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What do you mean the cake is a lie?!

kayakermanmike — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:02:10 +0000

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The Prosecution Presents Exhibit B:

kayakermanmike — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:02:45 +0000

Wednesday November 14th

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When Hell Freezes Over

kayakermanmike — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:36:38 +0000

My tree hugging, anti video gaming wife surprised me today. When she came home and found I had brought work home, something luckily I rarely have to do these days, she fired up the 360, logged into the profile we set up for her last night when we were racing in Forza Motorsport 2 (another surprise) and began finding and downloading game demos from Xbox Live Marketplace to find games she would be interested in.

Proof

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Use Server 2003 to get files to your Xbox 360

kayakermanmike — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:59:00 +0000

EDIT: It seems I should have read all the comments. Apparently 2k3 lacks two services that won’t allow it to share media using wmp11. I set up sharing using my desktop to test if it was worth it, seems I see a tiny fraction of my media, it looks like only stuff in Microsoft format. So far the old xbox has been spared being moved from the entertainment center.

I’ll start with this, since everyone has the same response: Yes I own 2003 legally, why is this such a surprise that an individual could care to have a real (lets forget the linux vs MS bashing on this one) server environment in their home? I have need to host a few small web sites, run some simple PVR software, and to run data collection from my weather station as services, I enjoy the ease of maintaining the box since I have no useful experience with linux servers, and I use it as an environment with RAID to store my photos and mp3 collection.

So when I discovered there was no easy way to stream any of that media to my xbox 360, I was a bit disappointed, but I didn’t give up. I’ve long been using my Xbox (1) to stream files to my entertainment center using the awesome, Xbox Media Center. Of course this meant if I wanted continued functionality, I had to keep both machines in the already over crowded entertainment center.

In order to share media with a 360, you either need a machine running XP and Media Player 11, or a media center pc. I had no desire to bring up yet another pc that was on all the time just to share files. With a bit of searching, I found an excellent article on getting WMP11 on to your 2k3 box. So far, I’ve got it installed, the only gotchya (if your sans-sleep) was that the search does not check hidden files and folders unless you specify to do so under “More Advanced Search Options.”

When I found the desired files I decided to copy them out on to my desktop, where I also pasted the article into a text file. This way I can burn all this to a cd and use it later, without the searching if I lose my OS. Install was easy, all files did need to be run in compatibility mode, and it was a bit scary restarting the machine remotely, but hey, WTH right?

So I got it installed, with the help of that article, and it has been configured to use my media, of which is a bit limited in file types. The next test will be to see if I can truly fire up the 360 and use the media, at least some of it anyway.

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Belated. . .

kayakermanmike — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:49:51 +0000

I’d make a horrible Dad. I know it. Know why? Got any clues? Well, in 2006 on 10-25 at 9:57 P.M. I posted my first article here on Brickblog. Why, I remember when this blog was still in diapers, I was excited to get 1 visit after posting oh so many articles. To date, I’m up to 4,694 visits since I installed Google Analytics (November 9, 2006) to track such things. Truly amazing. What’s even scarrier is when I analyze what kinds of articles bring people to my site, I see when you search for d40 vs d70 my site comes up #1 in google.

So lets think back to what brought this blog to life. . .

Oh thats right, those damn raccoons. They’re still around, in fact I had great fun, ehr, I mean I was left no other option, then to shoot one a couple weeks ago with my paintball gun while I had the electric fence repurposed on the garden for the summer.

But of course, I wouldn’t be here with such an audience if it wasn’t for my peeps. Those folks that both read my insane ramblings, and those that link to my blog. So since I can’t thank every single one of you by name, I’ll be certain to report out what WordPress tells me are the good folks linking to my site.

Thanks!

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Wii Sixty: File under – Suck it Sony

kayakermanmike — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:35:18 +0000

Now, of course after meeting it’s partner in wasting my time, the Nintendo Wii went back in the closet. Christmas is soo far away! But, I finally had enough put aside to pick up an Xbox 360 Holiday Pack when we saw it at Walmart picking up a few things today. Great deal, its the 360 Premium w/HDMI and appears from looking through the grate to be of the new 65nm cpus. It also comes with 2 games. Sweet Forza is O.K. (I’m not a big realistic racing fan) and so far Marvel Ultimate Alliance looks like it will be good. Similar to an early version I own. Finally the Walmart extended warranty seems to be a great deal too. It adds 2 yrs on to the warranty and covers just about anything excluding me throwing the system across the room and only cost $28. Hopefully I won’t need it but knowing some folks are on their 5th box, it seemed well worth it.

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