I was shopping a little with my parents yesterday, when I saw
Nintendo DS and I decided to buy it, the idea was in my mind for some time and finally I’ve got it!
It is really great, the touch screen idea is incredible, I was playing to
Metroid Prime Hunters: First Hunt where you have to use your stylus to point your weapon and guide your character, this feature is gonna be hard to overcome by its competitors. About graphic power, everybody is telling that it’s like having a
N64 and that
PSP is gonna be better (more expensive too) but I think NDS is good enough, because it’s a new platform where developers just started to write games, so are they using the full graphic power of this toy? I don’t think so…let’s wait some time to see what they can do! 
After charging the battery about 4 hours (recommended by the manual) I started to play a little and to make some photos uploading them to my recently opened
Flickr account, I will talk about the nice service provided by Flickr in further posts. You can see the pictures
here.
For now I am using the included Metroids demo and some
GBA games I’ve borrowed to my brother and my little cousin, I’ve been playing a lot to Final Fight One which remembers me my old days spending money on the arcade machines….how I miss them 
(thanks to
xmame I can play all those old games on my computer).
My iPod Shuffle is now working with the latest gentoo’s ebuild of GTKPod which provides the version 0.88.1, now I can browse, remove, upload files…everything! I’m on vacation since last Monday so I’ve been playing for awhile with it to learn how it does the job.
I’m taking some time to write a little agenda in
PHP5 using
MySQL to store the data, I’m doing it because my postgraduate as a final project, it is supposed to be done during class time but I don’t see how if they don’t let us enough time. Finally I decided to do the dirty job, scripting and so on…and I’ll let the layout design to my group partners.
Besides, I’ve got recently a 17″ TFT and instead of replacing my old CRT I’m using matrox’s dual-head to split my desktop in two parts, not cloning here so I’ve got a 2304×1024 virtual resolution which is so great to work! I’m using the CRT to watch TV, movies, etc and the TFT to work. Take a look to this
screenshot or
this one, you could notice in the last one that my real resolution is 1024×768 plus 1280×1024, I could configure the CRT to 1280×1024 too but I don’t want to hurt my eyes @60Hz 
. To achieve this using
X.Org was relatively easy, just
googling a little I found some guys with their
XFree86 configuration which was totally compatible with X.Org.
At my current office we have a
DSm622 and this morning we were trying to configure it to have TCP/IP support cause till now it’s been used only to make copies and it can do a lot more. While surfing its web interface I saw its logs and quickly realized they were too similar to Linux/Unix logging systems. I started to think on how to get some signs about what was running on the copier.
First, I tried some errors on the web server to see its signature, it did not work…then I thought on its TCP fingerprinting so I put
nmap to do the job, look what it gave me:
Starting nmap 3.81 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2005-03-07 15:34 CET
Initiating SYN Stealth Scan against 172.27.4.7 [101 ports] at 15:34
Discovered open port 21/tcp on 172.27.4.7
Discovered open port 80/tcp on 172.27.4.7
Discovered open port 23/tcp on 172.27.4.7
The SYN Stealth Scan took 0.12s to scan 101 total ports.
For OSScan assuming port 21 is open, 1 is closed, and neither are firewalled
Host 172.27.4.7 appears to be up ... good.
Interesting ports on 172.27.4.7:
(The 98 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
PORT STATE SERVICE
21/tcp open ftp
23/tcp open telnet
80/tcp open http
MAC Address: 00:00:74:82:4B:4E (Ricoh Company)
Device type: general purpose
Running: NetBSD
OS details: NetBSD 1.3 - 1.3.3 big endian arch
Uptime 12.893 days (since Tue Feb 22 18:08:48 2005)
TCP Sequence Prediction: Class=random positive increments
Difficulty=188062 (Good luck!)
IPID Sequence Generation: Incremental
Nmap finished: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 2.757 seconds
Raw packets sent: 115 (4880B) | Rcvd: 114 (5366B)
NetBSD!, I was very impressed seeing that, I did nmap about 6 more times and it brought same answer 6/7 times, so…nmap could be wrong but knowing NetBSD it can be, it is well known because its portability so it is in embedded world.
Well, I just wanted to notice that here because I feel happy when I see a free Unix as NetBSD is used in commercial applications like a multifunction copier or any other product.
