February 10, 2026
What you need # The PS2 hard drive (3.5" IDE/PATA drive from the PS2 Network Adapter) A USB-to-IDE adapter (also called USB-to-PATA). These are cheap ($10–15) and widely available — search “USB to IDE adapter” on Amazon. Many come as “USB to IDE/SATA” combo cables. You want one that supports 3.5" drives (with the Molex power connector or external power brick). A Linux PC with a USB port (any distro works — Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, whatever you’ve got) No extra software needed — everything is built in (dd, lsblk, gzip/7z) Step-by-step # 1.
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February 10, 2026
What you need # The PS2 hard drive (3.5" IDE/PATA drive from the PS2 Network Adapter) A USB-to-IDE adapter (also called USB-to-PATA). These are cheap ($10–15) and widely available — search “USB to IDE adapter” on Amazon. Many come as “USB to IDE/SATA” combo cables. You want one that supports 3.5" drives (with the Molex power connector or external power brick). A Windows PC with a USB port HDD Raw Copy Tool (free) — download from: https://hddguru.
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May 31, 2024
Before releasing any music I always wondered how much people were paid when their music was streamed. It is a remarkably difficult thing to pin down. I researched the question beforehand, came up with my own estimates, and ended up being about 50% wrong when I released my first album to streaming services (a FFXI remake/cover album of music I covered for the HorizonXI private server.)
I wasn’t doing the project to make a profit but I was annoyed at how difficult it is to calculate your earnings in advance of releasing a project.
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September 17, 2023
Don’t worry. I understand this might be one of the most unpopular blog posts of 2023. I hope you know not the plight of researching a detailed niche on the internet, having that search result in a mere handful of cobwebbed post on long forgotten forums, then having to piece together these broken hieroglyphs of information into a rough translation of what it means to do what they did in 2006, then assess how you might do the same in 2023.
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