Archive for November, 2006
Call of Duty 3 (Xbox 360)
Posted by Wanderlust in First Person Shooters, XBox 360 Tuesday, 14 November 2006 02:14 No Comments
Started playing CoD 3 on the 360 tonight. Fun game so far and with my issues with the controller vs. the mouse/keyboard, hopefully it will turn out to be more than CoD 2 was on the PC. CoD 2 was fun but it was way too short and probably only took me about 10 hours to complete. Playing it safe, I picked up 3 at Blockbuster to try it out rather than buying a $60 game that was too short. Game play seems balanced after getting use to the controller movements and while I haven’t played that much into the game I’m having fun (something none of the games in the franchise have had a hard time pulling off for me). I was a bit disappointed to not find anyone playing in either ranked or non-ranked mode. I’ll post more on how I fair since I have the game for a while. 
You can check out the site at the Call of Duty official site.
FireFox 2.0 Lock Up Issues
Posted by Wanderlust in Web Thursday, 9 November 2006 01:52 No Comments
Well I’ve read a lot about vulnerabilities and lock up issues the past several days. I rebuilt my PC and dropped 2.0 and restored my Firefox data folder to find constant lockups. I checked around and found what I expected, issues potentially with Add-ons (extensions & themes).
The first thing I did was check for updates on both items.
After updating the few extensions I use and the NOIA 2.0 (Extreme) theme, I re-attempted and had the same lock up issues. I finally disabled the 2 or 3 extensions and things were working great. I enabled Google Toolbar and the issue came back. I uninstalled the toolbar, went to Google and reinstalled it from the site and found the issue still exists.
I use to run FF 2.0 for no more than 5 minutes of heavy browsing (clicking, tabbing around, searching) and it stopped responding. Without Google Toolbar enabled I’ve been running for about 20 minutes now and hammering it on posting forms, JS pages and whatever else I can think of and I’ve been fine.
So for those of you that are continuing to have issues and running Google Toolbar, disable it and use the default search box (Google).