Where the hell do some of you people live where people give away computers.
Nobody gives away computers here. Even non-protits have trouble outfitting themselves with cast-off equipment. People seem to keep old machines running here for ages. In fact, just last year, the local newspaper still had an old 68foo Performa running in their office. They replaced it with a G4 tower.
Take a look at what the local computer recycling place is selling:
I can tell you that you aren't going to do any usable web browsing in X in 28megs of ram. Those are lynx specs.
No, those are Dillo, Links2, kfm, Phoenix/Firefox 1.0/1.5/2.0 specs. It's quite possible to run Firefox 2.0.foo in 32MB of RAM. It'll be sluggish, yes. It'll swap, yes. You won't want to run much else (but you can...sluggishly) Now admittedly the machine I did that on was a PS2 with a faster CPU and a 40GB hard drive with a 512MB of swap IIRC, running the equivalent of Red Hat 6. And it had Ethernet, USB, a DVD drive to install the distro from, and better than 640x480 video was available if you had a SoG monitor or component cables for an HDTV.
It's kind of funny that the PS2 would make a better Linux box than that thing he has would, might even use less power.
The media companies even told Hulu to shut off access to the PS3's web browser because PS3's are hooked to TV's in the living room and not monitors on desks Though my PS3 is hooked up to a small HDTV that has a VGA input in addition to HDMI, on a desk.
Come now, I could run Firefox, Claws-mail and xmms on my PS3 with a YDL6.2 install and it would still be quite responsive. I even did the same thing on my PS2 with a Linux kit equipped, though it was sluggish swap city if I did that.
Maybe people should ask those who used PS2 Linux kits as desktops for advice on making the most of one's RAM. Having done so in the past (and having Linux on my PS3 as well), I know all sorts of tricks. Personally I'd dump XFCE (getting to be a pig these days) for Fluxbox. As you said, Dillo's a good (but minimalistic) browser, and I'd use Claws-Mail instead of Thunderbird. I've not heard of Midori so I'll have to check it out. I've used nedit, which is a fine graphical editor, but prefer vim/gvim/cream. I like Rox-filer for graphical file management, though I ignore that Zero-install crap and just compile/install it normally. XFCE's thunar isn't bad if you're willing to install XFCE to get it.
If that's right, then it means that any fully featured BluRay player could do it.
If it is BD-Live, then yes. But.... It might not work as well on other players since the PS3 is very very good, (meaning fast and responsive) with BD-Live/BD-J content, compared with some players.
IBM's been pro-Linux for years. Say you have a PS3 with Linux installed and want to install Java on it, where do you go to get it? An IBM website, that's where.
I prefer to use the PS3-native web browser and media playback functions over booting into Linux and waiting for the hard drive to swap memory for every web page I click with Firefox.
Try using fluxbox instead of Gnome or KDE. Having been a PS2 Linux kit owner (as well as running YDL 6.2 on my PS3) I also know that there's web browsers like Dillo or Links that work well on low-ram machines, but Firefox will work better on your PS3 under fluxbox.
That's not how it works. Suppose you send a "Fat" older model PS2 to sony to get it fixed, will they send you back a PS2 slim? No, they'll send you back a "Fat" PS2.
You do know that the console style FPS/TPS game online features support clans and friends lists don't you? You'll also find, that if you play at certain times, that there will be other players who also are regulars at those times. That's how you have dedicated communities without dedicated self-hosted servers. In some cases, the game maker also throws in other social things like clan message boards and whatnot into the game.
Google up how the SOCOM games work, and I figure this COD game will work similarly.
720p/1080i too, though I know of only one game that does 1080i, Gran Turismo 4. And yes, it can do 1280x1024, but only over sync-on-green VGA, and you're limited to 16-bit color at that resolution IIRC.
eventually, they will cap in level, can't remember when, is it Lvl 25 or so? The hard part is surviving till then. Try messing with the difficulty slider, knock it down towards easy a touch and see what happens. That should enable you to survive long enough to get access to the university to make magical stuff to enhance your survival and/or acquire better stuff.
The problem with Oblivion's auto-leveling is that it's too easy to level up faster than your equipment or offensive skill levels (which is how you increase your damage.) for example, you might start running into clannfear or Minotaurs when your equipment is still Dwarven or Orcish. Or worse, run into enemies that you can't hurt at all because you don't have a silver, magical, or daedric weapon.
Shivering Isles and Knights of the Nine are pretty much separate from and not integrated into the main Oblivion storyline and have little effect on it. In other words, even if you "beat" the game's main quest, you can still go off and do them. Or do them first, before you ever visit Kvatch, which is what I'm doing.
the PS3 could do Hulu on it's own with the built in web browser until Hulu got pissy about a device that is normally hooked up to a television in the living room (instead of a monitor on a desk) being able to access Hulu.
hold down the power button as you power it up until you hear three beeps. Since none of the "ZOMG Evil Sony's evil update Bricks0red my PS3" people in this thread mention using it, they might not even know about it.
Sounds more likely that you were having hard drive problems and that it's not a firmware issue, other than the firmware not being saved on the HD properly and getting corrupted or somesuch.
sounds more like hardware failure to me. Has your PS3 been getting adequate ventilation? You don't have it sitting in an enclose cabinet without vent holes or sitting on this plush carpet with a towel over it to muffle the fan noise do you?
Well if you have UMD games already, you already have a PSP and thus wouldn't be the intended market for the PSPgo. The PSPgo is intended for those who DON't already have a UMD library and have never owned a PSP. The kind of folks who buy stuff from "app stores" for the cell phones. (though the PSN store predates Apple's App Store)
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Where the hell do some of you people live where people give away computers.
Nobody gives away computers here. Even non-protits have trouble outfitting themselves with cast-off equipment. People seem to keep old machines running here for ages. In fact, just last year, the local newspaper still had an old 68foo Performa running in their office. They replaced it with a G4 tower.
Take a look at what the local computer recycling place is selling:
http://www.atrecycle.com/
No, those are Dillo, Links2, kfm, Phoenix/Firefox 1.0/1.5/2.0 specs. It's quite possible to run Firefox 2.0.foo in 32MB of RAM. It'll be sluggish, yes. It'll swap, yes. You won't want to run much else (but you can...sluggishly) Now admittedly the machine I did that on was a PS2 with a faster CPU and a 40GB hard drive with a 512MB of swap IIRC, running the equivalent of Red Hat 6. And it had Ethernet, USB, a DVD drive to install the distro from, and better than 640x480 video was available if you had a SoG monitor or component cables for an HDTV.
It's kind of funny that the PS2 would make a better Linux box than that thing he has would, might even use less power.
The media companies even told Hulu to shut off access to the PS3's web browser because PS3's are hooked to TV's in the living room and not monitors on desks Though my PS3 is hooked up to a small HDTV that has a VGA input in addition to HDMI, on a desk.
http://gizmodo.com/5315896/hulu-speaks-on-ps3-blocking-its-the-content-providers
Come now, I could run Firefox, Claws-mail and xmms on my PS3 with a YDL6.2 install and it would still be quite responsive. I even did the same thing on my PS2 with a Linux kit equipped, though it was sluggish swap city if I did that.
Maybe people should ask those who used PS2 Linux kits as desktops for advice on making the most of one's RAM. Having done so in the past (and having Linux on my PS3 as well), I know all sorts of tricks. Personally I'd dump XFCE (getting to be a pig these days) for Fluxbox. As you said, Dillo's a good (but minimalistic) browser, and I'd use Claws-Mail instead of Thunderbird. I've not heard of Midori so I'll have to check it out. I've used nedit, which is a fine graphical editor, but prefer vim/gvim/cream. I like Rox-filer for graphical file management, though I ignore that Zero-install crap and just compile/install it normally. XFCE's thunar isn't bad if you're willing to install XFCE to get it.
If it is BD-Live, then yes. But.... It might not work as well on other players since the PS3 is very very good, (meaning fast and responsive) with BD-Live/BD-J content, compared with some players.
Why are you under the mistaken impression that console games only have random matches and don't have server/room/game lists to let you choose?
The average Final Fantasy takes more than 35 hours, a lot more if you do sidequests/optional stuff.
IBM's been pro-Linux for years. Say you have a PS3 with Linux installed and want to install Java on it, where do you go to get it? An IBM website, that's where.
Try using fluxbox instead of Gnome or KDE. Having been a PS2 Linux kit owner (as well as running YDL 6.2 on my PS3) I also know that there's web browsers like Dillo or Links that work well on low-ram machines, but Firefox will work better on your PS3 under fluxbox.
That's not how it works. Suppose you send a "Fat" older model PS2 to sony to get it fixed, will they send you back a PS2 slim? No, they'll send you back a "Fat" PS2.
You do know that the console style FPS/TPS game online features support clans and friends lists don't you? You'll also find, that if you play at certain times, that there will be other players who also are regulars at those times. That's how you have dedicated communities without dedicated self-hosted servers. In some cases, the game maker also throws in other social things like clan message boards and whatnot into the game.
Google up how the SOCOM games work, and I figure this COD game will work similarly.
720p/1080i too, though I know of only one game that does 1080i, Gran Turismo 4. And yes, it can do 1280x1024, but only over sync-on-green VGA, and you're limited to 16-bit color at that resolution IIRC.
eventually, they will cap in level, can't remember when, is it Lvl 25 or so? The hard part is surviving till then. Try messing with the difficulty slider, knock it down towards easy a touch and see what happens. That should enable you to survive long enough to get access to the university to make magical stuff to enhance your survival and/or acquire better stuff.
The problem with Oblivion's auto-leveling is that it's too easy to level up faster than your equipment or offensive skill levels (which is how you increase your damage.) for example, you might start running into clannfear or Minotaurs when your equipment is still Dwarven or Orcish. Or worse, run into enemies that you can't hurt at all because you don't have a silver, magical, or daedric weapon.
I believe that nethack's QT interface has nice menus, and you could also try Vultures Eye, which is a isometric graphical interface to nethack.
Shivering Isles and Knights of the Nine are pretty much separate from and not integrated into the main Oblivion storyline and have little effect on it. In other words, even if you "beat" the game's main quest, you can still go off and do them. Or do them first, before you ever visit Kvatch, which is what I'm doing.
I agree, but I really wanted that Bobblehead and Lunchbox, I've got 180 hours in it and still haven't seen every location or done all the quests.
the PS3 could do Hulu on it's own with the built in web browser until Hulu got pissy about a device that is normally hooked up to a television in the living room (instead of a monitor on a desk) being able to access Hulu.
The PS3 has one:
hold down the power button as you power it up until you hear three beeps. Since none of the "ZOMG Evil Sony's evil update Bricks0red my PS3" people in this thread mention using it, they might not even know about it.
Sounds more likely that you were having hard drive problems and that it's not a firmware issue, other than the firmware not being saved on the HD properly and getting corrupted or somesuch.
sounds more like hardware failure to me. Has your PS3 been getting adequate ventilation? You don't have it sitting in an enclose cabinet without vent holes or sitting on this plush carpet with a towel over it to muffle the fan noise do you?
Well if you have UMD games already, you already have a PSP and thus wouldn't be the intended market for the PSPgo. The PSPgo is intended for those who DON't already have a UMD library and have never owned a PSP. The kind of folks who buy stuff from "app stores" for the cell phones. (though the PSN store predates Apple's App Store)
Try doing the poweroff reset thing. power the PS3 off, then power it back on, holding the power button for 5 seconds.