Fun Computer Experiments

Requested and got a Zune for Christmas.

I love it, though I wish it were able to work with my Bluetooth Stereo Headphones.

Getting it working with my desktop computers has been no-brainers.  I put it on my oldest, and realized that 120 gig portable device attached to a desktop with a 90 gig harddrive made no sense so I moved it over to my newer desktop.

However, I want to demo software development on the Zune (and XBox).  I can’t get it working with the district issued Thinkpad and I suspect it’s something to do with the Kasparesky Anti-Virus program.  I get a yellow exclamation mark in the Device manager and it continually requests a reboot.

So then I loaded it on the Gateway tablet.  The Zune software won’t work, I’ve gotten two seperate error messages and it doesn’t see the device.  HOWEVER, the XNA software works fine and lets me connect to the Zune so I do have a demo machine.

This is why I still recommend desktops over laptops.  Even though the desktops were all very cheap machines, they just work. 

Though oddly, neither desktop machine can pull video off my video camera and both notebooks can. 

I am making progress on my school projects.  Have some good stuff for the middle school camp and finally started grading today.  Man have I been putting that off.

Also have been doing some good purging in the office though I need to load up some electronics and get them out of here.

So far, good break and some progress.