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Reply to Piracy & PC Gaming in GalCiv Journals Stardock Forums

Well said Brad, and what a nice surprise it was to see your name pop up on my digg feed today. It's a small world after all. ;) I think the worst offenders here are companies like Starforce who make a living out of ruining the user experience. If I want to play Worms 4 (and I often do), why should I have to hunt around for the game CD when everything's installed on my machine anyway? At most run one check on whether I'm installing from a genuine disk, but don't install system-destroyi

Reply to Forum Smiley Contest in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I'm tempted to adapt my poor orphaned [link="http://grayhaze.deviantart.com/art/Fleshy-Emoticons-39184522"]fleshy emoticons[/link] and submit an entry... Oh, and hello everyone. ;)

No competing for me again this year :( in GUI Championships Stardock Forums

Hi guys, Sadly I haven't had any time to work on my entry for this year's contest due to other commitments. I've been trying to get myself a new job in web development for the past few months, and have spent most of my time learning the tools of the trade and rebuilding my website from scratch. I've finally managed to get myself employed, so now I'll have even less time. I had two possible entries on the go, and I'd really like to find the time to complete them at some point. I

Reply to GUI Champs 2006 - Some Details in GUI Championships News Stardock Forums

Hmmm... *opens Fireworks*

Reply to Power Up Your Desktop with the Argos Suite from Stardock! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

This is a great theme, but were you aware that here in the UK Argos is the name of a nationwide chain of stores selling cheap items at cut-down prices? That's the first thing I thought of when I saw the title...

Reply to Apple: Preemptive whining in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

GhoS hit the nail on the head. If Apple want me to spend the large sum of money it takes to invest in one of their products, perhaps they'd be better off focussing on their own product and what it does better than the rest. Seeing a self-absorbed corporate executive spend his time bashing the company who make my current operating system, which I happen to be rather content with, only serves to paint his company as self-serving bullies. Tell

Reply to Nintendo Says Wii... in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Perhaps they should have consulted their target market first. It won't be long before teenagers are ridiculed all over the UK for their strange night-time habits. "What are you doing tonight?" "I'm playing with my Wii." "Eww! That's gross!"

Reply to A Little More Appreciation Wouldn't Hurt You. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Why not expand the rating system to include various specific questions about a skin. For example: 1. Visual appeal (1-5) 2. Ease of use (1-5) 3. Length of use (1-5) etc, etc. An overall rating could then be calculated based on these criteria, or the various categories could be stored as seperate searchable ratings. Obviously these are still subjective (and I'm having flashbacks to the GUIOs as I speak <im

Reply to Need some advice re domain hijacking in Internet WinCustomize Forums

Sorry for the double posting.

Reply to Need some advice re domain hijacking in Internet WinCustomize Forums

Well it looks like the situation will be resolved later today. The guy I was talking to backed down once he realised I wasn't just a raving lunatic. LOL The last thing any company wants is bad press...

Reply to Need some advice re domain hijacking in Internet WinCustomize Forums

The employee comment though, is a typical "look, we have a whining customer" remark. Wouldn't get too upset about that, it's company nature. I wasn't really upset by the comment, as an employee is only as good as his training. I did think it made a useful hook from which to hang my argument thou

Reply to Need some advice re domain hijacking in Internet WinCustomize Forums

There remains, however an 'expectation' of privacy/confidentiality with person to person emails, the same as with telephone conversations...and both are 'protected' under the same 'Act'. It's probably not an 'ideal' situation to publish such emails on a public forum.... That's pretty much

Reply to Need some advice re domain hijacking in Internet WinCustomize Forums

And my reply... Mr Ells, Perhaps it would have been prudent to remove your staff member's comment from your reply prior to sending it. Apparently he considers this situation 'funny' and my valid concerns to be 'whinging'. It rather flies in the face of your comments about good customer service does it not?<b

Reply to Need some advice re domain hijacking in Internet WinCustomize Forums

I thought you might like to read the most recent email from SiteWizard. I particularly like the comment tacked on to the end... Dear Mr Purcell, Thank you for your comments, we take our customer service extremely seriously. Firstly, when you say you would like to have been given a choice of regist

Reply to Need some advice re domain hijacking in Internet WinCustomize Forums

Thanks for the link kingbee, reading that has really shed new light on the situation. It still doesn't mention anything about SiteWizard, the company who have taken over the domains, but at least it's reassured me that I'm not the only one with problems. I'll keep you posted on any progress...

Reply to Need some advice re domain hijacking in Internet WinCustomize Forums

But surely one company can't simply hand over their entire customer database to another Jafo? I'm sure there has to be some illegality involved... The possibility also occurred to me that they might simply be the same old reseller going by a different name, perhaps to shake off the 'bad press' produced by those emails sent out by Tucows. However their offices appear to be in completely different parts of the country and both companies have b

Reply to Need some advice re domain hijacking in Internet WinCustomize Forums

sounds pretty sketchy to me. can you provide the name of your new host so i can check em out? I don't want to post a direct link to the company, but suffice to say my old reseller went by the name of Firevision. That should help you in any investigations you want to do... <img src="http://images.stard

Need some advice re domain hijacking in Internet WinCustomize Forums

I've recently had some trouble with the domain registration agent I've been using for the past few years here in the UK. I currently own several .com domains and a couple of .me.uk ones, all of which were registered through the same agent. This agent is/was a reseller for the Tucows/OpenSRS service ( Link ). Out of the blue one day I received a couple of emails telling me that my agent was no longer a

Reply to Star Wars fans hospitalized after Lightsaber explosion.. in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I'm ashamed to say the two kids involved live in my town too...

Reply to I need some help finding a book in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Thanks for the help guys. I might give that site a try Essencay, as it seems to be full of other folk just as clueless as myself. The books weren't 'Meg & Mog'. The illustrations were a lot more detailed (almost overly detailed) and I seem to remember the cat was a bit overweight and had stripes. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/wc/smiles/Smile.gif" border

I need some help finding a book in WinCustomize Talk JoeUser Forums

For a long, long time now I've been searching for a series of books which I read as a child and absolutely loved. Unfortunately I have very little information to go on, but here's what I know: - The books featured a cat with an unusual name - The cat was a 'real' cat, of the Mog variety, rather than a talking character - A clock was somehow a key part of each story - The cat may have either lived in a lighthouse or an old mansion<B

Reply to IMPORTANT! Re: Requesting skins in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I'd like to see a skin which prompted people to read the content of a thread so that they would understand what it's actually about before making a post, but I guess we can't all have what we want...

Reply to R.I.P. Christopher Reeve in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

How mature... >

R.I.P. Christopher Reeve in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Actor Christopher Reeve dies Actor Christopher Reeve, star of the Superman films of the 1970s and 80s, has died. The 52-year-old had been suffering from an infection as a result of a pressure wound and died on Sunday, his publicist Wesley Combs said. He suffered a cardiac arrest at his New York home and slipped into a coma, Mr Combs added. Reeve was paralysed nine years ago when he broke his neck after being thrown from a horse. He later b

Reply to IMPORTANT! Re: Requesting skins in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

/me sighs I wonder if anyone actually reads this thread anymore, or whether people just see the words 'requesting skins' and blindly join the conversation?