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Hey Chibul, yeah you! Remember that note you sent out on Xbox Live telling me to reply back on how i know you or you'll delete me? Well guess what!? I deleted you! Yeah, that's right - call it a pre-emptive strike on your smugness! SUCK IT!

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:lol: @ abrg923

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Man, I need to do some serious pruning, but I really have no idea who most of these people are anymore. People change names drastically all the time.

I think I'm just going to have to go through there and run a 3-stage filter:

1) Do I know this person in the real world?
2) Do I actively socialize with this person in some fashion?
3) Have I played a game with this person in the last year?

If I do that, I think I could probably drop those 98 to 12 :lol:

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Easily a dozen tops for me too. Take out the vegans, and I'm down to 10.

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Imagine what it would do to your Wizard Score.

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I've got around 88 people on my friends list. Only 10 or so are people I know in the physical sense. I'd rather play with random DVD Talkers than the rest of the world so that's why I keep you guys on my list.

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I've got a question about the xbox wireless headsets. Can you have four people signed in with wireless controllers and use four wireless headsets as well?

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Shouldn't be a problem.

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New dashboard preview time! :banana:

http://connect.microsoft.com/xboxliveupdate

Prepare for frequent update bitching :sad:

Of note:

New disc format? :hscratch:

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Just applied.

My guess is... USB flash drive?
Halo Reach in a flash drive?

Or an external blu-ray drive? nah!

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:drool:

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One of these days I'll make a record of my console serial number and ID so that I can fill these things out at work.

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I work from home and get really tired of walking to my bedroom, turn on the Xbox, and write all those numbers.

I put that info in my iPhone, so next time I don't have to do that. I'm a genius!

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:up: I did that last time. Saved me easily 20 seconds. I was way more productive at work because of it.

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:lol: I put them in my iPhone last time as well. Unfortunately I bought the Reach console and is now my primary, so those numbers never made it to my phone. Had to call the wife for the numbers.

Thanks for the link.

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Yep, I took a picture with my iPhone last time, saved that along with random boobie pics from Mardi Gras.

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it won't let me sign up right now. keep getting some kind of weird error.

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weird. now it worked.

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Despite having a Windows Live ID it kept asking me to create some new account/user name. What's that about?

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http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/di...0-disc-upgrade

Looks like the reason the new dashboard beta is disc-based is for an anti-piracy feature that they're employing. Currently, the anti-piracy data on discs is gigantic (in excess of 1GB). The max usable disc space currently is about 6.8GB of an 8GB disc. Freeing up some of that space will give devs an extra GB or so of room to play with.

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crap, i forgot to sign up last night.

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Is it possible to suspend a Xbox Live account? My 360 is boxed up right now, and probably will be for a few months, and it seems a shame the account is still ticking away while I'm not using it.

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I don't think there's a way to do that.

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Is it boxed up by your decision or by a fault of Microsoft's hardware?

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Question : Looks like I'm getting a new 360 next week at Best Buy for the "man-cave". How do I copy the HDD content from the old one onto the new one without wiping the previous HDD's content? Do I use a 16 GB memory stick? Won't that take ages to do?

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It will take ages, yes. But the only stuff that's really important are game saves and other irreplaceable content. You could always re-download what's available from XBLM.

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I was hoping there would be some sort of USB cable copy system. Pipe dream, I guess.
Would that Official Microsoft transfer cable work or would that wipe the external HDD?

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The transfer cable does indeed wipe the source drive.

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Only if you use the disc utility.

Hook it up via USB with the transfer cable and you can view it as a giant USB device and then you can copy your shit across without wiping the old one.

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Is that so? I don't remember that being an option ~3 years ago when I did it. Very nice!

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Welcome to the 2000-tens/teens mofucka!

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Do I need that official cable thingy or will any USB male-to-male transfer cable work as long as I have two working 360s?

BTW : Thanks for the info everyone. I didn't really want to hijack this thread a' la Scott, but there's so much confusing info on this topic on the internet with all the changes to the 360 memory systems over the years, and I appreciate the knowledge.

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Just don't be surprised when Pinata pops over to your fancy Doctoring forums and starts talking circumcision.

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I remember using it when I got the 250GB drive from woot in November(?) of last year. I used the disc utility to move everything over from the 120 to the 250, but then wanted to copy all my RB songs back onto the 120 for the other room. I started going through the music store, and it was obviously taking forever with all the content I have. I decided to check if I could just use it as a USB drive, and it worked like a charm.

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My decision... doing some remodeling and it was just in the way.

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Is there a way of telling if automatic renewal is on or off on your 360 account for XBL? I thought I saw an option before, but I couldn't find it when I just entered my renewal code for my prepaid card.

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So the only way to check is by calling now? That sucks.

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I'll take this and run with it - what if it is a fault of Microsoft's in-warranty hardware? I shipped off my broken power supply on March 7 and still don't have a new one. After more than 2 weeks of apparently not having any in stock -- yes, that's correct, Microsoft was out of power cables for 2+ weeks with no way of obtaining more -- they shipped a replacement. It was finally delivered this Monday, yay! Except it was delivered to my old address, despite my double and triple efforts to notify them to NOT send it there, so someone else has it now. The case has been in a state of "escalated" for the past 2 days, and I'm awaiting an urgent phone call from a Senior Cords and Bricks Specialist (I made that title up).

Long story short, I'm wondering if I'm justified in asking them for some kind of compensation for my month's worth of useless Gold membership, or at least the $10 it originally cost to ship the thing back to them.

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When I had to ship in my xbox, they gave me a month free of gold to compensate for not having access to my account. I say go ahead and ask. Surprised they haven't offered already.