A few posts on forums suggested a program called XBConnect - so I downloaded and installed it. So far, so good – it found my brothers’ XBox and found a bunch of games. Then, a problem. Every time I tried to join a game, “Console Activity” would flash, and then the attempt would time out and the XBConnect game window would close. A problem, indeed.

• XBConnect’s FAQ mentions that forwarding the port 8602 may improve the situation. Not for me, though.
• Allowing this port in Windows Firewall didn’t help

I was getting pretty pissed off by now, after about 50 minutes it still wasn’t joining games. Fortunately, XBConnect has a chat room within the program and the people seem to be nice – they helped me. I needed to enable ‘Use WinPCap Library‘ in the general options. That’s all I had to do. Conclusion:

XBConnect Game Window Closes When Connecting – Timeout

Solution:

• Enable ‘Use WinPCap Library‘ in ‘Tools -> Options -> General Options‘
• Forward the port 8602
• Have fun!

x² – y³ = 8

The first way to try and get around this is to to transpose the equation, making y the subject, ie:

y = cuberoot(x² – 8 )

At this point, you can solve y’ with respect to x as per usual.

Sometimes, though, you can’t make solve for y.

“In these cases, y needs to be solved as a function of x” – I don’t completely get this – I’m going to ask about it though… Here’s where I get stuck:

The answer’s supposed to be 4y!!!