OT: Technology and Geek Stuff Thread

[LionsFanInJapan]

I'd post this in the "Stuff that makes your day" thread, but it seems too geeky. Here's my new monitor setup. The new Dell 27" and then my old 24" in portrait mode.



I need a bigger desk.

[bimmer84]

sweet!

[-Deborah-]

Nice!!! I thought my set up was overkill (a 23" next to a 22"), but wow...you win.

[LionsFanInJapan]

Dell (Japan) was having a sale and the monitor was %40 off. It was too good to pass up.

[Coop]

Decided to hack into the wii last weekend to get some homebrew apps running - anyone else done this?

[Panoptes]

Decided to hack into the wii last weekend to get some homebrew apps running - anyone else done this?

English please

[Topweasel]

English please

He made modifications to Wii that will now let him install amateur and unauthorized programs.

[Coop]

unlocking the "operating system" on the wii which allows a variety of things - including the ability to backup and copy games...

[Sweatpants Murphy]

what was the level of difficulty and the reward? by reward I mean the amount of good stuff available after the hack

[Coop]

stay tuned to this channel

[-Deborah-]

Not sure where to put this. I don't think my privacy settings allowed them to get anything other than my name, but others aren't as fortunate:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38463013/ns/technology_and_science/?GT1=43001

Details of 100 million Facebook users published online

Users' personal information cannot now be made private, security consultant says

[SeattleLionsFan]

I can't believe that someone might find out that on May 12, I gave the dog a bath...

[-Deborah-]

haha

[Darl McrBride]

Coop, my son has had homebrew running for years. I think you just need to stay on top of Nintendo updates that might brick such a system, ie, don't update the system until homebrew adjustments have been released (usually just a couple of days).

For others, why do this? Cool game mods like speeding up Brawl, adding random pics for character faces, play dvd's (maybe you can do this with an unmodified system now, I'm not sure), write your own games. This has actually inspired my kid to learn C because there's a fun objective.

On ethics, besides it being pretty obvious that you should be able to do what you want with things you've purchased, the homebrew guys are opposed to copyright infringement and have even put forth a lot of effort to help Nintendo out with respect to this (they've just been pissed on for their efforts but that's beside the point).

[Darl McrBride]

Deb, all the guy did was write a crawler and record the names and url's to the main pages of users. Not hard to do and nothing to write home about (any more than a white pages, anyway). These guys:

http://www.spokeo.com/

actually did the same thing but took the time to scrape data off of the pages, property tax records, realty info, etc.