Xbox pull confirmed at retail and by publishers
SPOnG has received emails that indicate a complete withdrawal of Xbox hardware in the coming months, with claims surfacing today of a total end to generation one Xbox production.
Haven’t seen this confirmed anywhere yet…
Geek lust has never been so intense. I’m still in the futzin’ phase. I’ve played some Ridge Racer (which is awesome) including wireless head-to-head from a good 100 feet apart. Mostly I’ve just been gawking at the thing and caressing it lovingly… er. Ahem. Did I say that out loud?
I’m reading a lot of talk about bad pixels. I’ve seen 3 purchased units running so far, and haven’t found a bad pixel yet.
I do have one small gripe and that’s with wireless connectivity. I was trying to hook into my Apple wireless network and ran into some minor problems. First, I was using WPA and the PSP can only do WEP. So I change over to 128 bit WEP, enter the password in the PSP and it grumbles that passwords have to be 5 or 13 characters long (for 40 and 128 bit, presumably). That might always be the case with WEP…I’ve never used it before. It looked like the actual wireless base station ‘padded’ my too-short password in fact. I reset the password, padding it to 13 characters myself, and entered the padded password on the PSP, and all was well.
Oh, and I also think they should include a USB cable.
Other than that, everything is rocking for me so far…
Though sadly, “here” right now is the office. So my shiny new PSP sits on my desk, charging its battery and batting its eyelashes at me. Its a seductive little beastie with a ton of buttons jacks, and hidden panels. I DID get a chance to pop in the Spiderman 2 movie and flash it around the office, prompting one co-worker to don his coat and run out to Best Buy to get one before they were all gone.
Now I have to sit here until 6:00 pm before I can actually PLAY with the damned thing, but overall I’m pumped. The resolution of the screen is amazing. The whole unit is a little smaller than I thought it would be, while the screen is actually bigger than I thought it would be…
Tonight I’ll mess around with moving some MP3s or video onto it (I splurged on a half-gig memory card). Oh, and check out the games, of course. 🙂
I’m trying out a new spam fighting plug-in. I know y’all don’t see any spam but that’s because I have to delete it. Does anyone suck more than blog spammers? Leeches. Vile, slimey denizens clinging to the asshole of the internet… may they all rot in hell…
Come back next time and I’ll tell you how I REALLY feel! 🙂
Apple Computer backs Blu-ray DVD technology
Regular readers of this blog (if there are any) know that I’m pulling for Blu-Ray in the next generation DVD format wars, so this is great news to me!
Microsoft spills beans on next Xbox
Gamespy (and probably every other gaming site in the world) is also covering this story. I’m most excited about 100% High-Def games on the next XBox. That sold me right there. Where do I pre-order?
When the Sous-Chef Is an Inkjet
Article about a crazy chef who is making food out of paper, edible menus, and so forth. A fun read. 🙂
I’m a huge fan of Firefox, the open source web browser that leaves Internet Explorer looking sad and pathetic. So I was thrilled to find this mega-thread filled with lesser-known tips and tricks for using it. An example, contributed by Jim Roberts:
If you hold down the CTRL key and left click on part of a web page, that section of the page will be highlighted. If you right click on the selection and choose ‘View selection source’, the source code for that part of the page will be displayed.
Tons of neat tricks like this one in the thread. Now I love Firefox even more! (Yes, I’m a total fanboy.)
O’Reilly was at LinuxWorld and browsing their booth, an odd little volume caught my eye. It was issue 1 of Make. If you are a geek, you need this. It’s just filled from cover to cover with strange little projects. Kind of like what Popular Science was 20 years ago, y’know?
Check it out.
You know how life throws odd random events at you sometimes. A friend gave me an Ubuntu LiveCD about a week before I was set to go to LinuxWorld. I was only going to LW because it was local and because we do run a few linux servers at work. I figured I could pick up some tips on security or whatever. Plus, it’s always a nice way to recharge your geek batteries, going to an event like this.
Anyway, so I had this LiveCD and I figured, what the heck. And was pretty darned impressed with what I saw of UbuntuLinux. Next thing I know, I was installing a PowerPC version on an old Mac. Then I was salvaging hard drives out of my old PC’s looking for one of a decent size.
And here I am on my ‘gaming rig’ but now its running Ubuntu (dual boot…I still need to play games and poker in Windows).
Honestly I started out just doing it for the geeky fun of doing it, but for whatever reason, the fonts, at least on my LCD screen, are SO MUCH crisper and cleaner under Ubuntu than under Windows, that I’d keep it just for that. And plus, I was checking out Mono at LinuxWorld and I think I want to poke around with it a bit. Granted, Mono runs under Windows or OS X, but I want to develop with it under linux then see what the porting is really like.
But that’s fodder for another post.