Comments for Link o Blog http://www.linkovitch.me.uk/blog A life in a world without boxes Wed, 16 May 2012 08:37:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on ARGH bloody RISC bugs! by LinkoVitch http://www.linkovitch.me.uk/blog/?p=914&cpage=1#comment-79470 LinkoVitch Wed, 16 May 2012 08:37:00 +0000 http://www.linkovitch.me.uk/blog/?p=914#comment-79470 Thanks but I am pretty sure I know the issue, hence why I posted the article about it. It's not a particular piece of code that is an issue, as explained in the article. Thanks but I am pretty sure I know the issue, hence why I posted the article about it. It’s not a particular piece of code that is an issue, as explained in the article.

]]> Comment on ARGH bloody RISC bugs! by Gorf http://www.linkovitch.me.uk/blog/?p=914&cpage=1#comment-79457 Gorf Tue, 15 May 2012 21:07:32 +0000 http://www.linkovitch.me.uk/blog/?p=914#comment-79457 IT would be most helpful if you posted the code you are talking about. Perhaps then I might be able to figure out why you may be having this issue. IT would be most helpful if you posted the code you are talking about.
Perhaps then I might be able to figure out why you may be having this issue.

]]> Comment on Timings by LinkoVitch http://www.linkovitch.me.uk/blog/?p=871&cpage=1#comment-65901 LinkoVitch Thu, 09 Jun 2011 19:37:44 +0000 http://www.linkovitch.me.uk/blog/?p=871#comment-65901 I tried taking pictures to add to the post, but due to their nature they didn't really come out to well :D I tried taking pictures to add to the post, but due to their nature they didn’t really come out to well :D

]]> Comment on Repairing XFS root file system online by LinkoVitch http://www.linkovitch.me.uk/blog/?p=695&cpage=1#comment-64872 LinkoVitch Thu, 26 May 2011 13:57:26 +0000 http://www.linkovitch.me.uk/blog/?p=695#comment-64872 Because when the system reboots it wouldn't be mounting the repaired disk image, but the corrupt disk. Which would also lose you any file changes you had made to your newly fixed root image. Because when the system reboots it wouldn’t be mounting the repaired disk image, but the corrupt disk. Which would also lose you any file changes you had made to your newly fixed root image.

]]> Comment on Repairing XFS root file system online by Robert http://www.linkovitch.me.uk/blog/?p=695&cpage=1#comment-64867 Robert Thu, 26 May 2011 12:52:00 +0000 http://www.linkovitch.me.uk/blog/?p=695#comment-64867 Hi, thank you so much for sharing your personal experience. Why, instead of dd-ing back the image, don't you have mounted it directly? I've read that you can mount disk image files using the loop device. Just as curiosity Thank you for any reply Robert Hi,
thank you so much for sharing your personal experience.

Why, instead of dd-ing back the image, don’t you have mounted it directly?

I’ve read that you can mount disk image files using the loop device.

Just as curiosity

Thank you for any reply

Robert

]]> Comment on Ps3 jailbreaking by LinkoVitch http://www.linkovitch.me.uk/blog/?p=822&cpage=1#comment-50931 LinkoVitch Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:34:03 +0000 http://www.linkovitch.me.uk/blog/?p=822#comment-50931 Like most software and things these days. Once you got the unit home if you read the agreement and didn't agree, you are within your consumer rights to return the unit and get a refund. Also if you plan to use PSN service, you are presented with the agreement before you can use that, so once again if you don't agree with it you don't use the service. If you just blindly accepted it, you can't really complain about them doing things that the agreement allows them to do. Like most software and things these days. Once you got the unit home if you read the agreement and didn’t agree, you are within your consumer rights to return the unit and get a refund.

Also if you plan to use PSN service, you are presented with the agreement before you can use that, so once again if you don’t agree with it you don’t use the service.

If you just blindly accepted it, you can’t really complain about them doing things that the agreement allows them to do.

]]> Comment on Ps3 jailbreaking by LinkoVitch http://www.linkovitch.me.uk/blog/?p=822&cpage=1#comment-50930 LinkoVitch Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:32:26 +0000 http://www.linkovitch.me.uk/blog/?p=822#comment-50930 I would say it was more akin to if the car company after shifting several hundred thousand units disabled a feature that only say 0.1% of the user based had used. I would rather they spent their development money improving the console rather than them faffing around so some 'wanna be' hackers can say "look I am running Linux on my PS3". I never saw the point of it at all, why buy what is essentially a very expensive computer with a blu-ray player designed for a specific purpose and then run an OS on it, when you could buy a much cheaper computer and run the same OS on that with much better results!? I bought a PS3 for Blu-Rays and PVR primarily, and as a secondary games. If they turned any of those features off that would be more like disabling the stereo in a car, instead of protecting their revenue stream from un-licensed software and piracy. I would say it was more akin to if the car company after shifting several hundred thousand units disabled a feature that only say 0.1% of the user based had used. I would rather they spent their development money improving the console rather than them faffing around so some ‘wanna be’ hackers can say “look I am running Linux on my PS3″.

I never saw the point of it at all, why buy what is essentially a very expensive computer with a blu-ray player designed for a specific purpose and then run an OS on it, when you could buy a much cheaper computer and run the same OS on that with much better results!?

I bought a PS3 for Blu-Rays and PVR primarily, and as a secondary games. If they turned any of those features off that would be more like disabling the stereo in a car, instead of protecting their revenue stream from un-licensed software and piracy.

]]> Comment on Ps3 jailbreaking by Jason http://www.linkovitch.me.uk/blog/?p=822&cpage=1#comment-50927 Jason Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:16:45 +0000 http://www.linkovitch.me.uk/blog/?p=822#comment-50927 Would that be the license "agreement" that is not visible to view until AFTER you have purchased the console? As it's not provided prior to purchase it is not reasonable to claim that any restrictive terms in it which were not made clear prior to supply are actually part of any agreement. Would that be the license “agreement” that is not visible to view until AFTER you have purchased the console?

As it’s not provided prior to purchase it is not reasonable to claim that any restrictive terms in it which were not made clear prior to supply are actually part of any agreement.

]]> Comment on Ps3 jailbreaking by Kyle Gordon http://www.linkovitch.me.uk/blog/?p=822&cpage=1#comment-50827 Kyle Gordon Sat, 11 Sep 2010 22:26:09 +0000 http://www.linkovitch.me.uk/blog/?p=822#comment-50827 It's understandable that they're trying to patch it quickly, and yes people should realise that they entered into a contract when opening it up. Many didn't expect them to rip out OtherOS completely in response to the initial hack though. Imagine $car_company remotely disabled the hifi unit on all their cars if they discovered there's a hole in the bluetooth pairing that allows copied CDs to play, or something equally knee-jerk-ish. What if MS were to disable all movie playback on PCs when someone breaks the HDCP system? Where is the boundary between "I paid for this technology" and "I am renting a technology"? It’s understandable that they’re trying to patch it quickly, and yes people should realise that they entered into a contract when opening it up. Many didn’t expect them to rip out OtherOS completely in response to the initial hack though.

Imagine $car_company remotely disabled the hifi unit on all their cars if they discovered there’s a hole in the bluetooth pairing that allows copied CDs to play, or something equally knee-jerk-ish.

What if MS were to disable all movie playback on PCs when someone breaks the HDCP system? Where is the boundary between “I paid for this technology” and “I am renting a technology”?

]]> Comment on It all comes back by Thecko http://www.linkovitch.me.uk/blog/?p=809&cpage=1#comment-47876 Thecko Sat, 22 May 2010 08:55:50 +0000 http://www.linkovitch.me.uk/blog/?p=809#comment-47876 You can do much cleverer and scarier things with polymorphism of course, but the stuff I did outlined above was all directly out of the polymorphism section of my QUE C++ book :) You can do much cleverer and scarier things with polymorphism of course, but the stuff I did outlined above was all directly out of the polymorphism section of my QUE C++ book :)

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