Great Pen Testing Zipit Distribution from Adrian Crenshaw (irongeek.com)
I've been meaning to split this off into a new post for a while now. Adrian Crenshaw (irongeek.com) built a great z2 linux distro, specifically with the intent of pen-testing. You can grab it here.
It's not only a very cool distribution, (based on a modified rootnexus zipit distro), it's a very cool reminder of the great things we accomplish building off each other's work and sharing information. My only suggestion for his next release is to counter his assumption that metasploit won't be running at a useful speed on the z2. 
Leapfrog Crammer – 10$ ogg vorbis/mp3 etc with disassembly
Reccomended to me on the comments of a previous thread, I picked up the leapfrog crammer for 10$ at big lots. I've seen these all over the discount stores (along with didj's, which I have one of Claude's cartridges for and will be porting software sometime soon). For 10$ ogg vorbis support and a touch screen (kind of ..) is a heck of a deal. More info after the jump.
75$, 20 watt blue ray player (with video and kill-a-watt goodness)
Yeah, more technically it's a 20-watt x264 player. But it's an 800mhz CELERON (all caps!) pumping 1080p into a broadcom decoder. More info after the jump
IM-ME Linux Drivers Beta Release and Sourceforge Page
To follow up on my earlier articles, the IM-ME has been gaining some traction in the hacking community. There's been a couple of driver releases in various forms, as well as a lot of information and protocol specs. Scott Albertine sent me a great gpl implementation in C, so we've made a sourceforge page for everyone to download the driver.
The SF page is at http://im-megpldrivers.sourceforge.net . There's the initial C driver, some protocol information from Scott, as well as a SVN repository to push any code changes to. If any of the other IM-ME driver implementations also want to host their drivers/source code there, it would make for a good launch pad for IM-ME hackers. Let me know if you need file or SVN access and I can help set it up. Hope to see you there, happy hacking! 
Great New Z2 Userland from RootNexus
Although I've been spending my time on other hacking projects besides the Z2 lately, that does not mean there's nothing exciting happening in the Z2 community. Our friend SoundGuy has finished putting together his Z2 root image, and it is slick! After working out some of the kinks with help from our comments (they are practically forums now...) threads, SoundGuy posted up a link to his newest "For the Average User" userland image. Terrific work! He's really got a good eye for usability. More info after the break.
Npower Fusion – Breakdown Tutorial and Chipset Info
So a few of you had asked for a detailed chipset list for the npower fusion java console. Sounded like fun, so here it is. Turns out to be a pretty interesting device. For the super impatient among you, 200mhz 8mb ram arm SoC, possible rockbox target. Read on for photos and follow along instructions.
17$ Mobile Java Gaming Console – Plus Sample Code and Application To Get You Started!
I finally had a few minutes to start working through the new list of 'to hack' items this weekend, so I started with the Nickelodean NPower fusion gaming console. Buy.com had these for 17$, and I've seen them at various secondhand retailers here in southern California for about the same. It supports j2me, cldc1.1, and midp2. For 17$ this would be a fantastic target for a beginning java games developer. The absolute rock bottom price would allow for some fun opportunities like beta test groups, without the terrible expense usually incurred purchasing mobile devices. 
Hackaway 2009 Winners Announced!! (Update – Packages Shipped!)
*Update In Comments"
Using my trusty random number generators, I have randomly selected the winners of each category. No one was excluded and everyone had an equal chance to win. Congratulations to all winners, and all contestants! I think we had a great Hackaway! Emails will go out to all contestants shortly. The winners are:
Hackaway 2009 is over! Thanks Everyone!
Aaand it's over. Just over 48 hours after it began and what a great ride it's been. What a response! The winners have already entered, they just don't know who they are!!
Site Upgrades!
So I finally got around to upgrading my site. New features include:
About time right?