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Just a post to gauge possible interest in the "Sony Playstation 3 - PSGroove JailBreak USB Dongle" since we got a mail from our wholesalers about it this morning, only been out a day or two, anyhow. Mail if your interested :)

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Short guide on how to install Sony Playstation 3 "PSGroove" exploit onto a compatible microcontroller. You should know if you don't well you never needed to anyway then :p

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Well it was bound to happen eventually, does this mean as earlier reported some of theose jail break dongles did get sold before Sony in Australia managed to get a temporary injuction against OzModChips or what ever there called. Who knows but heres some info on this thing. Apparently it does not contain the code (BackupManager) that was stolen and being used to do the jail breaking, this dongle allows play of home brew and such but I guess its a stepping stone. It can be made out of generic AVR microcontrollers which is good because you can get them anywhere and then "roll your own" also this time its got a decent name "PSGroove" or "PSGrove" depends where you, which sounds better than "Dongle thingy Sony don't like"

Sony Playstation  3 & AVR "Teensy" board being used for apprant jail breaking :

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Seems some how we have used up almost all of our bandwith for the first time in 6yrs, hence why we cut the blog in half. Will fix when we get a solution :P

Amazing you would have thought they would have labelled all none-Iranian software disgusting, decadant, infidel, capitilist, imperialist,immoral filth or something, but no they actually need it and I guess use it. The Iranian goverment has been caught running a public, yes public FTP server, well when we say public in Iran it probably means for the goverment and everyone else can can f*ck a goat or something...

No tag line for pic, so what ? :

Orig. article : found in my junk mail...

For more you know what to do :p

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Bound to happen eventually, apparently the upcoming game "Fighters Uncaged" from UbiSoft (due for a November release) was just too dangerous for 2 player gaming :p I guess its possible, but I have not seen anyone jam a Wii mote in each others faces yet. All these motion controller systems Nintendo's Wii, Microsoft's Kinect & Sony's Move are bound to suffer with conflicting human bodies due to the massive gaming area required. I can think of some uses though of this apparent fault ;)

Note do not Google for "wii whore" again.... :

YouTube videos & assorted screen shots, along with the rest of the story as usual find more :p

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Found this usefull bit of information. Microsoft list the checksum of all of there products going back as far as I can see MS-Dos 6 & Windows 3.x uptil now, Windows XP & Windows 7 and everthing in between. This may be usefull if you want to verify that no one has meddled with a ISO/backup image of your Windows CD and its free from malware,virus,spyware or other crap, or for checking the orig. media to make sure nothings been added or taken away. I have even had a scratched Windows 2000 orig. CD that acted up odd and the checksum was different...

Random Anime themed XP-tan whore like pic :

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Article updated 23/08/2010

Wonder if this has anything to do with yesterdays supposed Xbox 360 Slim running backups. This Sony Playstation 3 so called "mod chip" & USB solution suddenly has appeared seemingly out of thin air. Apprantly theres allready sites selling this thing springing up. It claims it works with all regions & models, doe's not void the warrenty, backs up games to hard drive and they run apprantly 2x as fast as off the blu ray drive. If it is just a simple USB key we can assume its a software based exploit of some sort.

Some ad banner for it :

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Some Sony news, the release of 2 new Playstation 3 models with bigger hard drives and thats about it :p

Sony wins for the most whores, most we can't even post here :

"Sony has unveiled two new models of Playstation 3 which have larger hard drives.The existing 250GB model will be replaced by a 320GB version which will be sold as an exclusive Play Station Move bundle costing £284.88.From October the 120GB model will be phased out and replaced by a 160GB version which will cost £249.99 - the same price as the original."

From BBC somewhere...

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Some Ubisoft guy saying that motion controllers must become "THE" standard or something. I don't get on with analogue pads,  jumping about like idiot in front a TV does not do anything for me.

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Some jibberish about the DS, might as well post it. It's about the suggested UK pricing being about £200. I'm not sure many will pay that now after all the other models that flew out in short succession during this apparent recession, thank you capitalism.

Nintendo did slighty better than Microsoft in the "search for a whore in the morning" pic, this was one the few that did not have tentacles and what looked like weird eyed 14yr olds in maid out fits :

"Early listings  of the handheld in the UK list the price as £199.99, which is roughly $300 or ¥25,000 in real money – a price which corresponds with analyst predictions and the general suspicion that nobody would pay any more for it.
The official announcement of release dates and pricing is expected in September at a Nintendo conference."

Link : http://n3ds.blog6.fc2.com/blog-entry-101.html

Well, i'm saying apprantly for now, its bound to happen one day, not alot of info at the moment. Anyhow if its true it don't look good to me just gives more options for little scallys on the usual benefits to charge around council estates thinking there international arms dealers or something... piracy is never a good a thing really.

Google results for Xbox whore are quite slim :/ :

"Pirates are rejoicing at the news that the new “slim” Xbox 360 has been cracked to run pirate copies, or “backups” as they are disingenuously called."

Videos press MORE

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Some apprantly leaked videos floating about that seem to show the Sony Playstation Move as more than just a Nintendo Wii add on knock off.

Questionable from some blog :

Press MORE for MOAR!!!

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Well its worth posting just because there all squeaky and bounce about. We don't like Sony very much, but this marketing campaign is ok, more Taiwanese models on anything has to be a good thing, assuming there not of "questionable build" if you follow :)

More videos press MORE :P

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It seems a free anti-virus application for a platform which is not totally swimming with exploits and what not (yet) has become extremely popular. According to the article its not because of threats to the systems but from Windows users bringing over there security habits... not quite sure how that works since the average Windows user don't do anything it seems...

Well its a picture :

DroidSecurity's ad-supported antivirus free app has become among the 50 most popular downloads on the Android marketplace despite a paucity of malware threats that affect the platform. The first SMS Trojan for Android only appeared on Tuesday and was limited to just a few victims in Russia."

Orig. article : The Register

Link to the anti-virus software : http://www.droidsecurity.com/

May come usefull, so posted for future use or something. Also found some Chinese girl with PSP so we posted that gallery up too. Found 1 of Jenna Haze too but well you know...

Press more for well more and the error codes :p

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To be fair no one seems to remember all them coloured bands and there meaning, well not normal people. Heres a page that will help you decode the values by entering the bands you see onto it.

Best Google could do :

Link : http://avishowtech.com/mbhp/res.html

Been a while since a new post, was clearing out all the old bookmarks and found these WEP & WPA key generators for the truly lazy who want to grab and paste a random key, not generate keys for getting access which no doubt a few will think this is. Better article tommorow :)

Google came thru fair with a pic :

Links :

http://www.yellowpipe.com/yis/tools/WPA_key/generator.php

http://www.yellowpipe.com/yis/tools/WEP_key/generator.php

http://www.andrewscompanies.com/tools/wep.asp

Following on from the report on the Microsoft girls of Asian appearance modelling the Xbox 360 Kinect thingy, heres some doing the same for the Sony Playstation 3's Move thingy, I think it was in Taiwan, but they got knee high socks and stuff so who cares!

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Found this while Googling about something else, might have to start building a gallery of all the home made computer systems soon theres quite a few to go up yet. This one seems to date from 2003/4. Interesting though

The prototype :

Orig. article : http://chaokhun.kmitl.ac.th/~kswichit/68k/68k.html

Mirror press MORE ;)

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After last weeks ruling on the legallitys of jailbreaking your own iPhone the app that does it all has gone live, this time working thru a browser instead of having to be connected to a computer etc to pull it off, i'm too ill to write anymore at the moment, enjoy :p

Hotlink BBC we really don't like them :

"An iPhone utility that lets iPhone 4 owners run non-Apple approved applications, has been released. Jailbreakme 2.0 works on all iPhones and iPod touches running iOS4, its developers say. However, there are reports that iPhone owners are losing FaceTime and multimedia messaging services, as well as problems for iPad users.The utility was launched a week after US regulators announced it was lawful to hack or jailbreak an iPhone."

Orig. article : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10836692

Link : http://www.jailbreakme.com/faq.html

I'm guessing most of our readers are not old enough to remember the IBM XT or even adding your own I/O cards, I bet a large percentage of them have never even seen a IBM brand PC, oh how time moves on, but some people want to go back and thats what this guy did, he made a IDE card for his XT.  There's some links on where to buy a PCB if you really want to make one, but good luck finding a PC with ISA and no in built IDE controller thats still barely usefull :p

"Once I started messing with my IBM PC XT, I realized that there were things I had taken for granted all along since my first PC compatible system was a 386.  I didn’t realize that IDE uses a 16-bit bus and it would take some trickery to use an IDE device in an older 8-bit system like the XT.  I searched around and found that there were in fact 8-bit ISA controllers but they were expensive and rare.  Finding one these days would be a stroke of luck or a dent in the pocket book.  I was about to design my own when I came across the XT-IDE project. "

Links :

http://www.notanon.com/electronics/how-to-build-an-8-bit-ide-controller-for-a-pc-xt/2010/07/30/

http://wiki.vintage-computer.com/index.php/XTIDE_project

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer_XT

Videos after the break. Thats a MORE button since people keeping asking.

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Might be usefull for some so we posted it, no need for mega hacking the phone to bits in this guide.

Stol3d from Wiki and what?

"If you’ve got a Samsung Vibrant and want to take advantage of that unlimted 3G account you can tether without rooting the phone. This method uses a USB cable to provide internet access to Windows XP and Windows 7 computers. Samsung’s own Kies software handles the tethering, as long as you have the magic number to get connected on T-Mobile USA networks; ‘epc.tmobile.com’ for the APN name and ‘*99#’ as the phone number. The video after the break which takes you through the tethering ritual."

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Today while hunting thru the so called FaceBook user info (fbnames), some of the files are 1Gb+ in size and my usual choice of text editors would just not read them or crash while loading them, so a quick Google found this ace little app. it opened a 1.4Gb text file in about 2 seconds. Alas, its only a viewer but does have search, copy, cut functions etc. its really good and at under 400K too :)

Authors site : http://www.swiftgear.com/

Mirror : http://www.topshareware.com/Large-Text-File-Viewer-download-11000.htm

Interesting device this, I know there are many different floppy drive emulators out there and most can be "made" to work with different systems with some magic and stuff, but heres another that has a speaker to make the noise that your old Amiga drive did how cool :p hopefully with another serious contender to the market that god dam expensive Polish one thats always on eBay will come down in price ;) of course luckily for the Amiga many other methods of moving data have appeared over the years which are cheap, easy and a dam sight faster and bigger than a 880K disk, but still we need this because we do! :D

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Oh dear, Nintendo's wins again... there is more to this than just a game playing device, it seems all the old loop holes are fading away, no more "its for my home made games" or backing up your legally owned games (which your oddly not allowed to do). In this latest case this bit stuck out to me : Justice Floyd said: “The mere fact that the device can be used for a non-infringing purpose is not a defence.” but thats what decided the whole Sony Betamax Vs VHS debate in the 80's that set seemingly the ground rules for copyrights, does this mean that all DVDR drives are too in fact illegal? Does this also mean you can't record your fav. TV shows? The people are never respected in these things and its all money talking...

PS: I wonder if it only effects "R4" branded cards like last time after the last case or other brands ;)

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Starting to back up all the age old docs, guides, books, links and what not before there lost forever and heres the first. I refound it today while looking up some other info. A guide to upgrade the none 'E' versions of the Atari ST (F,FM,STFM) to either 2/2.5/4Mb ram. This will be part of a series ( I hope)

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Matthew Sarnoff has built an 8-bit computer based on the Motorola 6809 processor. This processor was chosen because there are a lot of Z80 based home made computers about he wanted to try something different.

Ultim809: Ultimate 8-Bit Computer :

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