I know I haven't been here for a while, but did GOTD change its timezone or something? At 8:40 PM my time (california), AstonShell2 was gone - in the past I've always been able to dl and/or install right up to midnight....WAAAAHHHH!!!!! I have been waiting for this....*rodent-sniff*....
Edited to add - I keep repeating "this probably is a GOOD thing" over and over so I'll feel better...does that work? Hell no...;-)
RosnSC
Member
In my time zone, the GOTD change over is at 3:00 am. It is now 12:22 am, where I am, and as you said, Aston is no longer available, however May 27's software hasn't been posted in its place. Don't know if it's just a glitch, or if GOTD is changing their time change-ups.
Yes, I noticed that as well - nothing for the 27th. Since this is something I really wanted to have, I'm going with the glitch theory - that's the way my universe usually operates LOL....
Damn...I love Aston stuff. Bought the last version of their shell when it was offered here 3 years ago. Figured it would be showing up when AltDesk and AstonMenu2 were here...*sigh*...this is probably a good thing....not!
native1
Member
I'm in Eastern time zone; giveaways are usually available until 3 a.m. I generally check the site late evening or early morning to see what the daily giveaway is. Adding my two-cents in hopes that this is just an error on the giveaway site and that this offer may be extended or re-offered so those of us who got left out may have a chance at trying this software.
Yeah, same problem here 1:30AM EST. The Switch-over doesn't normally take place until 3:00AM. Too bad, I used Aston Shell years ago and I would love to check it out and see what's new.
@goodgotd - that's right, rub that salt right in to this poor little hamster hide LOL (giveaway interuptus?! LOL!!!)...
Naturally, I dl'd the file right when it released last night - at midnight my time - but I wanted to hold off on installing it, until there was some decent user feedback. This is a new machine I'm on and a new OS, and as much as I love it, it's a bit twitchy at times - which, in my hands, can spell disaster, heh heh. So, see what happens when you try to do the responsible thing LOL? ....SHAFTED, right up the...erm, never mind, you get my drift ;)
+1 for a rerun
Well, it's just after midnight my time, the new giveaway is up, and it says I have 20 hours to get it....so it looks like GOTD is operating in a different time zone. Now that's cool with me, but why did I have to find out NOW when I actually wanted - and waited for - this particular program?!! I rarely see anything here that I really want - GAAAAH! Yeah, I know, I'm whining again...gotta do some where, might as well be here!! Is there anyone I can sink my little chompers into and have them do a rerun?
tekknokat
Member
I am calling "foul", because I tried to post the below post 90 minutes ago, and kept getting
Why did the Aston 2 close earlier than usual? I download these GOTD downloads until midnight Pacific California time every download since I have been using GOTD in January 2010.
Nobody here owes me anything Why did this change tonight? I downloaded here just this weekend up until 1:00 AM Denver Rocky Mountain Daylight Time, Process Lasso that RAM consumption manager, or Midnight California Pacific Daylight Time. I really wanted this Aston 2 download bad for Vista x64 bit, because recent Windows Update have made UX theme and theme.dll customizations literally impossible since New Years, my favorite themes widgets found at Deviant Art don't work in Vista x64 anymore.
I have a very progressive stage of Multiple Sclerosis and I didn't procrastinate to get here at 11:00 pm Rocky Mountain Daylight Time or 10:00 pm California Pacific Daylight Time tonight, and learn that the Aston 2 offer had been closed already, I was in serious pain and unable to stay in a desk chair, I use a desktop computer and my desk chair broke this weekend and dumped me on the floor twice this weekend, I needed to be sure I was wide awake before I risked getting in it again, and my Personal Care Provider went home early without asking me and I needed his help to get here safely, I risked life and limb to climb into this chair just to find out the offer was pulled early. I found out about Aston 2 earlier around 2:00 am, but had to leave for a medical appointment and needed to elevate my legs when I got home to prevent blood clots in my legs and leave them that way for 9:00 hours at least. This is truly frustrating you guys would change the time without telling us. I'm not even supposed to type until I have surgery on my left elbow to relocate my ulnar nerve, I am losing use of my left hand very quickly because of compression on the ulnar nerve in my elbow cleft there. My doctor says I risk losing my left hand every time I type, I feel too disrespected to care if I live or die.
But free or not free, I realize you guys are volunteering thankless precious time to do this, but I can't imagine a notice to let us know that the offers are no longer available for 24 hours would be out of the question. When the offer for Aston 2 went up this morning I was awake, and it said 23 hours and 54 minutes, and by that account it was misleading, I was here and it was misleading, and I had to work on forms to keep the medical stuff coming, and 22 hours was the earliest I could get here, and I have been too stunned for the last hour to decide what to say except that I have gotten nothing but disappointment from Giveaway of the Day and my other favorite giveaway site dotTech.org, with getting help with downloads and installing them and people being generally impolite except for Bubba who has been rather helpful when I brought up another matter that has been bothering me.
Of all the downloads I downloaded they are just consumption for the sake of getting something free because I am dirt poor and need software badly, stuff I will probably never use. I need a backup solution really bad, but I have had problems with the Paragon offerings in the recent past, and the last one I got I can't install becaue of an .msi problem. I really appreciate the animated wallpaper of fancy goldfish, that one I do like, most of the rest are really not stuff I can use. Sorry for the long rant, but it was a lot of trouble for me to boot up the Vista drive, get all the messages it's crappy Norton antivirus software needs updates and scans and sync my bandwidth meter with the Windows 7 to keep track of my Comcast usage, and I could have saved myself some big headaches if somebody hadn't pulled the plug early. Even a kind notice explaining why, would have been able to take some of the sting out of the situation. I'll shut my pie hole now, you won't hear from me for a while, sorry so long, I'm really put out over this.
Go back and read the entire comments for the day people, maybe unless you are running Windows XP, you don't want to risk installing Aston, some people had problems after installing. I got the Alt-Desk May 11, but I wouldn't use it in Windows 7 Ultimate x64, maybe Vista, definitely XP, wish I had it then, but I didn't have a decent machine with a fast P4 (mine was early slow Intel P4 only 1500Mhz) and more than 640 MB RAM that could run intensive software like this while running email and office software, RAM intensive browser like Avant, Orca, or Maxthon 2, even Flock, never was a fan of vanilla IE 7 or 8 or Firefox. Just sayin' that old computer would have crashed.
I am grateful of what you guys do. Just venting because of the obstacles I faced to get here tonight to find the download unavailable, again, I apologize if you think the criticism, blame, overly harsh. I know what I saw at 1:00 am Mountain Daylight Time this morning, it said 23 hours 54 minutes left on this download, today it says 20 hours after I couldn't submit my post, (glad I saved it to Wordpad before hitting "Send Post" so I wouldn't have to type it again), and some sort of communication would be polite. I am not short on gratitude, I just don't like being jerked around while I spend the terminal stages of life alone seeming to get disrespect from so many.
Oh well, looks like we'll have to put a little more effort into obtaining and installing giveaways we really want, to prevent similar predicaments. The last-minutes bustle and hustle doesn't render many good results.
Kimbe
Member
After reading the comments of how Aston 2 did not play nice on some systems, I spent the whole night planning and performing system image backups of my two laptops before installing Aston 2 in the morning. I am glad I managed to install Aston 2 before GAOTD prematurely pulled the plug on this Giveaway.. Yes, it's true it was prematurely ended, about three hours before it was due to.. I was shocked and very thankful when I checked the Gaotd site and saw the giveaway no longer available when it was supposed to be... Eventhough I managed to get the giveaway, I still think it is not right what happened... My heart goes out to all who missed out.. Again, I think it is not right... And the silence from Gaotd on this matter seems strange... and.. disconcerting....
we haven't had a day off for maintenance in a while...now i'm wondering if the shortened giveaway time & 504 Gateway Time-out were caused by that new "Bookmark and Share" thing being added...i'll ponder that, & leave the actual reason to the knowledgeable folks...
@ RosnSC: the giveaway changes at 3am for me, too (east coast usa)...when i checked at 11pm, it was already gone............that's what i get for watching the "Andre The Giant" Biography...
tekknokat
Member
Well, I visited here at 11:53 PM MDT Rocky Mountain Time here in Denver, and the Giveaway for May 27, 2010, the Ashampoo WinOptimizer 6, said that we have 1 hour and 7 minutes to download and install it. That would be usual with the procedures I am accustomed to since I have been a downloading visitor here. That would mean that the offer would have ended at 1:00 AM MDT Denver Rocky Mountain time, 3:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time East Coast, or 12:00 AM Midnight Pacific Daylight Time California, the way things are usually done around here.
Looks like the 26th was maybe a maintenance day as somebody already mentioned? A little explanation would have been appreciated, I don't think anybody thinks an apology is necessary or anything, since that would imply blame, and no blame is intended.
Of course maybe we should consider ourselves fortunate not to be among the people who found themselves with a black screen who couldn't log off Windows, log into safe mode, or bring up their Task Manager after installing Aston 2. I wonder if Whiterabbit-UK ever got their laptop working? The Comments when I read them yesterday morning the 27th on the original and archive Aston 2 download page had a handful of people who found their systems un bootable after installing this piece of eye candy, so maybe we were guinea pigs and this new software wasn't tested enough for general release?
Great people are behind this site with good intentions I bet, I haven't met them, but I want to have faith in that. If I complain it's because I'm venting one more thing in my life didn't go my way, and life sucks for more people than only myself these days, no one needs to remind me. Thank you and please don't give up on me, even if I complain now and then. I tried to post this all night, but I kept having accidents, falling asleep, stopping to take meds and getting distracted on the phone from personal care provider checking up on me, and I never made it to bed where I should be now. Being life threatening ill is no fun, and I don't want it to make me the bitter person I am turning into. Thanks again for a great site.
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