Posts by Brian17 posts • joined Monday 21st May 2007 15:14 GMT
Posted Monday 22nd February 2010 16:05 GMT
I would hope most people wanting to use this as a media center, would get the 5.1/7.1 audio via the HDMI port, no?
Posted Friday 4th December 2009 09:55 GMT
In Windows 'openness' hailed in Nintendo game defeat
Yes, MS does let anyone that wants to develop software for the xbox360. You have to pay them to get the right to do so with an account to submit to xbox live, but Nintendo doesn't even allow that. Not just anyone can call nintendo and get a development kit.
Through DreamSpark you could (can?) get free access. XNA (the development environment) is free, so with a little effort you can develop against the 360 for free.
Posted Monday 24th August 2009 14:26 GMT
In Apple to offer own-brand HDTV, claims analyst
The remote will have one button.
Posted Monday 24th August 2009 13:47 GMT
In Microsoft responds to Xbox's 54% failure rate
I'm surprised the Wii failure rates are that low. Everyone I know that has purchased a Wii has had to send it in. I will say Nintendo's service is top-notch.
My xbox on the other hand has been rock solid and it gets played a lot more than the wii and is used for a number of other things like watching movies.
PS3.. what's that? :)
Posted Wednesday 19th August 2009 16:04 GMT
In MS pumps out near-ready version of Exchange Server 2010
If you have such a hard time, call the regional MS account manager and ask for help. We've had several resources come in free of charge to help us plan out Exchange 2007 migration.
As for the re-install comment, the only reason you wouldn't have an upgrade path is if you are currently on a 32bit platform. Otherwise, there is an upgrade path. If you want to continue running exchange on a 32bit platform, then you must be at a very small shop.
Lastly, if exchange isn't stable for you then.. well you must be clueless.
Posted Wednesday 19th August 2009 16:04 GMT
In Opera chief warns on equal access to Windows services
Opera folks should actually try running windows 7. 'Windows Update' doesn't use a browser anymore, so I'm not sure what they are talking about when they say they want access to "sites that help keep users' PCs secure and updated".
Posted Monday 2nd March 2009 22:25 GMT
In IBM bricking Seagate SATA disks
The original Barracuda firmware problems did include the enterprise drives. In fact, the non-enterprise drives were fixed first and enterprise customers were made to wait 2-3 more weeks before the firmware was available. The kicker is the enterprise firmware won't apply to OEM drives, so these IBM customers can't just go to Seagate's site and get the firmware updates. IBM will have to provide them unless Seagate removes the restriction from their installer.
Posted Monday 9th February 2009 17:19 GMT
In Official Amazon Kindle 2 images leak out
pre-order now:
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Posted Friday 12th December 2008 20:05 GMT
No they are leading edge. On the Left image the fan spins counter clockwise. They are strange looking blades
Posted Tuesday 18th November 2008 08:35 GMT
In Obama's BlackBerry to be banned?
Umm.. thats the whole point of a BES server is to be able to archive everything that goes through the phone. If you have a blackberry, big brother IS watching.
Posted Friday 14th November 2008 15:53 GMT
In Google to launch iPhone voice search app
Why in the hell are they comparing it to Microsoft's 'tellme' when 'Mobile Live Search' does voice based searches extremely well.. no limit to categories. And has been available for over a year.
Posted Saturday 12th April 2008 19:22 GMT
In Blockbuster to release Apple TV set-top box rival?
Put that service in my xbox and I will subscribe. Make me buy another box to put by my TV and you can keep your little box. forget it..
Posted Friday 4th April 2008 21:03 GMT
In Microsoft denies Lite-On Blu-ray rumour
BD-J will require some sort of JVM on the xbox. I don't see that happening. People think you just slap a drive on and it works. Not so...
Posted Tuesday 1st April 2008 16:16 GMT
In Blu-ray drive in development for Xbox 360
The xbox is already 2 years old.. it sounds like the bluray version would be the next version.
And all the other stuff you mentioned... I don't know anybody with an xbox without an hdd. There was some slow downs with the online service, but that was right after christmas.. all good now. And the jet engine comment, if you stick the thing in an area with no air circulation of course it will get loud. I guess the quiet consoles would just shut down from thermal protection?!
Lastly, I would prefer to be able to add things on to my system instead of it being all built in. It makes my console less likely to become obsolete. It must suck to own a console that still can't do half of what a two year old console can do. :)
Posted Tuesday 1st April 2008 03:29 GMT
In Nvidia drivers named as lead Vista crash cause in 2007
To all of you wondering why creative isn't on the list.. the audio stack was moved out of the kernel. An audio driver can't crash the system now.
Posted Thursday 24th May 2007 14:42 GMT
In Dell deploys overclocked, liquid-cooled gaming PC
Where can you find a 500GB 10K rpm drive?
667mhz close to 1066MHz?
2x Nvidia GeForce 7300 GT 256Mb is close to 2 8800 GTX w/768MB?
I have an overlocked Intel Celeron 366 running at 466 that's been running XP since the day it was purchased. Overclocked doesn't always mean unreliable or unstable, if done right.
Posted Monday 21st May 2007 15:23 GMT
In No end in sight for Vista's Long Goodbye
I was having long delays with some connectivity to systems in our DMZ or to systems on the internet (RDP to internet bound systems) and Vista would hang. Disabling the tcp/ip auto-tuning fixed the issues:
netsh interface tcp set global autotuning=disabled
Rock on.. This was the only issue I had with Vista. I'm VERY happy now, won't go back.
