{"id":186,"date":"2007-09-15T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-16T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.com\/item\/1334"},"modified":"2008-09-05T17:37:50","modified_gmt":"2008-09-06T00:37:50","slug":"the-xbox-360-reciever-that-couldnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"The XBox 360 Reciever that Couldn&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For my birthday (that was today), I went to the big evil chain store Best Buy, and bought a couple of games, and the XBox 360 Receiver. because, hey, I&#8217;d love to sit on the couch and play PC games, wirelessly. And, since I have a 360 (please stop laughing at me), I have a 360 controller. I like it, it uses the Nintendo control layout, which has always worked for me, and so on. So, for about $26(US), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xbox.com\/en-US\/hardware\/x\/xbox360wirelessgamingreceiver\/\">This Little Sucker<\/a> promises all kinds of goodness.<\/p>\n<p>And I won&#8217;t elaborate. It didn&#8217;t work at all. I plugged it in, and the <em>only <\/em>thing that happened is that my mouse stopped responding. I tried to associate it with my 360 controller, but that wouldn&#8217;t work. I got the latest drivers from Microsoft.com, and that didn&#8217;t help.<\/p>\n<p>A quick search of the web found that lots of people are having trouble making this thing work. Workarounds include &#8220;unplug all other USB peripherals&#8221;. What, you mean like the mouse and keyboard? Screw that! I returned it.<\/p>\n<p>The humiliating part is that every time I tell somebody about this, they laugh, shrug, and say &#8220;what did you expect, it&#8217;s from Microsoft&#8221;. I am ashamed. That&#8217;s <em>my<\/em> line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my birthday (that was today), I went to the big evil chain store Best Buy, and bought a couple of games, and the XBox 360 Receiver. because, hey, I&#8217;d love to sit on the couch and play PC games, wirelessly. And, since I have a 360 (please stop laughing at me), I have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[284,135,134],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","tag-gaming","tag-microsoft","tag-x360"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":395,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}