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Darksat
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« on: August 25, 2007, 03:46:12 pm » |
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Looking to run Linux on your XBox. http://lab.dyne.org/xboxor http://www.xbox-linux.org/A 733MHz Intel Processor and an 8GB Drive is more than enough for running a Linux box. You can run it as a server, an IDS system, you can even run windows inside Linux using virtualbox on the Xbox. Plus you can get an original xbox for £50-60 nowdays. |
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Joygasm
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« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2008, 11:47:14 am » |
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If anyone is interested in this (and yes I know that modding xbox's is somewhat old) and needs help, send me a message of some sort, and I'd be glad to help in anyway I can. I've softmodded quite a few xbox's to turn into media servers, they make fun arcade machines too  . |
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Darksat
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« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2008, 04:48:10 pm » |
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What do you run on them?
Linux? Dyne?
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« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2008, 07:51:10 pm » |
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I don't like xbox they really try so hard to keep out linux, so do nintendo.
Yet sony playstations come with linux kits allowing you to turn it into desktop computers.
If you can't mod it, its not really yours.
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Darksat
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« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2008, 07:42:57 am » |
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Yeah but the XBOX is cheap now. Its a brick but its a cheap brick.  |
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Joygasm
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« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2008, 09:55:23 am » |
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On the media server one, I used Slayer's EvoX Auto-Installer for the EvoX gui, not sure what it runs on specifically. Then for one of my clustered boxes I believe I used a Xebian LiveCD since I was lazy, and only used it for clustering my DVD 'Backups'.
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Darksat
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« Reply #6 on: January 04, 2008, 10:38:56 am » |
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The Evolution X system is simply a new shell/dashboard and a bios hack for the XBox.
Xebian would be the one I would be more interested in as you get a fully fledged Linux PC.
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« Reply #7 on: January 04, 2008, 04:30:11 pm » |
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What is the xbox cpu power?
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Joygasm
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« Reply #8 on: January 04, 2008, 04:33:28 pm » |
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As Darksat said, it's a 733Mhz, which isn't all THAT much, but it'll do anything you really need it to. And of course if it doesn't do what you want, then you just load like 5 of them, cluster em, and bam, an extremely cheap number cruncher.
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« Reply #9 on: January 04, 2008, 04:37:10 pm » |
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it has more power that most of my pc's  . xbox's are very cheap now so it sounds like it could be a rather cheap cluster. So can you get like a keyboard and mouse for xbox's. I can see my bank balance dropping again . |
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Joygasm
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« Reply #10 on: January 04, 2008, 04:45:44 pm » |
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Not only can you use keyboard/mouse but you can ssh into it. So you don't even need them. Just ssh using your current computer, and use them headless. BAM. No needs for a T.V. or any peripherals The biggest cluster I setup was my 2.6Ghz, my 1.2Ghz and my 3 733Mhz Xboxes, was a fun project, I think I did it as a final presentation in my Networking class. Even if you don't plan on using them for huge processes, you can always have one for webserver, mailserver, etc. etc. Skies pretty much the limit. And well, hiding an xbox in the closet as a server is a lot easier than a big arse tower. Not to mention that you can upgrade your HDD's in the xbox too. (Very tricky though, if you mod yours and want to know how I can help. Has to be lockable... bbiiggg pain in the arse  ) |
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Darksat
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« Reply #11 on: January 04, 2008, 08:04:34 pm » |
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Er, I cant believe neither of you guys has clustered a computer lab yet. Universitys are totally empty at night and you have a massive ammount of resources at your disposal. 40 PCs running a brute force on multiple T3 connections tends to be fairly powerfull. |
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Joygasm
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« Reply #12 on: January 05, 2008, 04:30:08 am » |
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Ya, we did that to crack wep in my wireless final. But we only took the one room of 24 comps. Was kind of fun, except telling the 'tards to stop trying to get on their computers while we were demonstrating our final. I was midway through my final and I see, random ring drops, and the ring goes boom. I was tempted to kill some folk. Fortunately I wrote a script that 'looks' like it was cracking the wep keys.
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« Reply #13 on: January 05, 2008, 08:43:43 am » |
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You don't need a cluster to crack wep . I'm no hacker so I wouldn't cluster uni computers  . Plus I have no use for it, as long as I have plain-text I'm fine. |
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« Reply #14 on: January 05, 2008, 03:44:20 pm » |
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I wasn't doing it for the purpose of cracking wep was just using a 2 for one deal, we did our wep crack and then cracked our laptops passwords. But hey, I didn't specify that so :p |
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