I found an article here covering some of the same issues I’ve been having with Microsoft’s XBox Live service. Its unbelievable how long these service problems have existed, but I guess MS has no finan
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While trying to find a solution to my Xbox live problem, I found some information online about getting through to escalated XBox live support. So far it hasn’t been very useful, and I haven’t tried th
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Last week I wrote about my experience trying to fix my broken XBox Live account. Today I got a call back from a support supervisor today at 6:00 but I missed the call, he asked to call back 800-4MY-XB
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While waiting for XBox support to call me back, I looked into what other people have been saying online about my problem. First, I found an article that claims Microsoft is refusing to fix a broken li
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I bought an original Xbox probably about 8 years ago, and even though I haven’t been playing much in the last four years, I’ve been keeping my Live account active, just to hang on to my gamertag. Pret
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I’ve built a binary of SqueezePlay 7.3 for OS X. It seems to work great, with one serious drawback: Music from the music library doesn’t play! I just checked, and music from internet radio does work,
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I recently ordered a Buffalo Terastation Live from eCost for around $260, which seemed like a pretty darn good deal. Of course, it was ‘Factory Reconditioned’, whatever that meant… …Turns out that mea
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It turns out that ever since the IPhone came out, IPhone users have been able to sync their Mac Address Books with GMail. But that privilege isn’t extended to anyone else. Why every user can sync with
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I’m constantly having trouble with getting the backspace and delete keys to work properly in OS X. Whenever it works right on the Mac, one or the other key is broken when I Â SSH to a Linux or FreeBSD
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This morning I decided to upgrade my Mac to Subversion 1.5 using MacPorts. But during the install process, one of the dependencies, sqlite, failed with the following error: ---> Building sqlite3 w
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