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Dell Inspiron 8600 & Vertical Lines: Update 2

It's a good thing I e-mailed Dell about the laptop. I heard back from them last Wednesday and they said they would make an exception for me and replace my screen. The next day a coffin arrived and I shipped it back to Dell for repairs. And today, the laptop should be back at my place. Talk about service! From my professional experience, I've always been impressed with Dell's support and their turnaround times on replacing parts. I was pleasantly surprised to see them use upgraded shipping when they could've easily gotten away with shipping via carrier pigeon.

So, I should have a brand new screen today and laptop that doesn't have a foot in the grave. Sorry, XPS m1330, you'll have to wait a little longer.

XBOX 360 Media Sharing

I had media sharing between my Vista PC and my 360 working at one point but now the two have fallen in to a blood feud. Vista seems to want to forgive and forget since I can see my 360 showing up in the Windows Media Player sharing setup but the 360 is stubborn and will not find Vista.

I'm not seeing any errors being logged on Vista and I've disabled the firewall and McAfee without any change in results. I'm leaning towards there being something configured incorrectly in my Linksys WRT54G router (running the Tomato firmware). The closest I get to any clues is the cryptic set of error codes from the 360 when I try testing the connection.

W: 0000-000B
X: 0000-000D
Y: 0000-0000
Z: 8000-4005

Anyone got any ideas what these codes mean or other things to try in Vista? I'm tempted to try a different router firmware but I like all the features of Tomato.