>>Here's what happened exactly...
Dear klipp0th,
You recently listed the following auction-style listing:
250051615791 - Playstation 3 PS3 Premium w/ Fedora Linux Installed
The listing was removed because it violated eBay policy. All fees related to this listing have been credited to your account. We also notified members who placed bids on the item that the listing has been canceled.
The sale of unauthorized copies of copyrighted media (including software, video games, music, television programs, ebooks, and photographs) is illegal and not permitted on eBay. "Unauthorized" copies include back-up, pirated, and bootlegged copies.
>>And my extremely angry response thus far...
Here, I'm doing the work for you. Have your legal department look over these documents in reference to your allegations of illegal/immoral conduct on my part, and ruining a lot of hard work and advertising beyond Ebay itself.
Sony's Official Stance:
http://www.playstation.com/ps3-openplatform/faq.ht mlhttp://manuals.playstation.net/document/en/ps3/cur rent/settings/osinstall.html
Fedora's Official Stance:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution
The only question left is how are you going to make this up to me? How will you compensate me for the huge media attention that my achievment in installing an open source OS on the PS3 got me, how will you replace the 30-something people that were viewing my page when last I checked, and how do you replace the people that had started to bid?
You have no idea what I went through to get Linux to work on a PS3, what I went through to composite video of it in action for people to share, and the amount of time I put in building excitement amongst all of the major news sources & blogs about my accomplishment for you to just take it all away.
It is the first time I have ever sold anything through ebay, and to do something completely legitimate and even promoted by Sony, just be accused of Piracy by you? As I said...read the links above, then tell me just how you are going to make it up to me. If I could get the entire internet buzzing about Linux on a Playstation 3, you know I'll be the first one to report when a company decides to illegally contradict and oppress the Open Source Community. Check Slashdot's membership totals if you need some numbers on that. And then check Digg, Engadget, Kotaku, Gizmodo, and any of a dozen other news sources, and you'll get the idea...
Expecting to hear from you very soon.
>>So, think I was pissed off enough? I may end up selling to a famous person in technology world, but we'll see how that goes. I may just keep it after all. But I definitely don't have to agree with Ebay's policies as regards open-source software.I mean, I may be a "noob", but at least I know how to read legal disclaimers and I have a cursory understanding of open-source, which is more than they know. It very well could have been one of the trolls that were hating on me that went to Ebay trying to get me in trouble... If I were trying to sell Linux, that would be one thing, but I was just trying to sell my PS3 and maybe making a little extra for my hard work of getting Linux to install correctly. And as a note, it is almost complete. Everything works now except sound comes out all garbled while the system says there is no soudcard, and there is an error message related to the PMU device, which seems to dissappear whenever I reboot. I have figured out the script that will create the PMU device, but now I need to figure out how to get that command to run upon bootup every time. This is the script:
sudo./MAKEDEV pmu
Anyone know how to get that to run every time, so I'm not stuck with an error message upon bootup? And the pmu device is a power management device, and could very well have something to do with my messed up sound, so if I can get the command to run on bootup, then it may kill 2 birds with one stone...
It reminds me of back when I was a DJ in a "Gentlemen's Club" (I never saw a single "Gentleman" in the place). One time, I had this goth girl dancing on stage, and we had discussed movies previously, so of course I put on my "character" with my cheesy pervy DJ voice for her voiceover: "I'd like to get a piece of THAT with some fava beans and a nice chianti....Whoops! I put my lotion in the basket!"... I'm glad it was a slow day, because she spent the next few minutes just clutching her sides trying not to laugh her way off the edge of the stage...
Okay, enough with the "compiling the kernel" thing...I get it already...I flubbed, misspoke, and boy do you people notice. And I should be getting upset for having heard it for what seems like the thousandth time (maybe I should script in advance and forward the script to Slashdot for proofreading), but I'm sorry, the "Gets the hose again" made me just about fall out of my chair. I can take criticism with a punch line, but lines like that make me laugh so hard I'll never have the chance to learn the proper pronunciation of "Ubntu" or "GUI"...
So, whether you think I'm a noob or an idiot or whatever doesn't matter at this point. The fact is, Sony expressly designed the PS3 to run Linux - any version, and they say so on thier site http://www.playstation.com/ps3-openplatform/index. html . We all know that Fedora is open source, and you can sell computers with Fedora installed without a problem. But my auction was cancelled without any notification from Ebay over "Unauthorized Copies (Copyright)". To quote:
Dear klipp0th,
You recently listed the following auction-style listing:
250051615791 - Playstation 3 PS3 Premium w/ Fedora Linux Installed
The listing was removed because it violated eBay policy. All fees related to this listing have been credited to your account. We also notified members who placed bids on the item that the listing has
been canceled.
What kind of crap is that!?! Since when is installing Linux on a system that supports Linux violating copyright? It wasn't a paid distro, it was a free one...
Well, I am actually having trouble with Network, mounting the optical drive, and sound, so I was going to wait until I hade all of those worked out before I poked into applications. I just wish I knew enough about Linux to effectively troubleshoot and get things running properly...
I'd like to think I'm a geek, but a good deal of my geekiness is pencil-and-paper rpgs, another chunk is video games, quite a bit is PCs and windows in general, and I am currently trying to expand further into open-source, considering some of the bad moves by M$ lately. But a crowd like this really make me not want to associate in any way with the Linux crowd...
The article was to show PS3 enthusiasts what potential their newly purchased system had, and at the same time explain in layman's terms the appeal of Linux (and that it is full of applications that are rather familiar - not scary at all). It wasn't meant to bore the snobbish Linux crowd, nor was the hours of work compositing video and editing sound meant to make me feel like a horrible person and want to just cry myself to sleep.
Y'know, I would love if someone, anyone, would be friendly to me for 5 minutes so I could admit I'm not an expert, and I could use the assistance myself. Just because I posted a video doesn't mean I claim to have written Linux... If you know of ways to get the hardware working properly, then great, maybe we can do a writeup. It's just that so far 5 out of every 6 people in here make me regret wantig to share a video with my fellow ps3 owners...
First off, this wasn't meant for you. This was put together for Playstation 3 enthusiasts, not "been-there done-that" Linux snobs that apparently just want to eviscerate me for making screen cap before they did. Not all of the hardware is showing up properly, so I'm not about to test the system, it has to be fixed first.
Second, I don't care if people know Fedora is Linux. Refer to point one on who this video was made for. The same people that may not understand the usefulness of Linux and need to be sold on it with software they understand, in a language they understand.
I know how to capture just fine. Buy me better gear. I am taking my video direct from an ATI All In Wonder capture card. Looking at you Point #5, I think you were looking at some other guy's video, because I DON'T OWN ANY CAMCORDER! IT WAS CAPTURED DIRECTLY IN A COMPUTER! Get your facts straight. Look for videos by me - klippoth. Not just any random basement shot crap videos you can dig up by strangers.
I wasn't in this for marketing, I am in this to inform and excite fellow PS3 owners with the potential of thier console. Call me crazy or evil or whatever, but if I were a marketing whore, I would have included a link. -
And now to point 5... LOOK AT MY VIDEO AGAIN! MINE!! NOT SOMEONE ELSE'S! I HAVE NO BASEMENT (2ND FLOOR APARTMENT)! I CAPTURE STRAIGHT INTO COMPUTER BECAUSE I HAVE NO INTEREST IN BEING ON SCREEN UNTIL I LOOK LIKE A MALE MODEL! MY ROOM IS RED! THE LIGHTS ARE ON! BECAUSE GUESS WHAT - YOU ARE WATCHING A VIDEO BY SOME KID NAMED HALISTER!!
Idiot...
I didn't make the video for you holier-than-thou snobbish Linux people. I made it for my fellow gamers that may not know I was typing "startx" unless I said it out loud. Just like they may not know what the menus are, considering the crappy resolution you get on youtube. If you've seen all of this before, why are you even here?
I am working on the driver compatibility. And I'm no expert, I'm just using the heck out of Google, and you'd be surprised what you can find. I'm having trouble with sound, mounting the optical drive, and networking... Maybe if someone that knew more about Linux wanted to continue, because I'm pretty much getting sick of being called a "retard" over and over by holier-than-thou leet freaks.
Thanks for being very hurtful. I didn't post any links to my auction. I knew already that any mention of that would be buried. I was just showing "proof-of-concept", and I did not once claim to engineer this feat nor do I pretend to be a very experienced Gnome/Fedora user. This was not meant as advertising, and I had no clue that the editors at slashdot would print my post verbatim. But if it were an ad, one would have a link, wouldn't one? I just wanted to show my fellow PS3 enthusiasts something they can do with the system.
You really suck.
I get to go to sleep with your thoughts in my head.
Have a nice day.
I'm doing a video of that right now, actually. And I don't run as root in any PC that I actually plan to use. It's just that most of my Linux distros have you create a user login when you install, and this one didn't. And I really don't think someone is about to create a virus to take over my Linux PS3. So I just don't feel it's necessary to create a user profile just to appease a bunch of voyeurs. Sorry, getting a little testy, with all the flame war crap going on just because I followed instructions from Sony's own website and happened to capture it on video. I didn't claim to reinvent the wheel here. I don't spell my words with numbers, I don't add "xxor" to the last half of my words, and I never claimed to be a Linux god. I'm just the guy that took the picture, while reading a recipe. But I don't claim to have pulled off this hack by myself, I just used google, a little help from Sony, and I knew how to follow the links. I'll have a video explaining the entire process in detail, and then nobody really has to worry about me opening my face again. I guess I was better off not posting to blogs.
That's because I've always been reading the blogs, but very rarely post to them, because I usually don't have much to add to the conversation. But just this once, I got footage no one else did -- That's right, I didn't claim to invent the PS3, nor did I rewrite Fedora, nor did I say that I "Hacked" or "Cracked" anything -- I simply followed directions found on Sony's page and got footage. It's like a photographer...he may not stage the event, all he has to do is get the shot. And that's all I did -- I got the shot. I usually keep slashdot running in my feeds across the bottom of the page...just not a big talker, when most things are already said.
I'm not sure how young you think I am, but your quoting of numbers does not scare me. Unless they were prime numbers...or imaginary...then I'd be creeped out just a little, as to why a guy is quoting imaginary numbers at me. But the fact that I am somewhat new to Linux (completely new to Gnome, been using Suse w/ KDE for the past 3 years) doesn't make me 12. It just makes me an older guy getting a late start. My Daddy died back in the days of Guru Meditation errors...I didn't get many bedtime stories after that.
But you know what, I relent. You are infinitely cooler than I am. So let's see your infinitely cool video.
uh...cuz I don't own a Wii? And I'm too busy doing video captures of the PS3 to go see how the launch is going. I mean, I can only really deal with one shiny object at a time, if I had a Wii as well, I think my head would explode...
I don't pretend to be "1337" (since you want to use "noob"), I just know how to follow directions. I'm still learning about Linux and thought this would be a fun project, so it'd be kinda cool if you could not be all negative about it. I know it wasn't "compiling the kernel", that was a bad habit of an unexperienced tongue that was too tired too realize what I said, and too lazy to fix it once I realized. As far as the "GUI" is concerned, well, GUI = Graphical User Interface. Any software can have a Graphical User Interface. A Graphical User Interface is an interface that isn't text based. Tell me where I'm going wrong here...
If I had known the message I sent in was going to be printed verbatim, I think I would have been smart enough to include a link to my Ebay auction...as it is, I could throw a plug down here but it would get buried in no time. As a note though, I actually went through a lot to get that captured, voiced, cleaned up, composited, etc, so I think if I do get any decent price out of this, I earned it more than the guy who threw in a free candy bar. As a side note, I did learn an awful lot about compositing...
So as far as Linux goes, I haven't had any luck with the Network yet, but then again, the Optical drive won't mount and I seem to lack any audio as well. That being said, I am currently re-loading the unit, and this time I am vid-capturing that as well, since a lot of people have asked how this was done. Hopefully I'll have that vid up tomorrow. Personally, this makes for a great exercise in Linux troubleshooting, but I really can't wait for Yellow Dog Linux to come out, seeing as how it is optimized for the PS3. I expect excellent results.
Where video quality is concerned, I am capturing it on my old (like way old) MythTV box, so to start with, it's not the best, having an ATI AIW 9000 in it. And since that card doesn't support HD, it's running through a good old-fashioned composite cable. On top of that, Youtube asks that vids be resized to 320x240, so you can do the math. You're lucky it's legible at all.
That was really late at night when I did that, so trust me, "Compiling the Kernel" is not that bad....as close as I was to passing out, I'm amazed I didn't refer to its "Registry" or "Guru Meditation Error"....
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>>Here's what happened exactly... Dear klipp0th, You recently listed the following auction-style listing: 250051615791 - Playstation 3 PS3 Premium w/ Fedora Linux Installed The listing was removed because it violated eBay policy. All fees related to this listing have been credited to your account. We also notified members who placed bids on the item that the listing has been canceled. The sale of unauthorized copies of copyrighted media (including software, video games, music, television programs, ebooks, and photographs) is illegal and not permitted on eBay. "Unauthorized" copies include back-up, pirated, and bootlegged copies. >>And my extremely angry response thus far... Here, I'm doing the work for you. Have your legal department look over these documents in reference to your allegations of illegal/immoral conduct on my part, and ruining a lot of hard work and advertising beyond Ebay itself. Sony's Official Stance: http://www.playstation.com/ps3-openplatform/faq.ht ml
http://manuals.playstation.net/document/en/ps3/cur rent/settings/osinstall.html
Fedora's Official Stance:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution
The only question left is how are you going to make this up to me? How will you compensate me for the huge media attention that my achievment in installing an open source OS on the PS3 got me, how will you replace the 30-something people that were viewing my page when last I checked, and how do you replace the people that had started to bid?
You have no idea what I went through to get Linux to work on a PS3, what I went through to composite video of it in action for people to share, and the amount of time I put in building excitement amongst all of the major news sources & blogs about my accomplishment for you to just take it all away.
It is the first time I have ever sold anything through ebay, and to do something completely legitimate and even promoted by Sony, just be accused of Piracy by you? As I said...read the links above, then tell me just how you are going to make it up to me. If I could get the entire internet buzzing about Linux on a Playstation 3, you know I'll be the first one to report when a company decides to illegally contradict and oppress the Open Source Community. Check Slashdot's membership totals if you need some numbers on that. And then check Digg, Engadget, Kotaku, Gizmodo, and any of a dozen other news sources, and you'll get the idea...
Expecting to hear from you very soon.
>>So, think I was pissed off enough? I may end up selling to a famous person in technology world, but we'll see how that goes. I may just keep it after all. But I definitely don't have to agree with Ebay's policies as regards open-source software.I mean, I may be a "noob", but at least I know how to read legal disclaimers and I have a cursory understanding of open-source, which is more than they know. It very well could have been one of the trolls that were hating on me that went to Ebay trying to get me in trouble... If I were trying to sell Linux, that would be one thing, but I was just trying to sell my PS3 and maybe making a little extra for my hard work of getting Linux to install correctly. And as a note, it is almost complete. Everything works now except sound comes out all garbled while the system says there is no soudcard, and there is an error message related to the PMU device, which seems to dissappear whenever I reboot. I have figured out the script that will create the PMU device, but now I need to figure out how to get that command to run upon bootup every time. This is the script:
sudo ./MAKEDEV pmu
Anyone know how to get that to run every time, so I'm not stuck with an error message upon bootup? And the pmu device is a power management device, and could very well have something to do with my messed up sound, so if I can get the command to run on bootup, then it may kill 2 birds with one stone...
It reminds me of back when I was a DJ in a "Gentlemen's Club" (I never saw a single "Gentleman" in the place). One time, I had this goth girl dancing on stage, and we had discussed movies previously, so of course I put on my "character" with my cheesy pervy DJ voice for her voiceover: "I'd like to get a piece of THAT with some fava beans and a nice chianti....Whoops! I put my lotion in the basket!"... I'm glad it was a slow day, because she spent the next few minutes just clutching her sides trying not to laugh her way off the edge of the stage...
Okay, enough with the "compiling the kernel" thing...I get it already...I flubbed, misspoke, and boy do you people notice. And I should be getting upset for having heard it for what seems like the thousandth time (maybe I should script in advance and forward the script to Slashdot for proofreading), but I'm sorry, the "Gets the hose again" made me just about fall out of my chair. I can take criticism with a punch line, but lines like that make me laugh so hard I'll never have the chance to learn the proper pronunciation of "Ubntu" or "GUI"...
So, whether you think I'm a noob or an idiot or whatever doesn't matter at this point. The fact is, Sony expressly designed the PS3 to run Linux - any version, and they say so on thier site http://www.playstation.com/ps3-openplatform/index. html . We all know that Fedora is open source, and you can sell computers with Fedora installed without a problem. But my auction was cancelled without any notification from Ebay over "Unauthorized Copies (Copyright)". To quote:
Dear klipp0th,
You recently listed the following auction-style listing:
250051615791 - Playstation 3 PS3 Premium w/ Fedora Linux Installed
The listing was removed because it violated eBay policy. All fees related to this listing have been credited to your account. We also notified members who placed bids on the item that the listing has
been canceled.
What kind of crap is that!?! Since when is installing Linux on a system that supports Linux violating copyright? It wasn't a paid distro, it was a free one...
Well, I am actually having trouble with Network, mounting the optical drive, and sound, so I was going to wait until I hade all of those worked out before I poked into applications. I just wish I knew enough about Linux to effectively troubleshoot and get things running properly...
Working on it...
I'll do that...and thanks for being nice... I needed someone to be at this point.
I'd like to think I'm a geek, but a good deal of my geekiness is pencil-and-paper rpgs, another chunk is video games, quite a bit is PCs and windows in general, and I am currently trying to expand further into open-source, considering some of the bad moves by M$ lately. But a crowd like this really make me not want to associate in any way with the Linux crowd... The article was to show PS3 enthusiasts what potential their newly purchased system had, and at the same time explain in layman's terms the appeal of Linux (and that it is full of applications that are rather familiar - not scary at all). It wasn't meant to bore the snobbish Linux crowd, nor was the hours of work compositing video and editing sound meant to make me feel like a horrible person and want to just cry myself to sleep.
Y'know, I would love if someone, anyone, would be friendly to me for 5 minutes so I could admit I'm not an expert, and I could use the assistance myself. Just because I posted a video doesn't mean I claim to have written Linux... If you know of ways to get the hardware working properly, then great, maybe we can do a writeup. It's just that so far 5 out of every 6 people in here make me regret wantig to share a video with my fellow ps3 owners...
First off, this wasn't meant for you. This was put together for Playstation 3 enthusiasts, not "been-there done-that" Linux snobs that apparently just want to eviscerate me for making screen cap before they did. Not all of the hardware is showing up properly, so I'm not about to test the system, it has to be fixed first. Second, I don't care if people know Fedora is Linux. Refer to point one on who this video was made for. The same people that may not understand the usefulness of Linux and need to be sold on it with software they understand, in a language they understand. I know how to capture just fine. Buy me better gear. I am taking my video direct from an ATI All In Wonder capture card. Looking at you Point #5, I think you were looking at some other guy's video, because I DON'T OWN ANY CAMCORDER! IT WAS CAPTURED DIRECTLY IN A COMPUTER! Get your facts straight. Look for videos by me - klippoth. Not just any random basement shot crap videos you can dig up by strangers. I wasn't in this for marketing, I am in this to inform and excite fellow PS3 owners with the potential of thier console. Call me crazy or evil or whatever, but if I were a marketing whore, I would have included a link. - And now to point 5... LOOK AT MY VIDEO AGAIN! MINE!! NOT SOMEONE ELSE'S! I HAVE NO BASEMENT (2ND FLOOR APARTMENT)! I CAPTURE STRAIGHT INTO COMPUTER BECAUSE I HAVE NO INTEREST IN BEING ON SCREEN UNTIL I LOOK LIKE A MALE MODEL! MY ROOM IS RED! THE LIGHTS ARE ON! BECAUSE GUESS WHAT - YOU ARE WATCHING A VIDEO BY SOME KID NAMED HALISTER!! Idiot...
I didn't make the video for you holier-than-thou snobbish Linux people. I made it for my fellow gamers that may not know I was typing "startx" unless I said it out loud. Just like they may not know what the menus are, considering the crappy resolution you get on youtube. If you've seen all of this before, why are you even here?
I am working on the driver compatibility. And I'm no expert, I'm just using the heck out of Google, and you'd be surprised what you can find. I'm having trouble with sound, mounting the optical drive, and networking... Maybe if someone that knew more about Linux wanted to continue, because I'm pretty much getting sick of being called a "retard" over and over by holier-than-thou leet freaks.
because I am still dealing with hardware that isn't showing up properly. when it's done, you can see. but not before it's done.
Thanks for being very hurtful. I didn't post any links to my auction. I knew already that any mention of that would be buried. I was just showing "proof-of-concept", and I did not once claim to engineer this feat nor do I pretend to be a very experienced Gnome/Fedora user. This was not meant as advertising, and I had no clue that the editors at slashdot would print my post verbatim. But if it were an ad, one would have a link, wouldn't one? I just wanted to show my fellow PS3 enthusiasts something they can do with the system. You really suck. I get to go to sleep with your thoughts in my head. Have a nice day.
I'm doing a video of that right now, actually. And I don't run as root in any PC that I actually plan to use. It's just that most of my Linux distros have you create a user login when you install, and this one didn't. And I really don't think someone is about to create a virus to take over my Linux PS3. So I just don't feel it's necessary to create a user profile just to appease a bunch of voyeurs. Sorry, getting a little testy, with all the flame war crap going on just because I followed instructions from Sony's own website and happened to capture it on video. I didn't claim to reinvent the wheel here. I don't spell my words with numbers, I don't add "xxor" to the last half of my words, and I never claimed to be a Linux god. I'm just the guy that took the picture, while reading a recipe. But I don't claim to have pulled off this hack by myself, I just used google, a little help from Sony, and I knew how to follow the links. I'll have a video explaining the entire process in detail, and then nobody really has to worry about me opening my face again. I guess I was better off not posting to blogs.
That's because I've always been reading the blogs, but very rarely post to them, because I usually don't have much to add to the conversation. But just this once, I got footage no one else did -- That's right, I didn't claim to invent the PS3, nor did I rewrite Fedora, nor did I say that I "Hacked" or "Cracked" anything -- I simply followed directions found on Sony's page and got footage. It's like a photographer...he may not stage the event, all he has to do is get the shot. And that's all I did -- I got the shot. I usually keep slashdot running in my feeds across the bottom of the page...just not a big talker, when most things are already said.
I'm not sure how young you think I am, but your quoting of numbers does not scare me. Unless they were prime numbers...or imaginary...then I'd be creeped out just a little, as to why a guy is quoting imaginary numbers at me. But the fact that I am somewhat new to Linux (completely new to Gnome, been using Suse w/ KDE for the past 3 years) doesn't make me 12. It just makes me an older guy getting a late start. My Daddy died back in the days of Guru Meditation errors...I didn't get many bedtime stories after that. But you know what, I relent. You are infinitely cooler than I am. So let's see your infinitely cool video.
Great...now I'm going to be scared to say "Abit" out loud to anybody...
uh...cuz I don't own a Wii? And I'm too busy doing video captures of the PS3 to go see how the launch is going. I mean, I can only really deal with one shiny object at a time, if I had a Wii as well, I think my head would explode...
I don't pretend to be "1337" (since you want to use "noob"), I just know how to follow directions. I'm still learning about Linux and thought this would be a fun project, so it'd be kinda cool if you could not be all negative about it. I know it wasn't "compiling the kernel", that was a bad habit of an unexperienced tongue that was too tired too realize what I said, and too lazy to fix it once I realized. As far as the "GUI" is concerned, well, GUI = Graphical User Interface. Any software can have a Graphical User Interface. A Graphical User Interface is an interface that isn't text based. Tell me where I'm going wrong here...
If I had known the message I sent in was going to be printed verbatim, I think I would have been smart enough to include a link to my Ebay auction...as it is, I could throw a plug down here but it would get buried in no time. As a note though, I actually went through a lot to get that captured, voiced, cleaned up, composited, etc, so I think if I do get any decent price out of this, I earned it more than the guy who threw in a free candy bar. As a side note, I did learn an awful lot about compositing... So as far as Linux goes, I haven't had any luck with the Network yet, but then again, the Optical drive won't mount and I seem to lack any audio as well. That being said, I am currently re-loading the unit, and this time I am vid-capturing that as well, since a lot of people have asked how this was done. Hopefully I'll have that vid up tomorrow. Personally, this makes for a great exercise in Linux troubleshooting, but I really can't wait for Yellow Dog Linux to come out, seeing as how it is optimized for the PS3. I expect excellent results. Where video quality is concerned, I am capturing it on my old (like way old) MythTV box, so to start with, it's not the best, having an ATI AIW 9000 in it. And since that card doesn't support HD, it's running through a good old-fashioned composite cable. On top of that, Youtube asks that vids be resized to 320x240, so you can do the math. You're lucky it's legible at all. That was really late at night when I did that, so trust me, "Compiling the Kernel" is not that bad....as close as I was to passing out, I'm amazed I didn't refer to its "Registry" or "Guru Meditation Error"....