Author Topic: Tech-related problems (Read 579064 times)

ohbahsan · « **Reply #200 on:** August 29, 2006, 05:23:30 AM »

Quote from: Maliciel

Oh, wrong mplayer. It's this one. I dl'ed the new release, maybe that'll help~

the new one much better, much more stable

sayumi_fan · « **Reply #201 on:** August 29, 2006, 02:23:32 PM »

Quote from: ebc

...(It didn't used to happen till just the other day) But I don't have a problem when I copy and paste shortcuts into Flashget and also put in a referral

Quote from: thatguy

yep like was already said make sure referrer is set (basically anything that has forum.jphip.com in the url)

Quote from: ohbahsan

... yeah, i found out how people were getting around the hotlink protection so now even blank referers are rejected now.

Now, I'm not familiar with this idea if putting in a referrer / referral. In Download Accelerator Plus, which has proved to be a brilliant program up till this change, I could simply 'right click -> Copy Link Location', and then in DAP go to top menu Downloads / Add New Download and the link was already copied into the dialogue which opened... quite simple.

If I want to continue using DAP, how do I now go about it? Or can't I? Can I add this referrer thingy somehow, and is it difficult?

I'm not really whining cos you guys who run this show do a fantastic job - but was the fact that this change was taking place posted anywhere in the forum? I hardly get enough time here, so I'm sure I miss heaps!

thatguy · « **Reply #202 on:** August 29, 2006, 02:44:38 PM »

i've never used DAP before, but see if this might help:

http://www.speedbit.com/help/DownloadFileInfo.asp

click on the More button at the bottom, and maybe something along the lines of referrer/referal is there.

ohbahsan · « **Reply #203 on:** August 29, 2006, 04:37:09 PM »

Quote from: sayumi_fan

If I want to continue using DAP, how do I now go about it? Or can't I? Can I add this referrer thingy somehow, and is it difficult?

in DAP go to Tools -> Options -> General

Check the "Make DAP my Default Download Manager", and check the "Integegrate with IE" or firefox or whatever browser you use, then click close.

Now restart your browser and when you want to download a link, right-click and choose "Download with DAP"

BakHamNoi · « **Reply #204 on:** August 29, 2006, 11:41:54 PM »

I had an update with my windows who seems to not be the original.
And now, i have some annoying pop-ups and all.

Someone knows something about it ?

Cookie · « **Reply #205 on:** August 30, 2006, 12:22:50 AM »

^ Is it the one that says something like "Your windows is not genuine"? If so, you can remove the pop-up that keeps coming up: LINK

OR

just search through here

Is that what you are talking about?

BakHamNoi · « **Reply #206 on:** August 30, 2006, 12:42:29 AM »

yeah it's that !

thanks a lor for your great help ^^

I will make it tomorrow

ziggurat · « **Reply #207 on:** August 30, 2006, 06:24:24 AM »

WGA is always annoying.. even original copy can be mistakenly labeled pirated one..

~Dan~ · « **Reply #208 on:** August 30, 2006, 06:43:49 AM »

Yeah, WGA is a pain. Everyone should set their automatic updates to ask them first before downloading (control panel - automatic updates - notify me but don't automatically download and install). When your pc tells you it has updates, look at each one and DON'T CHOOSE TO DOWNLOAD & INSTALL WGA. I think it asks you again if you want to download it and you tick something and "don't ask me again" and then it leaves you alone until next month. You have to do this every month. If you've accidentally installed the stupid thing there's plenty of pages on the net telling you how to get rid of it.

thatguy · « **Reply #209 on:** August 30, 2006, 08:19:52 PM »

Quote from: ~Dan~

Yeah, WGA is a pain. Everyone should set their automatic updates to ask them first before downloading (control panel - automatic updates - notify me but don't automatically download and install). When your pc tells you it has updates, look at each one and DON'T CHOOSE TO DOWNLOAD & INSTALL WGA. I think it asks you again if you want to download it and you tick something and "don't ask me again" and then it leaves you alone until next month. You have to do this every month. If you've accidentally installed the stupid thing there's plenty of pages on the net telling you how to get rid of it.

hm i dunno if something's different about my windows, but i do those exact things (notify me, dont install, dont remind me), and it's been well over a month and i haven't gotten any other notifications to install WGA, among the other usual windows patches and hotfixes.

~Dan~ · « **Reply #210 on:** August 30, 2006, 08:53:57 PM »

Quote from: thatguy

hm i dunno if something's different about my windows, but i do those exact things (notify me, dont install, dont remind me), and it's been well over a month and i haven't gotten any other notifications to install WGA, among the other usual windows patches and hotfixes.

Yeah it hasn't asked me for a while. Maybe they stopped doing it or changed the way they operate.
What was happening with me was I was getting the list of around 5 or 6 things to install each month, and WGA wasn't one of them, but then a few days later it asked to install WGA (and I said NO!).

ohbahsan · « **Reply #211 on:** August 30, 2006, 09:08:05 PM »

WGA is actually pretty easy to get around. there are 3 files you have to replace with the cracked version and that's it.

frblckstr1 · « **Reply #212 on:** August 31, 2006, 07:37:00 AM »

WGA was replaced sometime back because they changed the 'call home' interval from every day to every two weeks, anyway no problems here I am using a local WSUS server (that polls microsoft everyday) that then distributes the updates.
Works very fast for when I use test machines, no need to re-download the updates from the internet.

Shinora · « **Reply #213 on:** August 31, 2006, 10:00:40 PM »

hi! i have started using DC++ as advertised on the arsehole and i can't use any other settings besides "Passive, firewall". however, the problem is that im pretty sure im not behind any firewall at all. i've disabled the windows firewall, im pretty sure the antivirus i have doesn't include a firewall as well, so im not really sure what the problem is >< is there a way to check if im actually behind a firewall or not? as a sidenote, im using a router if that helps. thx in advance

ohbahsan · « **Reply #214 on:** August 31, 2006, 10:06:25 PM »

Quote from: Shinora

hi! i have started using DC++ as advertised on the arsehole and i can't use any other settings besides "Passive, firewall". however, the problem is that im pretty sure im not behind any firewall at all. i've disabled the windows firewall, im pretty sure the antivirus i have doesn't include a firewall as well, so im not really sure what the problem is >< is there a way to check if im actually behind a firewall or not? as a sidenote, im using a router if that helps. thx in advance

in your case the router is the firewall. you have to tell the router to open up the port for dc++. how you do that is different depending on the router.

sayumi_fan · « **Reply #215 on:** September 01, 2006, 03:28:20 PM »

I've been downloading a few of these W PVs from

{Yoake.no.Senshi} (XVID 608x448 3:38 70mb)
These two play, but in a weird horizontally stretched-out presentation.

Just wondering if anyone's got any clues about this, please? I've had no technical issues with anything from JPH!P for ages, and now suddenly with both downloads and playback there seem to be various glitches. Have I missed something I should know about?

Any help much appreciated!

sayumi_fan · « **Reply #216 on:** September 01, 2006, 03:32:21 PM »

Quote from: ohbahsan

in DAP go to Tools -> Options -> General

Check the "Make DAP my Default Download Manager", and check the "Integegrate with IE" or firefox or whatever browser you use, then click close.

Now restart your browser and when you want to download a link, right-click and choose "Download with DAP"

Ah, thanks for that, ohbahsan... I did that, but it's still showing Download Express in the right-click menu rather than DAP. Is it possible to have both show up, and then be able to choose, or do I need to somehow unset DE as the default in the menu to allow DAP to show up?

idiotboy · « **Reply #217 on:** September 01, 2006, 03:51:50 PM »

Quote from: sayumi_fan

{Yoake.no.Senshi} (XVID 608x448 4:00 69mb)

this mightn't be of much use to you, but i've just downloaded and played these two vids thru MPC, and they played perfectly normally. how are you downloading these PVs - what programme are you using, are there any download accelerators, is yr firewall and yr router set up correctly, have you had any trouble downloading anything else?

my (just downloaded) copy of koi no Vacance is 39MB (41719808 bytes) - what size is yrs? if it's a different size: then it's not downloading properly; if it's the same size: then for some reason yr machine can't play otherwise functioning files.

how is yr MPC configured? what versions of MPC and VLC are you using? what codecs do you have installed? and yr screen/ monitor resolution? Ai Ii na! uses a non-standard resolution: XVID 608x448. is it possible you've got MPC set up to force a specific resolution? or yr monitor is configured in such a way that it wouldnt be able to display?

maliciel · « **Reply #218 on:** September 01, 2006, 06:06:56 PM »

I downloaded all three, but I just tried the koi no vacance. Played fine for me. IIRC, mplayer usually gives some sort of error message if it can't play a file. Anything useful in those? Are you using any commandline switches, as well?

Or maybe you're using MPC, then disregard what I just said

ohbahsan · « **Reply #219 on:** September 01, 2006, 06:40:50 PM »

Quote from: sayumi_fan

Ah, thanks for that, ohbahsan... I did that, but it's still showing Download Express in the right-click menu rather than DAP. Is it possible to have both show up, and then be able to choose, or do I need to somehow unset DE as the default in the menu to allow DAP to show up?

er.. this I'm not sure. I usually use flashget but I downloaded DAP just to try it out and that's how I got it to show up on the right-click menu.