Tim Cinel

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Microsoft charge $5 / month for access to their online multiplayer network, Xbox Live. I don’t really think it’s fair since the freaking games cost at least $50.00 each, then you’ve got to pay more to enjoy them to their full extent. I remember coming across some PC client that allowed XBox online gameplay for free, so I went in search for it.

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!

“Again with the maths…” Thursday on the train home, I was trying to solve a maths exercise - I am given A, B and C. I was asked to solve D so that ABCD formed a parallelogram. Where did I start? Here’s what I originally thought:

• kBC = AD (The top and bottom edges should be parallel)
• |AB| = |CD| (The two sides would be the same length)

I couldn’t think of any more rules to help me, so I gave made a note of it, then moved on. It wasn’t long until I’d be at it again, and this time I’d solve it. (more…)

I personally think that the latest release of ProjectPier may have been released prematurely. Just by looking at my last day of posts, you might see that there were two pretty serious issues straight after installation. Well, I found another one!

After finally getting ProjectPier to send emails through the Mass Mail tool, I thought that all systems were go. However, that’s not true. Today, I didn’t get any email alerts, even there was activity in a project - something was wrong. Again, I found my way back to the ProjectPier website where Tim (not me had come up with a solution.

The problem is in the following files:

• language/en_us/errors.php
• language/en_us/site_interface.php
• application/models/notifier/Notifier.class.php

You need to replace all occurrences of ‘recepient‘ with ‘recipient‘.  This includes plurals so recepients needs to be changed to recipients, too.

Looks like somebody didn’t check their code It’s cool though, I know it’s easy to do. Somebody that’s part of the project should recompile it with these fixes. Not me though, I’m not part of it (yet).

Why didn’t the bath trust the toilet? Because the toilet was full of shit! (I actually made that one up - I’m a joke master)

Last week I got stuck working on basic differentiation - it was the implicit differentiation that threw me. This sentence in particular:

“In these cases [when an equation can’t be transposed to make y the subject and you are finding the derivative of y with respect to x], y needs to be solved as a function of x”

Now I get it. You have to treat y as if it were x, but a little bit differently. So if:
y = 2y + 5

Instead of saying:
dy/dx = 2 (wrong)

You need to do this:
dy/dx =  2y’

So that problem I couldn’t solve last week - I totally solved it. I smashed the shit out of it. I can’t be bothered getting it and scanning it though, so if you don’t believe me go to hell.

So I said to the guy, “Hey, that’s my daughter!”
Group laughs

One of my subjects, “Enterprise Engineering”, requires us to form a group to work on a project. Since my group only really gets together once a week, I used this as an excuse to install something I’ve wanted to for ages - ProjectPier. After registering this domain, it was the first thing I set up. ProjectPier was really impressive - it is just as good as, if not better than 37 Sinals’ “Basecamp”, except it’s free! But I soon realised that ProjectPier wasn’t so great…

ProjectPier after setting up, creating projects, adding tasks and changing the theme.
You really should change the theme, the default one’s a bit 90’s.

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