My SMT5600 smartphone started giving me grief today – out of nowhere, it refused to boot up. It would show the Rogers (my carrier) logo, then the Windows Mobile screen, and either hang there, or boot again. I installed some third party software today, and I suspect that one of these apps did something that […]
I finally have everything pretty much working. My StarChoice DSR530 is being driven by the Media Center PC I put together, it’s recording shows through the Hauppauge WinTV-PVR 150, and I can play them back through the XBox 360. The Media Center UI coming out of the XBox 360 looks great – it’s an HDTV […]
I had the three flashing red lights on the ring of light problem yesterday, and in searching around on the ‘Net, I found one or two posts that said that hitting the console actually helped. Since mine was going back to the store anyway, I figured I’d give it a try. Turns out a sharp […]
My XBox 360 decided to start blinking red lights at me on Christmas Day. This is an XBox that’s seen a lot of use and never had a problem for the last month, but suddenly, after a short road trip, now it’s unhappy. I was playing a game when the screen went to a mess […]
Hackers are working on figuring out the guts of the XBox 360, and so far it doesn’t seem like there’s been much real progress. Lots of discovery of what’s in there, and finding where the walls are, but the walls don’t seem to be in any danger. The XBox 360 uses a hypervisor architecture. My […]
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Windows Live Local is now live. Virtual Earth was a bit of a dud when it was released, but Microsoft has had a chance to go back and spend some time working on it. How much better is it now? Um… better? I’m in Ottawa, and there’s still no satellite coverage of Canada. The vector […]
I’m trying to connect the XBox 360 to my music, videos, and pictures. The XBox 360 can connect to a service called Windows Media Connect, which in turn can connect to network shares. This lets the XBox 360, which can’t be on my domain, connect to a service which is running on a machine which […]
Microsoft says the number of defective XBox 360’s is less than 3% of all units, and that this is below the industry average (via Joystiq). Presumably these things are tested before they leave the factory; I wonder what happens on the trip between the factory and the living room that causes about 1 in 30 […]
Given that some folks are saying that VS2005 is unstable and unreliable, I just wanted to add a positive data point. I’ve been running it (on a machine which also had the betas installed) and if I have had Visual Studio crash on me, I can’t remember it. It certainly doesn’t happen often enough that I’d […]