Native DivX/Xvid support on the Xbox 360!
AT LAST! After a quick cleanup of my WMP 11 library, I fired up the Xbox 360 and found all the videos on my PC are playable! Maybe I can finally get rid of the old Xbox 1 brick from underneath the TV…
Building a transparent traffic-shaping bridge
I’ve recently had the need to create a box capable of transparently traffic-shaping traffic across a single ethernet connection. Normally, I’d go for some kind of Linux solution, but after doing a bit of research it looked like one of the BSD’s with pf/ALTQ would be the way to go. After trying out a couple of popular ready-made “appliances” (m0n0wall, pfsense) I decided that the best, most flexible way, would be to get my hands dirty and roll my own….
First glimpse of iD’s Tech 5 hits Youtube
The following was filmed yesterday at Apples WWDC conference. Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvuTtrkVtns At last! iD is producing a game engine than can handle outdoor areas and is actually LIT for a change! 🙂
Testing Windows Live Writer
This is just a quick test post written using the new Windows Live Writer beta. As I’m writing this, I’m looking at a WYSIWYG view of pretty much what my post will look like on the site – Complete with CSS styles etc applied. Seems pretty funky and so far is much nicer to use than the WordPress built-in editor.
Getting the Microsoft PST Addin to work within Outlook 2007
This morning I realised my Outlook PST files had not been backed up since I upgraded to Outlook/Office 2007. It seems that the backup addin stops working after an upgrade. A quick Google search led me to this information: Here’s how to get the free Personal Folders Backup tool from Microsoft installed and working in Outlook 2007: Download the pfbackup.exe file. Use WinZip or a similar file extraction tool to extract the files in pfbackup.exe, launcher.exe and pfbackup.msi. Double-click pfbackup.msi…