Author: Karel Kerezman

  • Dear NCSoft…

    I’ve installed your fine, fine MMORPG called City of Heroes on my computer here at the office. (It’s a long, slow Sunday spent waiting for backups to run. What do you expect me to do for the next seven or eight hours?) Having double-checked the various agreements and your not-too-clunky Knowledgebase, I know that I can install the game on another computer besides my home gaming rig, as long as I only use the actual account from one location or the other at a given time. No worries. I have no intention of abusing terms-of-service or anything like that.

    Here at the office I use a handy dandy proxy server for all of my connection needs. This provides me with protection while also granting me much more freedom than the main corporate firewall (the one I can’t configure to my own requirements) provides.

    But for some reason, your game is the first piece of software I’ve seen that is apparently incapable of using said proxy server. So I look in the Readme, under “Configuring your Firewall.” I’m referred to the appropriate section of “Connectivity Devices and Issues,” which refers me to… “Configuring your Firewall.” That’s it.

    Er, what? Nice bit of work there, guys. Really nice. Time to shoot off an email via your regular support channels…

  • Oooo, shiny!

    Well, well. Take a look at what arrived from Right Stuf this morning:

    I know what I’m watching tonight…

  • An eye on the eye.

    Maybe I’m just a big old weather geek as well as a spaceflight geek… but this image is just too cool.

    Above The Eye of Ivan

  • Foot In Mouth Disease, case study #3195-B

    Who knew sports-event commentary could be so amusing?

    And for that matter, I can’t believe someone took the time and effort to cull these little gems. But hey, we all benefit from their effort, so let’s enjoy, shall we?

    B&C: Olympic Commentary

  • Sand in unfortunate places

    “Well, I think I found out why your computer’s having problems, Miss.”

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    “But I could just be going way out on a limb, of course”

  • But can they type out Hamlet?

    I like cats. I’m allergic to many of them, but not all. I’m terribly allergic to dogs, though, which is okay because I don’t actually like most dogs.

    Via Collision Detection, here’s a site that mixes the love of cats with the love of absurd geekery.

    The Infinite Cat Project