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ShareSaves.Com – All of your Playstation game saves!

Sunday, March 8th, 2009

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Ever looked for PS3/PS2 game saves? Playstation saves seem to be tough to come by without searching across dozens of sites. I did find a new site called: ShareSaves.Com which has a pretty large selection being added to on a daily basis.

Check it out at: http://www.sharesaves.com

Best of all…NO POPUPS!

OpenSolaris nge0 issue? Solved!!!

Friday, January 16th, 2009

Ok… So I have to post my experience with OpenSolaris thus far and not being able to access the internet on my HP desktop.

Weirdest thing… It would find the interface but couldn’t pull DHCP.

I can’t tell you how many hours I spent trying to make this NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller work until I found this. I have to applaud this guy ‘stephenb’.

Very last message states:

I did not need to go that far, though. He said nge driver was fixed in the newer release and I installed OpenSolaris over my Solaris express.
it still did not work right away, but this got it working:


svcadm disable nwam
scb@immanuel:~# ifconfig nge0
nge0: flags=201004843 mtu 1500 index 2
inet 0.0.0.0 netmask ff000000
ether 5:3c:db:21:19:0
scb@immanuel:~$ cat /etc/dhcp.nge0
cat: /etc/dhcp.nge0: No such file or directory
scb@immanuel:~$ cat /etc/nodename
immanuel
scb@immanuel:~$ ls /etc/host*
/etc/hosts // there is no /etc/hostname.nge0
scb@immanuel:~# touch /etc/dhcp.nge0
scb@immanuel:~# touch /etc/hostname.nge0
scb@immanuel:~# ifconfig nge0 dhcp start
ifconfig: nge0: wait timed out, operation still pending...
scb@immanuel:~# ifconfig nge0 ether 0:19:21:db:3c:5 // reversing the ether address
scb@immanuel:~# ifconfig nge0
nge0: flags=201004843 mtu 1500 index 2
inet 0.0.0.0 netmask ff000000
ether 0:19:21:db:3c:5
scb@immanuel:~# ifconfig nge0 dhcp start
scb@immanuel:~# netstat -rn
svcadm enable nwam

SWEET! How the hell switching the MAC Address makes a difference…I have no idea… I’ve just added it to the startup script now.

Thanks a ton! Hope this helps someone else who may be scratching their head on this issue.

Check out the full thread over at the OpenSolaris Forums

New Use for Twitter??

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009



With Twitter, Ryan Rose gets short messages about what his friends are cooking for dinner, the latest updates from blogs and home improvement tips from the Home Depot. Oh, and now his washing machine tweets when a load of clothes is done.

The TiVo senior programmer from San Jose spent a week modifying his 25-year-old washing machine to send a message to Twitter when his laundry is ready. Rose, 35, admits his less-than-reliable memory has been to blame for the mildewed clothes that have piled up after he’s left a load sitting in his machine too long.

But no more, thanks to Twitter text message alerts to his cellphone from his hacked washer, which he dubbed PiMPY3WASH. After some attention last week from various blogs, Rose’s washing machine now has 152 followers on Twitter — meaning every time he does laundry, 152 people hear about it.

One subscriber to PiMPY’s laundry feed is Whirlpool’s Twitter account. Brian Snyder, the company spokesman who oversees the appliance manufacturer’s social media accounts, reached out to Rose on YouTube after spotting the video. He said the company was “always looking for new ways to connect our appliances to the Internet.”

Rose told Whirlpool that he’s excited about the potential to bring this technology to a mainstream audience. “I said, ‘Look, I could probably get these things installed for less than $20 — [the amount] it cost me in parts.’ Why aren’t these things out on the market yet?”

Check out the full article at LA Times