"Rubberband's on the other claw, now"
In the news this time I'm (still) writing an all-encompassing article on how to make a "diskless" Win98 system. I'm (estimated) less than 1/2 way through but have written 6 (5 1/2 actually, who's counting?) pages, single spaced. I do have a lot of spaced bulleted lists though. Don't forget that part. I'm going to put a lot of it on separate pages as "for further details" pages. And also span the article over several parts.
There's also the Atari game collection I'm going through at the moment. Right now I have about 51 carts. I've added a link to the list at left. That's 51 more than I had a month ago. Now I just have to get rid of the duplicates I've accumulated via the two auctions I won via eBay. I should really learn to put a watch on an auction before setting an upper limit bid on four different auctions at once. I won two out of the four. I'm just glad I didn't win all four. The link at left uses an HTML feature called an
ordered list. It's extremely easy to do, and you don't even have to know how to count. So
why can't anyone on eBay figure this out?! It's really not hard people. And it would make your auctions so much easier to read.
Another thing: my last entry was actually written last Friday before what I thought would be work. However upon arriving at the site I learned the job had been canceled for that night. So that's 4 weeks in a row with at least one day canceled. So I went back to the relatives' house, made some phone calls and contemplated going back Friday night versus Saturday as planned. And that's what I did. This freed me up to go on a bike ride with a friend on Saturday, which was a lot of fun if not completely exhausting. I rode about 10 miles total. That's a lot for me bicycle or not. Sunday I worked selling soil once more. Monday one of my parents purchased a cell phone for me so I wouldn't have to borrow one for work purposes. That turned out to be for not because in addition to the job for Monday getting canceled, I later found everything entirely for this particular project had been canceled. So although still enrolled in the original company that hooked me up with this project, I am now out of a job. I'm starting to think the other job I had to turn down would have been better to take. I'm hoping I'll have something else within a week or two (I'll find out, won't I?).
In other news I decided to buy another copy of GameDrive, a CD emulator that mounts virtual "images" of copy-protected games. I went down to Fry's Electronics (a cult favorite on the West Coast) and say they had two versions of the software: a "version 8" and a "Pro version". The pro looked to have more features yet it was $20 versus $30 for the version 8. Being the logical person I am I purchased the extra-feature ridden version for the $20. The reason I buy another copy, ya see, is that you're actually buy a year-long subscription to the publisher's "auto-update" service. As new games are released with new copy protection methods new updates are released to get around them. You only get a year's worth of updates at which point you have to buy a new subscription. I tried installing my new GameDrive Pro but it didn't work with the auto-update. So I sent an email explaining how I just bought it but it didn't work. So the company sent me a link to they're version with even more features, VirtualDrive along with a working serial number for the updates. So for $20 and an email I got a $40 piece of software. I just hope no one at the company sees this and tries to take it back. Odds are against that happening. And now you know why Fry's has the cult status it does :). The main advantage of VirtualDrive over GameDrive is the ability to convert from Virtual/GameDrive's proprietary CD image format to regular ISO image format for easy burning to blank CDs of course. I haven't tried it yet, but it sounds sweet.
Well that's all I can think of for now, so I'm going to bed.
