As a diversion from real work I just spent a few minutes working on the XBox, on the forlorn hope that I would find a business use for the device. Anyway, I have managed to do a couple of things which are fantastic. Firstly, I managed to FTP to the XBox. To do this running the EvoX software was simplicity itself – I just needed to type in ftp://192.168.1.101 into my explorer. But this said it could not login, so one of the menus had the option for Login, so entered that with xbox and xbox and it worked. I could then create a directory on the F: drive and copy in the files from the new copy of XBoxMediaCentre.

This time this worked, and appeared at once under the AvaLauncher list of applications. Perfect. Actually two copies were there so I ran the 2nd one. It took some time to load, but once it did it worked this time. I was able to go to the setup menu for the network and enter the IP address of my SMB server, and then all my videos and MP3s were available for viewing.

What is cool is the visualizations. As soon as I put a network cable next to the antenna in the lounge room, I think the XBox is going up stairs. This will also stop me from playing too many games. Probably a wise move. Oh, the visualisations are great when playing music too… Anyway, time for a run!