First of all : O2 Broadband support has been superb to me - but I found their greeting funny when I called them back tonight :

"We are having severe problems - and ask everyone to call us back after 13:30 tomorrow"

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The Student got himself a Xbox 360 a few weeks ago - and last week tried to use Xbox Live with it - but could not get it to work properly, regardless of what we did - when we ran the Xbox connectivity test it failed, with the message that "Strict NAT" was turned on and had to be turned to "open".

I've now spent far too much of today - and tried everything I could think about to get it to connect.

first of all I managed to get it to work once - by setting
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The article linked to has the necessary software for linking a Arduinio to the Pachube cloud - making it possible to grab data from the Pachube cloud and send data from the Arduinos sensors to the cloud. It requires the "official" Arduino Ethernet board which is quite hard to get hold of at the moment:

Arduino Ethernet and Pachube: remote sensors & web-control
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This is a good idea if they can make it work - although I doubt that the market is easy to break into, there are already lots of players there, and you need a lot of trust to build something like this.

Because we have links with major media buyers the world over, Demotix can broker your photos and videos to newspapers, magazines, TV channels and websites, multiple times and simultaneously.
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The Student encountered a problem with getting Xbox LIve working properly on our home broadband (O2 - which we are extremely satisfied with btw.)

So I called their support line, and after being transferred to 2nd line support I was told to log in as SuperUser (see separate post about doing this) and issue the next command -

ip config natloopback=enabled

The issue a "saveall" command.
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I noticed the errors below in the log of our O2 broadband router - indicating that it could not connect to the default Network Time Protocol server

So I changed this (as seen in the screenshot below) - and no more error messages.
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I have signed up to a Flickr Pro account for several reasons :

- To have a external backup of our photos

- To let me use Flickr as a proxy for serving images for the blog(s)

Normally all photos go into iPhoto - so this seems to be one of the sensible "hubs" for exporting to FLickr from, but the only direct plugin I could find was a "pay for" piece of software - until I thought of PixelPipe, which has a client for the iPhone, and a plugin for iPhoto.
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