RE: RE: XBOX Softmod - there *IS* a god, - and he effing hates me!

["Paul Gordon" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ah yes, the good old xbins channel... - even that is an exercise in pure
frustration...

Simple enough to go through the motions as you describe, - but when you
logon to the actual download site, the FTP server has a 60 second idle
timeout, so unless you keep the connection alive constantly you get
auto-disconnected incredibly frequently... - 60 seconds isn't long! -
turn around to do something on the xbox and by the time you come back to
the PC, the FTP session is dropped...

Then of course, you can't just reconnect, - since the IRC channel gives
you a one-time-use-only logon, - the username is deleted each time you
connect, and you have to go back to the channel and request it again...

Except, you can't request again until 5 mins have elapsed, otherwise
you'll get a 10-minute lockout from the channel...

So in effect, you can't really just browse around & look for stuff you
think you might like... - you have to just go straight to the file you
want, and transfer it straight away...

That's how it normally works anyway, - but if the tool you've linked to
alleviates some of this hassle, then that will be a god-send! - I'll DL
it & give it a try...

Thanks.

Paul G.


-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of James Reed
Sent: 25 September 2008 21:29
To: UKHA Group
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] RE: XBOX Softmod - there *IS* a god, - and he
effing hates me!


In terms of getting hold of stuff, the best way of doing it is to get
into the xbins repository. This allows you to bypass all the dubious
websites, awkward links etc and also it's pretty up-to-date. The
traditional way of doing this is to log into an IRC channel on Efnet,
send a message to the bot which then provides you with login details for

the actual website.

I've now found a utility which does all this automatically:

http://www.seekandestroy.net/2008/08/02/auto-xbins-2008/

I've just tried it and it's great!

You'll find all the stuff you need there for softmodding etc.

The softmods are found here - /XBOX/Console Based
Applications/exploits/_Packages/

There's a wide variety of other interesting and useful stuff in there,
such as emulators, games, other apps etc. There is some Auto-Installer
stuff in there too.

Hope things are starting to work!

James


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