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Today I decided to downgrade my PSP, it has a TA-082 motherboard and came with a firmware version 2.71. I did it all thanks to Dark_AleX and his custom firmwares and TA-082 downgrader software. This is top quality stuff. How to downgrade your TA-082 PSP from 2.71 to 1.5 firmware

1. Download the downgrader from Dark_AleX's website: http://downgrader.lan.st/ta082down.rar
2. Download the homebrew enabler D from : http://exophase.com/files/psp/hend.rar
3. Download the original 1.5 firmware from here: http://wanon.bur.st/EBOOT_1.50.zip
4. Extract all the archives somewhere.
5. Copy the contents of MS_ROOT from HenD to the root of your memory stick.
6. Copy idstoragechange and UPDATE directories from ta082down.rar to MEMSTICK://PSP/GAME/
7. Rename your extracted EBOOT.PBP from EBOOT_1.50.zip to UPDATE.PBP
8. Copy UPDATE.PBP to MEMSTICK://PSP/GAME/UPDATE/
9. Now you have all the files you need. Disconnect your PSP and go to the main menu.
10. Select the Photo option and choose Memory Stick, then select the Hen D folder. This should make your screen go black for a bit and then display blue or green. If it went red (as it did for me the first time, just reboot and try again) This allows you to run homebrew applications.
11. Make sure your battery is fully charged and plugged into the mains.
12. Go to the Game menu and go down to Memory Stick. Now run your idstoragechange application.
13. Once this finishes, go back to the Game menu and this time run Update X.YX. This will run a program to flash your firmware.
14. Once it's finished press X and let it reboot. I was then confronted with a black screen that seemed to last forever, but was then presented with a blue screen asking me to press O. Press O and reenter all your settings.
15. You should now format your Memory Stick from the Settings menu -> System Settings menu.
16. Congratulations! You now have a 1.5 fw version PSP, ready to be flashed again to the latest OE firmware from Dark_AleX.

Being a relative PSP noob, I have decided to compile some important terms I have learnt regarding the PSP and homebrew :)

• HenD - Homebrew Enabler Revision D
• Devhook - A homebrew app that lets you emulate different PSP kernels and play PSP game ISO's
• Dark_AleX - Developer of custom firmwares and downgraders.
• Firmware 3.03 OE-B - Custom firmware Open Edition Revision B - created by Dark_AleX that runs homebrew, plays ISO's and can run homebrew written for FW 1.50 and play PSX games that are only available on the official 3.03. As part of the upgrade process, both official firmwares are required as input.
• Brick - A dead PSP. Is possible when doing funky stuff with your firmware such as downgrading and upgrading.
• EBOOT.PBP - This is the file that the PSP executes when running an app. It can be thought of as an exe file in Windows.

Recently I have been pondering starting my Masters in Information Technology with Queensland University of Technology.

If I were to do this, I think I would prefer doing it by research. If this were possible under my current circumstances I think I would like to do some research about social and security impacts of a non existant as of yet - as far as I know, mass instant messaging service in a similar vain to email list software.

I think it would be interesting to see the success of such a service as an opt in, in an office type environment.

I might even run up a prototype service. Stay Tuned.

I know it's old, but it's still great. :) 

 

 Source: broken-tv.blogspot.com

 

I found this after someone at work posted it to a mailing list. I found it quite true. Especially the one about the lighting.

 

http://nomadishere.com/2007/03/12/a-note-to-employers-8-things-intelligent-people-geeks-and-nerds-need-to-work-happy/ 

The other day I was completely over having non descriptive Konsole tab names, when you're adminstering multiple servers these can be prone to be lost among the others.

 

 

 

A little googling brought up an escape sequence that can be set in your ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc to allow you to ouput to the konsole tab name.

 

export PS1=$PS1"/[/e]30;/h:/W/a/e[28;0t/]" 

(Please replace / with a backslash, lifetype doesn't seem to like backslashes )

Explanation:

/[	Start of the escape sequence for non printing characters

/]	End of the escape sequence 

/e	Start ascii output (escape character 33)

/h	The hostname up to the first '.'

:	Straight ascii

/W	The cwd	(eg. httpd)

/w	The complete cwd (eg. /usr/local/httpd)

/a	The ascii bell character

 If you add the above line into your ~/.bash_profile on all your login accounts you should end up with something like the following:

You can try experimenting with other escape sequences. Here is a good list for available bash escape codes.

 

I have had some fun with a few computer glitches lately. One was caused by the latest Microsoft patch for the animated cursor vulnerabiliy in XP.

 

On bootup the following is displayed in an alert box:

RTHDCPL.EXE - Illegal System DLL Relocation
The system DLL user32.dll was relocated in memory. The application will not run properly. The relocation occurred because the DLL C:WindowsSystem32Hhctrl.ocx occupied an address range reserved for Windows system DLLs. The vendor supplying the DLL should be contacted for a new DLL.

 

To fix this install this patch provided by Mircosoft:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=74AD4188-3131-429C-8FCB-F7B3B0FD3D86&displaylang=en 

For more information:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935448/ 

 

 

I recently had trouble setting up my dual monitors with my new video card... It's an MSI Nvidia 512mb 8600 GTS (NX8600GTS Diamond Plus) and only comes with a single DVI port and a single HDMI port.

 

Luckily a new HDMI cable came in the box so all I need was a HDMI female to DVI male adaptor. Picked one up off ebay for a couple of bucks (Found one in a local shop for $99).

 

I noticed that if you plug both monitors in to each of the ports dual output is not on by default even at the bios level, unlike my previous nVidia 6800.

 

To enable the dual display outputs, simply open your NVIDIA Control Panel:

 

 

And select "Set up multiple displays" and you're away. If you do not have this control panel, I would suggest using the CD that came with your video card or try downloading the latest driver package from nVidia themselves.

 

 

 Then run the "Run display optimization wizard" to reset your brightness and what have you as no doubt it will have changed with the new cable/card.

 

Enjoy your new dual monitor set up!

 

 

They still haven't cracked this one... 

-(35.29724,-30.849906)

 

I finally managed to get fedora 7 running last night...

 

 

How to install VMWare Tools

Click VM and then Install VMWare Tools in the VMWare gui.

Inside the VM, fedora will automount the cd image under /media/cdrom

The easiest way is to execute on the rpm found here from konqueror. Or manually from a console.

After it has been installed, run vmware-config-tools.pl which should already be on your path after installing the rpm.

 

Problems

 

X Server Fails to Restart

After I ran the config script my X server would not restart. To fix this, edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add the following above the existing monitor section.

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "vmware"
EndSection

 

VM Fails to automatically resize when you change the size of the VMWare window

Re run the config tools script and change your resolution and then reboot.

 

New ethernet driver fails to compile

Extract the rpm or the tar.gz found next to the rpm. 

cd /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/lib/modules/source
tar xf vmxnet.tar 
vi /vmxnet-only/vmxnet.c

Around line 1058, change the line: 
vmxnet_interrupt(dev->irq, dev, NULL) 
TO
vmxnet_interrupt(dev->irq, dev) 

tar cf vmxnet.tar vmxnet-only/
/tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl 

 

To load the new driver without rebooting:

$ su -
# /etc/init.d/networking stop
# rmmod pcnet32
# rmmod vmxnet
# depmod -a
# modprobe vmxnet
# /etc/init.d/networking start

 

Where is the largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island in the world?

 

 Vulcan Point in Crater Lake in Volcano Island in Taal Lake on Taal Volcano (Luzon near Manila in the Phillipines) OF COURSE!

 

Google Maps:
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=14.009529,120.994663&spn=0.079947,0.117073&t=k&om=1 

 

 

 

UPDATE

Apparently I'm wrong... World Island Info seems to think it's an island in a lake on Glover Island in Canada!

World Island Info: http://worldislandinfo.com/blog/index.php/2007/07/26/the-real-largest-island-in-a-lake-on-an-island-in-a-lake-on-an-island/ 

Google Maps:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=48.802115,-57.640457&spn=0.397993,0.933838&t=k&z=10&om=1 

Just a quick word to let you know how awesome the new tv show, Chuck is.

 

I just finished watching the third episode and it just keeps getting better. The synopsis isn't that great, but the show sure is!

 

Episode 1 Torrents

Episode 2 Torrents

Episode 3 Torrents

 

Also Life is another one to watch out for. Yay for tv season!

 

 

 

 

Lyrics:
a long long time ago
i can still remember
when my laptop could connect elsewhere

and i tell you all there was a day
the network card i threw away
had a purpose - and worked for you and me….

But 18 years completely wasted
with each address we’ve aggregated
the tables overflowing
the traffic just stopped flowing….

And now we’re bearing all the scars
and all my traceroutes showing stars…
the packets would travel faster in cars…
the day….the routers died

Chorus (ALL!!!!!)
So bye bye, folks at RIPE 55
Be persuaded to upgrade it or your network will die
IPv6 just makes me let out a sigh
But I spose we’d better give it a try
I suppose we’d better give it a try

 

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 (More)

Now I don't consider myself a slow driver. I keep to the limit most times and keep some space between the cars around me.

This I think is why cars like overtaking me even if there's only half a car length between myself and the car infront of me.

Unfortunately Canberra drivers seem to think when a roundabout opens up to two lanes, that this means it is safe to use as an over taking lane!

 

CANBERRAN'S: ROUNDABOUTS ARE NOT OVERTAKING LANES!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

 

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