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You might notice a couple of comments missing, but it wasn’t my doing.

Earlier today somebody hacked my site and made a few changes. Congrats to them, but thankfully my web host went to work quickly and restored the site to it’s former self by restoring a backup that was from 24 hours earlier. A couple of comments were lost in the event.

It was mainly my fault because I didn’t have permissions set properly. Homer slap to the head, “Dough!”

Looks like I’ll be editing my files manually instead of using the wordpress editor from now on. Since you need to have them set to writable and if I have to go into FTP to change them all teh time, I may as well edit them in FTP also.

Well anyway. Sites back up and running.

I’m so sorry about getting this post up late. Way to go MacBros for taking all day and it being the re-launch and all.

I was at a friends place trying to get his Internet connection working. That’s another post entirely.

There aren’t any submissions as of this post (YET i hope), but I hope to add some as soon as possible.

This is my first post for the re-launch. Nothing special. Nothing Photoshopped. Just two Friends enjoying a nice cold beer out in the great weather on a Friday afternoon.  Saying, “TGIFF! Good Reddens Work Week!”

As far as rules go. There arent really any. But if YOU are in the picture, that is the best ones.

Dragon Lady’s lil’ pussy is upset. I wunder wuz a Matta?

Other Mac isn’t in the mood to dine with two

Waiting for your submissions…….

Get your flip off pictures ready! you can send them to the e-mail macbros@boxbe.com to get past the security guards and get your FNFO pass. You’ll only need to use that e-mail once because I’ll reply to your e-mail that I posted it and you’ll be able to add the real address to your address book with the one I reply back with. the boxbe one is a forwarded e-mail and you  need to follow the reply message first. This is just to keep the scum away.

I was planning on adding some games to the gaming page but I got side tracked with watching ‘The Dark Knight’ movie and ended up posting a Dark Knight Movie Review on it because it was a really good movie.

So I’ll be doing that on Friday night hopefully.

So. I have my FNFO picture ready. Do you?

It’s past my bed time… Good Night!

DragonLady’s World linked with Funday Friday 9-05-2008

This is just a quick announcement to my fellow loyal readers, and yes, even the ones who never comment.

If you look up at the header, you’ll notice that a couple of links have disappeared and have been moved on to the left sidebar. They were just some disclosures and TOS’s links, nothing big or anything, but I just want my main links up top.

The latest link is the Gaming Page. This page will feature a few new games every other day for you all to play for real. They will be classics, and time killers. Just be sure you have your flash updated and also your Shockwave too for director type games.

I’m hoping this will be a fun and popular addition to the site. I know I’ll be spending a lot of time playing these things too. I just need to be sure I’m adding more than what I’m playing and wasting my time with .

Thanks have to go out to Rich, AKA: The English Guy for helping out with a couple of dilemmas I was having. One was figuring out the new custom page template settings in WordPress 2.6.1 and how to not display certain pages amongst the group of pages on the site.

For those who want to know, what he helped me figure out. To keep certain pages from being linked with the rest of the pages you just need to add to the already WP tag wp_list_pages(); to look something like this, wp_list_pages('exclude=1,2,3'); 1,2,3 being the actual page ID.

For the template problem; Just add the following code to the first line of your template page and then the rest will come to you.

<?php

/*

Template name: yourname

*/ ?>

yourname being the name of the template, which will show in the template section of the admin Write Page section.

Yes! You’ve probably saw this one coming!

Yes, it is! It is time for some Sticky Brain Music!

!!WARNING!! This is sticky Brain Music! (I should Coin That Phrase!) Listen at your own risk, MacBros Place will not be held responsible for any psychotic episodes caused by not being able to shake the song from your mind. Proceed at your own risk!

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I did.

I had issued that when every time I tried to install it I got the error: ‘Access Denied’ and it was followed by another error ‘ Service Pack Installation Did Not Complete’ Then when it undid what it couldn’t do it prompted me that the update was partially updated and that Windows XP would probably not function properly.

When I went to do the update, I did a restore point first, just in case this would happen. So I did a fresh restart and unfortunately, I got the same error.

Well that started to piss me off. So I went on the hunt for solutions. Simply because I had a very good feeling that I wouldn’t be the only one having this error.

I was right. And if you’re having the same issue, the following may prove to be useful to you.

FIRST! BACKUP YOUR REGISTRY OR MAKE A SYSTEM RESTORE POINT FIRST!

1. The first thing I did was actually download the entire SP3 installation file from the Microcrap website. Download the 316.4 MB SP3 Installation file here. Then try to install it.

If that didn’t work, proceed to step 2.

2. Restart the computer and turn off or disable any Anti Virus or Anti Spy-ware programs that may be running. Then Try the previously downloaded SP3 File. (NOTE: This will make your system vulnerable, so don’t forget to restart them if this step actually works.)

Now if that didn’t work… Then the following next steps should ONLY be done by somebody who knows (Or thinks they know) what they are doing, because it is registry related. Please make sure you have backed up your shit or created that restore point!

Now continue to step 3.

3. Reset the registry and file permissions.

• Download this Subinacl.exe file and install it.

SubInACL is a command-line tool that enables administrators to obtain security information about files, registry keys, and services, and transfer this information from user to user, from local or global group to group, and from domain to domain. For example, if a user has moved from one domain (DomainA) to another (DomainB), the administrator can replace DomainA\User with DomainB\User in the security information for the user’s files. This gives the user access to the same files from the new domain.

• Start Notepad and copy and past the following code into it.
  cd /d "%ProgramFiles%\Windows Resource Kits\Tools"
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE /grant=administrators=f /grant=system=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CURRENT_USER /grant=administrators=f /grant=system=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /grant=administrators=f /grant=system=f
subinacl /subdirectories %SystemDrive% /grant=administrators=f /grant=system=f
subinacl /subdirectories %windir%\*.* /grant=administrators=f /grant=system=f
secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\repair\secsetup.inf /db secsetup.sdb /verbose
• Save this Notepad file as Reset.cmd.
• Double-click the Reset.cmd file to run the script. This will take awhile if you have a lot of Registries. So go make yourself a coffee while it’s working.
• Try to install that fucking SP3 File you downloaded in step one.

If that didn’t work, just reboot the system again and run the SP3 file once more. This is the point that ended up working for me actually.

If it still doesn’t work, you’re on your own, because this is as far as I got and it ended up working for me.

I can hear the other Die Hard OS users already. Ditch Windows! But that is your own prerogative. I know that Windowz has its issues, but IMO (that you’re entitled to) it’s been an OK OS for me.

I can remember watching this show on late night television. I can still remember  how funny I thought it was, and I really didn’t know, up until now,  it was a game you could actually play at home.

Banzai is one of them crazy and wacky game shows that gets the audience involved by having them bet on the outcome of either a stunt, or some other crazy action. It can be a bet on how long a person can do something, or a bet on a number of something.  Ahh heck, just watch the following video. It explains just how you play.

ScreenLife Games is at it again. They launched a new Banzai game. Check it out:

This would be an awesome game to play with a group of friends at a party! Could you imagine a bunch of people sitting in a room, drinking beer, and playing this crazy game trying to get the sushi pieces into the container with the chop sticks. Just thinking about it gives me a laugh.

If the above video didn’t quite get you educated, then the one on their site explains it a bit in more detail. If you like what you see and think this would be something you and your friends could get into, or even the family, then you can purchase it on their MySpace site, or you may be able to pick it up at other retailers too.