Official 'I HATE TECHNOLOGY" Rant Thread

[Moss.]

I'm trying to update JW Player. I replaced all the files, but online it says it's STILL the old version.


....so



I DELETED the player.swf file. It's gone. No longer on my webspace. GONE.




so then I type in ryanleber.com/content/player.swf



AND IT LOADS


HOW

FUCKING HOW DOES IT LOAD

I CLEARED ALL MY CACHES

I CLEARED EVERYTHING


WHY


WHY IS IT STILL THERE


WHY WONT IT GO AWAY


ARGHHH I FUCKING HATE WORKING WITH VIDEO WHY CAN'T THINGS JUST FUCKING WORK

[Moss.]

I just made the new player player2.swf and went back and changed all the html files to reference player2.swf instead of player.swf.
This shit is ridiculous. It shouldn't be this hard just to get a decently-sized but still good quality video to stream online.
Add to this the fact that my roomate likes to UNPLUG THE FUCKING ROUTER TO PLAY ON STEAM FOR 8 HOURS WHEN HE GETS HOME FROM WORK. (he pays for comcast, and so do I)
Nice. Now I can't upload anything, because our school's wired internet is complete shit.
ARGH. Guess I'll just go spend another 74 hours trying to get a halfway decent encode of just one of the four videos I have online.

This thread is now the official rant about technology thread.

[Roph]

Upload the source videos, I'll have a go at compressing them =o

[Grafikal]

lol. I like technology, I don't like when my webpages break tho

[Moss.]

Okay. Apparently my web hosting is fucking haunted. I just logged in, and made some edits to the html and css through their file manager online, and certain styles and things wouldn't change. So I downloaded the files, and opened them on my drive, locally, and they DID change. The changes I made show correctly on my local drive, but the virtually identical files on the server do NOT. What the hell is going on with my hosting?

edit: stupid web browsers and their differences between F5, reload, and ctrl+F5.

[Roph]

What host do you use? Could always move =o

[Moss.]

I would, but I pay $170 every two years for "unlimited" space and "unlimited" bandwidth at StartLogic.
And I also JUST payed it, lol, so if I'm gonna switch I'm should wait another 20 or so months.

[Roph]

You should search about your prospective next host on http://www.webhostingtalk.com/

Incidentally, the entire first page of a search I did on startlogic was 100% bad results.

I would recommend http://www.eleven2.com/ - My experience with them is from using them for more lightweight hosting and serving downloads, which they do pretty good. Actually, when I make my VPS grab files from E2, it regularly gets above 80mbit/s, which is amazing for a cheap shared host.

Nouman is also in bed with them or something, he could probably get you some kind of cheaper deal. I pay $96 yearly.

If you've just renewed with startlogic, then now is perhaps a good time to ask for that renewal to be refunded.

[Moss.]

Granted, their entire first page about StartLogic was all about 1 topic, their email. Which DOES suck. But I use gmail, so what's the point?

I'll look into eleven2.

[Holkeye]

Luddite

[Grafikal]

i use: http://www.ipage.com/

[Moss.]

Luddite

Erudite

[Holkeye]

Luddite

Erudite

Termite

[Kokowam]

Luddite

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[cozziekuns]

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[Moss.]

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[Kokowam]

Luddite

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[Grafikal]

Luddite

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[Zylos]

Luddite

Erudite

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Hermaphrodite

Stalagmite

Inorite?

[Kokowam]

C-C-C-COMBO BREAKIN' BRAGGIN' RIGHT.

[Moss.]

No matter what you have faced in the world of technology, NOTHING will EVER be more difficult, time consuming, or downright ass backwards than trying to set up a wireless printer.

[Kokowam]

What about trying to get games to work on Windows Vista?

[cozziekuns]

What about trying to get games to work on Windows Vista?

What about trying to get games to work on a Mac?

[Moss.]

Mac is for work.
Windows is for games.
Thats's how I run it.

[Grafikal]

Mac is for work.
Windows is for games.
Thats's how I run it.

Same.