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PS3 Slimline shots leaks out

blog — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:24:33 +0000

If you believe in these pictures, it is obvious that there is a slimline PS3 coming. These shots were taken in a chinese factory.

The logo is very different from the actual one. Maybe it is just a fake?!
If you look close, you can see that it has a 120GB hard disc.

The bottom enclosure.

The top enclosure. It is not shining at all and looks a bit cheap. It can be that it is not finished yet.

The top enclosure from the front. The bubble says, that the slot can glow.

The backside of the casing. Can figure out any new connections from this image.

via [gameko]

Installing Adobe Flash Plugin in Mozilla Prism on Linux

blog — Sun, 10 May 2009 14:10:47 +0000

Today I gave Prism a try. I have several websites, which need a proxy to get access, but for others I don’t want to use the proxy at all. So I created a new configuration to have the site available in one click. After starting up the first time, I realized, that the Adobe Flash plugin is not installed. After stumbling around the web I found out that basically only the libflashplayer.so needs to be copied to the plugins folder of Prism.

This is a bit tricky, because there is no plugins folder in Prism by default. So I started with
root@HASS:/opt/prism# mkdir plugins
for creating the folder in the right place.

Next I tried to locate the Flash plugin file with
locate libflashplayer.so

As a result i got
/usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so

The next step was copying this found file over to the newly created plugins folder
cp /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so plugins/.

From what I saw, this problem does not happen on other platforms.

Guitar Hero Song List

blog — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:50:31 +0000

I just had a look at the Guitar Hero Metallica Song List and I must say this is another must have in my collection. The guys really made a good selection of songs available, but see for yourself.

Guitar Hero: Metallica Song List

“All Nightmare Long” - Metallica
“Battery” - Metallica
“Broken Beat & Scarred” - Metallica
“Creeping Death” - Metallica
“Cyanide” - Metallica
“Disposable Heroes” - Metallica
“Dyers Eve” - Metallica
“Enter Sandman” - Metallica
“Fade To Black” - Metallica
“Fight Fire With Fire” - Metallica
“For Whom The Bell Tolls” - Metallica
“Frantic” - Metallica
“Fuel” - Metallica
“Hit The Lights” - Metallica
“King Nothing” - Metallica
“Master of Puppets” - Metallica
“Mercyful Fate” (Medley) - Metallica
“My Apocalypse” - Metallica
“No Leaf Clover” - Metallica
“Nothing Else Matters” - Metallica
“One” - Metallica
“Orion” - Metallica
“Sad But True” - Metallica
“Seek & Destroy” - Metallica
“The Memory Remains” - Metallica
“The Shortest Straw” - Metallica
“The Thing That Should Not Be” - Metallica
“The Unforgiven” - Metallica
“Welcome Home (Sanitarium)” - Metallica
“Wherever I May Roam” - Metallica
“Whiplash” - Metallica

That is the Song List for the Metallica part, in the game you are also able to play the following songs from other artists:

“No Excuses” - Alice In Chains
“Turn The Page” - Bob Seger
“Albatross” - Corrosion of Conformity
“Am I Evil?” - Diamond Head
“Stacked Actors” - Foo Fighters
“Hell Bent For Leather” - Judas Priest
“Demon Cleaner” - Kyuss
“Tuesdays Gone” - Lynyrd Skynyrd
“Beautiful Mourning” - Machine Head
“Blood And Thunder” - Mastodon
“Evil” - Mercyful Fate
“Armed and Ready” - Michael Schenker Group
“Ace of Spades” - Motorhead
“Stone Cold Crazy” - Queen
“Mother of Mercy” - Samhain
“War Ensemble” - Slayer
“Mommy’s Little Monster” - Social Distortion
“War Inside My Head” - Suicidal Tendencies
“Toxicity” - System of a Down
“Black River” - The Sword
“The Boys Are Back in Town” - Thin Lizzy

All in all very well done, I am looking forward to the release in May, maybe I gonna get it earlier, in the US it will be released on the 29th of March 2009.

Catch the Suspect with a Mii

blog — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:56:17 +0000

In Kanagawa, Japan the sketch artist at the police station used a Mii to try and catch a man suspected of a hit and run. The result looks like this.

I am really wondering if they could find the suspect.

Facebook got hacked on Twitter

blog — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:21:35 +0000

I just saw that something strange is going on with the Facebook account on Twitter:

seems like facebook got hacked

I guess that it has something to do with the latest phishing attacks facebook is facing… or they are just trying out to provide a new service.

Update: Just found a set on Flickr with hacked Twitter accounts

iPhone 3g software unlock proof of concept video

blog — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:52:04 +0000

45 minutes ago a proof of concept was just broadcasted through Qik.

It is a preview on the upcoming release which will be more user-friendly than the one in this video

We got a photo request from Schmap Las Vegas Guide

blog — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:31:55 +0000

My wife just got mail that a picture from our last Vegas trip got on the short-list from Schmap. It seems that the editors found that picture on Flickr, where we also uploaded some of the pictures we made on the trip. The picture they want to publish is this one here.

The picture was taken by my wife while we were driving on the strip on a very hot day in September last year. I am actually quite curious to see it in the next issue.

Roomba is doing a good job

blog — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:18:13 +0000

For some weeks I have a Roomba, but I didn’t have time to write about it yet. Today I made a video while it was cleaning the floor in the room. Its a very nice tool, since me and my wife don’t like vacuming that much. The only thing bothering is the amount of hair getting stuck in the brushes and the fact that it has to be cleaned, selfcleaning would be awesome. But at least the carpet gets cleaner with Roomba.

Make backlight adjustment work in Ubuntu on the Panasonic CF-R7

blog — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:06:11 +0000

I was struggeling with the backlight quite for a while now. But finally I found something which finally works.

First you need git core installed
sudo aptitude install git-core

Next you checkout the module
git clone git://git.myrix.net/pana_acpi
The next step is compiling and loading the module
cd ./pana_acpi make make install modprobe panasonic_acpi
At this point you can already check if the brightness buttons are working.
Next copy ./pana_acpi/acpi/* to /etc/acpi
and restart the acpid daemon.
/etc/init.d/acpid restart
This module should work on all the 7-Series from Panasonic. I only tried it out with my CF-R7.

Crystal White PS3 (jp) Power Supply in Europe

blog — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:05:44 +0000

I was quite shocked when I read the tag on my PS3 which says 110V.

The PS3 is the crystal white one I got in Japan. So the first thing when I was back home, open the whole thing to see whats under the hood. That whole procedure already happened back in March but thats how the internal psu looks like.

So don’t worry of connecting an JP PS3 to the 230V power system in Europe. It should work as I heard from several forums as well.