Vlad

Romania ranked high on WCG 2006:

• silver @ FIFA ’06 – Ovidiu Patrascu
• quarter finalist @ Need For Speed Most Wanted – Cristi Rus (defeated by Alan Enileev which afterwards became world champion)

My guess we would’ve won at FIFA ’07 for sure as I saw it on a .ro torrent tracker even before it’s official release date and NFS Carbon will prolly follow real, real soon. Tough luck for Counter Strike fans, though.

Also reported in Cotidianul (in Romanian)!

I’ve been struggling a while tryin’ to figure out how to upgrade a beta version of IE on a computer (the 7.0 official release failed to update because it couldn’t uninstall the previous beta version). It seems that normally you need to uninstall IE from the same user account from which it was installed. This was impossible in my case and the uninstall kept failing. Luckily in the end I finally read the release notes and (who would’ve thought?) it was covered there:

Internet Explorer 7 Fails to Uninstall from Specified User Account

If you see an error message saying that you cannot uninstall Internet Explorer 7 from this user account, you can bypass the check by following these steps:

1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then press ENTER.
2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer.
3. Right-click the Internet Explorer key, click New, and then click DWORD value.
4. Type InstalledByUser as the name, and then press ENTER to finish creating the new registry value.
5. Try to uninstall Internet Explorer 7 again.

And it works! Gosh, what would we do without regedit…

Last evening I was just watching o documentary on the building of Pal Jumeirah on Discovery (in their Mega Builders series) and in the morning I found this piece of news on updatef1.com:

Dubai’s crown prince – Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum – reportedly decided to give the retiring German a piece of the man-made island paradise “The World” (map), located off the coast of the United Arab Emirates.

At an estimated value of $7 mil. I’d say it’s a nice present. Schumi’s well worth it anyway.

I’ve been watching Mioritics.RSS for some time now and every once in a while an interesting feed would pop up. Lately though that’s not the case. And while I put up with spam such as Nicocure, No more hair and Hair loss treatment (wtf: make up your mind already!) I won’t be putting up with the latest Videoclipuri manele.

I’m unsubscribing and will stay away until they get someone to MODERATE entries! If you feel like me, please help boycott Mioritics.RSS! Or at least give them some bad publicity.

Via ye old faithful G Reader:

Contest!

from Fredo and Pidjin. The Evil Comic. by eugen

Win one of the 3 Fredo & Pid’Jin posters displayed this weekend at Dalles Hall!

All you have to do is scroll below and leave your name and e-mail, so we can contact you, if you’re one of the winners. The 3 winners will be picked randomly, in a lucky draw, Friday Oct 27th. Good luck!

Rules:

- only one entry (that means one comment) per participant. No IP tricks, because we’ll know.
- participants must be from Romania, in order for them to receive their prize.
- when you leave your e-mail, please don’t mention it in the comment, but ONLY in the e-mail field. This is to keep you safe from spam.

But then it seems they’ve changed their mind.

LE: No they haven’t. It’s just moved to a page and the link is in the top menu. And it’s in BOLD UPPERCASE!

GIVE US THE POSTERS!!!