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Tuesday, 27 July 2010 |
I know this is really pretty late, considering that I'm tinkering on an old original XBox. I got it at a garage sale for $35 with 4 controllers and the DVD kit...I figured it was a fun toy.
As soon as I got home, I set out to softmod the thing and install XBMC. I got that all setup and working, and then needed to use 360Xplorer to modify some things - it crashed, and I lost one of the partitions. I ended up getting xboxhdm to try and just rebuild the drive. I followed the guides to make my disk (though I didn't have my eeprom.bin saved!). Oh noes! It would seem hope is lost, judging from 20-30 posts on the same issue made by others I've found.
I have found a way to fix it. Go ahead and build your xboxhdm setup with your C and E drive files inside, and then proceed to hotswap your drive by unplugging the power to your XBox DVD drive, and then turn it on. Once it displays Error 12, plug the cable that usually plugs into your desktop's main hard drive into the XBox hard drive, after removing the IDE cable connecting it to the XBox. Make sure you just have the XBox and your drive with xboxhdm connected at this point, with the XBox drive on the primary IDE channel.
Proceed to turn on your computer, and boot into xboxhdm. Run xboxhd and see if your drive is still unlocked. If not, you'll need to reboot your computer with the xbox drive still connected, and once it gets to the xboxhdm boot screen, wait, and do the XBox hotswap process again by unplugging the XBox drive from the desktop, plugging it back to the XBox, and powercycling the XBox until it shows error 12 again. Then, reconnect the drive to your computer which is still on, and hit enter to boot.
After running xboxhdm, you may do something like wipe out the fatx partition table, or you may just have some weird stuff going on with the partitions (like them not being detected). The solution? Read on.
First, cd into /xboxhdm/xbox. Then, perform the following commands, one at a time:
dd if=head.raw of=/dev/hda bs=512k
dd if=fatx.raw of=/dev/hda seek=1 bs=512k
dd if=fatx.raw of=/dev/hda seek=1501 bs=512k
dd if=fatx.raw of=/dev/hda seek=3001 bs=512k
dd if=fatx.raw of=/dev/hda seek=4501 bs=512k
dd if=fatx.raw of=/dev/hda seek=5501 bs=512k
Finally, run "fdisk /dev/hda" and then hit "o" followed by Enter to create a new DOS partition table, followed by "w" and Enter to write it.
Proceed to run xboxhd again and select "1" to rebuild the entire drive. It should give the "[OK]" and walk you through the rest of the process! Hooray!
No muss, no fuss, no dumping of the eeprom that you should've done (I should have done :D ) in the first place, no more money to spend unlocking the #$*%ing drive.
XBMC here I come!
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Thursday, 15 July 2010 |
It seems that I haven't posted in ... well, way too long. I do have excuses. I've had my share of fun and projects, but my summer started with a 3 week choir tour, before which I was moving the first time from campus back home. I did buy an HP netbook, which I promptply formatted and installed Archlinux alongside an nLited version of XP. Windows 7 sucks.
Fast forward past some mostly boring stuff, and we get to where I am now, moving again with my family into a new house. It's a pretty neat old house, and I have plans to setup my network equipment, and headless machines down in the basement - after I run a few hundred feet of cat5 and build a shelf.
Other than that, I recently setup an Untangle gateway between my cable modem and my router - though it can act as a router, I still need to purchase a switch...but this distro is better than manually configuring my favorite distro, or using smoothwall (which is an old piece of crap IMHO). Props to Hak5, where I heard first about Untangle.
Finally, the best part is that I bought a SATA II controller with 4 ports that supports port multipliers and hardware RAID. I have no reason to use RAID yet, but I did need the controller to be able to use the two new 1TB Hitachi Deskstar drives I got for $69 each from Newegg (looks like they've gone up $10 since then). I have to say they are super fast and super cool (versus my failing seagate drive). The seagate drive is the reason for the purchase, as I don't want to lose my ~490gb of precious files that are important to me. Luckily, I'm rsync-ing them all over right now, so far no hiccups (which is weird, as this seagate drive is 3 years old and has seen better days).
If any of my text is misspelled or incoherant, note that I've been up for about 18 hours at this point, as I'm trying to get back on a decent sleeping schedule (read: normal).
Anyway, thanks for reading. I promise I won't take 5-6 months between now and the next post!
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Monday, 11 January 2010 |
Well, gtk-qt-engine isn't supporting KDE3 in new versions, and most people have forgotten KDE3 and moved on to the piece of crap KDE4. I use KDE3/QT3, and like gtk-qt-engine. I had a few issues with the look of firefox under it, though.
1. The biggest was that radio buttons and checkboxes got whited out whenever I'd click them and they'd be active.
2. The scrollbar's leftmost line didn't render properly, and only drew down the length of the slider..
3. The bottom statusbar was sectionized and thus ugly.
I've written a userscript/userstyle that fixes all of these. I suggest using the firefox extension stylish to use my userscript, but it should work just fine with greasemonkey as well.
Let me know how it works for you!
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Monday, 30 November 2009 |
Without ads, this site, as well as others like Digg, Facebook, Google, various blogs, and the ever popular cheezburger sites like LOLCats would die.
The bill Rick Boucher is attempting to pass would make it nearly impossible to advertise on websites by making people agree to an agreement before they are advertised to. They don't have to do this with radio, print, or television ads, so why should we have to do it online?
Hindering this would kill the internet as we know it. Please read up on the issue, and sign the petition.
Link here:
http://keepourwebfree.org/
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Wednesday, 11 November 2009 |
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