I guess Google likes me, it is a shame I can not pass their interview questions! Well I received my invite tonight (Monday evening), and thought I’d share it with the world. here is a copy of EULA, and yes I read the entire thing word by word! Quite excited, as I have music from audio tapes, records, and CD’s from the 90′s stored on my computer, it will be interesting to see if any gets flagged by their copyright infringement detection. I will start uploading tomorrow and give the service a good shot in about a month when the uploading finishes! (just kidding!). I fully intend on testing this on my HTC Evo (android 2.3.3 rooted), HTC Evo Shift (android 2.2 stock with sense), Notion Ink Adam (currently beast 2.2.1 should be on Honeycomb by July), and my dev phone the Samsung Moment (android 2.1).
Additional Terms of Service for Music Beta by Google
Last modified: May 10, 2011
Thank you for your interest in Music Beta by Google! By using Music Beta by Google ("Music Beta" or the "Service"), you accept and agree to be bound by the Google Terms of Service, the Google Privacy Policy, and the Music Beta by Google Privacy Policy, each of which is incorporated into this agreement by this reference, as well as these Additional Terms of Service for Music Beta by Google (collectively, the "Terms"). It is important for you to read each of these documents, as they form a legal agreement regarding your use of the Service between you and Google Inc. ("Google") whose principal place of business is 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States. This document explains how your agreement with Google is made up and sets out some of the terms of that agreement. Capitalized terms not otherwise defined in these Additional Terms have the meaning given to them in the Google Terms of Service.
The Music Beta Service and Your Music
Music Beta is a Service as defined in Section 1.1 of the Google Terms of Service and is provided to you for your personal, non-commercial use solely in connection with lawfully acquired music files from your personal collection that you choose to make available to yourself through the Service, including all data comprising, describing, or associated with each music file that you choose to upload, such as audio data, metadata, and album art for each selected file (whether referring to individual uploaded files or to your entire uploaded library, "Your Music"). Music Beta consists of (a) Google-provided server space that you can use for storage of Your Music, and (b) software applications and related web sites and services that allow you to upload, manage, access, and play back Your Music through a web browser or through any supported, Service-enabled device. To the extent that you use the Music Application for Android devices in conjunction with Music Beta, those uses are governed by the Terms, including these Additional Terms.
Trial Service Availability and Limitations
Music Beta is a trial or "beta" Service from Google that requires you to register with your new or existing Google account. It is available free for a limited time to residents of the United States (including its territories and protectorates) who have received an invitation from Google and accept the invitation by signing into their Google account to register for use of the Service. As a beta Service, certain limits on storage or usage may apply; these limits may be set or changed by Google at any time, at Google's discretion, and you agree that you will not attempt to obstruct or prevent the application of those Service limits at any time, or to manipulate your usage of the Service to avoid or circumvent them. You can find more information about applicable Service limits through the Music Beta Help Center.
Third Party Fees
Music Beta is available without charge from Google; however, you may incur access or data fees from third parties (such as your internet provider or mobile carrier) in connection with your use of the Service. You are responsible for all such third-party charges for your use of Music Beta on or through third party services and devices.
Privacy and Your Personal Information
Section 7 of the Google Terms of Service governing Music Beta by Google is replaced in its entirety by the following:
7.1 For information about Google's data protection practices, please read the Music Beta by Google Privacy Policy at http://music.google.com/about/privacy.html. This policy explains how Google treats your personal information, and protects your privacy, when you use the Service.
7.2 You agree to the use of your data in accordance with Google's privacy policies.
Your Permissions and Instructions to Google
Section 11 of the Google Terms of Service governing Music Beta by Google is replaced in its entirety by the following:
11.1 You retain any rights you already hold in Your Music. You acknowledge and agree that you are solely responsible for your own conduct and Content (including Your Music) while using the Service and for any consequences thereof. You agree to use the Service only for purposes that are legal, proper, and in accordance with these Terms, and that by using the Service you are requesting that Google make all of the necessary functions and features of the Service available to you in order to facilitate your use of Your Music according to the Terms. Without limiting the generality of this overall permission and instruction, you specifically agree that you are instructing Google to perform the functions described in Sections 11.2, 11.3, and 11.4 below.
11.2 By uploading or submitting Your Music to or through the Service, you are directing Google to store a unique copy of Your Music on your behalf and to make it accessible to you through the use of your login credentials.
11.3 By accessing, managing, playing back, displaying, or using all or any part of Your Music on or through the Service, you are directing Google to initiate and perform the corresponding functions on your behalf, together with any related steps necessary to achieve them, through the Service.
11.4 You understand that Google, in performing the required technical steps to provide you with the Service as described in the Terms, may (a) transmit Your Music over various public networks and in various media; and (b) make such changes to Your Music as are necessary to conform and adapt it to the technical requirements of connecting networks, devices, services, or media. You agree that in each such instance, your use of the Service includes a direction to Google to take these actions on your behalf.
11.5 You confirm and warrant to Google that you have all the rights, power and authority to grant any permissions and give any instructions to Google that may be required to perform the actions necessary to provide you with the Service. You agree that you will not upload, submit, access, manage, play back, display or use any Content (including any portion of Your Music), or direct Google to do anything with Your Music on your behalf, unless you have all of the necessary rights to do so without infringing the rights of any third party or violating any laws or agreements that apply to you, the Content, or Your Music.
Copyright Notices
It is Google's policy to respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement that comply with applicable intellectual property law (including, in the United States, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act) and to terminate the accounts of repeat infringers. Details of Google's policy can be found at http://www.google.com/dmca.html.
Third Party Software
To the extent that Music Beta includes components governed by third party or open source licenses with provisions inconsistent with the Terms, those components are instead governed solely by the applicable third party or open source licenses. Information regarding those licenses (except for software provided by Gracenote, Inc., for which the terms are included at the end of this agreement) can be obtained at the following location: http://music.google.com/about/thirdparty.html.
Acceptance of Terms
You accept the Terms either by clicking to accept the Additional Terms presented to you when you first access the Service or by using Music Beta by Google. Your continued use of the Service constitutes your consent to the Terms (as may be modified from time to time, in whole or in part, with or without notice). It is your responsibility to review the Additional Terms regularly for updates. If you do not agree to the Terms, you may not use the Service.
You can review, print or save a copy of these Additional Terms of Service for Music Beta by Google (and navigate to other links referenced in the Additional Terms) by visiting the Additional Terms web page at: http://music.google.com/about/terms.html.
Gracenote Software
This application or device may contain software from Gracenote, Inc. of Emeryville, California ("Gracenote"). The software from Gracenote (the "Gracenote Software") enables this application to perform disc and/or file identification and obtain music-related information ("Gracenote Data") from online servers or embedded databases (collectively, "Gracenote Servers") and to perform other functions. You may use Gracenote Data only by means of the intended end-user functions of this application or device.
This application may contain content belonging to Gracenote's providers. If so, all of the restrictions set forth herein with respect to Gracenote Data shall also apply to such content and such content providers shall be entitled to all of the benefits and protections set forth herein that are available to Gracenote. You agree that you will use Gracenote Data, the Gracenote Software, and Gracenote Servers for your own personal non-commercial use only. You agree not to assign, copy, transfer or transmit the Gracenote Software or any Gracenote Data to any third party. YOU AGREE NOT TO USE OR EXPLOIT GRACENOTE DATA, THE GRACENOTE SOFTWARE, OR GRACENOTE SERVERS, EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY PERMITTED HEREIN.
You agree that your non-exclusive license to use the Gracenote Data, the Gracenote Software, and Gracenote Servers will terminate if you violate these restrictions. If your license terminates, you agree to cease any and all use of the Gracenote Data, the Gracenote Software, and Gracenote Servers. Gracenote reserves all rights in Gracenote Data, the Gracenote Software, and the Gracenote Servers, including all ownership rights. Under no circumstances will Gracenote become liable for any payment to you for any information that you provide. You agree that Gracenote, Inc. may enforce its rights under this Agreement against you directly in its own name.
The Gracenote service may use a unique identifier to track queries for statistical purposes. The purpose of a randomly assigned numeric identifier is to allow the Gracenote service to count queries without knowing anything about who you are. For more information, see the web page for the Gracenote Privacy Policy for the Gracenote service.
The Gracenote Software and each item of Gracenote Data are licensed to you "AS IS." Gracenote makes no representations or warranties, express or implied, regarding the accuracy of any Gracenote Data from in the Gracenote Servers. Gracenote reserves the right to delete data from the Gracenote Servers or to change data categories for any cause that Gracenote deems sufficient. No warranty is made that the Gracenote Software or Gracenote Servers are error-free or that functioning of Gracenote Software or Gracenote Servers will be uninterrupted. Gracenote is not obligated to provide you with new enhanced or additional data types or categories that Gracenote may provide in the future and is free to discontinue its services at any time. GRACENOTE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. GRACENOTE DOES NOT WARRANT THE RESULTS THAT WILL BE OBTAINED BY YOUR USE OF THE GRACENOTE SOFTWARE OR ANY GRACENOTE SERVER. IN NO CASE WILL GRACENOTE BE LIABLE FOR ANY CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES OR FOR ANY LOST PROFITS OR LOST REVENUES.
© 2011. Gracenote, Inc. All Rights Reserved
And here are the Privacy notices,
Privacy Policy
Last modified: May 10, 2011
The Google Privacy Policy describes how we treat personal information when you use Google’s products and services, including information provided when you use Music Beta by Google (“Music Beta” or the “Service”); your usage of Music Beta on or through Android devices will also be governed by our Mobile Privacy Policy. In addition, the following describes our additional privacy practices specific to your use of Music Beta. Capitalized terms not otherwise defined have the meanings given to them in the Additional Terms of Service for Music Beta by Google.
Personal Information
Account activity. You need a Google Account to use Music Beta. Google asks for some personal information when you create a Google Account, including your email address and password, which is used to protect your account from unauthorized access. Google’s servers automatically record certain information about your use of Music Beta. Similar to other web services, Google records information such as account activity (e.g., storage usage, number of log-ins, actions taken), data displayed or accessed, and other log information (e.g., browser or device type, IP address, date and time of access, cookie ID, and so forth).
Content and usage information. Music Beta stores, processes, and maintains Your Music in order to provide and personalize the Service to you and to improve Google’s products and services. This may include storage and analysis of information related to your use of the Service, access to and playback of Your Music, playback counts, playlist content, and related information needed to provide you with automatically generated Instant Mix playlists. You can find more information about Instant Mix in the Music Beta Help Center.
Authorized devices. In order to authenticate your upload computers and/or authorized devices for offline access, and to implement Service limitations as described in the Additional Terms, we may record device identifiers including your computer’s MAC address or device identifiers such as IMEI or MEID for mobile devices.
Uses
We use your information to deliver the Service to you, to enforce usage limitations in connection with the Service, to process and personalize your requests in connection with your use of the Service, to develop new features, and to improve the overall quality of Google’s products and services.
Your choices
You may terminate your use of Music Beta at any time by ceasing to use the Service and uninstalling any software related to the Service. You may also delete Content (including all or any portion of Your Music) at any time and the Content will be deleted from our servers. There may be some delay before any deletion is reflected in our system.
More Information
Further information about Music Beta is available here. For more information about our privacy practices, visit our Privacy Center. For questions concerning the product or your account, please check out the Google Help page.
And some screenshots of the process…
(this is an old post that apparently was stuck in draft mode, releasing it now. A good bit has changed since then, but I will not edit it now.)
What has happened and what I have learned over the last 10 days.
Well, I have had several issues, fixed a couple of others, and ordered an extended battery.
Right, so for starters, DISABLING the “Enable Always on Mobile” setting in: ‘home –> menu –> settings –> Wireless & Networks –> Mobile Networks –> Enable Always on Mobile’ is the cause of all the “rebooting issues”, which I have determined were not actual reboots, due to the fact that the uptime counter does not get reset when it happens, it is simply a major system function restart, that requires reloading nearly everything. 2 points to androidforums.com for discovering this.
Next, I resolved my randomly starting apps issue by running Startup Auditor, which has 2 settings for each app, (both called disable, but for two different things)
1. “Startup Disabled” really means Disable automatic startup during boot.
2. “Keep Disabled” really means prevent app from ever running, even if you launch it.
Startup Auditor polls something in the system (chron tab?) for all apps that auto load on startup and then allows you to modify these two settings for each one. The help information does not tell you what the options really do, it is what I figured out from both what it says, and the effects of what it does. I had many apps acting weird, or crashing during use, without providing a Force Close “OK button”. ALL of those issues were caused by option #2 in this app. I have learned that disabling the following is a bad idea:
1. anything that says HTC in it is bad if you run Sense UI
2. “Google Partner Setup”
3. “IQRD”
4. “Android System”
5. anything bluetooth if you intend on using any bluetooth devices, causes pairing issues, connectivity issues, prevent some features from working (like A2DP!!)
6. “calendar” x2 – one is google, one is HTC and both interact with your clock, alarms, all social apps, email, messaging…
7. “clock” x2 – one is google, one is HTC unless you don’t want the clock to update properly, calender to work well, emails to sort properly, messages to sort properly, mostly small issues, but annoying if yo ucannot figure out why it is happening…
8. ‘DM’ anything
9. ‘DRM’ anything (affects media mostly, but also web and emails
10. anything that says ‘Download’ – affects all apps that try to download data.
11. anything that says ‘Upload’ – affects all apps that try to upload data.
12. “Messages” – this is not just email!!
13. “Media Storage” – unless not using an SD card! may also affect the internal storage
14. “Open Sense Plugin Manager” – another HTC system service
15. “Rosie Utility” – this is an HTC function and SENSE UI does not like not being able to use it! *edit – Rosie is part of some widgets, not necessarily HTC.
16. “Updater” – does not refer to sending files to another computer!! But is a service called by anything that needs to periodically make minute changes to it’s display (like the clock, or battery widgets)
Most of these are things I have tested and found out the hard way, others I am assuming, as they have related names (all the HTC services and apps are for Sense…)
Onwards!!
My Nuvelli Stereo Bluetooth headset does not seem to have full 33′ range even though it has the ERD designation, oh it will stay connected at 33′, but you will hear lots of static and the other person (if you are on a call) will not hear you so well either. the forward and backward controls do not work with the default music player (DL’s 2 more, haven’t tested them yet, Meridian and Zimly)
My Jabra Cruiser may also suffer from range, but since I am using it while I am driving, I have not tested that either. but it plays sound fairly well, a touch hard to understand from the built in speaker, I would not want to take a 2hr conference call on it without a radio to broadcast the output to. That said, the output via FM is pretty good, although the FM transmitter is strong, but has an excessively short range, moving it from one side of the car to the other makes a difference in the amount of static received (front end antenna).
On Monday this week, I performed a Hard Reset of my Evo (shut down, then turn it on while holding in the “volume down button” then follow the on screen instructions (in size 3 or 4 font!!) and navigate through the menus to find the reset option.
Immediately afterwards the phone was 100x more responsive and everything just “worked” I immediately installed 184 apps and it stopped being quite so responsive!! I know, but I’m working on it, I’ve installed 2 apps, but removed 6 since. Still widdling down the list, and I have purchased 7 or 8 apps at this point (staying under $6 per week), all ones I have been using on my wife’s Samsung Moment since February, or that I have tested the free version of on my Evo.
I have also, as mentioned above, ordered the Seidio 3500mAh battery for the HTC Evo from MobileCity Online, you can read about my experiences with this purchase by going to my post about it, on androidforums.com
I have stopped using Advanced Task Killer and Advanced Task Manager, in replace I have SystemPanel, which in combination with Startup Audit and Startup Cleaner 2.0 handle everything I could with ATK nad ATM, but also gives me more options. I am testing to see if I truely need SA AND SC2.0, but I think they compliment each other more than fight against each other.
I have also stopped charging my phone at night, it has been discovered that the Evo does trickle charge until full, but then instead of maintaining the trickle while plugged in, it stops charging completely unti lothe battery charge level drops down to approx 90% (the Android OS does not determine battery charge by percentage, it just reports it to us in that manner), then it starts to trickle charge back up to full and repeats. This appears to be an 8 minute cycle. (please read section 5 and section 7 for information on these batteries) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-ion_battery#Advantages_and_disadvantages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-ion_battery#Charging_procedure
This “float charge” can dramatically reduce the batteries maximum life span. Using the BatteryTime Lite app and setting it to give notification allows me to pull down the notification bar and see the current voltage and temp of the battery, so I can pay more attention to it so as to maintain performance and prevent accelerated deterioration. Even though I am getting an extended battery (not sure if the BatteryTime lite app will compensate for it), I still want to keep my stock Li-Ion in good shape, and have good battery habits for my new monster!
I have also been having a new issue (started before the Hard Reset, but continued on after it) where my home button only refreshes whatever screen I am looking at, and does not return me to my home screens, causing me to have to hit the back button 8-40 times to return to the home screen, which in turn ruins any chance of leaving an app running in the background at a particular position. Happens about 90%-95% of the time. This has not changed since it started. I would also like to kill the touch based hardware search button, I have never used it intentionally, but hit it accidentally at least 10 times per day now. Very extremely annoying, almost enough for me to want to get a different phone!!
The biggest issue facing me now is keeping up with all the app updates!
been a long time since I posted anything, but I just compiled this list for a friend who is just now purchasing the Evo and thought I would share (note the numbers may go to 20, but that is because I omitted one for the public.
Ok, here are some tips and misc info I have found
1. do not put any (this means delete the default) widgets on the home screens that constantly update, kills the battery and make your phone run slow
2. go to menu –> settings –> accounts and sync | setup ALL accounts you might ever need to use from your phone, then put all of them to manual sync, except for email.turn off email (under google, then gmail, it is just a check box unlike the others), do this, because even with the recent updates the HTC mail app is still better (works with attachments, the gmail one has issues with attachments, sending and receiving), you can configure the HTC mail app to have 2 schedules, peak and non-peak. I set peak to 730am-9pm every 5 minutes and off peak to every 4 hours. If you do this your phone can sit (idle) on standby for an extra 3-8 hours then if you don’t.
3. live wallpapers are cute and fun, but drain your battery about 1.5% per hour +/- get some if you want, but only use them if you want to show your phone off, or for the first month or so, until you get tired of having to plug your phone in.
4. use the airplane mode widget I have (it is faster than the HTC one by a good 15-20 seconds or so), and turn it on when you go to bed, you should only go down 1% of battery over night if you do this. You do not need to periodically restart the phone. Right now I am at 670 hours uptime (menu –>settings–>about phone–>battery remember this, you will look here often).
5. use the HTC built in widget power control, it gives you 5 widgets in one, Wifi, BT, GPS, mobile data/sync = on/off button, plus brightness 0%/25%/100% toggle – I just recently stopped using that in favor of the brightness widget on my list, as this gives you a slider to adjust the brightness.
6. keep your brightness set at 12% or less all the time. you only need more if you are standing outside, the phone looks good with 100% brightness while outside, I am happy with that, with the new widget I normally set it to 60%-80% outside and that is good enough for me. This will add 1.5-3 hours to your battery.
7. Radio Shack has a good screen protector that I recommend, bad news it needs trimming and may have a jagged edge (you get 5 in a pack so try twice if you need to, got mine on the first try, but it is not perfect), good news is, it is long enough to go from just below the HTC logo all the down to just past the buttons. most of the ones for sale only cover the main display area, not the touch buttons. the screen won’t “scratch” it has gorilla glass, but you can get “nicks” in it, I have one or two I got in the first month I had it, about the size of a straight pin point (not the head). I got a replacement phone as mine had a bad USB connector, so I put the screen protector on, after what happened to my first one. (free replacement, it is a known hardware defect). This screen protector does not affect the touch sensitivity and does not use water to stick (some need water, if you use water, you will void any warranty through sprint and HTC, there are water detection strips on the batter, facing the USB port, so if water splashes or drips in there you are screwed, and another one just under the kickstand, so if water gets there, you are screwed.
8. Many games will kill your battery in 2-4 hours from a full charge, but do not display the battery meter in game, if you play games a lot, plug in while you do it, same with you tube and videos. Sometimes games are hard to see at <12% brightness, play the game first and if it s hard to see, just turn it up before you play and back down after.
9. you do not need to train your battery by power cycling it, it is ready to go the first time you use it, fyi they say to charge for 12+ hours with the phone off before first use, not sure if this affects it, I did not, and my battery life is worse than most report on the web. I could not resist, I waited for this phone from Sept 9th 2009 (give or take a couple of days first news about it on Engadget) until launch. Do not use task killers or startup managers, the first update after 2.2 got pushed made them obsolete and useless.
10. to install apps that are not directly from the marketplace (including archived apps from the market) you need to enable them, menu-->settings–>Applications and check the “unknown sources” box. While you are there, go to the development option and select debugging mode (necessary to use Easytether so you can use your phone for inet access on your laptop, good in the car too, I’ve maintained a connection from South Carolina to Virginia without dropping off once (was logged into citrix and an IM system for work)
11. omitted due to personal info
12. one of the reasons I got the extended battery, is with it installed the back is big enough to keep the camera lens off the surface the phone is sitting on, without it you will want to ALWAYS use the kickstand or put it in a pouch if you have one (I do not). a few people have reported scratched lenses, I don’t know how hard it is to scratch, but it is NOT gorilla glass. and it is not covered by the warranty. I bought the Seidio 3500mAh battery from mobile city online, they are an authorized HTC OEM manufacturer and are carried in the Sprint Stores (although they did not get the OEM HTC logo for this battery)
13. the 8GB SD card is fine unless you want to do movies and music on the phone (the HDMI out is barely acceptable and on auto detect mode, it only sends out 720p when I’ve tested, yes I bought a cable. It also ONLY shows movies and slideshows (not pictures, slideshows. Through the HDMI out. You can do remote streaming from your PC of music (not sure about video) using both Media player and Winamp, so no real reason to store a lot of music on the phone, other than ringtones, I have no music stored on my phone.
14. I set the default screen timeout to 2 minutes and the lock screen to 5 minutes, that way if the screen shuts off during use, you don’t have to unlock it, just turn it on and swipe the bar down (I use the pattern lock, which without the screen protector leave a distinct mark on the screen making it almost useless)
15. I use google maps and navigation, not sprint’s. sprin’s REQUIRES an active network connection and will actually just stop working and give you a loading progress bar if it loses the connection, but it does constantly check for faster routes and traffic, but it is really slow.
16.if you install more than 100-125 apps the app chooser runs slow and jerky (trying to load the cached icons), so I try to keep most apps archived.
17. If you install an app not from the marketplace, you can use AppBrain to find it on the Marketplace to check for updates.
18. when using the camera turn on GPS BEFORE launching the camera app, then go to settings and turn on Geo-tagging, from then on the Geo tagging will automatically enable IF GPS is on before you launch it, unless you touch the setting later while GPS is off (this brings you to the system screen to turn on GPS, but also disables the auto geo-tagging feature I just described). This allows you to decide if you want Geo-tagging simply by hitting th eGPS widget before launching or not, it will always try to geo-tag, even if you use the camera several times with GPS off. (verifiable by looking for the GPS icon on the camera display in the top left).
19. if you charge by USB port on your PC or laptop, check the output specs on your USB, standard on a laptop is only 300-450mAh and a desktop is normally 600-700mAh (on a 300-450mAh your battery will drain faster than it can be charged if you use the phone while it is plugged in, personal experience 7 hours plugged in while using the phone for pandora and constantly rating the songs, my charge went down 2% over that time, no wifi, no GPS). some Gigabyte MB’s have 3x USB power and send out a minimum of 1mAh (recommended charging Amperage for the Evo 4G and any crApple mobile devices) The extended battery I have and the stock battery are safe to charge at up to 1.5mAh but keep an eye on the heat levels (batterytime app I have shows the battery temp on your notification bar) anything over 112F and you need to find a way to cool it off (I have seen 118F on mine when charging by USB to cigarette adapter, and I quickly turned the AC on high and held the phone in front of the vent until it dropped to 89F, the air can go in through the rear speaker hole or the USB/HDMI ports to cool)
20. go to menu–>settings–>dock and turn off auto-launch, very annoying, many charging methods trigger this and it blocks you out of most of the phone features until you unplug the USB cable. (supposed to be an anti-texting feature when using a car dock)
I’m sure I’ll think of something else, but it can wait…
ok so to start, Appcelerator Titanium is still not working on either x64 or 32-bit Kubuntu 10.04. I even found a video on YouTube on setting it up for Ubuntu 9.10 that had about 4 or 6 steps and took almost zero time, in fact he did it in an edited 10 minute video and did not install and dependencies or compilers… (gcc, gcc++, python, or ruby) on a clean OS install. I am still not able to get it running. I have a new weird error I have not been able to find helpful info on at this point. will update this post early next week, I have a busy weekend ahead of me)
Final Fantasy XIII – still playing, found some things I am happy about, still not attached to my characters, although I care enough about my accessories that I want to complain that you don’t get them back when your party gets changed (which happens a lot). I spent all my gil upgrading 1 weapon for each and 3 accessories, and I don’t always get a chance to un-equip the accessories before there is a party swap. Also found a new thing that pisses me off!! THEY MADE UP WORDS TO THE CHOCOBO SONG!!! I can’t believe they stooped so low! (yes I know there was a pun in that statement)
Good news though, no 999hp limit (I know not the first FF to do so), damage is not capped at 9999 nor 99,999 (I believe, as the only not secret achievement in the game is do more than 100k damage in a single attack). I am now in chapter 8 and have noticed a significant ramping up of CP rewards, and CP cost for new abilities. I spent 4 hours at the level 7 sweet spot, Hope’s house, just run around inside and the soldiers respawn when you get halfway to the opposite side. I made 125k gil from celling incentive chips (2.5k each) and got 60 phoenix downs and 25k CP. not too bad a stash, but it was not enough… I could not buy any of the better upgrade components yet, so could only upgrade 1 item and 1 weapon (got Lightning’s starter sword to level 12, or maybe it was 11) and when I got to chapter 8 I was not able to max out anyone’s new CP skills. better yet! after I finished a relatively short and easy section wit h Sazh and Vanille (whom I always call vanilla) I had 33k CP available to upgrade the other team!! which means that easy part at Nautillus which took about 45 minutes +/- gave me almost as much CP as 4 hours in Hope’s house… if I had known that, I would have stuck around Nautillus a bit more.
Right, on to my PC state of affairs… again, I have been using KUbuntu 10.04 for a week or two now, and have an installation post to make still, have it written on little scraps of paper that I need to type up, all seems good, Fedora 13 should be out tuesday, I have prepared my system for a clean install of that on a separate HDD. Should get that done Wed, so there should be a post about that coming Saturday (maybe friday, I am going to try and post everything in the order it has been happening, so nothing gets left behind. Also look out for a post on Sprint’s HTV Evo 4G sooner or later (might wait till I pick mine up on June 4th!!! although I will be out of town that weekend to watch a dance recital, 4 yr old and a 9yr old). hopefully I will be posting my 32-bit Appcelerator install guide tonight if I can figure out this new error. I want to get started on a couple system apps/widgets for my Evo before I get it.
- New blog post... Diablo III closed Beta http://t.co/dKC2ChWm
- New blog post... resolving video problems with K-L-Ubuntu and XFX Radeon 6850 http://t.co/H6bXuMqi
- New blog post... Computer upgrades http://t.co/6PWVNy4m
- $7 for $15 Worth of Hand-Tossed Pizza, Calzones, and Drinks at Andolini's Pizza Charleston, SC http://t.co/QnKwPwB
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