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ggrobot
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 Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 6:56 pm Post subject: Sony Working Around the Clock To Restore PSN [30851] |
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Sony officials continue to work around the clock to bring the downed Playstation Network back online after an \'external intrusion\' forced the company to take the system down.
ed, and we are working around the clock to bring them both back online. Our efforts to resolve this matter involve re-building our system to
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Santiago Matamoros
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They ought to restore what they've taken from their customers, namely OtherOS.
"It only does everything . . . except for those many things it did when you bought it."
Unscrupulous. |
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miglaugh
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All apologies sir if you were doing CBE research for a dev project or something, but I get pissed off when people keep bringing up the OtherOS feature as if it was in any way useful to 95% of PS3 owners.
OtherOS was useless for pretty much anything you would want to do with something hooked up to an HDTV.
I installed yellow dog linux when that option was first made available, and thought it was cool to see the linux boot process on my HDTV, but soon after that I realized the futility of it's purpose. Loading youtube in a browser was laggy and would stutter, if it wouldn't crash the browser. You couldn't access Hulu or anything for a similar reason.
The plain truth is that with the RAM restriction of the system and the locked down nature of the hypervisor with regard to the GPU, the PS3 was a shitty desktop linux system.
Please stop complaining about OtherOS like it was the best thing since sliced bread (to use a terrible cliche, lol). |
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Tom
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| Ya for the idiots who can't maximize and fully utilize anything, oh well. |
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Santiago Matamoros
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| miglaugh wrote: | All apologies sir if you were doing CBE research for a dev project or something, but I get pissed off when people keep bringing up the OtherOS feature as if it was in any way useful to 95% of PS3 owners.
OtherOS was useless for pretty much anything you would want to do with something hooked up to an HDTV.
I installed yellow dog linux when that option was first made available, and thought it was cool to see the linux boot process on my HDTV, but soon after that I realized the futility of it's purpose. Loading youtube in a browser was laggy and would stutter, if it wouldn't crash the browser. You couldn't access Hulu or anything for a similar reason.
The plain truth is that with the RAM restriction of the system and the locked down nature of the hypervisor with regard to the GPU, the PS3 was a shitty desktop linux system.
Please stop complaining about OtherOS like it was the best thing since sliced bread (to use a terrible cliche, lol). |
Mig, why are you shilling for Sony? Do you like having product features disabled after you've paid for them? Why do you have so little respect for yourself? For others?
It's a fact that Sony removed a significant feature from machines they had sold already to millions of customers. Just because you couldn't manage a decent computing experience in OtherOS doesn't mean that you have the right to criticize others who dislike having taken away that for which they paid. |
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Baconnaise
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| Santiago and Mig are both right and there's not much point to arguing about it further. Yea it's an asshole move to remove a key product feature or selling point no matter if you used it or not. The other hand the people that actually use it is fairly small. |
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Csimbi
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I guess for some, it is too much to ask to run an OS of your choice on a piece of hardware you like. That's sad.
It is interesting that other vendors can live with it but Sony can't...
Never liked Sony, never bought Sony, but I am sure as hell I am not going to buy Sony based on what I am hearing (it is a negative advertisement)... |
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