ClivePwned
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also- Catch of the day on Wednesday 3DS $199. Hmmm.
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also- Catch of the day on Wednesday 3DS $199. Hmmm.
Hi-five! I'm starting to think that 3G should have been the way to go, unless I can figure out an elegant iPhone-tethering solution. Also, 64 gb may have been overkill, but I guess I'll have to wait a few months to determine for sure. Couldn't give a crap about colour - when I rocked up at the front of the queue there was a sales assistant with a list of what was still left. They had plenty of black 64's but only one white. I said "you know what, I have no idea what colour I want" and she took me down to check them out. My justification for getting a white was that it would look "newer" and I could do a better job of rubbing it in the face of my colleague who not long ago bought a 1st-gen 64gb 3G model and lives a life of regret and sorrow.Rez said:
Clive, I'm almost tempted to offer $199 to anyone in this here thread if they actually manage to secure a 3DS from CotD I'm that confident the site will break in half.
ClivePwned
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I have never bought from them before- though I nearly bought some stuff on friday- does it make it easier to have you CC details registered with them beforehand?
reptilescorpio
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Ha. Small world, my gf and son are in Warny shopping with her sisters. Celebrating my free weekend with Scotch, Crysis 2 and Global Strategy & International Management.Rez said:
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iPhones have a cool new 'Wireless Hotspot' feature in 4.3 that allows you to broadcast your 3G connection as a Wifi hotspot. It isn't super-fast, but for casual net browsing or social networking it seems to work fairly well.Bernbaum said:
Kind of makes the 3g models a tad redundant, to be honest.
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ClivePwned said:
Ha! I just saw the forza/ODST game reduced for only $149 at big W. Best bargain i've ever seen.
I had a fun experience the other day that I thought I might mention. A colleague got a new Wii so I wanted to do the Wii Ambassador thing that I'm sure plenty of you are beginning to get sick of me mentioning, but it brought up an interesting challenge.
Now, the challenge was that he only had a cable Internet connection at home and the wireless Internet at the Uni I work at uses WPA2-Enterprise, which is not supported by the Wii. Could we manage to get his Wii connected to the Internet at either his home or work without buying any additional hardware?
Warning: This description is going to get a little techy. Those unfamiliar with network stuff may want to skip to the end
The first thing I tried was using my laptop's wirless card an an additional wireless USB dongle my friend had to set up an ad-hoc network with Internet Connection Sharing. It was easy to set this up and test via my iPhone connecting to the Internet via the PC. However, while the Wii could detect the network and correctly determined stuff like the authentication protocol in use, the connection test would report that it couldn't find an access point.
Thus, we move to round 2 (which I had planned for anyway) where I was to use the new Personal Hotspot feature for the iPhone (also mentioned here in recent posts). I tested this with my PC connecting to the iPhone just fine and getting data via the iPhone's 3G connection just like it had worked with tethering beforehand, so I was hopeful it would work. The Wii could see the iPhone's SSID just fine and again went through the password process without problem. However, the connection test reported that the Wii couldn't connect to the Internet (a different error to previously). The iPhone's status bar didn't change colour like it usually does when a device connects, so I really don't know what was going on here.
At this point, I'm a tad annoyed and I leave it to the next day when I bring my combo ADSL modem/WiFi router from home into work. My Wii at home connects to this router perfectly fine, so all I'd need to do is plug the router into my laptop via Ethernet and then turn off DHCP on the router so that the router simply bridges the Wii to my laptop and Internet Connection Sharing takes care of the rest. Unfortunately, I discovered that the Ethernet ports on said router, which I have long had trouble with, were no longer working. Now that I write this, I realise I probably could have just used the dual network adapter approach idea I had in the first attempt and it might have worked, but I didn't think of it at the time. Using somebody else's router would have worked too, of course, but we didn't have access to any.
Anyway, I'm now at breaking point of things to try (given that the proposed methods all worked with other devices, just not with the Wii). Searching online wasn't really helping until I tried to do one more search. Instead of searching for Wii connection methods and so on, I just looked for an alternative approach to share Windows Internet connections. Given that the inbuilt sharing in Windows Vista and 7 works so well for everything else, I was surprised to discover an alternative application has been made, it being Connectify.
Now, I'm seriously doubting this will work given my multiple failures so far. I am surprised to discover that it allows you to create an access point from your WiFi interface without you needing to disconnect from other networks on the same interface, though (something you absolutely cannot do with Windows networking). The fact that it calls this an 'access point' mode rather than an 'ad-hoc' mode (which it also had choices for) was very promising. Thus, I start up the software, turn on the Wii and go through connection settings once more and amazingly, the Wii reports success. I'd finally managed to connect the incredibly picky Wii to an Internet connection it didn't support using nothing more than a Windows PC with a wireless card.
Now, the connection wasn't perfect. The connection would often drop if you left it idle for very long (causing applications to quit), but it was enough to update the Wii and get on the Wii Shop to do the Wii Ambassador Program stuff and demonstrate the News and Weather channels and stuff. The only room we could connect the Wii to a screen in didn't have the best WiFi signal, which could have been the cause of the drop-outs, or perhaps it would have worked perfectly if I wasn't trying to share the same connection as the one I'd set up the access point on. It was certainly enough to get everything done, though, and my friend can do the same at his home to connect the Wii via his laptop that connects to his cable modem.
I'm amazed it worked so well and was so easy compared to the other, more complicated methods which all failed to work. I didn't see any other references to the program on any of the other pages I was reading about people trying similar things with their Wiis, with multiple people attempting ad-hoc stuff like I did without any luck. It's also a great thing to keep in mind when travelling with your Wii.
tl;dr version: If you have a Wii that you haven't been able to connect to your Internet connection and a PC with a wireless interface, just get Connectify and your problems will be solved.
If anybody wants any more info, let me know. Also, if this allows you to get your PAL Wii online for the first time, let me know so that we can do the Wii Ambassador thing too. Both you and I will get 500 free Nintendo points for doing it and I'll be another step closer to Nintendo giving me all the Nintendo-published SNES and N64 games for free (13 Wiis down, 7 to go).
Now, the challenge was that he only had a cable Internet connection at home and the wireless Internet at the Uni I work at uses WPA2-Enterprise, which is not supported by the Wii. Could we manage to get his Wii connected to the Internet at either his home or work without buying any additional hardware?
Warning: This description is going to get a little techy. Those unfamiliar with network stuff may want to skip to the end
The first thing I tried was using my laptop's wirless card an an additional wireless USB dongle my friend had to set up an ad-hoc network with Internet Connection Sharing. It was easy to set this up and test via my iPhone connecting to the Internet via the PC. However, while the Wii could detect the network and correctly determined stuff like the authentication protocol in use, the connection test would report that it couldn't find an access point.
Thus, we move to round 2 (which I had planned for anyway) where I was to use the new Personal Hotspot feature for the iPhone (also mentioned here in recent posts). I tested this with my PC connecting to the iPhone just fine and getting data via the iPhone's 3G connection just like it had worked with tethering beforehand, so I was hopeful it would work. The Wii could see the iPhone's SSID just fine and again went through the password process without problem. However, the connection test reported that the Wii couldn't connect to the Internet (a different error to previously). The iPhone's status bar didn't change colour like it usually does when a device connects, so I really don't know what was going on here.
At this point, I'm a tad annoyed and I leave it to the next day when I bring my combo ADSL modem/WiFi router from home into work. My Wii at home connects to this router perfectly fine, so all I'd need to do is plug the router into my laptop via Ethernet and then turn off DHCP on the router so that the router simply bridges the Wii to my laptop and Internet Connection Sharing takes care of the rest. Unfortunately, I discovered that the Ethernet ports on said router, which I have long had trouble with, were no longer working. Now that I write this, I realise I probably could have just used the dual network adapter approach idea I had in the first attempt and it might have worked, but I didn't think of it at the time. Using somebody else's router would have worked too, of course, but we didn't have access to any.
Anyway, I'm now at breaking point of things to try (given that the proposed methods all worked with other devices, just not with the Wii). Searching online wasn't really helping until I tried to do one more search. Instead of searching for Wii connection methods and so on, I just looked for an alternative approach to share Windows Internet connections. Given that the inbuilt sharing in Windows Vista and 7 works so well for everything else, I was surprised to discover an alternative application has been made, it being Connectify.
Now, I'm seriously doubting this will work given my multiple failures so far. I am surprised to discover that it allows you to create an access point from your WiFi interface without you needing to disconnect from other networks on the same interface, though (something you absolutely cannot do with Windows networking). The fact that it calls this an 'access point' mode rather than an 'ad-hoc' mode (which it also had choices for) was very promising. Thus, I start up the software, turn on the Wii and go through connection settings once more and amazingly, the Wii reports success. I'd finally managed to connect the incredibly picky Wii to an Internet connection it didn't support using nothing more than a Windows PC with a wireless card.
Now, the connection wasn't perfect. The connection would often drop if you left it idle for very long (causing applications to quit), but it was enough to update the Wii and get on the Wii Shop to do the Wii Ambassador Program stuff and demonstrate the News and Weather channels and stuff. The only room we could connect the Wii to a screen in didn't have the best WiFi signal, which could have been the cause of the drop-outs, or perhaps it would have worked perfectly if I wasn't trying to share the same connection as the one I'd set up the access point on. It was certainly enough to get everything done, though, and my friend can do the same at his home to connect the Wii via his laptop that connects to his cable modem.
I'm amazed it worked so well and was so easy compared to the other, more complicated methods which all failed to work. I didn't see any other references to the program on any of the other pages I was reading about people trying similar things with their Wiis, with multiple people attempting ad-hoc stuff like I did without any luck. It's also a great thing to keep in mind when travelling with your Wii.
tl;dr version: If you have a Wii that you haven't been able to connect to your Internet connection and a PC with a wireless interface, just get Connectify and your problems will be solved.
If anybody wants any more info, let me know. Also, if this allows you to get your PAL Wii online for the first time, let me know so that we can do the Wii Ambassador thing too. Both you and I will get 500 free Nintendo points for doing it and I'll be another step closer to Nintendo giving me all the Nintendo-published SNES and N64 games for free (13 Wiis down, 7 to go).
roosters93
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I've been playing Speedball 2 on the iPad. At first it was a lot of fun and sometimes challenging. But now, my team is 5 star and I win games by margins like 500-2. it kind of loses its charm when from the kickoff I can just run straight ahead (through the goalie too) and score goals constantly. I'm a bit bored of it now.
ClivePwned
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AdventureRacing said:
that is a solid bargain. How is 2009 these days?
I was going to post about this on Monday, when the 9-5 crew are present and active in the thread.Ventron said:
It has been about twice as long as the time between the first two meets and now, so it's long overdue. The last one was a shotgun affair but fun nonetheless, so for BrisGAF 3.0, we'll arrange ahead of time a bit earlier so more people can come than what attended at the last one. There's a few BriGAF people who haven't been able to make either so it would be great if the next one could have the most people yet. Mana Bar is, of course, the venue of choice because of the location and relevance to our interests.
Current time? I'm still thinking midweek at the Mana Bar at any week in April, maybe Wednesday the 6th or the following week on the 13th.
The other option is to have it on a weekend afternoon. That way, people from further out of town can come in. I'm usually pretty protective of how I spend my weekends (except for today, but I has iPad) and would prefer midweek, but we'll see what people are able to make.
I have $100 worth of bar tab (which should really cover the lot), so those poor souls still in uni have little excuse for piking.
Will re-post on Monday.
reptilescorpio
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Every bucks night needs a few rounds of DOA:Xtreme Volleyball 2Bernbaum said:
Rooster, how the he'll did you manage that? My team aree struggling to stay in the premier league. I'd love to see an online league in an update, and especially manager mode. Most of my time on the MegaDrive version was spent on Manager mode, I'm actually pretty terrible at playing the game
Generally it's a lot harder for me to make it into the city / valley during the weekend.
Generally it's a lot harder for me to make it into the city / valley during the weekend.
FormallyMegadrive
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So when's the MelbGAF meet? Are we waiting for the Mana Bar to open?
CrazedProfessional
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ABC News - You're already dead.
Doncamatic
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AdventureRacing
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Would have been hilarious if labor couldn't even come second (obviously its impossible but whatever).
Even in 2009 that was a crappy bargain.
ClivePwned said:
Even in 2009 that was a crappy bargain.
CrazedProfessional
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ABC now is 12-61
reptilescorpio
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Wow, stunning defeat. You know you dun effed up when you don't even last until the footy starts.CrazedProfessional said:
ABC News - You're already dead.
Also MelbGAF should go on a roadtrip down to sunny ole Geelong! It's awesome down here with all the kittens and cheap beer and sexy women of ill repute. They totally said they are dying to meet you and they already find your jokes fascinatingly droll.
I know a lesbian in geelong, She claimed she wanted to shag me a few months back and now we don't talk to each other.
So maybe geelong is a great idea!
MelbGAF would be interesting but i think a bunch of us live miles from the city, So it would be a pain in the ass getting home at some random ass time at night. Not sure if that's a factor to really kill off a potential meet and greet though.
So maybe geelong is a great idea!
MelbGAF would be interesting but i think a bunch of us live miles from the city, So it would be a pain in the ass getting home at some random ass time at night. Not sure if that's a factor to really kill off a potential meet and greet though.
What's surprising is how badly the Greens have screwed the pooch. A 13% swing away from Labor and only 1% went toward The Greens. They're unlikely to get any lower house seats at all. You'd think they'd get some sort of protest vote, but it looks like people are sick of hung parliaments and want to guarantee a not-Labor premier.
CrazedProfessional
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Fredescu said:
I wonder if this will transfer onto other elections where voters will associate the Greens with a Hung Parliament and put the protest vote to one of the big two instead.
reptilescorpio
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Seems like a general 'Labor are crap so I'll vote the other guy' swing rather than 'I like the Greens policies, I think I will vote for them'.Fredescu said:
They must be on the other side of town to you.Shaneus said:
Play along man! Nobody can know that Geelong is boring and no one wants to come here!
It either worked, or people were going to do it anyway. I assume the latter.markot said:
If Labor were voted in again, it would prove that they can do whatever they want and NSW would sit back and let them. That said, I would sit back and let Kenneally wrap her lips around my doodle.
reptilescorpio
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If only they ran the campaign on that policy...Danoss said:
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