Archive for November, 2009

Spurious Loading on Need For Speed Shift?

Date November 7th, 2009 Comment No Comments

Why does loading take so long between legs of the “Duel” events?
It’s the same course and the same cars, so why does it feel like it loads everything all over again?
Have they never heard of caching?
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X360 Media Update Requires Sign-In

Date November 5th, 2009 Comment No Comments

Why?
Why do I have to be signed in to XBox Live to use a media codec?
I was trying to watch a programme last night with was encoded using the ISO-MPEG4 compatible XviD codec, but I was having trouble signing in, so it wouldn’t let me.
Why can’t they add it to a dashboard update and have [...]

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Google Sync Failing with 0×85010004?

Date November 4th, 2009 Comment 1 Comment

The ActiveSync on my phone, which I’d used to sync with my Google Apps account recently began failing with the error “Your account in Microsoft Exchange Server does not have permission to synchronize with your current settings.”; code 0×85010004.
Now I hadn’t changed anything, so I was a bit bemused to say the least.
Today I found [...]

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