This afternoon a fellow co-worker and 360 Fanboy sent me a link to a engadget article. Seems that the PS3 fat is having some major issues. Sony released the following:

As you may be aware, some customers have been unable to connect to the PlayStation Network today. This problem affects the models other than the new slim PS3.

We believe we have identified that this problem is being caused by a bug in the clock functionality incorporated in the system.

Errors include:

* The date of the PS3 system may be re-set to Jan 1, 2000.
* When the user tries to sign in to the PlayStation Network, the following
message appears on the screen; “An error has occurred. You have been
signed out of PlayStation Network (8001050F)”.
* When the user tries to launch a game, the following error message appears
on the screen and the trophy data may disappear; “Failed to install
trophies. Please exit your game.”
* When the user tries to set the time and date of the system via the
Internet, the following message appears on the screen; “The current date
and time could not be obtained. (8001050F)”
* Users are not able to play back certain rental video downloaded from the
PlayStation Store before the expiration date.

We hope to resolve this problem within the next 24 hours. In the meantime, if you have a model other than the new slim PS3, we advise that you do not use your PS3 system, as doing so may result in errors in some functionality, such as recording obtained trophies, and not being able to restore certain data.

As mentioned above, please be advised that the new slim PS3 is not affected with this error. We are doing our best to resolve the issue and do apologize for any inconvenience caused.

For the latest status on this situation please continue to check either the PlayStation.Blog or PlayStation.com.

Lets hope they get this fixed up pretty quick and with out bricking any PS3’s.. I was really looking forward to getting some more Lego Indiana Jones 2 play in tonight.

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February 6, 2010 ]]> http://sociallysour.org/2010/02/26/1055/feed 0 http://sociallysour.org/2010/02/19/1050 http://sociallysour.org/2010/02/19/1050#comments Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:24:02 +0000 hurt http://sociallysour.org/?p=1050 Since yesterday I have been having a issue with my trusty old Treo 755p. It seems to think it is stuck in headphone mode so I can’t actually talk on the phone or hear anyone with out headphones plugged in. Looking around on the palm forums I came across a thread of lots of people with the same issue.

After trying all the ideas listed on the site…

I covered (really covered) the headphone jack in WD-40 and rammed it into the headphone jack a million times. Eventually it started working as normal again. So at first your don’t succeed ram it in there a few million more times!

Clean Install of Ubuntu 9.10

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January 1, 2010 ]]> http://sociallysour.org/2010/01/26/1046/feed 0 http://sociallysour.org/2010/01/19/1037 http://sociallysour.org/2010/01/19/1037#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:45:18 +0000 hurt http://sociallysour.org/?p=1037 I have always been a avid tea drinker from a very young age, as far back as I can remember I have had at least 1 tea a day. Not sure why my parents thought it was fine for me to drink tea at such a young age, but I don’t think it hurt me any in the end.

Tea in my home growing up was always Red Rose tea, and Tea at my Nanna’s was always Tetley. Out of the two I much prefer Red Rose tea. Being a fan of tea and drinking a lot of it, I have always wanted to try different kinds of tea. Loose leaf tea offers the best way to do this and for xmas I asked someone made this possible with a Teaopia Tea Master Starter set. Day one having the Teamaster I used it at least 5 times and tried all the different teas that it had come with.. Since then I have calmed down and during the week use it once a day and on weekends use it on avg twice a day. while trying the many teas I thought it would be interesting to track the teas I have tried and which once I liked. I am by no means a Tea Conosur, so this will be for my own record of which teas I should keep in stock and which ones to never get again.

I will start with the one I am drinking right now…

Creamy Nut Oolong

Creamy Nut Oolong as teaopia describes it:

This high grade Chinese Oolong contains apple pieces, caramel bits, almond pieces, safflower, sunflower, mallow flower and natural aromas. This delicious Oolong is a nut lover’s delight. The natural inherent nuttiness of the Chinese Oolong combined with the addition of almonds and caramel make this tea a must try. Great for multiple infusions, infuse the first cup for under one minute, and the second and third infusions at 1.5 minutes.

This is the first Oolong tea I have every had, but I have been having it the past two nights after dinner. It is not a very strong tea, but I do like a very small amount of milk it it. You can smell and taste the Almonds in it over everything. I would not want to drink this first thing in the morning, but as a afternoon or evening tea it’s very good.

Recommended brewing time from Teaopia for Oolong Teas is 4 min (They say a min in the above from the site), but I like to let this one sit for 5 to get a little more of the flavour from it.

Since both music directories on the servers contain the same music with the same file layout, I decided to write a quick little script to correct this and make playing music at home and work as simple as possible.

First I wanted to run my script on boot up of the system.

This use to be done with a bootmisc file located in /etc/… Not sure why this is gone in this day and age but I found a nice little howto and will break it down short for you.

as root:

touch /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh

chmod +x /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh

update-rc.d bootmisc.sh start 20 2 .

The above few lines will create a file called bootmisc.sh in /etc/init.d/ that you can put some handy bash commands in to run on startup. Good for more than just setting up mpd how you want auto magically.

Next we need to make our script to load mpd depending on our location


ifconfig | grep '172.16.10.'

Paste the above in your bootmisc.sh file we created and setup mpd to load the music from the default ubuntu ~/Music folder on your system.

To explain the above a little I will just say that it will check for you ip address, and depending on which ip address you have issue the mount command for the server it needs. Anyone that knows basic Bash should be able to figure out how to change this to what they need, but if you stumble across this and really need it to work and have no clue what needs to be done just leave a comment and I will try to explain this a little more.

I am loving the boot up and play my tunes from a remote server with no mounting or restarting of mpd! :)

SNES:

Super Return of the Jedi
Super Empire Strikes Back
Castlevaina Dracula X

N64:

Mace: The Dark Ages
Wipeout 64

Playstation:

Army Men Collectors Edition (Army Men: 3D, Army Men: Air Attack, In Army Men: Sarge’s Heroes).

Weekend Classic Game Haul

Work Inbox

Guess I should have not gone all weekend with out looking at my Work Inbox.