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| 35866 | 2002-02-16 02:29:00 | Being an ambassador of PC World (saddest job in the world, just behind the guy that makes up slogans for Real Estate Agency signs), I slipped someone a copy of Feb PC World yesterday. They wanted to watch the Star Wars trailer. So they tried to install QuickTime(TM) that's on the PCW Feb CD. It runs the 400k exe and immediately tries to download the latest version from the internet, rather than the version on the CD. It's done that to me before and I couldn't ever figure a way around it. Anyway, so this guy's link is through a WAN to London. We can't connect to SlowTime(TM) for an update at all. Won't let him install the version he has. So he can't watch any TreacleTime(TM) videos at all. Am I completely off beam or does this completely suck? I hate all the BoringTime(TM) things on the web, it's almost impossible to save them without having to trawl your temp folder. And I see news this week that DullTime(TM) 6 is coming with some standard agreed by Apple and those two other major players in the computer industry - Kamagochi (make all the mouse balls) and SuziQuattro (make the little metal bits on floppy disks). I look forward to any input as to where I got this wrong. Perhaps Steve Jobs can put me straight. robo. |
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| 35867 | 2002-02-16 03:01:00 | It's probably because those who package these things make the mindless assumption that everyone in the world has the same sort of hardware as they have. 'Nothing too flash, just a quad processor 5GHz mother board with 192GB of ram, and a 40TB disk , connected by a 1000MHz fibre link to the company's server farm'. So it doesn't cause more than a flicker on the screen to download the newest version of the bloated bugware they are pushing. These are the same sort of people who have a home page with 498 200kb GIFs (just for the buttons), and a 4MB wallpaper, which makes the text dark blue on a motttled green background. 'It looks good on my screen. People who have a 28k modem which goes to 9600 when its raining? They ought to upgrade.' Who's tried Dick Smith Electronics CD catalogue. It installs a particular version of Explorer if you have not got it. No Explorer install, no catalogue. That is bloody insolence. |
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| 35868 | 2002-02-16 03:20:00 | Hi Robo, I too was rather kissed off at the prospect of having to d/l 4Megs+ to make the dam thinng install. However what I did was first connect to the web, run the exe program (unzipped) and it installed no probs & without d/l anything. Seems in my case at least the net commection was only a prompt of some kind?? - running win98se | Guest (0) | ||
| 35869 | 2002-02-16 08:53:00 | Its all in the way you hold your tongue. The secret is to fully extract the Zip into its own folder and then run the .EXE This way when it looks for the dat file it will find it. as oppose to running the .EXE from within the zip. It will not find the dat because its still zipped..if you get my drift. ==Orac== |
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| 35870 | 2002-02-17 12:51:00 | Orac is right. If you unzip the file on cd properly it creates it's own directory \Quick Time Installer and running the installer from there is no trouble at all. What happened with you is that it could not find the data files so assumed it had to download them. | Guest (0) | ||
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