The other evening I found myself in the horrible position of seeing my server spit out disk errors like there was no tomorrow. Not willing to risk the machine going down when I would not be around I took a quick trip to the office supply store and picked up a new SATA drive.The server…
Day: January 29, 2009
Nintendo takes the console crown for 2007, but what does it mean?
Once again Nintendo has managed to keep the Wii and DS in the top two spots of the video game console food chain. According to the NPD Group Nintendo sold over 8.5 million DS units (4 million in November/December alone) and nearly 6.3 million Wii units (2.3 million in the final two months) in 2007….
Contra 4: kick’n ass and taking names
In 1987 Konami launched a title for the NES known as Contra. This game was hard. I still remember sitting down with my friends to play it on my friend’s NES. When the first of us beat the game we rejoiced and celebrated!The original Contra game came out at a time when beating a game…
The importance of iPhone hacking
There is a convergence going on between the world of cell phones and the world of computers. The iPhone is the most prominent example of this.Can you imagine purchasing a computer and being told that you could not install a different operating system (even though the hardware was capable)? Or even worse that if you…