watchmen comic

finally read the watchmen comic

moore is a decent storyteller but needs a serious editor or something. a bunch of the comic is spent between flashbacks to 1950’s heros and some lame newsstand comic. the guy working at the newsstand gets about the same time as our main characters ffs!

the middle of the comic spends way too much time being a bad soap opera. and the girl learns that she was the child of a rapist! oh noes! spoilers! what a waste of time.

at least the end was pretty good. as for the movie, i have some hope for it if they drop all of that lame ass flashback/comic parallel.

not sure if i’ll read anymore of moore’s comics. v for vendetta had a similar 1st act great, 2nd act shit, 3rd act explosion ftw style. the 2nd act is so bad i almost stopped reading both series.

google chrome does not work on windows 2000 ?

solutions for chrome on win2k at the bottom of this post!

darn! i likes me my win2k
http://www.google.com/chrome/thankyou.html
user-agent linux gets you a linux chrome email subscribe url
user-agent googlebot gets an html page that works sorta…

using filemon doesnt really tell me what the installer is looking for.
it cant find wship6.dll, using wship6.dll from winxp gives a new error

The procedure entry point RtlIpv6AddressToStringExW could not be located in the dynamic link library ntdll.dll
installation failed. please try again. error code = 0×80040154

looks like chromesetup is using some xp crap for ipv6, why did they enable this by default for the beta?

anyone have any tricks for getting around this ?

downloading what the 400k chromesetup.exe grabs
http://cache.pack.google.com/chrome/gears/0.4.17.0/gears-chrome-opt.msi
http://cache.pack.google.com/chrome/install/149.27/chrome_installer.exe

doesnt seem to help, running chrome_installer makes a .log file in temp
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp>cat chrome_installer.log
[0902/204401:ERROR:main.cc(252)] Chrome only supports Windows XP or later

next step is to find where it installs chrome on xp and zip it and bring it to win2k.

ok, after copying chrome.exe over to win2k box and moving the chrome.dll where it can find it. i get a new error! yay new errors!!!

the procedure entry point heapsetinformation could not be located in the dynamic link library kernel32.dll

this one looks like a game ender. unless chrome.exe can be patched or trick it into using a diff kernel32.dll without bringing my box down.

anyways, you can find daily builds of chrome aka chromium here:
http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/waterfall/
http://code.google.com/chromium/

there is a bugreport/feature request for windows 2000 at the official chromium bugzilla / roundup / issue list
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=547

while you are waiting, read the google chrome comic book
http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/

two people have solutions for getting it to work now!

thanks for posting your solutions in the comments!

In order to run Chrome under W2k, you need to install Update Rollup 1 for Windows 2000 SP4 (KB891861) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B54730CF-8850-4531-B52B-BF28B324C662&displaylang=en

Apparently you can according to this japanese guy:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.livedoor.jp%2Fblackwingcat%2Farchives%2F139405.html&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=ja&tl=en

edit: btw, none of these has worked for me and i still dont have chrome on my win2k box.