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April 11, 2007

Xbox 360 + DHCP: You’re f’n kidding me, right?

1:15 am — Geek

I finally got around to getting my girlfriend’s Xbox 360 wired up. Yay me.

Now, I hit a snag, when I was first starting out. Snag numero uno was that the Xbox didn’t want to eat the DHCP lease I was feeding it.

Note: this is not an iptables masquerading tutorial-ish post.

Eventually, I ran across a post on some Xbox forum site that said to try using 192.168.1.*. Ladies and gentlemen, I shit you not, this fixed the problem. Here are the two DHCP network declarations I’m using (inside a shared-network segment):
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April 10, 2007

apt-get dist-upgrade

10:30 pm — Geek, Main
173 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 223MB of archives.
After unpacking 2966kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? yeah, I guess



April 5, 2007

Question.

10:48 pm — Drunk and incoherent, wtf

Are those actual Verizon employees following their customers around in the commercials?

If so, why are they not doing their job in their normal office-place?

I want to see a Verizon commercial where the customer’s call gets dropped, and they all scatter in a panic, trampling each other, nothing left of the slowest but bloody stumps of skulls and hard-hats.