{"id":1009,"date":"2008-12-25T13:34:36","date_gmt":"2008-12-25T13:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/fun-computer-experiments\/"},"modified":"2008-12-25T13:34:36","modified_gmt":"2008-12-25T13:34:36","slug":"fun-computer-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/fun-computer-experiments\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun Computer Experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Requested and got a Zune for Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>I love it, though I wish it were able to work with my Bluetooth Stereo Headphones.<\/p>\n<p>Getting it working with my desktop computers has been no-brainers.&#160; 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.<\/p>\n<p>However, I want to demo software development on the Zune (and XBox).&#160; I can&#8217;t get it working with the district issued Thinkpad and I suspect it&#8217;s something to do with the Kasparesky Anti-Virus program.&#160; I get a yellow exclamation mark in the Device manager and it continually requests a reboot. <\/p>\n<p>So then I loaded it on the Gateway tablet.&#160; The Zune software won&#8217;t work, I&#8217;ve gotten two seperate error messages and it doesn&#8217;t see the device.&#160; HOWEVER, the XNA software works fine and lets me connect to the Zune so I do have a demo machine.<\/p>\n<p>This is why I still recommend desktops over laptops.&#160; Even though the desktops were all very cheap machines, they just work.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Though oddly, neither desktop machine can pull video off my video camera and both notebooks can.&#160;<\/p>\n<p>I am making progress on my school projects.&#160; Have some good stuff for the middle school camp and finally started grading today.&#160; Man have I been putting that off.<\/p>\n<p>Also have been doing some good purging in the office though I need to load up some electronics and get them out of here.<\/p>\n<p>So far, good break and some progress.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.&#160; I put it on my oldest, and realized that 120 gig portable device attached to a desktop with a 90 gig harddrive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}