Dysfunctional Homogenisation

I’m twittering as Cr0w1ey these days as people have got my usual handles. There should be a feed of my last few tweets over there somewhere –>
I’m still blogging occasionally, but only when something really grabs my attention as the iPhone makes Twitteting so much easier!

Well, I’ve finally got down in cold HTML the idea that’s been knocking around my head for a while: A list of the tracks in all the Guitar Hero and Rock Band games I own sorted by artist. Anyway, have a look over here, comments welcome.

All I can find is posts asking what it is and what it does. So, what is it???

Availible at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949104

Issues that are fixed by version 7.2.6001.784 of the Windows Update Agent:

After 48 hours of waiting, 1 visit to the O2 store and 2 phone calls, I finally got my iPhone up and running by taking the SIM from my old phone and popping it into the new handset.
So, now it’s all up running, I’m really pleased. The text entry is surprisingly easy and quite fast, even only using one finger (I’ll get up to using two at some point), the navigation is fluid and intuitive, to the point that when I went to take some old files from the K800 it seemed strange to use the joystick to navigate. Anyway, on to the niggles;
No MMS support to speak of, no ability to forward an SMS, setting up a custom ringtone is a mission and it’s impossible to use a custom message tone.
All that aside, I just wouldn’t give it up for twice the price

Well, needless to say, I caved pretty quickly to the idea and picked up my new iPhone 3G yesterday (but I did manage to restrain myself to the 8Gb version)
I’d like to say how pleased I am with it, but I’m still waiting for the idiots at O2 to deactivate my old SIM so at the moment I can only use it over the wireless network at home. Grr…

We’re using ISA 2006 in the office these days and have been running into a problem with an odd little .net application from an external third party giving 407 errors whenever we try to use it. Anyway, after a little digging and tinkering around, I came across this:

Modify C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG\machine.config (assuming it’s a .net 2 application!) At the bottom of the file, just above </configuration>, add:

  <system.net>

    <defaultProxy enabled="true" useDefaultCredentials="true">

    </defaultProxy>

  </system.net>

That means that the app will pass the user’s logon credentials to the proxy (poxy!) server, and allow the app out to the ‘net.

I’ve had my eye on the HP MediaSmart Home Server for the longest time and when I eventually get mine, upgrading the RAM to 1Gb is probably one of the first mod’s I’ll be doing (the whole ‘If it ain’t broke’ adage is so wrong if you work in IT.) Fortunately, the madmen over at HomeServerHacks.com (love the name) have posted a helpful how-to (with pictures) over here so any idiot can do it. These people are going to put us techy’s to shame!

Hamonix and EA have finally announced the launch date for Rock Band on the 360 - May 23rd (Yay!)

Unfortunately, they’ve also announced the pricing for the game; the RRP is £49.99 and there won’t be a ‘game and instruments bundle’ so you’ll have to buy the ‘Instruments Edition’ for £129.99 - that’s the microphone, drums and a guitar (as far as I know, the guitar in the bundle is wired.) Alternatively, you can pick up a guitar for about £60 (possibly wireless) or a drum kit for £70 (prices courtesy of play.com which have carved lumps off the RRP for the instruments and game down to about £130 from £180)

Strike that from my wish list.

(Feel free to post feedback to the EMEA Community Manager AceyBongos, the Xbox Live Director of Programming MajorNelson or over at EuroGamers - I know I certainly have.)

My next car? Launching in Autumn apparently…

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/autoexpressnews/217407/ford_fiesta.html