Nakor's Articles
July 19, 2005 by Nakor
The current build of Stardock Central is inappropriately showing that some people can "update" their DesktopX install to DesktopX Professional 3.1. Please untick that box if you are using the updates window. It's not going to harm anything if you don't (it'll say you've updated to DesktopX 3.1 Pro, but won't really download the files to do it, unless you have a registration for it), but I can see where it would cause some confusion. We'll get that fixed in the next SDC update. Unless...
January 21, 2004 by Nakor
Started last night with taping coverage of the State of the Union and followup commentary for The Political Machine team. Spent the early part of the day fighting with IconPackager over stripping out updating author info from icon packages. With Brian's help, we worked around that so Jake could test a CD version of IconPackager (requested by more people these days). Took some 6 installs to get OpenBSD 3.4 happily installed on an older machine. It didn't seem to be too fond of the ZIP dri...
November 24, 2003 by Nakor
The server with most of the library downloads is refusing to come back from a reboot. It's possible we're going to have to roll back to an archive, but we're kind of stuck until we hear back from the co-lo. It does not help that this is a holiday week here in the US and lots of people/plans are in flux. The outage will continue in some fashion into Tuesday (GMT-5) Sorry, everybody. For those of you in the US, enjoy your holidays. For everyone else, cook a turkey and some cranberries and t...
November 24, 2003 by Nakor
One of our server hard drives is trying to fail on us. RAID has helped with it so far, but library downloads are suspended while we make some additional snapshots of the current data set.
August 16, 2003 by Nakor
As of 10am Saturday (GMT-5), most everything should be back up and running. Anyone with existing Stardock Central accounts should have continued to be able to download components and updates over the course of the problems. Orders and the support page to send your serials from https://www.stardock.com/support are now back as well. There will be some catching up over the next couple of days, especially as its the weekend.
August 2, 2002 by Nakor
Our online store is under heavy load after OD2002 was demonstrated on TechTV. If it is unresponsive, please try your order again this weekend or early next week.
September 6, 2001 by Nakor
In the weekend of the 27th and 28th of october a meeting will be organized for the European skinning community in Brussels - Belgium. In the following link you will find price info of various hotels, youth hostels and bed & breakfasts in that city. For more iformation, email MadIceXIII@hotmail.com.