Please insert the correct DVD-ROM
My current pc has come back from warranty repairs; The motherboard was at fault two times in a row. Each repair cycle took 7-10 days for the pc to be shipped off, fixed and then returned. I've been spending some time with the old pc and its games. I played a bit of Galactic Civilisations and I thought that I would see how Medieval Total War 2 ran on the new machine. It has a Solid State hard drives (SSDs) rather than a traditional hard drive and is one of the best upgrades I have made in a long while as everything runs faster and quieter. MTW2 will install but when I run it I get a message "Please insert the correct DVD-ROM" and it exits to the desktop.
After rooting around the internet it turns out that many games written in a world before SSDs look for IDE drivers while SSDs work on AHCI. The solution to this involves disabling the AHCI drivers, installing the IDE drivers and hoping this doesn't cause any new problems to appear. Games from just a few years ago, now transiting through data degradation. I had a similar experience looking for roleplaying links, when free hosting sites such as geocities die they cull the users of that time period. Fortunately there is the digital archaeology of the Wayback Machine which offers the users of the internet a chance to find long lost treasures, new adventures and new lands. They long to cross uncharted seas and discover unknown countries. To find secret gold on a mountain trail high in the Andes. They dream of following the path of the setting sun that leads to El Dorado, and the Mysterious Cities of Gold.
Speaking of Gold, it has taken a mighty tumble in the past few days. Some say that it might fall towards $1200 before finding long term support. Safe havens from financial chaos should not behave in such a volatile manner, they should be predictable and stable.
In 2010 the govt was convinced that it needed to embark on a policy of austerity. They said it was necessary, politically and economically. The previous govt had allowed a debt crisis to occur so a political signal had to be sent that the coalition took debt repayment seriously. The IMF, OECD and academics took turns to praise the govt's course of action. In 2009 Professors Rogoff and Reinhart published a book This Time is Different which set out the vital importance of resolving debts in a timely manner.
Since then the IMF has realised that Austerity is tough medicine when taken at home. This view was probably thought of as anecdotal when the IMF applied its slash and burn policies to Latin America and Africa but here in the 1st world, we just didn't realise it.
Now it seems that the data in the book by the esteemed Professors could have been miscalculated, stripping away the prestige of academic credibility the govt has hung onto. A coding error in excel, or maybe it was the wrong drivers on the system. Just re-install, reboot, sure it'll be fine. Your govt, now transiting through policy degradation.
After rooting around the internet it turns out that many games written in a world before SSDs look for IDE drivers while SSDs work on AHCI. The solution to this involves disabling the AHCI drivers, installing the IDE drivers and hoping this doesn't cause any new problems to appear. Games from just a few years ago, now transiting through data degradation. I had a similar experience looking for roleplaying links, when free hosting sites such as geocities die they cull the users of that time period. Fortunately there is the digital archaeology of the Wayback Machine which offers the users of the internet a chance to find long lost treasures, new adventures and new lands. They long to cross uncharted seas and discover unknown countries. To find secret gold on a mountain trail high in the Andes. They dream of following the path of the setting sun that leads to El Dorado, and the Mysterious Cities of Gold.
Speaking of Gold, it has taken a mighty tumble in the past few days. Some say that it might fall towards $1200 before finding long term support. Safe havens from financial chaos should not behave in such a volatile manner, they should be predictable and stable.
In 2010 the govt was convinced that it needed to embark on a policy of austerity. They said it was necessary, politically and economically. The previous govt had allowed a debt crisis to occur so a political signal had to be sent that the coalition took debt repayment seriously. The IMF, OECD and academics took turns to praise the govt's course of action. In 2009 Professors Rogoff and Reinhart published a book This Time is Different which set out the vital importance of resolving debts in a timely manner.
Since then the IMF has realised that Austerity is tough medicine when taken at home. This view was probably thought of as anecdotal when the IMF applied its slash and burn policies to Latin America and Africa but here in the 1st world, we just didn't realise it.
Now it seems that the data in the book by the esteemed Professors could have been miscalculated, stripping away the prestige of academic credibility the govt has hung onto. A coding error in excel, or maybe it was the wrong drivers on the system. Just re-install, reboot, sure it'll be fine. Your govt, now transiting through policy degradation.