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So my PS3 has bitten the dust. Given up the ghost. Kicked the bucket. Never to delight my sences again.

My impression is that one of the PS3 Updates killed it. Eversince we updated it back early August, it’s had intermittent issues regarding booting. I tried to turn it on for the girls yesterday, and it simply died. Black screen on all A/V outs. HDMI was picking up a 625p signal, but was showing nuttin’. The component outs were also showing a signal, but just showing black.

1 brief call to the PS3 helpline… and they’re sending me a new machine… express delivery. I must have been on the phone for 5 minutes, and they were offering a replacement. No question about the warranty (i.e. purchase date etc), they will come on Wednesday with a new machine, no quibs or quarms. They even ummed and ahhed over whether they were going to take away the old one or not. Bizzare! Cool, but bizzare!

Roll on Wednesday.

The only drawback is I’ll have lost all my saved games, and the games I’ve bought will have to be re-downloaded, which kinda sucks. I’ll live with it tho

Ok, so by now most of you will know I’ve sold my soul to Steve Jobs, and have replaced my crash-ridden HTC Touch with an iPhone 3G. Other than a few little gripes, the major one being iTunes, the process has been fairly pleasurable.

I have been using www.OneAndOne.co.ukfor all my web and email provision for quite some time now. I plumped for an exchange server about 3 years ago to synchronize my email, contacts and calendar across the several PCs/Laptops/interfaces I have laying around. I have to say it too has been a very pleasurable and simple transition and one I continue to reap the benefits from.

Now with the new 2.0 firmware for the iPhone we can sync the iPhone with Exchange server using Push technology. Yay! Well I have been suffering. It took me bloody ages to sort out how to get the exchange server (hosted with www.1and1.co.uk) to validate the connection with my iPhone. The solution I used when I got my iPhone was as follows:

server: exchange.1and1.co.uk
username: e12345678
password: <hehehehe>
use SSL: On

These settings worked great up until yesterday, when it began to flail around, and finally dropped out with a recurring “Password Incorrect” prompt to re-enter the password. Knowing my password was correct, and that all other iterations of the username with domain, and server addresses failed, I thought the problem was with 1and1… well yes and no. Turns out 1and1 fudged part of the authentication system, and have now corrected it, so that it now includes the domain name in the username path. So the new settings as of the 8th August 2008 are:

server: exchange.1and1.co.uk
username: exchange\e12345678 (caution: check the direction of the slash ie ‘\’ is not the same as ‘/’)
password: <hehehehe>
use SSL: On

My iPhone 3G is now a happy object, and continues to provide joy and glee with a slight sting of pride. I hope this short article helps out other iand1 exchange iPhone users round the UK.

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