timebase : 79800000 platform : PS3 model : SonyPS3
[CronoCloud@mideel ~]$ gcc --version gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20071124 (Red Hat 4.1.2-42) Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
From what I've read the professional PS3 dev boxes, the equivalents to the old PS2 TOOL machines, are also Linux based. Sony themselves maintain GCC and the toolchain, IBM maintains the kernel.
Linux (though This is probably more a novelty due to memory constraints, but does work quite well as a web server, etc).
What? 256MB of RAM not enough? 256MB was often the base configuration of early WinXP boxes!
Using fluxbox helps, as does using VRAM swap in YDL 6.1. It's snappier and makes a better desktop than Linux on the PS2 did.
Oh, one comment on your post, one thing the Xbox 360 has that the PS3 doesn't is SMB/CIFS support. Sure the PS3 has DLNA, but it would be nice to have SMB/CIFS too.
More than you might think, especially among lower income folks. I did for some years, before the "reasonably good sub $1000 computer" days, though I must admit it's less common now.
There's also another issue. Nintendo is afraid that if they lowered prices in Mexico to correspond more closely to Mexican income levels, that Mexicans would then re-export the stuff to the US to profit from it.
Not necessarily. If you're thinking, I can hook up my PC to the nice HDTV, play games and do stuff like image editing or writing code that those consoles can't do, you would be wrong.
You lock yourself into a tiny world, with an underpowered, locked down and inflexible machine. You can only connect to one overpriced, over censored network to play your network games.
That might be true for Xbox owners, but not PS3 owners. PS3 network play is free and PS3 owners can install Linux on their PS3's giving them a bit more flexibility in what they can do with them.
The thing is, most people are going to have some sort of PC anyway. Obviously you do, because you're on the internet.
There are ways of accessing the internet and posting on slashdot that don't require a PC. Such things as WebTV/MSNTV or internet enabled PS3's/Wii's with their built in web browsers. Or perhaps even PS2's or PS3's with Linux installed on them, though technically that makes them PC's in the "personal computer" sense.
[CronoCloud@midgar CronoCloud]$ cat/proc/cpuinfo cpu : MIPS cpu model : R5900 V3.1 system type : EE PS2 BogoMIPS : 392.39 byteorder : little endian
Dark Cloud? That's child abuse!:-) I hit a brick wall in the game when I had to level up the guy with the hammer because he was a required character on a level. Combine that with the water thing and the repairing weapons thing, which means you can end a level with essentially less money than you had when you went in, and you can find yourself in a position of becoming less able and less able to be able to pass that brick wall. The game needed more balancing work.
Dark Cloud 2 on the other hand fixes that, you can actually earn money. Much better game, well worth playing.
I don't have anything against gay people. What I do have a problem with are people--gay or straight or anything else--who use everything in life as a forum for their cause, even in "neutral" places such as an online gaming service.
Online gaming isn't "neutral" because people bring their bigotry and simple nastyness with them. I play online games rarely, but have seen more homophobia and sexism/misogyny than I really care to. And for every "gamer who just wants to play the game" who tells the idiots to "belay that shit and just play" there's 10 assholes.
It's been bad enough that I've left guilds/clans/etc because of it, so if I was to join a guild/clan/whatever these days I'd be picky and would try to find a GLBT one.
Happens the other way too, my favorite example being the PS3 version of the Orange box, which doesn't support mouse aiming even though the PS2 release of the original Half life does. The PS3 PSN release of Zuma doesn't support mouse either, which is annoying. But I may be an anomaly because I always have a keyboard and mouse hooked up to the PS3 (like I did the PS2 before it). Mostly because of Linux on the PS3/PS2, but also handy for GameOS use.
Many larger PS3 games come with uncompressed 7.1 audio. That's UNCOMPRESSED 7.1 PCM audio, and it sounds incredible.
So that's why they sound so good. Heck, even the PSN release of Zuma sounds awesome compared to Zuma Deluxe on the PC. (Colors seem more vibrant on the PSN Zuma and Bejeweled too, but that may just be HDMI full range in action compared to the laptops screen) I also enjoyed the bump in sound quality from the PS1 to the PS2 as well, though the sound improvement from cartridge games to the PS1 games was the biggest leap.
but it seems like it says something when, in addition to all the current gen systems, a company also releases a game to a single last gen system. I just wish I knew what.
It says, "We like piles of money." Consider the HUGE PS2 install base and all those nostalgic family/casual gamers that still game on PS2's that would buy a GI-Joe Vs. Cobra game.
1. The PS3 already can do quite a bit by default. The web browser is Hulu capable, it does DLNA, it's DiVX certified for "pay content (though try finding any), and there's always the Video in the Playstation store.
2. Under Linux, there's no RSX access, so no accellerated video. 720p is about the best you'll get.
Ditto. I read about these guys spending money and time on building a box when a PS3 can do some/most of the stuff they want to do, even without installing Linux on it. I take it you use the PlayOn server for sending Netflix to the PS3?
"Clean House" is on the Style Network, not HGTV or TLC where it would actually fit in better with the other programming. Doesn't everyone love Niecy and her hair flowers, and Trish's "I sound like I need a throat lozenge" voice? "Property Virgins" isn't half bad either, but I can't stand "John and Kate Plus Eight" or "Flip this house"
Any idea where I might find it? Anyone?
Find a (most likely femme) geek with the inclination (and equipment) to record and upload those shows and convince them to do it.
I feel the same way about the MC editor (and any other for that matter:w appears often when I'm in a GUI program).
You can probably guess what happened when I used mc's editor. I moved the cursor where I wanted to edit and hit "i". And there it appeared, an "i", taunting me. Worse was some time back when I was using Notepad on Vista. I had finished editing and wanted to save and quit, and absentmindedly hit Esc and then did "ZZ", and wondered why it didn't save and quit and then noticed that "ZZ" sitting there. And I constantly try to middle click paste on Windows it's always tripping me up. Happens at least once, every time I use Windows.
I'm not a developer or admin so don't need to juggle a large number of terminal windows (and I don't use GNU screen) but I do use the mrxvt tabbed terminal.
I've not used mc for very much, but I just loaded it up and edited one of my fluxbox configuration files with it and it was most certainly easy to do the basics with it, though I was expecting the built in editor to be vim-like for some reason.
Have you tried Thunar or Rox-filer yet? And if memory serves me well there was a graphical file manager I remember seeing when I was looking for a low resource graphical file manager for my PS2 Linux kit that emulated the classic mc two pane setup, ah I remember now, emelfm.
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From what I've read the professional PS3 dev boxes, the equivalents to the old PS2 TOOL machines, are also Linux based. Sony themselves maintain GCC and the toolchain, IBM maintains the kernel.
What? 256MB of RAM not enough? 256MB was often the base configuration of early WinXP boxes!
Using fluxbox helps, as does using VRAM swap in YDL 6.1. It's snappier and makes a better desktop than Linux on the PS2 did.
Oh, one comment on your post, one thing the Xbox 360 has that the PS3 doesn't is SMB/CIFS support. Sure the PS3 has DLNA, but it would be nice to have SMB/CIFS too.
More than you might think, especially among lower income folks. I did for some years, before the "reasonably good sub $1000 computer" days, though I must admit it's less common now.
SACD can do that with one type of the SACD discs. So if you put the disc in a SACD reading PS3 you see two disc icons pop up in the XMB.
There's also another issue. Nintendo is afraid that if they lowered prices in Mexico to correspond more closely to Mexican income levels, that Mexicans would then re-export the stuff to the US to profit from it.
It doesn't, though pink, and femme oriented things in general, have their place.
Want man pages with little hearts?
It doesn't work too well because of the monospace vs proportional issues.
Not necessarily. If you're thinking, I can hook up my PC to the nice HDTV, play games and do stuff like image editing or writing code that those consoles can't do, you would be wrong.
I've got Firefox, Claws-Mail, Carrier, Gimp, Open Office, vim, emacs, LaTeX, xmms, yadda yadda yadda.
That might be true for Xbox owners, but not PS3 owners. PS3 network play is free and PS3 owners can install Linux on their PS3's giving them a bit more flexibility in what they can do with them.
There are ways of accessing the internet and posting on slashdot that don't require a PC. Such things as WebTV/MSNTV or internet enabled PS3's/Wii's with their built in web browsers. Or perhaps even PS2's or PS3's with Linux installed on them, though technically that makes them PC's in the "personal computer" sense.
Dark Cloud? That's child abuse! :-) I hit a brick wall in the game when I had to level up the guy with the hammer because he was a required character on a level. Combine that with the water thing and the repairing weapons thing, which means you can end a level with essentially less money than you had when you went in, and you can find yourself in a position of becoming less able and less able to be able to pass that brick wall. The game needed more balancing work.
Dark Cloud 2 on the other hand fixes that, you can actually earn money. Much better game, well worth playing.
Online gaming isn't "neutral" because people bring their bigotry and simple nastyness with them. I play online games rarely, but have seen more homophobia and sexism/misogyny than I really care to. And for every "gamer who just wants to play the game" who tells the idiots to "belay that shit and just play" there's 10 assholes.
It's been bad enough that I've left guilds/clans/etc because of it, so if I was to join a guild/clan/whatever these days I'd be picky and would try to find a GLBT one.
Happens the other way too, my favorite example being the PS3 version of the Orange box, which doesn't support mouse aiming even though the PS2 release of the original Half life does. The PS3 PSN release of Zuma doesn't support mouse either, which is annoying. But I may be an anomaly because I always have a keyboard and mouse hooked up to the PS3 (like I did the PS2 before it). Mostly because of Linux on the PS3/PS2, but also handy for GameOS use.
So that's why they sound so good. Heck, even the PSN release of Zuma sounds awesome compared to Zuma Deluxe on the PC. (Colors seem more vibrant on the PSN Zuma and Bejeweled too, but that may just be HDMI full range in action compared to the laptops screen) I also enjoyed the bump in sound quality from the PS1 to the PS2 as well, though the sound improvement from cartridge games to the PS1 games was the biggest leap.
Which games? I know some of the PS2 online games still have servers up and running.
It says, "We like piles of money." Consider the HUGE PS2 install base and all those nostalgic family/casual gamers that still game on PS2's that would buy a GI-Joe Vs. Cobra game.
And now you know, and knowing is half the battle.
Yo Joe!
Two reasons:
1. The PS3 already can do quite a bit by default. The web browser is Hulu capable, it does DLNA, it's DiVX certified for "pay content (though try finding any), and there's always the Video in the Playstation store.
2. Under Linux, there's no RSX access, so no accellerated video. 720p is about the best you'll get.
So there's no incentive to port this stuff.
Ditto. I read about these guys spending money and time on building a box when a PS3 can do some/most of the stuff they want to do, even without installing Linux on it. I take it you use the PlayOn server for sending Netflix to the PS3?
"Clean House" is on the Style Network, not HGTV or TLC where it would actually fit in better with the other programming. Doesn't everyone love Niecy and her hair flowers, and Trish's "I sound like I need a throat lozenge" voice? "Property Virgins" isn't half bad either, but I can't stand "John and Kate Plus Eight" or "Flip this house"
Find a (most likely femme) geek with the inclination (and equipment) to record and upload those shows and convince them to do it.
Thought that might be the case but wasn't for certain. Doing a
before starting mc did the trick, thanks.
Konqueror can do that. Double click on the zip, it opens up right in Konqueror, explore, find file, right click, select "Copy to", select location.
Isn't regular mc available for OSX via Macports or Fink?
I'm only 41, but from googling and memory, Norton's two pane seems to be the first.
You can probably guess what happened when I used mc's editor. I moved the cursor where I wanted to edit and hit "i". And there it appeared, an "i", taunting me. Worse was some time back when I was using Notepad on Vista. I had finished editing and wanted to save and quit, and absentmindedly hit Esc and then did "ZZ", and wondered why it didn't save and quit and then noticed that "ZZ" sitting there. And I constantly try to middle click paste on Windows it's always tripping me up. Happens at least once, every time I use Windows.
I'm not a developer or admin so don't need to juggle a large number of terminal windows (and I don't use GNU screen) but I do use the mrxvt tabbed terminal.
I've not used mc for very much, but I just loaded it up and edited one of my fluxbox configuration files with it and it was most certainly easy to do the basics with it, though I was expecting the built in editor to be vim-like for some reason.
Have you tried Thunar or Rox-filer yet? And if memory serves me well there was a graphical file manager I remember seeing when I was looking for a low resource graphical file manager for my PS2 Linux kit that emulated the classic mc two pane setup, ah I remember now, emelfm.