HPE MicroServer with TrueNAS Scale - Clunking Hard Drives

Integrity and Extracting the GeoCities Archive - Rebuild V5

dd Progress Bar in Mac OS

General Electric Model 4665 AM/FM Radio – Part 4: AM/FM Switch

Rebuilding GeoCities on Mac OS 12

The Assembler Games Archive - Work Notes

Avtek MegaPlus V.32bis - Resetting the Linksys PAP2T

The GeoCities Rebuild Worklog

!!! Consider this a work-in-progress until further notice !!!

The GeoCities Archive - Rebuild Complete

The GeoCities Archive Rebuild Blog

Tentaku Mechanical Calculator

TP-Link VR1600v Firmware Dump Attempt

PSIO Multi-Disc Formatting (MULTIDISC.LST)

Replacing 27C040 with 29F040B

Sega Saturn Phantom Universal Modchip - Testing, Testing!

Xbox OG 24" Super IDE PATA Cable Folding and Routing

Sega Mega-CD Region-free BIOS Burn in the GQ-4x4

Onions, Great with All Websites!

Installation of the Sega Saturn Phantom Universal Modchip

Xbox 360 E 4GB Hard Drive Hacking

With what feels like 500 years ago now, I had an Xbox 360 to play Burnout Revenge. I picked up a brand new Xbox 360 from my local EBGames… Yeeeep! That’s now long ago it was, the darned thing was brand new! And basically flashed over the start of the...

Sony PSP-1000 Button PCB Replacement

Xbox Kasumi Blue 24" IDE PATA Cable Routing

Glitchy Goodness on the Mega Drive

Sega Saturn Phantom Universal Modchip Testing & Region Lock

Sega Saturn Phantom Universal Modchip Installation

Sega Saturn Phantom Universal Modchip Overview & Disassembly

Sega Saturn Phantom Universal Modchip Installation Tips

Sega Saturn Phantom Universal Modchip CD Drive Identification

Sega Dreamcast BIOS and GD-ROM Dumping

27C1024 EPROM Dumping with the MiniPro TL866

Intel Compute Stick STK1AW32SC

Sony PlayStation Modchip Installation Guides

Sega Saturn Modchip Installation Guides

Super Famicom (NTSC-J) and Super Nintendo (PAL) Barrel Size

Ghost Publishing Platform on the Raspberry Pi

Programming AM29F032B on the MiniPro TL866

Panasonic SMD Caps - FP Series

Circuit Bending - Sonic the Hedgehog

Generating Custom Darknet Onion Names

eMachines E732 Laptop Disassembly

Circuit Bending VRAM on a Sega Mega Drive / Genesis 2

Capturing Game Video

Drag Soldering a 29F032 TSOP Chip

Mayumi 4 | PIC12C508A | SCPH-5502 | PU-18

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Circuit Bending a Sega Mega Drive 2

Sony PlayStation | Mayumi 4 | SCPH-7502 | PU-22

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Mayumi 4 | PIC12F629 | SCPH-7502 | PU-22

There are eight points in total to solder.

Sony PlayStation 1 - Modchip Overview

First up a little information on the best modchips for the PS1 and why we do or don’t use them. This is mostly educated guesses upon reading things on the *internet* - of all things… and probably shouldn’t be taken as gospel!

Take Back The Darknet (Part 14)

Part 14 - Testing the Waters Time to get some content up on your web server. You can either fire up Samba or use terminal to create a new website, etc, etc.

Take Back the Darknet (Part 13)

Part 13 - Generating a Domain Name Use the vanity generator (Shallot) to make some private keys.

Take Back the Darknet (Part 12)

Part 12 - Hardening Tor If you have multiple websites you can adjust these. If you are just using /var/www/ adjust accordingly.

Take Back the Darknet (Part 11)

Part 11 - Configuring HTTPS (SSL) Generate SSL keys via CAcert.org. Great website for doing this is right here.

Take Back the Darknet (Part 10)

Part 10 - Configuring Tor Stop the Tor service from running while we tinker. sudo service tor stop

Take Back the Darknet (Part 9)

Part 9 - Configuring Apache

Take Back the Darknet (Part 8)

Part 8 - Installing Tor To get Tor up and running we need to install it with the following. sudo apt-get install tor -y

Take Back the Darknet (Part 7)

Part 7 - Hardening Apache and Secure Shell

Take Back the Darknet (Part 6)

Part 6 - Installing Samba Server

Take Back the Darknet (Part 5)

Part 5 - Installing Apache 2.4 HTTP Server If you are hosting a clearnet website, you will want to make sure ports 80 (http) and 443 (https) are forwarded on your router. One of the wonderful things about the darknet is that it does not require any port forwarding due...

Take Back the Darknet (Part 4)

Part 4 - Hardening Your Pi

Take Back the Darknet (Part 3)

Part 3 - Setting a Static IP Address

Take Back the Darknet (Part 2)

Part 2 - Image Raspbian, Basic Settings and Updates

Take Back the Darknet (Part 1)

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Programming Atmel Chips with PICkit 2 with AVRDUDE on a Mac

McRetro & Friends: Making Cupcakes (Version 2.0)

Sony PlayStation 1 / PSone Laser Assembly - Disassembly and Removal

Disabling F413A and Installing SuperCIC onto an SNSP-CPU-02 Board

This article details how to install the SuperCIC for switchless region free gaming. You can find the full photo gallery here. Look for Super Nintendo UP15971140.

Bob Parker's Blue ESR Meter by AnaTek Corp Assembly and Testing

Cleaning Game Cartridges with a Pencil Eraser / Rubber

Basic Testing of a 7806 Voltage Regulator

Disabling F413B - Installing SuperCIC onto an SNSP-CPU-1CHIP-01 Board

Block Copying Under Mac OS X

I’ve found that using dd is quite useful for older software. This has been especially important for copying Mac OS Standard disks since 10.6+ do not support read/write. One thing to note is that using “rdisk” instead of “disk” allows the copy to complete much quicker. Recently I’ve used this...

Sega Sophia Target Box - Factory Settings for PAL

Nixie Clock 3.6V NiCad Battery Replacement NiMH Upgrade

Desoldering with the Hakko 808: Removing a Bad Capacitor

Converting XRGB-mini Adapter to EuroSCART

Removing an EPROM from a Proto / Test Sega Cart