Before I talk about the bad points (of which there are many) I do have to state that there are some welcome additions to the firmware. Firstly the whole experience feels faster, smoother and things like the wireless sync; podcasts and the go to artist option will be used and appreciated by many.

However there are so many other glaring problems and really bad decisions that you have to wonder who they actually get to road test these things before releasing them. I’m not going to go into them all but here are three which shows why the saying “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” should be tattooed on all Microsoft employees. more »

As it was Wednesday morning I decided to turn on my xbox 360 to see the new downloads and low and behold the dreaded RROD was back.

I then spent an hour turning it on and off and was presented with either the RROD or a crashed screen http://pong.uwstout..rmacy.html. However it is currently yet again back from the dead and let’s hope that it stays that way as I could do without the hassle coming up to Xmas.

However if it happens once more I will have no option but to contact Microsoft and get it sorted once and for all.

On Sunday it appeared to a staff member that insideproject may have been hacked so I was contacted to take a closer look at the problem.

Fortunately after extensive testing I found that it was a simple mistake from a staff member in the banning of a forum member which resulted in the bizarre situation that everyone, including staff members were being banned from using the forums viagra otc.

So I did a quick fix and everything seems to be back to normal now.

Just recently my launch day xbox 360 froze whilst playing. Unusual for me but it has happened before so I reset it as usual but to my dismay nothing happened. I tried another reset and was shown the dreaded 3 red lights.

Over the next day I periodically tested the console and either got a blank screen or the red ring of death – damn!

So after doing more tests I finally conceded and contacted Microsoft – well I say contacted, but in reality their online support forms were broken http://homepage.westmont.edu/make_account/images/pic/adobe-cs6-mac.html. So not only could I not arrange a repair online, a simple message to them using their contact us form was also impossible – not very impressive at all for a software giant.

In the end I sent an email and would you credit it, that very night I tested the xbox again and it was working. The next morning I once again switched it on and hey presto, it was still working fine. more »

Spent time this week fixing a few problems that seem to have cropped up over at insideproject – one of the projects I designed and constructed.

The first major problem was that the front page was having an include problem. It seems the web host had been playing with settings again (waves fist in an angry manner) so I’ve created a fix which seems to have solved the problem.

I also had to do a few tweaks to get it working with PHP5 as the forums were not showing any member profiles when clicked.

And finally there were a few more spamming issues that I’ve played with which should further reduce this annoying part of running a community.