http://blog.chase.net.au Random Opinions Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:06:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ubisoft got what it deserved – the day after Assassin’s Creed 2 went live their DRM servers went down and no paying customer was able to actually play the game.  I’m really hoping the fallout from this is so huge that they realize the whole idea was so incredibly stupid ... http://blog.chase.net.au/index.php/2010/03/assassins-creed-2-unplayable/ I’ve been rather upset by the DRM in Assassin’s Creed 2.  Essentially it’s a single player game but Ubisoft in their effort to become even more draconian with DRM has decided that the game will constantly check with their online servers so if your internet drops out while playing then ... http://blog.chase.net.au/index.php/2010/02/assassins-creed-2-drm/ This is a damned shame because I’ve been waiting a while for AC2, but now Ubisoft has gone way over the top on their DRM schemes.  Their new idea of an “acceptable” solution is to require you to be online the entire game and if you go offline then it ... http://blog.chase.net.au/index.php/2010/02/assassins-creed-2-on-pc-dont-buy-it/ Awesome article:  http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2005/11/29/431762.aspx This has annoyed me ever since MS took it into their heads to randomly map commands to keys that previously had a very different purpose. http://blog.chase.net.au/index.php/2010/02/fixing-the-f-lock-key/ All Australians with an interest in game classification should take the 15 minutes to fill out a submission to the government on the addition of an R18+ category for games. http://www.ag.gov.au/gamesclassification Personally, I think it’s crazy we continually have issues with the top games coming out because they are unsuitable for minors.  ... http://blog.chase.net.au/index.php/2009/12/game-classification-in-australia/ I was pretty excited to try out the DLNA on my new Samsung TV, but ended up disappointed to find that it only seemed to work with the Samsung applet on my PC, which severely lacked some fairly critical features (like transcoding).  Today, I was happy to find the magic ... http://blog.chase.net.au/index.php/2009/08/dlna-on-my-samsung-tv/ My XBox 360 Wireless Receiver for Windows died.  No more green light, no more being recognized by the OS when I plugged it in.  Weirdly enough, the first one I got was like this on purchase so I exchanged it for this one which worked fine… up until now. Luckily, I ... http://blog.chase.net.au/index.php/2009/06/broken-xbox-360-wireless-receiver-for-windows/ The errors I blogged about previously still exist.  Yay… http://blog.chase.net.au/index.php/2009/04/old-srv-errors-still-persist-in-win7/ Note: This probably works on Vista as well. Having purchased Jade Empire from Steam for the cool price of $15, I was having all sorts of trouble trying to get it to run.  Basically the configuration program would crash every time I attempted to run the application, and it refused to ... http://blog.chase.net.au/index.php/2009/04/jade-empire-on-windows-7/ Yeah, this will be a technical one, but thankfully pretty short. I noticed today that both my Vista sp1 machines (one x64 and one x86) were getting a bunch of errors in the log claiming that The server was unable to allocate from the system nonpaged pool because the server reached the ... http://blog.chase.net.au/index.php/2008/12/event-2017-and-2021-from-srv-in-vista/