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I think we need a "console x thread". I think we all have some bottled-up ideas/rants/raves about consoles that would be interesting to share with eachother.

Time to spill the beans on you kiddies. Here's main contributing reason why all the 3rd party wii games suck: Quality control. Microsoft and Sony have it and enforce it. Nintendo doesn't. The Nintendo seal of quality is meaningless. What does this mean? Think of quality control as when you were a child, and your mom wanted you to clean your room. You can't just shove stuff under the bed, or leave stuff on your desk. Mom wouldn't approve of it, and she'd make you go back and fix it, or you can't go outside and play. So you went back and fixed it. Then you said "mom, come check it out now, I fixed it". If she inspected everything, and it was all OK to her, then she would let you go out and play. If it didn't meet her standards, you would go back and fix it again. The process repeats. With game development, the same concept applies. You ask permission from Sony or MS to develop a game on their console, you go through the review process, and if approved, you start making your game. Throughout the development process, quality control personnel from MS and Sony will watch how the game is coming along, and if something is not up to standard, you go back and fix it, then have them review it and approve it if applicable. The process repeats. Some fanboys will bash consoles for losing developers, or for them to jump ship on a system (such as valve). Even if the game idea is approved, if the dev team for that company can't meet the standards, the game is likely scrapped (which nowadays, can put you out of business. in the case of valve, exec said it was too hard and cost too much, so they gave up). So why are there so many crappy games on Nintendo systems? The most of process above does not occur when you develop a game for Wii or DS. Nintendo either approves or denies your game idea, you make the game, send them a copy, they burn a million copies, and throw it on a store shelf. It's cheaper to make a game when quality control isn't breathing down your neck telling you to make your game not suck. This is why nintendo's first party games do the best on their consoles. Nintendo may have their own QC/A team for a project, but they don't send such teams to outside developers. In turn, you have all the "good" games made by nintendo, and most of the 3rd party ones screwing people out of 50 bucks.

You could try this. It only allows people to connect if they have the proper key. http://www.g-loaded.eu/2005/11/10/ssh-with-keys/

I use UBCD4WIN. It's a mixture of BartPE and UBCD. http://www.ubcd4win.com/

An old TV may not be good for something with small text, such as web browsing, but for some games, you can get by. I use a tv that has s-video input for my Stepmania machine, and even though the tv itself is blurry, it works ok enough so i can play..

Buy a headset. Welcome to 9th grade...

I almost forgot about this: http://www.freeantennas.com/projects/template2/index.html if you have some tin foil, paper, glue. and a few minutes, you can make your own signal booster. It's worth a shot,and you can build it from stuff laying around the house

If you're in the US, this site has several antennas for sale. http://www.fab-corp.com/ If you want to make a cantenna, they sell a cantenna kit on the site for under 20 dollars, which has an N connector and a pigtail to make it compatible with the plug on your wireless card.

Here's mine:

http://hackaday.com/2008/05/20/phlashing-d...k-the-new-hype/ There's also the risk of somebody bricking it remotely, but that's true now with most devices that recieve firmware updates over the net and don't have any way of verifying integrity (which most do). As long as mobo's still have removable bios chips, there's still a way to recover a bad flash by using a programmer for a microcontroller to flash the clean bios on. with the chip programmer, you can also dump the malicious firmware to a file for forensic analysis.

You might want to try out dogrem http://dorgem.sourceforge.net/ I don't remember if it will e-mail you the image, but it has the capability to send it to an ftp server, or to a site so that you can visit a webpage that has the most recent image or incident

Pretty much all cell phone games are played in portrait, but not all cellphone games have PS1 graphics (this was a big thing in 2003). It's a damn good phone. It's been dropped hundreds of times,thrown (hard ) against 2 brick walls, and a concrete floor, and it's still fully functional and in one piece. Why is it that people spend hudreds of dollars on a crappy cellphone each year when they could just buy 1 smartphone that is durable enough to last much longer? I might be replacing it soon for a Nokia NFC phone so i can do RFID hacking, but until then, the N-gage is here to stay.

Bloodshed is an excellent tool. gcc is also great, but if you're on the windows side, you'll want to check out MinGW

I hate outlook because the hotmail extension utility friggin sucks. i tell it to save my password every goddamn day, and it still asks me for it every time i open the program. then, it has the nerve to tell me how to fix it when it doesn't work, and when i go fix it, it still doesn't work. It also takes 3 minutes to load on a dual core laptop with 1gb of ram. thank god that thunderbird exists. it's nice when your e-mail program loads in 3 seconds instead of 3 minutes.

there's a lot of manufacturers who cash in on accessories. just take a look at the 360. sure, it only costs 200 bucks, but if you want wifi, that's another 100 bucks. wanna play more than 6 feet away from the console? you have to buy a rechargeable battery pack, or change your AA's almost every day. ran out of save space? spend over 100 dollars on a hard drive so small that newegg won't even sell it anymore. you pretty much get stuck buying their crappy hardware and spending all of the money you thought you "saved" just to keep playing games, not to mention subscription tiers to play games online when you already pay your ISP for that.

It looks like RedBoot still works, so you can easily recover from it. Just build a serial cable so you can access ssh. With a serial cable, you can watch the boot process on the fon, so when it says "executing boot script" you can cancel it, and start the flashing process over by erasing what's there, and reflashing the images. You won't need to use a LAN cable to access the fon via ssh, but you will still need it connected so you can send the files to it.

I wouldn't even bother with a microsoft cert. They cost to much, and expire too quick. Some employers realize this, and won't even bother footing the bill if you want to renew it.

The art of deception mostly covers social engineering, which can easily get by any security in place if your target is not properly trained. It uses many business situations as examples because you can lie to anybody over the phone to circumvent any network or physical security. It's easier to make somebody on the inside do your dirty work then having to do it yourself.

I'm trying to install packages on the fon that were assembled on my debian box. I'm able to install other packages that I downloaded from other sites, but when I try to install the ones i built from trunk, it gives me the error. I'm using a 64mb SD card as swap space, and it shows I have room to install packages. I even installed some after my own failed. Here's a report of available space: root@OpenWrt:~# df -h Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on none 6.6M 20.0k 6.6M 0% /tmp tmpfs 512.0k 0 512.0k 0% /dev /dev/mtdblock2 5.9M 3.1M 2.9M 51% /jffs mini_fo:/jffs 1.0M 1.0M 0 100% / root@OpenWrt:~# free total used free shared buffers Mem: 13620 8156 5464 0 272 Swap: 62680 0 62680 Total: 76300 8156 68144 root@OpenWrt:~# I'm guessing that it's trying to install to a location without any space. Is there any special configuration on how to cross-compile packages for the fon using the openwrt kamikaze trunk?

My hackpack consists of: HP nx7400 BackTrack3 Sony PSP PSP Camera IR keyboard(for psp) FON router with dual antenna, SD card, and battery pack 48" pigtail for cantenna power cables 20ft cat5 cable usb wireless card with rp-sma pigtail handful of wifi antennas a bunch of thumb drives 2 bluetooth headsets nokia n-gage(f**k what you heard, it's a good phone)

I'm trying to compile the latest version of aircrack-ng for the fon using this guide: http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=install_fonera but whenever I try to install it, I get this error: root@OpenWrt:~# ipkg install http://192.168.1.161/aircrack-ng_r1142-1_mips.ipk Downloading http://192.168.1.161/aircrack-ng_r1142-1_mips.ipk Installing aircrack-ng (r1142-1) to root... Nothing to be done An error ocurred, return value: 28. Collected errors: Only have 0 available blocks on filesystem /, pkg aircrack-ng needs 1096 For the target system, I chose Atheros 231x/5312. my guess is that it's trying to install itself on flash space, when it should install to the flash image that is loaded on boot. Anybody have any idea on how to make it work?

Actually, the ps3 is doing fine. don't quote the wii60 fanboys on the ign forums about the ps3 who keep spewing three year old news articles out of their ass. The only reason that nintendo and microsoft are designing new consoles is because the hardware in their current consoles can't compete with ps3. The ps3 costs more for a reason: it's half console/ half media pc, not to mention a supercomputer at the same time. The reason that they're jumping ship so soon is that nintendo doesn't have a quality assurance team in place to filter out all the crappy games coming out on the wii, and the 360 still has games coming out on dual layer dvd's. It's easier for them to cut their losses and start over than to fix what's already broken.

ut2k4 and quake 4 run better in linux than in windows. DEFCON also looks awesome in *nix. Don't expect to play too many games in linux though, unless you subscribe to cedega.

my easiest is html (the L stands for language, but it's not a programming language) C is easy for me, but i normally code in C#

My best guess is pricing. From my brief experience in retail, most consumers won't willingly shell out more than 150 bucks on what is essentially a "kid's toy". nintendo knows this, and tries to keep their prices low, regardless of how much the hardware sucks, with their excuse being "this is made just for games". once they start to dominate the handheld game market, every two years they come out with a new edition of the same handheld, only smaller, or with a 20% brighter screen, or with a new slot for kids to jam crayons in. They'll also make a "Zelda Limited Edition" or some shit like that, so that fanboys can go batshit insane and beg their moms to buy them the same thing they got last year in a different color. The OS won't do anything special, except load a cartridge, or tell you that you're missing one. People end up buying the same gameboy 3 times for upgrades you can do with an imagination, a soldering iron, and a trip to radioshack. Not to sound like a snot nosed fanboy, but Nintendo should take a page from the book of PSP, and put an expansion slot on the damn thing. That way, instead of people buying the same console over and over, they just sell the peripherals, and kids don't end up with a drawer full of gameboys. An upgradeable firmware wouldn't hurt either, with a menu of some sort.