Gigabit fiber is finally available from Sonic in my neighborhood of San Francisco and it’s twenty times faster than our Comcast cable for half the price! Forget the speed; look at that latency! There are a few downsides. Upstream is only (“only”, I know) 100 mbps, I can’t buy a static IP, and there’s no IPv6 support. Comcast Business gives me a static IP and (finally, after a few years) a v6…
Playstation Vita is another system I adopted late in its lifetime. It’s not a bad system, not like the Wii U, but it’s still expensive and proprietary. The Gravity Rush kiosk demo grabbed my attention at launch five years ago back in Atlanta, but Sony have to be Sony and a memory card of any decent size costs more than a used Vita system so I waited a few years for one. I finally picked up a Vita…
Five years ago — gosh, has it really been that long? — I wrote up some instructions for installing FreeBSD on a Xen PV VPS from prgmr , my favorite VPS host. The server hosting this blog is gigadelic.cooltrainer.org and has lived at prgmr since 2011 with no major issues. I basically ignored it for the last few years aside from security patches and it just kept on chugging. It was still running…
Breath of the Wild made me dust off my Wii U after three years of post-Mario-Kart-8 post-3D-World neglect. As much as I wanted to like it the Wii U really isn’t a good console, mostly due to the gamepad. It’s lumpy, heavy, has poor battery life (intentionally, as I later found), has limited range to the console, and has a mushy resistive touchscreen that developers always seem mandated to use. The…
This is a project I started working on last year partly out of nostalgia and partly out of a desire to play all these great old games I’ve had lying around that don’t run so well on modern systems. The CPU and GPU both technically came out in 2002 but this was the kind of build I was dreaming about in 2001. Specs: CPU: Intel Pentium III-S 1.4ghz 512k “Tualatin” Mobo: ASUS TUV4X w/ KT133 chipset…
The Cooltrainer FreeBSD Desktop Guide is updated to cover FreeBSD 11 and various changes to the software ecosystem. Not that much is different. My own upgrade from 10.3 to 11.0 went basically flawlessly and in fact I haven’t really worked on my computer since the last time I updated that page in 2014. It just keeps chugging along. Aside from that nvidia-modeset thing that scared me once after…
Have you ever wanted a Nintendo DS Player? They exist! …Kind of! We got our hands on Intelligent Systems’ Nitro Capture unit, meant for trade shows and the like. It’s powered by a GameCube PSU, can do ad-hoc communication over the Ethernet port or with an actual wireless expansion module I don’t have, has two Multi AV Out ports and a few DIP switches to configure them, and can take screen captures…
Your thundering sound become the flash light that pierces soul of crowd, get the whole world into the voltex… Next generation music game. and from the voltex void, a person who could bring rise to a new light was born, cries of thunder and leads a lot of people … … at least that’s what the front of the machine says! SDVX is the game that got me back into BEMANI after a long hiatus, but I’ve never…
This year was my second time attending MAGFest way across the country in DC. It was great times with great friends and great games. Here are some highlights! Hello Gaylord Trumptown, USA :( feat. Pepe --> 'MURICA It me The more you play with it, the harder it gets Bought a couple cheap reproduction games Konami hate money and success Using my PST Privilege to stay in the arcade until sunrise…
Our “Blue & White” Power Macintosh G3 got a desk to call home. And some upgrades. I guess I should call it the Blue & White G4. 1999 through 2001 is my absolute favorite era of Apple and this machine exemplifies it more than any other. All the stuck-up professionals complained about the pretty blue case so all the later G4 hardware turned muted grey. The Blue & White actually has some personality!…