Big news soon; let’s see if this hype-thing works
Yes, really great stuff coming up…
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Selling a PSP on eBay is a copyright violation
Note to myself: Selling your old Sony PSP and writing that Firmware 1.50 is installed makes eBay delete your auction with “MC047 eBay Listing Violation: Copyright Violation – Unauthorized Item” reasoning the auction was selling “illegal copies/backups” or advertised to do so.
At least they keep auctions where people advertise their PSP having “the super duper” M33 firmware installed…
Bah! Well, what’s left for me is a shameless plug to the new auction…
Update 28/05/09: Unbelievable, the new auction which I carefully checked to not contain any freaking reference to anything copyright violating has also been removed… Also no clue why as I only received the typical standard “don’t sell illegal copies/backups” E-Mail. Contacted eBay support, let’s see…
It appears though that I am not alone. There are a couple of people having trouble selling their PSP on eBay. However in contrast to my case where I list the original unmodified 1.50 firmware, they had used rather problematic “wording” like “Pandora Battery” or “Custom Firmware/M33″ and alike.
Reply and solution 28/05/09: Great, I have received a polite and exact explaination from the eBay security team. The problem for eBay really was the installed 1.50 firmware on my PSP which is considered “open/hackable to circumvent technical protections” (like copy protection). They recommend installing the latest PSP firmware before selling first.
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iTunes sync with Linux on unjailbroken 2.0+ iPhones/iPods?
Hey, it appears as those superbrain folks on the libiphone mailing list are onto something regarding the new hashing algorithm used in Apple’s 2.0+ firmware.
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openSUSE 11 RC1, commit spree, GFax 0.7.7 and some crap
openSUSE 11 RC1 is out. Grab while hot.
A word about the man with 500 commits on a single day. I pray that our gnome-terminal loving fellows will worship chpe.
George Farris announced a beta of GFax 0.7.7 which includes a couple of my patches and supports faxing from any application using cups.
Cool, someone analyzed Terrorist tapes for a hidden message code…
I am almost done with my work project and should have some time to spare for everything else pretty soon.
Last insider for the day:
What does the GNOME control center gstreamer-properties icon tell his other icon friends? “You are so Tango and they just don’t let me!”
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Wii Remote’s endless abuses: Low-Cost Multi-touch Whiteboard
Johnny Chung Lee from the Carnegie Mellon University demonstrates how to create a low-cost multi-touch capable whiteboard using a Wiimote, a pen with infrared LEDs, a projector and your average laptop.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s5EvhHy7eQ[/youtube]
Really nice! I can imagine that you could even project from below a surface instead, effectively getting rid of the “shadows”.
Additionally Petter Hutterer, the man behind the Multi-Pointer X Server project, has recently released an initial version of a Wiimote X input driver (patches are welcome). It will allow you to use the Wiimote as a full blown X input device and controlling your mouse. Might be cool to apply Johnny’s whiteboard idea here.
Looks like I have to go hunting for some nice projector and loads of free time soon…
Update: Oh heck, how could I forget “lasertraq” a cool solution for Linux which works with a regular webcam/camera instead of the Wiimote but basically allows you to do the same stuff. Heck it even uses the superdupe GStreamer framework!
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