I bought a game (Sega Rally Championship) and a controller for my Sega Saturn, for $3.99 + $5.75 = $9.74 shipped.

When this arrives, I can tell whether or not I can mod this console.

Merry Ho-ho-ho

I was tired of seeing this while logging into my server via SSH:

Read from remote host raybdbomb.com: Connection reset by peer

I messed around with the sshd config a bit and wasn’t able to get it to go away. I’m pretty sure that the connection is being closed by some firewall in the interim. So for a solution, I installed spinner.


cd /usr/ports/sysutils/spinner/
make install clean
spinner


It puts a character on the top left of the console, which keeps the session alive with minimal amounts of data transfer.

Works great!

DigitalCancer over at Anandtech forums gave me some useful links for modding the Sega Saturn, assuming it works

RacketBoy < == the best source
Link to buy the Chip ($29 + shipping)
Link to buy the RAM cart ($24 + shipping)
Installation guide
Other Sega Saturn Guides

Thanks DigitalCancer

Assuming I will mod a Saturn soon, I added a place to put it.