Infiltration Challenge, Examining situation variables Options

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I'll agree. Afterwards I think we just have to watch and wait. And get Galina to look at the package.

[Shanshu Freeman]

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[Crusher Bob]

Hmm, I think this thread's third birthday is comming up.

[Shanshu Freeman]

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Still here. I'm afraid I've forgotten its birthday (don't let it know).

In game we're still waiting for whatever it is we were waiting for right?

[Shanshu Freeman]

[Talia Invierno]

I think this thread's time has probably passed. I post mostly to let you know the most recent reasons I fell off the grid. I only just recovered a semi-reliable connection last month. I used to make it up with public access, but I'm still living in the middle of nowhere -- ie. it's over an hour's walk to anywhere.

To this day my computer remains Flash- and ActiveX-challenged (and to a lesser extent Javascript): such that if it runs into that kind of programming, it crashes everything. Fortunately Dumpshock forums are as forgiving as anything out there -- but even so, the computer crashed once in the process of posting this.

Oh, and after a promising beginning -- most of the hundreds of plants died. We now have a drought, and may yet have brush fire issues.

[Kagetenshi]

Try disabling Flash and ActiveX in the browser, if available--it won't, obviously, help you see any of it, but it should at least help your browser crash less.

~J

[Talia Invierno]

I did. I even ran through the protocol and troubleshooting of uninstalling Flash, complete with the required download. And then I ran through cache and about a dozen history- and temporary-type files, and strategically deleted. Theoretically, my computer should now be completely Flash-free ... but for some reason it isn't.

A new computer is tentatively scheduled to move in in mid/late fall. (Yay, Vista.) I'd been hoping it would also move into a new residence by then, but that isn't going to happen so soon.

[Crusher Bob]

here's some registry keys that may shut down flash if you can't get it uninstalled. As for Vista, no t much the yay. I had to turn off almost all the bells and whistles (and most all of the 'security features') before I liked how everything worked.

[Talia Invierno]

Yay with period, not exclamation mark :twirl: Wish there were a way around Vista, but I probably can't buy a new system now without that version unless I start learning Linux.

Been working my way a bit through that site, Crusher Bob -- still no joy, though I'm not through all the options yet. At this point, I've pretty much accepted the current level of computer working until the new system arrives -- and happy that I do have connection at all. (So looking forward to a non middle-of-nowhere living address which can support broadband!)

I forgot to ask: would anyone like a GM point-of-view summary of what was going on in this thread?

[Kagetenshi]

What do you do with a computer on a regular basis? Depending on what you use it for, Ubuntu or something similarly relatively new-user-friendly might serve your needs well.

~J

[Talia Invierno]

Easiest in this Internet multimedia age to say what I do not do with it: no videogames on this computer or its future replacement, ever. Beyond that, I dare not limit.

[Kagetenshi]

Well, if you've got a way to obtain a live CD to test with, I highly recommend it.

~J

[Talia Invierno]

? Sorry, I don't follow.

[Kagetenshi]

From here you can get a so-called "live", or bootable, CD. You can run your computer off of it on CD without having to install anything or muck with your hard drive or its contents. Of course, there are a lot of limitations to it, but it can give you an idea of whether or not you'll enjoy using a full install.

~J

[Crusher Bob]

Since you are on dialup downloading a linux install is probably not going to happen. So you'd have to come by a linux install CD some other way.

As for the GM's eyes view, sure. Some of the stuff never madde too much sense to me.

[Talia Invierno]

Ah. Thank you. I'll check that out.

[Kagetenshi]

It isn't precisely friendly, but Fd Linux should take under twenty minutes to download on dialup. For a real distro, you probably want to find some other way to get a disc.

hijack.release()

~J

[Wounded Ronin]

Everything that I've heard about vista suggests that it's horrible. It's like you're buying negative value from Microsoft. I might have to turn to Linux. :(

I'd rather use DOS 3.0 than vista. At least DOS 3.0 doesn't work against you on purpose in order to fellate the entertainment industry. :(

[Talia Invierno]

My computer-fu isn't as good as it's going to need to be. Just to let you guys know thanks for the help; and slowness of feedback is entirely due to slowness of Talia's comprehension of these things. Heat wave wasn't helping the thinking thing, but it's finally beautifully cool today :) and the computer fan is no longer labouring.