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Last night all of my macs in the house got notice that there was a software update for the Airport Utility so we ran the update on all the computers. It then showed that there was “something wrong” with my base station, the status light had gone yellow, and when I went to see what was wrong, it said their was a new firmware available (Version 7.4.1). So I told it to do the update.

Once the update completed, My laptop could see the base station through the airport utility, it could connect to it and I could use the internet. When I went to configure the base station though, It could not connect to it and it soon stopped showing up in the airport utility. Since it was late I unplugged it all and went to bed, and decided to mess with it the next day.

The following morning I noticed some more unusual behavior, the Airport Utility could no longer see the base station from my laptop, or connect to the internet. To get it to see the base station in the utility I had to physically connect via ethernet, which made the base station appear in the utility and also allowed an internet connection. But it still would not give me access to change any settings.

Ever since I upgraded to the new firmware I get the error message “An error occured while reading the configuration.” And I do have it connected to one of the ethernet ports. Since I could not connect to the base station via the Airport Utility I decided to reset the base station to its default setting.

If you are looking at your base station from the back side, there is a small hole located on the right side, with a little circle with a triangle icon located above it. This will reset your base station to its default settings. Doing this will reset what you named your router plus reset all passwords, and take it back to its original factory settings. A paper clip works great and is the right size. You will need to push the button and hold it down, you should notice the light on the base station change to a blinking yellow, and once the reset is complete it will blink at a constant rate and then you can stop pushing the reset. The yellow light should then go back to a slow blinking yellow. Once you finish resetting your base station you should now be able to access it via the Airport Utility.

Note: even though you reset the base station, it still keeps the latest firmware, but it seemed to fix whatever was wrong after resetting the base station. Also, if you are going to do a reset, it is a good idea to write down your current network name and password, that way when you set up your base station again, you can use the same settings and wont have to change all the setting for the computers that connet to it wirelessly.

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It seems like all that I write about is Playstation! I should probably spend a little more time reading books and working on my programming and less time playing the ps3 during my free time. With christmas break around the corner, thats not likely to happen.

Although I have been playing more than I should, this past week I have been hitting the books for finals and so I am just getting around to updating to 2.53 on the playstation. That being said I think it was just release yesterday, but I am not sure. A quick seach on google will tell you that the main update for this patch will be to bring full screen flash to the playstation. While this has received mixed reaction, I am looking forward to seeing what all I will have access to that I did not before. Sites like youtube may not have the highest quality video, so unless your watching TV on a 21″, your videos might not look so good on a 50″ with youtube. Nothing says HD quite like a pixelated video. What I am excited for is sites such as NBC, CBS, and others which provide a selection of there shows and some with HD quality. I will look foward to see how those sites will perform with this new update. All we need now is either a netflix player for the ps3, or for netflix to switch to flash instead of silverlight, or for ps3 to get silverlight support.

Although I didnt dig to deep, it looks like that is the main point to the 2.53 update. If you know something more about it feel free to share.

UPDATE: When trying to play a video from nbc.com I got the “You need to have flash 9 to play this, click here to download.” After spending some time trying to navigate around cbs.com I was finally able to get the the full episodes of Numb3rs, a show my wife and I like to watch. While I do not get any flash errors, the page just seems to load forever on first try. I refreshed the page and then it loaded properly. One click and we had a perfectly fit full screen video on our TV, so yes for cbs and a big no for nbc

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