Was just reading a great article at DamnLag.com which suggests it’s time for Nintendo to make a move to its next generation console. I couldn’t agree more.

The Wii was and is an alright console but I like it for all the wrong reasons judging by Nintendo’s efforts. For me, the Wii is all about the the Virtual Console. Nintendo has virtually abandoned the Virtual Console at this point.

This has caused me to pretty much stop using my Wii now except for Netflix and the occasional time I want to go back and play some of the games in my Virtual Console collection. Were it not for the current economic circumstances I would have long ago purchased a PS3 as its library is starting to fill up with more and more titles that interest me.

This is the big point for me in the article:

3) Give us an actual online experience.

After five years of friend codes and tossing controllers through walls, I am not giving Nintendo any room for mistakes on this one. I want it all: social networking, friends lists, usernames, browsers, real marketplaces, clean interfaces, movies, music, external software storage, downloadable content and whatever else they can think of. The Wii 2 needs to put the days of Nintendo being more internet-retarded than my grandmother to an end. I am sick of hearing “Well, who really wants to play a Nintendo game online?” Over here, Nintendo: I do.

Oh, and give us a Pokemon MMO.

Anyway, don’t take my word for it, go check out the article for yourself at: http://www.damnlag.com/times-up-nintendo-needs-to-release-a-wii-2/

So, I thought I should really start this blog off by explaining more about myself which will hopefully give me some geek credit out there! This post is going to be about my network and systems I have running on it at home. I’m going to post this before it’s finished. But since no one reads this blog anyways, no one will actually care…

Desktop systems:

1. Main / gaming rig.
Name: kramer
CPU: Intel Core2Quad Q6600
RAM: 4GB DDR2
Optical Drives: Samsung SATA DVD-R
Hard drives: 2 * 500 GB SATA
OS: Dual boot – Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit and Ubuntu 8.10 (amd64)

2. Messaging / MythTV rig.
Name: bender
CPU: Athlon64 4000+
RAM: 2GB DDR2
Optical Drives: 1 LG 16X DVD-R, 1 LG 12X DVD-R (Both IDE)
Hard drives: 300GB IDE, 500GB SATA (just for PVR recordings)
OS: Ubuntu 8.10 (amd64)

Servers:

1. Main server (being replaced by #2)
Name: boomhauer
CPU: 2 * Pentium3 450 MHz
RAM: 512 MB DDR
Hard drives: 30GB, 2 * 80GB (all IDE)
OS: Gentoo Linux (been alive since 2003 or 2004 easily…)

2. New server (Replacing #1 when I get around to finishing it…)
Name: mulder
CPU: AthlonXP 2500
RAM: 1GB DDR
Hard drives: I think… 80GB, 200GB and 300GB? (I think will have to check that for sure later.
OS: CentOS 5.2

3. Slave DNS server
Name: gakkun
CPU: Pentium3 (not sure the speed, its an old Toshiba Tecra notebook though)
RAM: 256MB
Hard drives: 20GB
OS: OpenBSD 4.3

4. Firewall (I now use this for wireless also, thanks to a few cheep cards I threw into there and the ease of OpenBSD and Packet Filter)
sgtpuffy
CPU: Pentium3 450MHz
RAM 512MB DDR
Hard drives: 30GB
OS: OpenBSD 4.4

Misc. hardware

1. Linksys WRT54GS v 2.1 – Running DD-WRT 2.4 SP1, sitting in front of my Slave DNS.

2. Linksys WRT54GL – Running DD-WRT 2.4 SP1, separate from the rest of my network, on its own IP.

3. D-Link GamerLounge – Not modded at all, but using Mixed mode with WEP, only used for my Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS.