Looks like it is finally up and running. At least it has just let me buy Bejewelled 2 on my Galaxy S Plus. VAT is not included in the price. As far as I can tell the usual 15 nanosecond refund option is available.
For my son I downloaded the most annoying app on my phone: Talking Tom Cat 2
01. Pick the Market
02. Find Your Paid For App
I am not a rules lawyer 
Nor am I an expert with the Metacreator software (link), something I primarily got to help me make characters quickly and easily. Something it excels at. My experience is limited to using it with Savage Worlds (link).
Eventually I got to the stage where I needed to expand what was available. In the old days I would have just used endless reams of paper stolen from school. Today W.H. Smiths take a dim view of grown adults, probably kids too, nicking endless pads of paper. I need to create a new world. The help system is excellent:
But it did take me some time to get my head round it. Here is my attempt to help others as slow as myself. For the purposes of this example the world I create will be based on my unused campaign idea “The Hollow Apocalypse” when the entities lurking in the Hollow Earth invade the surface in the early twentieth century.
Here is my very rough guide about searching for newspapers at the Library of Congress. Everything used is either public domain (US) or for non-profit educational purposes. Rights may vary in other countries.
The Library of Congress
The American Library of Congress, online, is a wonderful place to be. The treasure contained within and freely shared are an example on how these things should be done, how they should be done right. Included in their treasures is a section called Chronicling America, which is a large collection of old scanned newspapers. From their own site:
Chronicling America is a Website providing access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages, and is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). NDNP, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC), is a long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages. Supported by NEH, this rich digital resource will be developed and permanently maintained at the Library of Congress. An NEH award program will fund the contribution of content from, eventually, all U.S. states and territories.
This is akin to saying the Sistine Chapel is a bit of Dulux ™ slapped on the ceiling.
The long way there is to go here: http://www.loc.gov/library/libarch-digital.html
http://www.loc.gov/library/libarch-digital.html
Quick post here. Thanks to the forum member at the main Guitar Hero site that pointed out the blindingly obvious. The shop for my Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rawwk! Rock (PS3) has been offline. Leaving me unable (I thought) to import my songs from Guitar Hero 5. Now despite the fact the songs I imported from Band Hero to GH5 showed up in GHWOR the solution still did not occur to me. Instead of repeatedly trying to import GH5 into GH:WOR all I had to do was import my GH5 songs into Band Hero.
It never occurred to me that I could import the songs from what I perceived as the main game into one of the adjunct games. From the looks of the site the games that support imported, and importing, songs are GH5/ Band Hero (basically the same game) and GH:WOR. Songs can not be imported down a gaming generation, so GH:WOR can not be imported into anything but GH:WOR can easily read songs that have been imported into earlier games.
The generations seem to be:
1st Gen: Guitar Hero World Tour. (Can be imported into GH5/BH)
2cd Gen: Smash Hits, Metallica, GH5/ Band Hero. (Songs from SH and Metallica can be exported into GH5/BH, GH5 and BH can import into one another)
3rd Gen: GH:Warriors of Rock. (Accepts imports from all earlier games)
The stores for GH5 and Band Hero still seem to be working fine alowing easy purchase of the import licenses. Also Band Hero can be picked up new for less than the second hand price.
Hopefully this will help someone who has been as daft as myself.
I thought I would try some old skool gaming (as the kids today call it) on my fairly up to date Windows 7 machine. What should I play I thought?
Panzer Dragoon Saga!
This would be tricky as the last time I ran SSF was on Windows XP and quite some time. Though from what I remembered last time it was quite easy. I hoped this time would be the same.
d3dx9_43.dll is missing from your computer. Blast I thought. After just trying to drop the file in the same folder as SSF I got a little farther but then again disaster struck.
First of all I totally do not suggest you do a Google Search for the Dark Reverser and ereader2html.
But if you do you might find a program used for decrypting your ereader files to a standard html format. Great I thought. What do I need to do?
python ereader2html.py
Gave me:
eReader2Html v0.03. Copyright (c) 2008 The Dark Reverser Converts eReader books to HTML Usage: ereader2html infile.pdb outdir "your name" credit_card_number Note: It's enough to enter the last 8 digits of the credit card number
Great I thought. Then I realised I purchased my books over two years ago and had long lost the credit card details. A quick scout on ereader found my books, the last four numbers of the credit card and my full name. To assign the DRM to a new credit card key I would have to add a new credit card and then buy a new book to let me get access to my old ones. A search round the help section suggested the only way around this was to arrange to have a member of the help desk phone me and tell me my old number.
No thanks I though.
I just need to work out a way to try 1000 different numbers without my fingers falling off.
Here are the fruits of my labour, please remember I do not program.
#!/bin/bash
# batch_check.sh
# Brute Forces eReader Files
COUNTER=0
while [ $COUNTER -lt 9999 ];
do
python ereader2html.py /home/douglas/ereader/NameOfBook.pdb \
/home/douglas/ereader "My Full Name" ${COUNTER}1234
echo The counter is $COUNTER
COUNTER=$(( $COUNTER+1 ))
done
please note there is no actual line break in the line beginning “python ereader” have just shortened it to make life easier.
“My Full Name” In quotes, as from the ereader site.
1234 The last four numbers on my credit card as from ereader.
It took me about 15 minutes to write with a bit of googling and took about three minutes to crack my first book. Luckily it took a few seconds to crack so it was easy to identify which number was magic. After that I just did them each by hand.
If your missing digits are between 0 and 999 you will have to make some slight changes to the above.
Hope this helps someone.
Here is my attempt to rewrite the guide to burning dreamcast discs from Linux.
It is an updated and enhanced version of this post:
Burning Dreamcast CDRs from Linux
Which is stolen from here:
Using mkisofs and cdrecord to Burn a Dreamcast CD-R
My plan is to break down the guide a little more and give better explanations about what is happening at each stage. This was done on an Ubuntu desktop machine running the development release of Hardy Heron on 2 March 08.
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In my case ubuntu linux, Dapper Drake, with command line tools and a bog standard cd rewriter.
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