Scott Nicholas

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 …

OK 800ms pings aren't the end of the world. I do believe a 1v1 game would do okay. Problem is, my buddy and I can't join each others games, and when I get into someone elses I get banned, of course. heh. mWWWWWWWWWWWWHHHHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Weird thing is, even with the Hamachi zero-config VPN, we don't see each others games. That's encrypted over UDP... I saw network activity. Wonder if it ignores high latency games since it's suppose to be a "LAN"

*cry*

Okay, I am in Antarctica and have a Windows 7 RTM Professional product key, thanks to my college. But I got a Windows 7 Ultimate ISO with me. I installed the Ultimate easily to USB using VHD, but no need for this, nor ghost. I have Windows XP already on my EEEPC internal lil 4g solid state drive. yippeee.

ImageX works with the install.wim inside the Windows 7 ISO. You can find it and the directions I followed here.

So I got the ISO on the internets, extracted it, with lovely free 7-zip, to a fresh NTFS formatted USB …

Preliminary speed test, 3G came online this AM. It's not stable, and the signal strength was weak (in my garage) - 2/5 bars.

OKAY, I got it working. PagePlus has great voice rates, Verizon has great data. About $0 for it HEHE.

Problems, signed up for pageplus on their site, didn't know how to activate. Called customer care and they told me to dial *22886 i think. Done.

Verizon *22888 didn't work. So I put my ESN into their online site, then dialed *22888 and it worked. Yay, had to add $15 and then --

wait.. ran it again at work. definitely had stronger signal (was indoors at home first run)

wow !!!! :)

compare with t-mobile egprs (had to put phone outside to get full …

Google how to run Vista or Windows 7 from USB, and you'll probably find nothing (you'll find lots on how to install FROM usb tho!). I changed the registry keys like the manual method for XP after install (pre-install is .inf edits) and no joy. Might have been a CPU error, and may have worked otherwise, but I re-tried as follows.

Ingredients:

VMWare Player Windows 7 Beta DVD Toshiba 250G External HDD vdk (to mount vmdk image) Drive Snapshot usb_boot

I hope to edit this later, but basically, install Windows onto a virtual harddrive in VMware, mount with vdk in …

So it takes 30min to install the first DVD, and 30min for the Burning Crusade expansion. Then, you have to download about 6 patches. These total about 1.5G themselves, and I've no access to setup port forwarding so the Peer-to-Peer in Blizzards Downloader doesn't help at all! I upload a little bit, and get nothing. I get 64KB/s from the HTTP connection. You can't set it and forget it, you have to click OK at the end of each patch. You have to install each individual patch released since the DVDs were made. They should roll it up …

I wanted to try stunnel on my cell phone. Not sure why, the real prize would be dynamic ssh tunnels, but I did. The binary available is stunnel-4.15-arm. Works okay, came with an old openssl-0.9.8a, but did not work when using a proxy. So I went through all the crap of downloading the obsoleted development tools it suggested and made my own! i'll post binaries later if anyone is interested. i really really wish i could figure out windows api stuff because i'd love for it to work on smartphone better. it never shows a window and …

My son noticed a neighbor was throwing away an xbox and shouted to me, "Daddy, he's throwing away an xbox," all the way across the courtyard and in the house I heard him. He's a loud 7 year old ;)

The neighbor said yeah it's broke. It stopped reading some games and then wouldn't start at all. It says to call customer service. He was kind enough to go inside and grab the video/power cables and let me have it, free. My son then followed him to his jeep and asked if he had controllers, because we'll need them once …

This mp3 player is old. Dunno where it surfaced from, but I got it. Doesn't work in 2000 because it uses MTP mode rather than register as a USB Storage Device. You can replace the firmware. After enough googling to realize the better way is to get a USB firmware, vs trying to get MTP to work (screw all that, Windows Media Player 9 is a waste of space too), I found this:

http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/Talk:PortablePlayersSamsungYepp

15 Feburary 2007 post is the firmware I loaded. K, enjoy your extra drive letter! :)