In reply to the “end” of flashed consoles on live, commodore4eva has released iXtreme firmware 1.0 for Samsung drives, and a Hitachi version is in the works.
Since my 360 isn’t yet banned, I think I’ll try flashing my 360 to this firmware to ensure it never gets that way. I’ll give an update when I’m completed.
I accidentally dropped my PSP about 1 foot to a hard floor, and was surprised to find out that it shut off when it hit. That got me thinking, I really don’t have any protection for the PSP. So, I bought a new Logitech Playgear Pocket Case for Sony PSP on eBay for $11 shipped. I always figured Logitech was an electronic accessories company, but this item is no more than a piece of plastic, I wonder why Logitech makes it. I received the package still wrapped, so I know it was new.
I was pretty impressed when I first put the PSP in, it fit really nicely. My first turn off was that it makes the PSP about 1.3-1.4x the depth of its original size. The top side of the case can double as a sun/light guard, or a glare blocker. This is nice in theory, but if you hold the PSP vertical, it falls out of the case. It seems like there should be a mechanism that holds the PSP in place if the case was really intended to double as a light guard.
There’s a latch on the front of the unit that needs to be pushed to open it. However, the latch is on the bottom side, so to open the case you need to push in with one hand and pull up with another. I have no idea what they were thinking when they made that, but it’s a really poor design. More on the latch, sometimes when you try to close the case the latches don’t line up, so you have to reopen it and try it again.
If the case is closed, you can still access some (not all) of the inputs, and the charging port. You still have access to the L and R buttons with the PSP in the opened case, but you have to hold the PSP differently than without the case. It’s workable, but just an annoyance.
Conclusion: This is a cheap and durable case for the PSP. It has plenty of qwerks and annoyances, but if it’s only a place to store the PSP, it makes a nice better-than-nothing protective case for the Playstation Portable.
Overall: 6.0/10
Adapted from a Berkeley Guide, if you want to be able to SSH from unix or linux boxes (e.g. FreeBSD) without having to repeatedly put in the password, this guide will show you how to do that.
First step, on the client do the following:
mkdir -p ~/.ssh
chmod 700 ~/.ssh
ssh-keygen -t rsa
Have it use the default location (~/.ssh/id_rsa), and make sure there is no passkey. This creates a file containing the public key (id_rsa) and a file containing the private key (id_rsa.pub).
There should be one line of text in id_rsa.pub. Copy it to the server, putting it in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2. Then execute this command:
chmod 600 authorized_keys2
That’s it! Now connection from the client to the server with this command
ssh server
If that doesn’t work (i.e. it prompts for your password), you may have to try a few things. On one box that I tried, it worked as above. On another, I had to do the following.
ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa server
If that works, add or create the file and insert these two lines to ~/.ssh/config
Host server
{tab}IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
If you SSH as much as I do, this can save lots of time.
Congratulations yesterday to my wife who has tolerated me for a full year. We went out to a fancy fondue restaurant in downtown Portland called “The Melting Pot”. Expensive, but worth every penny. Pics.
