Tags: +Games+; +News+

There have been a couple of BIG announcements over on The Mod Gods (http://www.themodgods.com) recently. The first is that the scene has successfully created a method to access the DS from wifi alone! Granted, it takes special wifi cards on your computer (a list of which can be found here: ) but the important thing is that if you DO have one of the cards listed, you DON’T NEED TO GET YOUR HANDS ON A PASSME TO RUN CODE!!! It’s REALLY cool.

The second thing is that a guy named Dark Fader and HIS crew have found a way to access the firmware on the DS, and it’s not too complex, either. From what I gather, you won’t even need to solder, just short it out for the time it takes to update it once, and then from then on you’re set!

So, in closeing, not only can we now run code without expensive hardware (you’re still gonna need a flash chip, but that has uses anyway, and you might have wanted one even after it was hacked), and soon we’ll have custom firmware running around on our DS’s! YAY!!!

Tags: +Linux+; +Technology+; +Maintenance+

I know I have not posted for a while, but I was having technical difficulties. Blogger decided to eat half of my source code!!! So I’ve been a while, because college has to come first. Then work. And before college, my Darling, but you get the picture.

Well, so we have some content in this post, I’d just like to take a few moments to mention a neat idea I was recently exposed to: an OS on a jumpdrive (or thumb drive, or what ever). The first I saw was called Damn Small Linux (http://damnsmalllinux.org), or DSL for short. It clocks in at about 50 megs, and can run off of a boot CD, jumpdrive, network, or even natively in Windows! How cool is that?

But after that, I found a distro that could do all the same stuff, but it loaded itself RIGHT INTO RAM!!! So, needless to say, it was a lot faster then DSL. “It” refers to Puppy Linux (http://www.goosee.com/puppy/). Again, boot it how you wanna. I’m hooked. I wonder if Slackware can boot off of a REALLY big thumbdrive…?

At any rate, I intend to resume regular posts. Thank you for your time, and goodnight, fair readers!