I can't believe nobody mentioned tardblog so far. You we're closest but it just goes to a pythong sketch.
tardblog is a long defunct blog that was one of the funniest things on the net. I have no idea if it was real, but it does feel that way. It's one of things you read, you guffaw, and then you realise you're a terrible person for laughing at disabled children.
I think they gave up on that. They have released homebrew-blocking updates several times but the latest version of the firmware has been out and compromised for a long time now.
With the Wii it's actually quite involved to get games running off the HD, involving multiple steps, multiple component installs, and you need to start with one of about 3 possible games that contain a glitch (there was a gameless one, but that got patched).
The ps3 is different in that respect - install custom firmware, install game manager, away you go.
It'll be interesting to see what happens to the 'scene' now that the firmware has been updated again and PSN usage is blocked. I suspect it will probably wither down to a small core of people that either care a lot about homebrew or care a lot about piracy.
Until/unless the new firmware is compromised. And with all the major players on the wrong end of a lawsuit at the moment it's probably going to stay quiet for a while.
Linux is awesome for people who don't do much at all with computers (web, mail, office tasks etc) though the iTunes issue could be a bit of a pain for them I suppose.
It's also great for those of us that do like to do weird things with network sub-interface config, cross-compiling custom kernels for NAS boxes and the other crap I find I do for fun (why???). There's probably a large area in the middle where the 'advanced user' (lets call them that for the sake of argument) can get their stuff done faster and with less fuss on windows.
Of course the other advantage is that getting software for most stuff I ever want to do is no more than a few steps of "apt-cache search, hmmm - that looks interesting, apt-get install" away. Finding good, free software for windows can be a pain.
1. All the webcams I've bought recently have just worked with linux. My advice would be to stick to logitech or (ironically) Microsoft branded cams. Ubuntu may require you to add the canonical parter repository in the software manager (a few clicks) and then install skype from the software 'store'.
2. No idea. Use another format. Word does ODF pretty well IIRC. And OO.o has always done doc well enough. If that's a dealbreaker for you then that's a dealbreaker for you.
3. Wine. If you must have iTunes. I'm told it works well.
4. For airport express - what does it play? What protocols does it speak? My network-enabled radio thing picks up UPnP, maybe samba too. The ps3 and the tv also speak UPnP. So my music and video is on a network share and also available over UPnP using Mediatomb.
There is also mtdaapd that talks the apple/iTunes server protocol.
"no time or desire to faff around with getting these things to work on Ubuntu - unless you tell me that it is exactly as easy as it is on a PC."
Wait, you've been a software engineer for a decade and you contrast 'Ubuntu' and 'a PC' as different things?
If you look at the deeds of the god of the old testament and do not see a petty, vain tyrant, then you're a fool.
You're as much of a fool if you believe that the Israelites were the only virtuous tribe and somehow, through sheer coincidence, every other person who got in their way or was on land they wanted to claim as their own was a baby-murdering savage.
"The employment arrangement translated "slavery" was not the same as slavery in the antebellum United States. For example, servants can be traded to another owner, but so can modern-day athletes."
Revisionist nonsense.
"God is petty only to those who choose not to know him."
Whilst some of the biblical laws are a great guide to tribal living in hot places (what not to eat because it goes off quickly, don't steal other people's women because it causes fights), it's also full of nonsense, contradictions and downright evil. Slavery is ok according to biblical texts. God in the old testament is a petty tyrant that pretty much just kills people for looking at him funny.
That you can find a few instances of things that are correct in there does not make it an accurate book.
No, it really didn't, otherwise we would have seen a lot more development from that point onwards. It's not like Sony actively removed OtherOS from people's systems, they had to update, which a lot of folks didn't do.
Instead, nothing happened until the jailbreak came along, seemingly out of nowhere.
The first glitch that allowed him to dump memory from OtherOS, sure, that was him.
That required a hardware mod and didn't open up the system much at all but it did prompt sony to take away OtherOS in a massive overreaction. Almost as if they were looking for a way to stop supporting it anyway...
"He didn't copy a game though, he broke the PS3 security cum DRM system and told the whole damn world how he did it."
Where the hell do you get your information from?
He did do a lot of stuff but he was only a part of the whole. He did find a glitch about a year ago, which may have helped kick things off. Then the dongles came along from PSJailbreak, whoever they are, that broke things wide open and were of course cloned endlessly.
Then failoverflow cracked the system wide open, and geohot took their techniques and cracked it further open again.
And he didn't even tell the world how he did the last bit, much to the annoyance of those whose work he built on.
The kid's good, but he's not the whole story by a long way.
The only problem I could forsee with it is that there's apparently no open driver for the tegra 2 yet, so you might be stuck with whatever OS it arrives with. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing.
It was a cheap fantasy. You could tell throughout that the author desperately wanted to be that cool, anti-authoritarian kid, and set up a world specifically for him to do cool, anti-authoritarian stiff.
I'm against creeping government powers and the slow transformation into a police state as as the next guy (probably quite a lot more so), but "Little Brother" read like the author was whacking off all the way through.
Not only that but it also has access to an email address you used to sign up, a username and a password. And these may be attached to a credit card record online.
If that's what you think then... GTFO of my slashdot.
There was a time when people here wouldn't have needed it explaining to them why it was good to be able to run your own code on hardware you own. Unlocking its potential, doing stuff it was never designed to do. Hacking devices, installing other operating systems, non-standard software... it used to be taken as self evident that this was a good thing.
Now we have people who are more concerned about other people cheating in online games (which can be dealt with much better at the server side anyway) than they are about the progress of freedom in computing.
Yes, but on the other hand, somebody has to know how C works so the rest of you can have runtimes, interpreters, library bindings and all the other stuff you lot seem to take for granted these days.
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I can't believe nobody mentioned tardblog so far. You we're closest but it just goes to a pythong sketch.
tardblog is a long defunct blog that was one of the funniest things on the net. I have no idea if it was real, but it does feel that way. It's one of things you read, you guffaw, and then you realise you're a terrible person for laughing at disabled children.
Meh, vaio are good, but not the only decent laptop.
The tvs are expensive compared to the likes of Samsung
There's honestly not much to pick between Xbox and PS3 IMHO.
DS and derivatives have WAAAAY more market than PSP...
In the current market, you can easily get away from Sony products without much compromise.
I think they gave up on that. They have released homebrew-blocking updates several times but the latest version of the firmware has been out and compromised for a long time now.
With the Wii it's actually quite involved to get games running off the HD, involving multiple steps, multiple component installs, and you need to start with one of about 3 possible games that contain a glitch (there was a gameless one, but that got patched).
The ps3 is different in that respect - install custom firmware, install game manager, away you go.
It'll be interesting to see what happens to the 'scene' now that the firmware has been updated again and PSN usage is blocked. I suspect it will probably wither down to a small core of people that either care a lot about homebrew or care a lot about piracy.
Until/unless the new firmware is compromised. And with all the major players on the wrong end of a lawsuit at the moment it's probably going to stay quiet for a while.
Or, you know, replaces the passwd binary with one that writes out a log readable only by root.
Then they just have to wait. They could even expire the user's password or make them re-enter it.
Eh, possibly.
Linux is awesome for people who don't do much at all with computers (web, mail, office tasks etc) though the iTunes issue could be a bit of a pain for them I suppose.
It's also great for those of us that do like to do weird things with network sub-interface config, cross-compiling custom kernels for NAS boxes and the other crap I find I do for fun (why???). There's probably a large area in the middle where the 'advanced user' (lets call them that for the sake of argument) can get their stuff done faster and with less fuss on windows.
Of course the other advantage is that getting software for most stuff I ever want to do is no more than a few steps of "apt-cache search, hmmm - that looks interesting, apt-get install" away. Finding good, free software for windows can be a pain.
1. All the webcams I've bought recently have just worked with linux. My advice would be to stick to logitech or (ironically) Microsoft branded cams.
Ubuntu may require you to add the canonical parter repository in the software manager (a few clicks) and then install skype from the software 'store'.
2. No idea. Use another format. Word does ODF pretty well IIRC. And OO.o has always done doc well enough. If that's a dealbreaker for you then that's a dealbreaker for you.
3. Wine. If you must have iTunes. I'm told it works well.
4. For airport express - what does it play? What protocols does it speak? My network-enabled radio thing picks up UPnP, maybe samba too. The ps3 and the tv also speak UPnP. So my music and video is on a network share and also available over UPnP using Mediatomb.
There is also mtdaapd that talks the apple/iTunes server protocol.
"no time or desire to faff around with getting these things to work on Ubuntu - unless you tell me that it is exactly as easy as it is on a PC."
Wait, you've been a software engineer for a decade and you contrast 'Ubuntu' and 'a PC' as different things?
You trollin' ?
"They belvin'd me!"
Oh for christ's sake! (LOL)
If you look at the deeds of the god of the old testament and do not see a petty, vain tyrant, then you're a fool.
You're as much of a fool if you believe that the Israelites were the only virtuous tribe and somehow, through sheer coincidence, every other person who got in their way or was on land they wanted to claim as their own was a baby-murdering savage.
"The employment arrangement translated "slavery" was not the same as slavery in the antebellum United States. For example, servants can be traded to another owner, but so can modern-day athletes."
Revisionist nonsense.
"God is petty only to those who choose not to know him."
No, he is a murderous tyrant.
Sorry, no.
Whilst some of the biblical laws are a great guide to tribal living in hot places (what not to eat because it goes off quickly, don't steal other people's women because it causes fights), it's also full of nonsense, contradictions and downright evil. Slavery is ok according to biblical texts. God in the old testament is a petty tyrant that pretty much just kills people for looking at him funny.
That you can find a few instances of things that are correct in there does not make it an accurate book.
No, it really didn't, otherwise we would have seen a lot more development from that point onwards. It's not like Sony actively removed OtherOS from people's systems, they had to update, which a lot of folks didn't do.
Instead, nothing happened until the jailbreak came along, seemingly out of nowhere.
The first glitch that allowed him to dump memory from OtherOS, sure, that was him.
That required a hardware mod and didn't open up the system much at all but it did prompt sony to take away OtherOS in a massive overreaction. Almost as if they were looking for a way to stop supporting it anyway...
"He didn't copy a game though, he broke the PS3 security cum DRM system and told the whole damn world how he did it."
Where the hell do you get your information from?
He did do a lot of stuff but he was only a part of the whole. He did find a glitch about a year ago, which may have helped kick things off. Then the dongles came along from PSJailbreak, whoever they are, that broke things wide open and were of course cloned endlessly.
Then failoverflow cracked the system wide open, and geohot took their techniques and cracked it further open again.
And he didn't even tell the world how he did the last bit, much to the annoyance of those whose work he built on.
The kid's good, but he's not the whole story by a long way.
"We don't need to see these devices popping up at $29.99 a pop and having people wander around with what is effectively a colander on their heads."
We don't?
Really?
I'm totally for this plan. In fact I think it would be awesome to see credulous morons wandering around with colanders on their heads all the time.
Is the trimslice on sale yet?
The only problem I could forsee with it is that there's apparently no open driver for the tegra 2 yet, so you might be stuck with whatever OS it arrives with. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing.
Little Brother?
It was a cheap fantasy. You could tell throughout that the author desperately wanted to be that cool, anti-authoritarian kid, and set up a world specifically for him to do cool, anti-authoritarian stiff.
I'm against creeping government powers and the slow transformation into a police state as as the next guy (probably quite a lot more so), but "Little Brother" read like the author was whacking off all the way through.
Just what I was thinking. At first it sounded like were going to get one of the long-promised next gen plugs, with dual core at 2.0GHz and more RAM.
But no, this is just an inaccurate press release. My sheevaplug arrived two years ago with this much RAM and this clock speed.
BORING. Let me know when we can get something that really has better hardware.
Not only that but it also has access to an email address you used to sign up, a username and a password. And these may be attached to a credit card record online.
If that's what you think then... GTFO of my slashdot.
There was a time when people here wouldn't have needed it explaining to them why it was good to be able to run your own code on hardware you own. Unlocking its potential, doing stuff it was never designed to do. Hacking devices, installing other operating systems, non-standard software... it used to be taken as self evident that this was a good thing.
Now we have people who are more concerned about other people cheating in online games (which can be dealt with much better at the server side anyway) than they are about the progress of freedom in computing.
It makes me sad.
You mean like gitorious in Norway - http://gitorious.org/ps3free
It's all gone back up at gitorious anyway, which is based in Norway and harder to fuck with.
32?
This has to be a troll, right?
Because 32 per second is really not very much at all. Think thousands or tens of thousands before you get impressed.
Yes, but on the other hand, somebody has to know how C works so the rest of you can have runtimes, interpreters, library bindings and all the other stuff you lot seem to take for granted these days.
I remember when microsoft built an ISP finder into their OS. Do they still? I wonder if that would work...
Interesting...
Device convergence is amusing me these days. I'd love to see someone hack iOS onto a PSP2 :)