Published on January 20th, 2010 by Hypn. Filed under Uncategorized | No Comments
I still haven’t heard anything back from Screamer about canceling my account – or me having their debit order reversed *evil grin* – and today I got this in my mail:
Can’t they even afford to pay for their bulk mailing software? (note the “Trial Version — for evaluation purposes only)
I’m going to wait and see if they bill me at the end of the month, and then contact their COE… I might even direct him to this blog ;)
Published on January 5th, 2010 by Hypn. Filed under Uncategorized | 1 Comment
I tried signing up with Screamer Telecoms on the 27th of November 2009, and was expecting a credit card payment option but was told I needed to fill in a debit order authorization form and fax it along with a copy of my ID to them. I didn’t do either, because I received an e-mail shortly after telling me they didn’t have any accounts available:
So I decided to take an account with another ISP as I needed internet access for December (which was only a few days away). On the 2nd of Decemember 2009 I received an e-mail from Screamer (subject “Your acocunt details” – great spelling), with my ADSL account details.
I spent the next few days trying to explain to them I hadn’t “confirmed the process of activation of my application” (as per the first image), and hadn’t given them authorization (neither verbally, nor forms) to debit my account, and didn’t want the account with them anyway as I’d had to go to another ISP because I didn’t know how long it would take until they did have accounts available. After speaking to a woman named Michelle, and sending her an e-mail confirming our telephonic discussion, I assumed the matter was resolved and left it at that.
On the 31st of December 2009 two debit orders went off, from Screamer, both deducting R230 (the amount of the account I’d wanted to sign up for)… do they bill all of their clients double the amount they advertise on their site? Yesterday I phoned them and spoke to 3 different people about having the money refunded and my “account” cancelled – no-one was really able to help me, and I was told someone would get back to me (I’m still waiting, 24+ hours later). This morning I went in to the bank and had them reverse both transactions, and block Screamer from taking any more money out my account for the next 6 months – hopefully that will get the message across to them.
So my advice – stay as far away from them as possible.
Now for the moral question… seeing as I have the account details for 10gb Screamer ADSL account, and they’re so useless and have cost me multiple phone calls, time at the bank, and bank fees getting their debits reversed… do I use the account? ;)
If you’d like to have your say on Facebook:
Their “fan” page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Screamer-Telecoms/136012960976
Published on December 8th, 2009 by Hypn. Filed under Uncategorized | No Comments
You gotta love technology, especially when it goes wrong in public.
First up we have a travel advertisement board, with Avast anti virus (or is it anti spyware?) reporting a trojan. Makes you wonder who installed it (the path is in “Program Files”), or what this computer’s doing with an internet connection:
Published on November 30th, 2009 by Hypn. Filed under Uncategorized | No Comments
@hexxeh put together a 1gb USB flash drive image of Chrome OS. You can find out more about it here: http://carbon.hexxeh.net/chromiumos
The catch is it’s a raw disk image intended to be written to, and booted from, a flash drive… making it a little tricky to use in VirtualBox as it doesn’t support booting from USB drives. So here’s a VirtualBox disk image of hexxeh’s Chrome Os Diet… just download, unzip (well, “unrar” technically) and start it up :)
Thanks for your work hexxeh!
(The default username and password are both “facepunch” – speaking of which, check out http://www.facepunch.com which I believe hexxeh is involved with)
My download mirror: ChromeOS-Diet.tar.gz (290mb)
Download the VirtualBox image here: ChromiumOSvdi.rar (290mb – extracts to 800mb)
Published on November 25th, 2009 by Hypn. Filed under games, programming | No Comments
Here’s some retro geeky awesomeness… Prince of Persia source code notes!
Download (404kb)
Published on October 26th, 2009 by Hypn. Filed under World of Warcraft | No Comments
I found an addon yesterday, called “Market Watcher“, which monitors Auction House prices of items you set and then draws graphs so you can see how the prices have changed. From the site:
Market Watcher is an addon that scans the auction house and records data for specified items and assists in daily auction house shopping in general. When the addon is set to record, a price history can be displayed to assist in determining a value for items of interest.
What makes Market Watcher unique from other auction house addons is that it records multiple scans instead of just the most recent. This obviously uses a great deal of memory, so only scans of items specified by the user will be recorded. The saving of multiple scans allows for a more accurate determination of value, and allows the addon to deduce if some auctions were actually sold, so you can see which auctions are actually selling as opposed to basing a value off the prices of auctions that may not be selling at all.
While it’s a great addon, it does something I don’t like: it doesn’t let you open your trade skill windows while the Auction House window is open – the reason for this is because (normally) opening a trade skill window closes the Auction House window, but if you’re using the Auctioneer addon there’s an option to “protect auction house window” to allow you to have both open. To remove this “protection”/”feature” of Market Watcher, open “MarketWatcher.lua” in your “Interface\AddOns\MarketWatcher” folder, and find “UIParent:UnregisterEvent(“TRADE_SKILL_SHOW”);” (line 255 in the 5th Aug 2009 version) and put two minus signs (–) in front, to comment it out.
You’ll need to restart WoW, or do a “/reloadui” to apply these changes.
Published on October 9th, 2009 by Hypn. Filed under World of Warcraft, programs | No Comments
Just a quick post to tell you about a new app we’ve made, called “WoW Item Info” (we’ll probably re-name it), which lets you view a World of Warcraft item’s info anyway – it’s a program with runs in your system tray, and when you highlight text (the item name) and press Windows key and W (Win+W) if fetches the item info from WowHead.com and displays it. There may still be a lot of bugs, and there will be a new version released shortly.
Note: Might not work in Skype, depending on your “Pressing Ctrl+V will” settings (under “IM & SMS”, under “Show advanced options”)
UPDATE: Fixed an issue reading in the icon, preventing the program from working :| Will probably release a new version shortly with a better quality (larger) icon.
Credits:
AutoHotKey – http://www.autohotkey.com
WowHead’s API – http://www.wowhead.com
Titan’s “xpath” – http://www.autohotkey.net/~Titan/#xpath
Download: WowItemInfo1.1.zip (201kb)
Greets to:
Ultrazor, Kymeara and Durgath. Taera (various EU realms)
GameThreat (http://www.gamethreat.net)
“Pap en Vleis” on Twilight’s Hammer EU (http://www.papenvleis.za.net)
“Murder of Crows” on Bronzebeard EU (http://www.murderofcrows.ws)
Published on June 21st, 2009 by Hypn. Filed under Uncategorized | No Comments
Hypn’s Plants VS Zombies Trainer v1.00
Features:
* start each level with 9999 sun
* get 9999 sun from each sun
* build for free (must have enough sun to build the plant though)
* instant cool-down after building a plant
* invincible plants (don’t take damage)
* all plants start cooled-down at the beginning of a level
* one shot kills zombies (cone/helmet/etc zombies take 2 shots)
* start a level even if you haven’t filled your plant slots
Hacks can be enabled/disabled individually, or all at once.
Download: Hypn’s Plants VS Zombies Trainer.zip (4kb)
Plants VS Zombies official site
Published on May 17th, 2009 by Hypn. Filed under Uncategorized, programming | No Comments
UPDATE (15 July 2010): An “official” version of USB Webserver 8 has been released, please use this instead of my “unofficial” version. You can download it from http://www.usbwebserver.net/
This is an unofficial updated version of USB Webserver. The original USB Webserver was created by http://www.usbwebserver.nl – but their site is currently down, and they haven’t released an update for a while.
This version contains:
Apache: 2.2.11
PHP: 5.2.10-dev (with GD and cURL)
MySQL: 5.1.30-community (with InnoDB)
It defaults to “English” (the original was “Dutch”), and you may need to change the ports if you have been using USB Webserver previously.
Download: “USB Webserver 8.0 (unofficial).zip” (17.6mb)
(and yes, I know the main USB Webserver screen still says “USB Webserver 7.0″ – ignore that :P)
Published on April 29th, 2009 by Hypn. Filed under Uncategorized | No Comments
Million Dollar Follow is giving away a free $1 advert slot on their website (think “Million Dollar Home Page”) for all TwitterMass users – you should see a message waiting for you when you view the dashboard. If you haven’t started using TwitterMass yet, it’s not to late… you have until midnight tomorrow – there isn’t even a sign-up process, just go to the website and let it access your Twitter account, and click on the link the message!
Your twitter icon will be put on the Million Dollar Follow page for the world to see – there are only 1 million slots available, so get yours before it’s too late – and while it’s free ;)
