* Posts by DanJB

6 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jan 2011

Here's your Linux-booting PS4, says fail0verflow

DanJB

Re: Typo?

Didn't realise Fail0verflow had been around that long, quite an impressive group all in all.

Edit:- Although it looks like the article has been updated now

DanJB

Re: loss leader...

My first guess would be that whatever virtualisation system they used (Might have to be custom built for the architecture?) Would open them up to any number of exploits that could then be used to run code outside of that game sandbox. A lot of video game system exploits begin with a badly coded game being used to run arbitrary code. Giving people a space where they can run their own code straight from a console in a Linux "game" would likely not end well...

DanJB

Typo?

"There's a long way to go before it becomes an “anyone can do this” hack, but games console tinkerers fail0verflow have replicated their PlayStation 2 work, getting Linux to run on Sony's PlayStation 4."

Shouldn't that be Playstation 3 in the first sentence? Or did they work on breaking into the PS2 way back when as well?

WIN a 6TB Western Digital Black hard drive with El Reg

DanJB

WiFi

"Forty days and Forty nights in the desert and still no WiFi! Now that's a fast"

Apple App Store apps are often old, vulnerable versions

DanJB
Stop

Not the iOS store!

I believe the author was talking about the Mac App Store, where users can download programs for their Mac OSX devices. Mainly because the only version of opera on iOS is Opera Mini. Here is the link to the current version of opera discussed in the article, http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/opera/id404764921?mt=12 and for comparison here is the Kindle page, http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kindle/id405399194?mt=12, which lists the date of release as the 7th of Jan.

Apple posts dev-only iOS 4.3

DanJB

FaceTime for all except for the original user???

So basically if other iPhone4 users connect to another iPhone4 via wifi sharing they will be able to use facetime over 3g? Yes it uses 2 iPhone4's but hey it's FaceTime over 3g what more could you ask for...