Scott Nicholas

so it's not fun to visit the blog admin pages because so much spam. i never activated the akismet plug-in. oh well, i decided to try the reCAPTCHA deal for comments, and turn off moderation. we'll see how that goes ;)

i'm in antarctica for a little bit and installed a SocketModem MT5600SMI i got from eBay into my WRT54G-TM (not the WRTU54G-TM tho).

i was originally unsuccessful on dialing into the provided dial-up here, and setup the router as a dial-in ppp server and tried dialing in with a discarded original iMac (233MHz G3, 96MB ram, 4GB hdd, running Debian …

Okay, I bought a 512MB flash ide chip from eBay for like $12 pre-flashed with another HP thin client image. It began to boot, but didn't... Maybe I didn't wait long enough? Who knows, but instead I tried some Linux on it and then wanted to flash the HP t5710's 256MB XPe onto it. That didn't work.. Says the image isn't made for my client, but as I said in another post it's a disk image with some other crap before it... I simply started Linux from USB stick and dd if=flash.img of=/dev/sda bs=512 skip …

Okay, google hasn't been indexing my wiki but likes my blog. It's apparent by all the spam comments I get. I finally stopped messing around with building my own system from scratch and made my work available as a simple OpenWRT patch. It was quite simple and seems to work great.

http://wiki.scottn.us/wrtu54g-tm

:)

EDIT 21/Feb/2011: Now to collect all information in a central location to benefit the community, a mailing list. Please join, I expect minimal traffic.

So with google's new voice features in gmail, my mom and I were discussing using it, because now we have cellular minutes to worry about. She wanted a USB phone to use, I mentioned MagicJack and decided to just grab that.

I had spent Friday changing the OS on my tiny thinclient to Windows 2000, and MagicJack doesn't support Windows 2000. Rather than hack that old news, I put a full copy of XP Pro back on the machine. It had previously been running MicroXP, and I wasn't sure if it had everything needed. Soooo after the OS installation it …

I stopped blogging because my setup was using blogger.com to upload to my host... well, they disabled FTP like back in May and I finally got off my last ass to setup MySQL and Wordpress. I didn't do mysql before I think because of the resources it uses. I tweaked it a bit and disabled InnoDB and then turned off fastcgi so php wasn't always around gobbling up the extra RAM too. my entire VPS uses 14MB while logged in via sshd (which is about 4MB of that!)

The biggest helps was disabling the innodb engine in mysql, dropped …

hrm. can't wait to get home and see what this 'StraightTalk' (by Tracfone) is about. Tracfone, from my previous research, used AT&T or Verizon depending on the area you register it with. StraightTalk seems to resell Verizon just like pageplus... at least in summerville... i thought i checked Tracfone back in the day and they offered GSM phones (Guess AT&T costed them less) weird! so many new "virtual" providers now with this $40-50 sweet spot. :) thing bout StraightTalk is it's $5 more but no limit on DATA!?!? omg! Wonder if I can activate a phone that I don't …

I should of done this from the get-go. My mom mailed me my Nokia 6301 so I could use it on my return trip (hopefully over WiFi to avoid international roaming, or unlocked with a New Zealand SIM), but without my SIM. I got it today. So I can definitely text from my room now hah.

Nokia 6301 is a "T-Mobile @Home" phone or @Hotspot whatever the hell they call it now... It uses UMA over WiFi. I have dial-up on a desktop that feeds my wifi router (adhoc may work too but this is less trouble eh -- maybe I'll …

I looked into iscsi targets that don't need anything changed in the kernel before, because I wanted to try one out over the internets using my vps... Well that one didn't work on the ipod touch. iPod touch isn't an intel x86 cpu neither. Too much linux stuff involved. NetBSD is very portable stuff, right? Of course.

netbsd's iscsi target compiled with some warnings about implicit definitions of some crap but woohoo it ran just fine. hah. i got that 100MB disk exported right now. So my t5510 is setup to netboot from iSCSI and basically, if I wanted, it …

I tried this before with all kinds of problems messing with booting a USB drive... Tried the reinstall image offered by HP and it had problems booting the FreeDOS kernel. I got a newer kernel and saw... omg, what the HELL kind of drive geometry is it giving my 512MB usb stick? fdisk did as old freedos kernel did - "Divide by zero" error. It set it as like 4000-ish Cyl, and 1sec/trk..!? So thats why USB booting sucked.. My 8GB one got something a weee more standard but still weird, it would always eventually boot..

So ANYWAY. I tried …

for real, i read an instructable that said, "free without buying anything" and the second line said, "you need swapmagic discs" hah.

Shawn: keep typing! i'll read it in a sec

Scott: DONT STOP OOOHHH YAH BABYLIKE DAT ...hrm wonder if there is more coffee...

Scott: so anyway this ps2 has hacks now, doesnt need a modchip, or a swapmagic, or action replay, none of that shit

took some research, ingredients where: PS2, Standard Memory Card, PS2 Retail Game (I used Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Bites?), and then made a backup of that game, swapping a file on the …