Gentoox

5 Years!

Believe it or not, Gentoox is now 5 years old!

Updated php Nuke

PHP Nuke has been upgraded. Let me know if you notice any problems with the site!

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New Forums

Since I had a little spare time, I've upgraded the forums to phpBB3. Check them out here.

5 Million Pagehits!

I just checked the site stats and sometime towards the end of last month we hit 5,000,000 page hits! Thanks everyone!

Exploitable Xbox 360 wanted...

Rather than risk bricking another 360, I'll put out this plea: If anyone has an Xbox 360 with kernel version 4548 or below and wants to sell it, please contact me using the "Ask a Question" link to the left and we'll see if we can come to an agreement.

Thanks!

Xbox 360 bricked

I have spent the past day installing an InFeCtuS into my Xbox 360. I finally got it all installed and dumped my 360's NAND contents successfully. I then went to erase my NAND, everything seemed to go fine until the end when it said "Erase failed" -- Uhoh! I tried turning on the 360, sure enough black screen then 3 red LEDs. After searching around Google for a minute, I found a way of recovering a bad flash using the InFeCtuS' 3.3v line from USB. I recovered the flash and booted and all was well. Perhaps this is where I should have stopped. I undid the bad-flash wiring and I tried erasing and reprogramming again, this time the erase didn't complain and the programming went ahead fine. I tried booting and got a blank screen. "Not to worry," I thought, "I've seen this before and know how to fix it!". I resoldered the bad-flash wiring and tried flashing, the 360 wouldn't even power on now! 3 more flash attempts later and I'm getting nowhere. I tried flashing then downloading the NAND contents and diff'ing it with my original download. The downloads differed, which lead me to believe that the programmer is now malfunctioning because it is changing the flash as it uploads. I carefully took the motherboard back out, all the wires were still correctly attached. I carried on removing the motherboard and about 4 wires got caught and pulled off from the motherboard and took the VIAs with them. This means that I can no longer solder the InFeCtuS onto the motherboard! Until someone posts some alternative solder points, my 360 is very much bricked and hopes of getting a Gentoox360 are incredibly low.

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*Update*
I found some alternative soldering points, but they're on the TSOP legs themselves, which makes them impossible to solder to. I guess I'll be buying myself a new Xbox 360 next month!

Gearing up...

With news of the latest Xbox 360 timing attack, I've decided to gear up with the required tools to perform the hack. I've ordered an Infectus and a TOP2004 PIC programmer. Hopefully once the instructions are released for the hack, I'll be good to go to perform a downgrade!

Back to Apache

The SlXHTTPd test went well, no problems arose. I'm not back to using Apache just because it is "the standard". I will continue to use SlXHTTPd for magic.

Yet more SlXHTTPd news!

Well, I've spent the last few weeks coding away at SlXHTTPd and this is what I have to show for it. I'm no longer running Apache! This website (and all of my others) are being served by SlXHTTPd! Yes, I realise this is a big risk, but it's a means to finding out how stable/ secure it is.

Sourceforge Community Choice Awards

Hi everyone! Help us out with winning the SF.net community choice awards again this year, all you need to do is click this link and vote for us:

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