.

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