Today was a terrible day. I got one things accomplished. It was a big thing, of course, but it took ALL day.
I downloaded a nice little program called Arty's Flash Ripper, which rips flash projects from all flash-using sites except youtube and google. I then ripped a nice little promotional video from the website of the company I'm promoting. The end of the flash movie led to a PHP link, though, and I have no PHP on my site. This was a HUGE problem. Sooooo...here's what took all day.
I downloaded a thousand different trial versions of "Flash Getter", which has the capability of protecting and unprotecting flash movies. Since the movie was ripped in a protected state, I needed this program badly. It took me 2 hours to crack the latest one.
I then found that Adobe Flash CS3 doesn't EDIT previously made Flash movies. Soooooooo I downloaded a litle program called the Eltima Flash Decompiler. Ohhhh god, the problems this caused....I searched and searched for cracks the worked. I found like 18 different cracks. So I installed the program once, and used a crack. The crack killed my program and I had to uninstall it again. This happened with EVERY crack. So what'd I do? I downloaded a beta version of the program and cracked it myself. Again. This took another two hours. The process of trying to FIND a previously made crack took me 5 hours.
All this trouble led me to have a working copy of both programs. So I unprotected the movie, removed the stupid little script that links to the page that doesn't exist...and finally had a good movie. Luckily I had no problems putting that movie on my page, or I'd have to shoot a Prepaid Legal lawyer.
Well, just had to vent my frustration. Please have a look at that video? I deserve it >.<
~~Swib
Subject: The damned legal site.... 
Sat Sep 01, 2007 7:48 pm
