Wiredbyte A Place to Rant and Muse over all things Tech http://www.wiredbyte.com/node/148/atom/feed 2008-11-20T15:06:29-08:00 The NXE http://www.wiredbyte.com/2008/nov/the-nxe 2008-11-20T15:05:39-08:00 2008-11-20T15:06:29-08:00 Michael This is a day late, but I got the NXE (New Xbox Experience) downloaded yesterday,a nd I must say, I am impressed. The new interface is easy to use, Graphically Pleasing and I can see why Microsoft thinks this will help target 'non-gamers'.
Elsewhere, I was offered a part-time position as a PHP developer, so I finally got a break and can follow my dreams to a great career. I am also working with 2 friends to form a partnership and get our business license. Stay tuned more for that.
Nanobyte is coming along quickly. I got comment functionality working, but not fully implemented. I also broke my backend to allow posting articles, so it's been a few days since an update has been posted there.
More Good news, My webhost has extended my plan to include UNLIMITED STORAGE AND BANDWIDTH.
I'll wait for you to close your mouth and wipe your chin..
Now for some not-so-good news. My server had a catastrophic failure. First, the largest of the 2 Hard drives went out, and I spent about 3 days getting everything recovered from it. That one is under warranty. 3 days ago, the OS drive started failing. Another 18 hours of drive recovery.. and this one is out of warranty. I think it was the power supply, as once I replaced that and changed P2P-EXT timeout in the BIOS to 1MS everything is working more stably, still need a new hard drive though.
I leave you with the hard drive I WISH I could get:
Dream Hard Drive

]]> This is a day late, but I got the NXE (New Xbox Experience) downloaded yesterday,a nd I must say, I am impressed. The new interface is easy to use, Graphically Pleasing and I can see why Microsoft thinks this will help target 'non-gamers'.

Elsewhere, I was offered a part-time position as a PHP developer, so I finally got a break and can follow my dreams to a great career. I am also working with 2 friends to form a partnership and get our business license. Stay tuned more for that.

Nanobyte is coming along quickly. I got comment functionality working, but not fully implemented. I also broke my backend to allow posting articles, so it's been a few days since an update has been posted there.

More Good news, My webhost has extended my plan to include UNLIMITED STORAGE AND BANDWIDTH.

I'll wait for you to close your mouth and wipe your chin..

Now for some not-so-good news. My server had a catastrophic failure. First, the largest of the 2 Hard drives went out, and I spent about 3 days getting everything recovered from it. That one is under warranty. 3 days ago, the OS drive started failing. Another 18 hours of drive recovery.. and this one is out of warranty. I think it was the power supply, as once I replaced that and changed P2P-EXT timeout in the BIOS to 1MS everything is working more stably, still need a new hard drive though.

I leave you with the hard drive I WISH I could get:
Dream Hard Drive

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