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gamer4Life writes:
According to Yahoo!, the United States has created their list of banned products from being exported to North Korea. This list includes iPods, plasma televisions and Segway electric scooters.
U.S. intelligence officials who helped produce the Bush administration's list said Kim prefers Mercedes, BMW and Cadillac cars; Japanese and Harley Davidson motorcycles; Hennessy XO cognac from France and Johnny Walker Scotch whisky; Sony cameras and Japanese air conditioners.
According to the article, it would seem that he's ignoring his doctor's advice:
Kim is reportedly under his physician's orders to avoid hard liquor and prefers French wines.
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gamer4Life writes:
LinuxWorld reports that the web host Shimpinomori is holding a challenge for everyone to hack into their web site hosted by a Sony PlayStation 3. According to the web site, the hack must be "clean" (no DDOS attacks). The operator of the site, Augustin Vidovic, expects the PS3 to be "much harder to crack" because it uses the Cell processor which protects against buffer overflows. The first person to do the job wins the PS3 which includes a 160 GB hard drive, Fedora Core 5, and Resistance Fall of Man.
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gamer4Life writes:
CBC reports that Second Life has been taken offline by attackers using a method known as a "Grey goo attack — inserting self-replicating objects whose rate of growth forces the system's computers to spend most of their time creating the items. The attack leaves little to no processing power to handle normal operations, such as drawing people's characters and updating their movements through the three-dimensional world.
According to the official Second Life blog, log-ins will be closed to all except Linden staff while they finish cleaning up the aftermath of the grey goo attack.
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anonymous writes:
Daily Tech reports that the PS3 will allow their owners to upgrade their hard drive. From the article:
Sony is making things a bit easier for gamers with its PlayStation 3. Sony encourages its customers to upgrade their hard drives and even gives them instructions on how to do so in the PS3 user manual. The HDD used in the PS3 is a standard 2.5" SATA unit, so just about any drive should work should you crave more storage space.
Seems like good design decision on Sony's part. With the ability to run Yellow Dog Linux, the PS3 really seems a lot like a PC. Perhaps we can write it off as a business expense?
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gamer4Life writes:
Terra Soft Solutions says it will be shipping a version of its Yellow Dog Linux (YDL) distribution for the Sony Playstation 3. The first release will be based off the Linux 2.6.16 kernel, and key components include gcc 3.4.4 and glibc 2.4, Cell SDK 1.1, OpenOffice.org 2.0.2, FireFox 1.5.0 and Thunderbird 1.5.0. According to LinuxDevices.com, the PS3 is also expected to be available with various Linux-based productivity packs that will allow for special applications such as digital video editing.
