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Article: How to run Linux on a Sony Playstation-3

Submitted by d1taylor on Wednesday March 14 2007, @10:23AM

d1taylor writes "More than just a detailed and illustrated tutorial on how to download and install Yellowdog Linux on a Sony Playstation 3, this extensive article also explores how it works and where it might just be a cool replacement to WebTV and other lightweight Internet access devices. It's fun, educational, and sure to stir up some controversy with its included criticism of the state of Linux distributions too. Check it out: http://www.askdavetaylor.com/yellow_dog_linux_on_s ony_playstation3.html"

MIT to offer entire course cataloug online FREE.

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certain death

on Wednesday March 14 2007, @10:15AM

certain death writes "Coming from CNN via Reuters,

BOSTON, Massachusetts (Reuters) — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology will become by year's end the first U.S. university to offer all of its roughly 1,800 courses free on the Internet, a school official said on Friday.

"We started this project because MIT believes that one of the best ways to advance education around the world is through the Internet," said Anne Margulies, head of online curriculum.

Online students will not be able to earn an MIT degree or have contact with faculty at the university, located across the river from Boston in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

MIT launched its "OpenCourseWare" program in 2003 and already offers hundreds of courses online. A small number of other U.S. schools are following suit. Stanford put some classes on line last year and Bryn Mawr plans to do so soon.

Last month, 1.5 million users went to the MIT course site, sampling offerings like Cognitive Robotics, Inventions and Patents, and Superconducting Magnets.

Most users — 60 percent come from outside the United States — gravitate toward the subjects MIT is best-known for: computer science, physics and mathematics, Margulies said.

Even MIT students who pay thousands of dollars in tuition fees for each course use the free online service to study for exams or sample what courses they may want to take on campus, Margulies said.

I am not sure about everyone on /. but this is an awesome opportunity to take some great classes for free, though the credit does not apply toward a degree, it gives all us Uber geeks who wish they had been able to have some of the professors at MIT in our lesser universities. Computer Science is currently online, as are some other very nice stuff."

Comment: Re:Broadcom cards? (Score 1) 129

by nickyx on Wednesday March 07 2007, @05:24AM (#18260104) Attached to: A Network Sniffer On Steroids

Just check what card it is before you buy, and don't buy any that don't have Open Source, native Linux support. It's what I do. Cisco, Orinoco, the new Intel IPW drivers. If you buy something that doesn't work, don't cry when it doesn't work.

Yeah cos companies never change the chipset of a card without changing the model number.....