Patching and booting

It seems like applying the Dungeon Siege 2 patch v2.2 does not seem to work when attempting to update the game from a fresh install. After a long search of finding a download server where files can actually be downloaded faster than 0.6 K per second (thank you to fileplanet, adrenaline, fileshack, gamershell, etc., etc. for not being of any help and throwing adverts at me!). The URL that finally was of help, after some serious search results filtering was Game Revolution. The site may not be quite fully up to date, but otherwise it is great and files actually download, unless they don't exist anymore for certain games.

After a short session at work yesterday, I went to a friend of mine to help with a problem he has got due to a PC of his brother-in-law. His own PC cannot detect CDs in his DVD writer some some weird reason. His Windows XP CD did not install properly on the PC of the brother-in-law. Other CDs had the same problem, but with different files. It seems like the memory of the PC is damaged or something else. The PC did not come from a proper shop, but as usual from somebody that the brother-in-law knows.

Yesterday evening, while waiting for a client, I had a look at the new Quake 4. The fact that it is a continuing story from Quake 2 is very nice, so it immediatly becomes a known environment (a nasty one). The transitions to the next section are all smooth, and keeping all of your squad mates alive is important or face a swift death. No more single person running around like every other first person shooter out there.