There’s a whole world of hacking that the XBox 360 is going to open up. But this one mentioned in The Inquirer isn’t one of them: CRACKERS HAVE already discovered a method of illegally adding MP3 storage capacity to Microsoft’s super soaraway Xbox 360. What the “crackers” have discovered is that the XBox 360 supports […]
I mentioned that I was going to install Windows XP Media Center Edition in a VM to see if I could stream videos to the XBox that way, and it works! Not as well as I’d like it to – for some reason the XBox 360 can’t see the network folder that I have my […]
I don’t understand the limitation that Microsoft places on their “Home” operating systems, that they cannot join a domain. A domain is a perfect solution for a home. I have a server in the basement that stores music, and I have a number of desktop computers and laptops. The benefits of using a domain, like […]
I posted about how much I like Windows Media Connect and the way it lets you access media on your computer network from the XBox 360 without having to do a lot of configuring on the 360; but the drawback is the thing is a memory hog. The process name for the service is is […]
The domains.live.com guys have a blog. I called them out for not having an SSL certificate from one of the usual authorities, so Firefox doesn’t trust them. I wonder if my previous post on this is the one referred to here: Regarding the certificate (one blogger noted that our SSL cert isn’t trusted by Firefox), […]
The problem I mentioned yesterday accessing xbox.com from Firefox is still happening. Seems like a pretty big problem to go unfixed for so long.
There are probably a thousand articles with this title being posted today. I think my XBox 360 experience is maybe atypical because what I was looking forward to wasn’t the gaming, so much as it was the digital media center. And so far I have to say, it delivers. The original XBox did a few […]
If you’re having trouble connect to xbox.com, try using Internet Explorer. Trying to connect using Firefox gives me a “Server is unavailable” message, but Internet Explorer has no troubles.
I’ve been thinking about platforms, and about monopolies recently. I was one of the few who didn’t think Microsoft was a monopoly. The Canadian government defines monopoly this way: “A monopoly occurs when there is only one seller of provides a commodity or service for which there is no close substitute.”. Is the Macintosh a […]
One of the things I’ve been looking forward to with the XBox 360 is a quieter console. Looks like that’s not the casenot the case. Oh well… at least with the wireless controller I can stash it away somewhere… in the new house I’m planning to have a shelf in the next room for gear […]