Jay Marcyes

This solution seemed to fix the problems I was having copying from VPC to the host and vice versa:

OK, I fixed it. I uninstalled the virtual machine additions,

let it reboot the virtual machine, re-installed, let it reboot

again and all is working well now. 

Video that shows how to make emergency glasses, pretty cool...

The tip of the day of the week of the year of the month comes from the guys over at Mac Os X Hints.

Basically, take the normal gmail url: http://mail.google.com and change it to https://mail.google.com to force Gmail to use SSL. I have no idea why they don't do this to begin with, but they don't. Anyway, that should make your email a tad more secure when using wireless.

While attempting to upgrade XBMC on my Xbox I accidentally deleted something I shouldn't have causing the Xbox would only boot into the default dashboard, cutting me off from the hard drive through anything like FTP or another dashboard.

So how did I fix it?

I actually found this tutorial on -- of all places -- G4 TV's website.

After finding an ISO of Evox and burning it to DVD I was able to get XBMC back up and running. There were a couple of other things I learned though that might help some people out.

For instance, in order to take advantage of the upconverting capability of XBMC you have to enable the resolutions in the default Xbox dashboard as I found out here under Screen -> Resolution. I didn't know this.

Sadly, after I enabled Resolutions up to 1080i and changing the settings in XBMC settings to 1080i 16x9 I found that I couldn't really play any video files (standard xvid) over 350 megs. This was rather disconcerting. Luckily, I found this explanation about the memory limitations on the Xbox.

Sure enough, after limiting both the dashboard and the video settings to 720p 16x9 all the video files play flawlessly and look incredible, I can't believe I never knew the Xbox could upconvert my video files until now. I became a fan of upconvertion when we got an upconvert DVD player and hooked it up through the HDMI port. Upconverted DVD movies at 1080i look absolutely stunning and the video files upconverted from the Xbox don't look half-bad either. Isn't technology grand?

I love Firefox, and I usually have 3-10 windows open with around 3-10 tabs each open and notice definite slowdowns even on my PC, which I consider relatively fast and powerful. Firefox can consume almost half my 1 gig of RAM at times. That is not right. These links help fix that problem.

This article also discusses memory problems.