Critics review 'An Unexpected Journey'

Would love too, but not good with computers. I end up loseing my temper.

Hello Chris!

Yeah, the first time I downloaded an early small copy of Petty's LotR edit I had to call for help from a computer geek friend who fortunately was a bit of a Tolkien fan. It took about 45 minutes, though I guess the bigger ones take longer. It's not hard once somebody walks you through it, and they're really cool!

Or you could do what I'm doing now and mailing him a flash drive. It takes a month or more to get back here, but then all I have to do is stick it into the USB slot, open the file and play!

Im not much better Chris, But, I seem to pick things up if you show me & dont whizz thru it at 100 miles an hour ! If I get stuck I ask, or google it. But its much nicer to have someone with you to show things, then you can also ask "whats this ?"..."whats that ?"..... & I make notes, or bookmark the page for later reference. Its the computer JARGON that gets me !!!! Speak in words we can all use !

I want to press download and then i want to press play. Why can't it be that simple ?

I know !!!! You have to download this & then download that, & still have to wait to watch it ! & dont get me onto burning stuff onto a disc. There's more shit than you realise when you fiddle about wanting things !

I find it takes longer to explain to people how to download and watch my edits than it takes to actually do it.
It sounds more vcomplicated than it is- all it really boils down to is folowing a ling, downloaing a folder full of files, extract them and watch.

If you do opt for just sending me a mem stick to bung them on Chris you will need a mem stick thats quit big- 40 gigish for alll LotR's plus TH.

upload to YouTube

For me the critical thing was finding an unrar utility. I think it must be built into Windows but not into mac. But then Norc pulled it off, and as far as I know she doesn't use the unix command line, so I dunno how she did it.

I dont think winrar or anythng is part of windows, its just very common to be on a pc as well as windows when you buy it- and if not its easy enough to get with a quick google search.

I havent used a mac since I was at college and that ws 20 years a go so I supect they are a bit different now!
I assumed there was a mac version of winrar- but I havent looked to be honest.

Just did a quick search -
unRarX 2.2

seems popualr on mac and

RAR Expander 0.8.5 for Mac OS X

uses the same rar progammae as winrar so should work fine.

Those may work within OS X automatically. With my unix leaning I looked for something that let me do it by command line, searching for 'unix rar'. Should have searched for 'OS X rar' and I would have come up with what you did. I suppose that's what Norc did, but we have to wait for her to finish her test to find out.

5 hour math test??

OS X doesn't even feel like a unix system

That's the beauty of it. Unix would totally suck if it weren't so powerful. OS X lets you ignore the unreal klutzy geekiness of unix for most things, but it's there for you when you want it. I spend about 20% of my time on Unix for work related stuff, and occasionally for non-work. Nothing is better than unix for things like finding all files with the word 'petty' in them and moving them to their own safeguarded folder.

compromise is what it is

Pettytyrant101 wrote:I find it takes longer to explain to people how to download and watch my edits than it takes to actually do it.
It sounds more vcomplicated than it is- all it really boils down to is folowing a ling, downloaing a folder full of files, extract them and watch.

If you do opt for just sending me a mem stick to bung them on Chris you will need a mem stick thats quit big- 40 gigish for alll LotR's plus TH.

Where do i send it ?
A mem stick ? Is that one of those usb things's
Gigish. You taking the piss

Where do i send it ?

I can pm you my address.

A mem stick ? Is that one of those usb things's

Yup

Gigish. You taking the piss

A bit. 50gig is good- that way you get bonus Who to fill out any remaining space.

I found your files of lotr's, but they failed to download for some reason.

pm me your thingy. much easyer

That looks out of date Chris so they wont download.
I will send you the new links before getting you to send a usb here- as downloading should be a lot quicker than post to and from Oz!

Could you pm me your email address please.

You meen you'v lost it ??

I mean I cant be arsed going through the list for it!

Not sure weather it will be quicker

Pettytyrant101 wrote:I mean I cant be arsed going through the list for it!

mmmmmmm sounds le git