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PS3 Linux musings part 2

Posted by EricBall, in OtherOS 10 May 2010 · 35 views

OtherOS

Both potatohead and I agree that GeoHot's exploit represented a potential piracy risk to Sony. The question I have is whether Sony could have done something other than disable OtherOS in response.

Well, they could have ignored it. The attack required a hardware mod and a little bit of luck to break out of the Hypervisor walled garden. But...

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PS3 Linux RIP (for now)

Posted by EricBall, in Uncategorized, OtherOS 02 April 2010 · 29 views

OtherOS

For those of you with PS3s, be aware that the April 1 update disables OtherOS. So after installing the update you will no longer be able to install OtherOS or boot into OtherOS - so no more PS3 Linux. (Of course, the PS3 slim didn't have this ability.) Not upgrading means you will no longer be able to access the Playstation Network.

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Bloombox is not green!

Posted by EricBall, 25 February 2010 · 21 views

rant

I was listening to the 60 Minutes podcast and they were doing a segment on the Bloombox, which is based on a fuel cell. The thing which annoys me is they call this "green energy". Umm, folks . . . you're generating electricity by consuming gaseous...

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Home network monitoring

Posted by EricBall, 18 February 2010 · 31 views

My wife plays Cafe World and other games on Facebook. She's noticed that her MacBook gets hot while she's playing. I suspect it's just because Flash is a hog, but it occurs to me that I really have no idea what it's doing. And although my home network is safely hidden behind a NAT router, that doesn't protect me if something...

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mythbuntu woes

Posted by EricBall, 30 January 2010 · 56 views

mythbuntu

Both my new Dell (very fast and near silent) and the two ATI HDTV Wonder cards arrived this week. So after backing up the old system last night I tried to install Mythbuntu today.

The install itself went okay. I think most of the problems I had were self-inflicted. Unfortunately, my capture cards weren't automatically recognized, but I...

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MythTV plotting

Posted by EricBall, 20 January 2010 · 43 views

Well, I just bought two ATI HDTV Wonders on eBay, so I guess it's gone beyond plotting.

I've read as much as I can without taking the plunge. In theory it should be fairly simple.
1. Acquire PC to use as a back-end server. This server contains the capture cards and the hard drives to store the recordings. Since I'm dealing with...

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new project curse

Posted by EricBall, 13 January 2010 · 30 views

I have too many unfinished projects. I think of a project and I can think of nothing else. It rattles inside my head, making it difficult to think of anything else. But as I actually start the project the noise quiets down and life returns to normal. But then I get another idea and I can never quite get back to finishing off the...

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PS3 as ATSC PVR?

Posted by EricBall, 07 January 2010 · 95 views

Of course, now that I've ordered a new computer the "dead" one stops crashing and actually transcodes overnight. So now I have a spare computer to find a use for.

I have two SD TiVos - a dual tuner connected to the HDTV for analog and digital cable, and an old Sony S1 in the bedroom for analog cable. I also have an antenna...

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just buy a Dell?

Posted by EricBall, 03 January 2010 · 38 views

My home computer is close to dead - random reboots and errors which point to a hardware failure. It's at least 7 years old, so I guess it's time for an upgrade. Sigh.

I've spec'd out a Dell replacement for C$878+tax etc. My question is whether there's any real point in looking at other makes etc. Unlike the old...

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Beatles Rock Band

Posted by EricBall, 31 December 2009 · 50 views

Two years ago when Rock Band was released, we gave it some serious consideration for a family Christmas gift. But we ended up giving the whole plastic instrument craze a pass until this year where we used some gift money and took advantage of the post-Christmas sales to buy Beatles Rock Band. The big advantage is we "know" most of the...

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