Thursday, December 28, 2006

Gears of War down for now


Seems that the Xbox Live servers are offline for a while. I was wondering why I couldn't get into Gears of War, unless I was signed out. I mistakenly deleted my save game data as I thought it may have become corrupted. I will have to play all over again. Is that a pain or a blessing, as the game is just so good?

Sunday, December 24, 2006

Happy Not-supposed-to-say-it-mas



It appears that Text America are going pay, as of the end of this month. So I will no longer be using their service to host my images, as $99 is a little steep when Flickr does it oh so much better.


I can see you laughing

My Christmas Present


Ok get me one of these please, thankyou.




Me after I have read the instruction booklet

Sunday, December 17, 2006

Xbox Live Vision Camera


I got me an Xbox Live vision camera, to go with the Xbox 360, but more interestingly to use it as a PC web cam. So far it's been great, apart from one big issue.

Initially I plugged it into the PC, and tried it with Skype, and MSN Messenger. Worked perfectly, no troubles at all. Then I tried it in the Xbox360, where it also worked flawlessly.

However, upon returning it to the PC, it decided not to work. Plug in, hear the 'something has just been inserted into the USB port' noise, but nothing more than that. When trying to use the camera for other programs, it now doesn't report as installed at all. The only place I can find any mention of it, is in the Device Manager, under USB Device Controllers, as "Microsoft Xbox 360 Live Vision Camera".

Yes, I have tried rebooting.
Yes, I have tried plugging it into the same USB port as before, and then other ones.
Yes, I have uninstalled the device from the Device Manager.
Yes, I have uninstalled the camera from the Device Manager, and rebooted, and tried again.

The only sign of life is after an uninstall from the Device Manager, and plugging it back in, the little balloon pops up and tells me it has detected the correct camera.

The very first time I installed it, it did not call it a camera, it called it something with the word SECURITY in it. But it DID work. I don't know if that is an issue or not, as I assumed it was because as soon as you do plug it into the computer you need an update from Microsoft.

I am open to suggestion at this time, and anyone that gets it right, wins a total and utter crushing victory on Uno against yours truly. Not saying that



Right click MY COMPUTER
Select the HARDWARE tab
click DEVICE MANAGER
and look under USB Controllers