{"id":137,"date":"2004-10-16T02:10:14","date_gmt":"2004-10-16T09:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/wp\/?p=137"},"modified":"2004-10-16T02:10:14","modified_gmt":"2004-10-16T09:10:14","slug":"its-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/its-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Its official&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windows XP Service Pack 2 doesn&#8217;t boot on my machine. Thanks to a slipstreamed SP2 installation disc from nifty sources, I was able to confirm this. So, I am staying away from SP2 and have an SP1 install chugging away just fine right now.<\/p>\n<p>Since I was installing my Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum drivers today anyway, I noticed the DVD Audio stuff that I had never really played around with, since my last machine wasn&#8217;t up to the task of playing it. Well, my current machine <em>is<\/em> up to the task, and I was quite impressed. Computers are so cool.<\/p>\n<p>It will be a while before I have everything back to exactly how I like it, but I never planned on having a real permanent installation on this computer anyway, so thats acceptable.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, when I reinstalled Steam (one of my first tasks &#8211; amazing considering how much I used to detest the thing) I noticed that Half Life 2 Bronze, Silver, and Gold packs are being presold. So now I have to figure out if playing CS: Source is worth it, or if I should hold out for the Platinum Pack that will be available from retailers with a T-shirt. After all, I do have the original platinum pack&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows XP Service Pack 2 doesn&#8217;t boot on my machine. Thanks to a slipstreamed SP2 installation disc from nifty sources, I was able to confirm this. So, I am staying away from SP2 and have an SP1 install chugging away just fine right now. Since I was installing my Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum drivers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}