Tag Archives: ubuntu

Introducing getwiinandkey

Posted on Sunday, July 18, 2010 by Peter

Okay. For some unknown reason you want to explore the internals of the Nintendo Wii. The plan goes something like this: Collect an image of your Wii NAND chip and the console-specific keys. ??? Profit Hopefully this post will shed … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday, Elite!

Posted on Monday, September 21, 2009 by Peter

The BBC website assures me that Elite was released 25 years ago today (more or less). There have been loads of ports/re-imaginings since then and one of my favourites is Oolite. It was originally developed for Mac OS X, but … Continue reading →

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New Year, New Public Key

Posted on Thursday, January 1, 2009 by Peter

A couple of days ago the Ubuntu 8.04 installation on my EEE 701 suffered a nasty file system crash. I’ve reinstalled from a USB stick and everything seems to work as it did before. The only loss appears to be … Continue reading →

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Free Online Poker for Linux

Posted on Thursday, November 27, 2008 by Peter

I really like poker. Partly as an interesting artificial intelligence problem, but mostly as a fun way to spend time with a group of friends. Now that I’ve finished travelling the problem is finding people to play with! There are … Continue reading →

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Enabling Eee 701 WiFi hotkeys in Ubuntu 8.04

Posted on Wednesday, August 6, 2008 by Peter

I picked up an Asus Eee 701 a couple of weeks ago to take with me when I’m travelling. After a few days I started to get a bit frustrated with the some of the more simplistic aspects of the … Continue reading →

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