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Indeed! There are mod chips, etc. He ended up aiming for something that didn't require ripping it open and soldering.


The Rhea/Phoebe require no soldering. Just pop out the CD drive, pop in the Rhea. Very simple.


Looking at the installation instructions, the Rhea claims to require some soldering. The Phoebe doesn't, but still requires disassembling the system. They also each only work on specific versions of the hardware (20- vs 21-pin), and which version a specific Saturn is may not be obvious without disassembly.

The nice thing about this new solution, even ignoring that it furthers public understanding of the hardware, is that it's a simple module that plugs into a slot already available and accessible on every Saturn ever sold by SEGA (presumably it won't work on the Hi-Saturn units made by Hitachi, as they had the MPEG hardware integrated, though they are also very rare and very expensive).


The Rhea doesn't actually require soldering as Dominik will do the soldering first before shipping. For sure having to know 20 versus 21 pin is a pain. But the Rhea/Phoebe have a huge advantage of being here now and known to be very reliable (they work flawlessly). Not discounting this new approach, it seems very promising, but just pointing out there's already a solution available today for those who didn't realize.


Agree, I think it is more that you left the door unlocked when you meant for it to be locked and the mailman opened the door to yell "Hello??" but no one was home, so he let you know the door is unlocked. :)


I used Codebox as well, which was nice.


"result" was also included in the list. I honestly don't see anything wrong with either.


I would say the update he posted to the news group rules this out.


Got a used 24 port 2960 on ebay 10/100 ports for ~$65. Maybe doesn't mean the "open" portion, but the rest is definitely satisfied. Also, bought it 5~ years ago and still runs beautifully (Noisy fan though).


Took the train home yesterday and was sitting behind someone watching a movie. I couldn't connect to the trains Wi-Fi, though I tried the whole trip :(. I really wish I would have brought a movie to keep me company rather then watching their login page load.


Can get them free for web use. Not sure where he is coming from.


Wildcard SSL certs are ~$100/year. Those have always been much more of a racket, but they're so worth the extra cost to set them up once on your load balancers and not have to think about SSL certs again for 5+ years.


Seems pretty short sighted. There is so much being created that is connected to the internet. You say you don't need high bandwidth for these things and I would say that is because they are made with the fact that there are a lot of customers who don't have the higher bandwidth. Give everyone more bandwidth and just think of what we could create!


I wouldn't say missing start menu button was "fixed" in 8.1. All they did was put a button there that had the same functionality as that corner without a button already had.


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