Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2014 June 14

= June 14 =

Transfers between Xboxes
I have a Xbox original console that has died on me, & I'm thinking of getting another one. But I was wondering if I did get a new one, could I transfer my save games etc from my old Xbox console to the new one ? Scotius (talk) 13:44, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

When I say that my Xbox has died on me, what I meant was when I've been playing a Xbox game, a DVD or a music CD even, either at the the moment the disc is inserted into the Xbox or at some point after, during playing the disc I start getting error messages like,

"Your Xbox cannot recognize this disc. Make sure it is an Xbox game, DVD movie, or audio CD. Also checkto see if the discis dirty or damaged. Remove the disc to continue."

Also,

"There is a problem with the disc you are using. It may be dirty or damaged."

Also,

"The DVD region of your DVD Playback Kit reciever is invalid. Remove the disc to continue."

When I've gotten these messages i've checked the discs to see if they where dirty or damaged (even when it's been a new game etc). But what I can't work out or understand is that i don't get these messages every time I try to play the same discs. Scotius (talk) 12:25, 15 June 2014 (UTC)


 * I'll be perfectly honest, I neither have, nor have, an original xbox, this is just what I could find. That said, it looks like you can set it up so that you can transfer files from xbox to pc and back by softmodding your xbox. So, if you were to do this to both boxes, you could transfer files from one to the pc to the other. Ill be perfectly honest, I'm not 100% sure that this will/would work, nor am I sure if you can get banned from xbox live, etc. etc. etc. So, try at your own risk - just a lead for you to consider. Anyways, here's a few sites with some info (you can find way more on Google):, , , . Hopefully this will be helpful - again, let me stress: I have no idea exactly what risk, or difficulty, is involved, so definitely research further before undertaking. Good Luck:-)Phoenixia1177 (talk) 14:00, 15 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Disk read errors are often caused by dirty or scratched lenses, though the messages always blame the discs. Have you tried giving it a shot of compressed air? Opening it up and gently swabbing it with a Q-tip and rubbing alcohol? Can't vouch for the Xbox, but it saved my PS2 and PS3. Third time on the PS3, I cleaned too firmly and ruined it. The Xbox laser beam is wider than the Blu-Ray one, so it shouldn't be quite as sensitive to small defects. But still, be careful.


 * No clue on the transfer. Hopefully you don't need it. InedibleHulk (talk) 12:25, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

Setting hostname in Linux
I have now transferred all my files from my old Fedora 17 hard disk to my new Fedora 20 hard disk. Everything went OK. I simply used  to copy my entire home and photographs directories. I told  to overwrite the   file in the Mozilla FireFox directory, and I didn't have to overwrite anything in the Evolution directory. Now I can access my FireFox profile just like before, and all I needed to access my e-mail was to re-enter my account password, which Evolution helpfully stored in its keyring. But the hostname is still shown as an ugly numerical IP address. I typed  as root, and it set the hostname to "teletran-1" in the bash prompt. But after I rebooted, the hostname became the ugly numerical IP address again. How can I make my nice custom hostname stay? J I P &#124; Talk 15:09, 14 June 2014 (UTC)


 * The man page for hostname(1) says "Note, that this is effective only until the next  reboot.   Edit /etc/hostname for permanent change." -- Finlay McWalterᚠTalk 15:18, 14 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Although that may not the the case on a Redhat-based system like Fedora (which I don't have to hand), as Redhat uses additional config files for net connections - see this for discussion about this (which was, and I guess still is, /etc/sysconfig/network). -- Finlay McWalterᚠTalk 15:29, 14 June 2014 (UTC)