Pope Rails Against the Internet and Transparency

Posted by on April 26, 2010 No comments

I had to giggle a bit inside about what the pope said.
Link here
He says, “digital transparency exacerbates tensions between nations and within nations themselves. And increases the ‘dangers of… intellectual and moral relativism,’ which can lead to ‘multiple forms of degradation and humiliation’ of the essence of a person”.

I can see why, once people hear what some of our “leaders” are really doing, we won’t be so impressed… which will lead to “Degradation and humiliation” of certain people in power ^_^

Ubuntu 10.04

Posted by on April 26, 2010 No comments

Sweet, 3 more days until Ubuntu 10.04! There has been a bit of controversy about placement of the close/minimize/maximize buttons, but the integration of the social aspects looks very promising! I for one can get used to something as simple as having to click some buttons on the left instead of the right. It may also help to distinguish Ubuntu over Windows (“You know, the left side button OS”).

Finally tested server backups

Posted by on April 24, 2010 No comments

w00t! After a few months of putting off testing my business server backups, they work just fine 🙂 Like uber fine! It pleased me to see how easy it was to restore a virtual snapshot in ProxMox. The only real time it took was uploading the backup file to my test server.

It’s good to know I can restore my server in a few hours if it totally dies.

New blog up!

Posted by on April 24, 2010 No comments

I thought I should put something up on my dragonwarz.net domain … and here’s my blog! Enjoy!

You suck Sony!

Posted by on April 23, 2010 No comments

So how many people have heard of the things Sony has been doing with the PS3?
To sum it up, some hacker got root access to the PS3’s hardware through the OtherOS feature. So what did sony do? They removed OtherOS! Granted the OtherOS wasn’t exactly a great feature because of the limited RAM (256MB), but it was still awesome to be able to take advantage of that sweet sweet PowerPC CPU.

Now the only way to keep the “OtherOS” feature is to not upgrade the firmware… but you can’t connect to the online network without the latest firmware. Not only that but some newer games will probably be demanding newer firmware to run! And just for good measure, some downloaded games from the PS network require a constant connection with the PS network! Which obviously can’t be done unless you upgrade your firmware!

Lame…