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Fibre to the Node

Nix McRetro // 21st May 2016 // News

Recently some friends got their FTTN NBN put in… it’s fast. In fact this website is hosted there - might explain the downtime… ;) Take a look at the above photo, that’s what FTTN is. Existing copper wire runs it from the node to your home. Look at the condition... Continue reading

Generating Custom Darknet Onion Names

Nix McRetro // 14th May 2016 // Guides, Hacks, Raspberry Pi

Shallot is a great little program for generating your own vanity darknet onion address. I’ve used it for my old http://mcretro35qepy5cy.onion/ address. I figured I’d share how it all works. So I fired up the old Ubuntu 16.04 (64-bit) and it’s still working well, Shallot (Version 0.0.3-alpha at the time... Continue reading

eMachines E732 Laptop Disassembly

Nix McRetro // 23rd April 2016 // Guides, Repairs, YouTube

As I was pulling apart a laptop for a friend, I realised I should make it a video just so anyone else in the future who is doing the same can see what needs to be done. These are pretty easy to disassemble and are quite roomy if you have... Continue reading

Dumping the Sega Dreamcast HKT-0120 Dev Kit SCSI Hard Drive via dd_rescue

Nix McRetro // 16th April 2016 // Hacks, Sega, YouTube

At least I think it was dd_rescue, might have been ddrescue at the start. Either way, a successful dump. Below is the directory structure of the last main folder. If you are just here for the disk image it can be found here. It is around 1GB compressed and 4.5GB... Continue reading

Dumping the Sega Dreamcast HKT-0120 Dev Kit SCSI Hard Drive via GUI and dd

Nix McRetro // 9th April 2016 // Sega, YouTube

Everyone loves World Series Baseball 2K2 (WSB2K2) and in this video we try dumping via dd and the GUI, the results aren’t all that bad either. It does look like there is a small amount of unreadable data, but that shouldn’t stop us from getting the contents of this Dreamcast... Continue reading