An update to my previous post about setting up your own web server and using DNS to get your PS3 on the PSN with the old firmware: it seems as if Sony has “fixed” this little loophole that made our PS3s once again functional sometime yesterday (2010-04-14).
No word yet on re-enabling this feature without upgrading to the latest firmware.
Sony, let me tell you something: this is one fight you cannot possibly win. You saw what happened with the PSP. People started releasing firmware hacks for it and after that, it was over. Removing a very useful feature, a feature that I’ve already paid for, is not a very wise move on your part. You’ve angered the same gods that brought down hellfire upon the PSP. Geohot has said not to upgrade because he is looking into a safe way of upgrading and not losing “Install Other OS.” Let’s hope that works out.
Just a note: the Facebook Chat data in my post regarding configuration settings for Pidgin and Facebook Chat can be used in any chat client that can connect to XMPP. You just may have to play around with your settings to see what goes where.
Facebook, earlier this week, released their new XMPP Facebook Chat which now allows any XMPP-enabled chat client to connect to Facebook chat. For whatever reason I thought this was already how things were done, but I guess not. I just set this up with Pidgin and figured I’d share the information.
Eclipse, for any Java developer, is a tool that is almost as essential for developing Java application as the Java docs itself. The compiler even. With its huge plug-in set and ability to do almost anything you want automatically, it is no surprise why you will probably find this IDE in where where Java is developed.
Then you start using it. One of my main complaints about Eclipse is that there is no way to export the color scheme in use without exporting with it other computer-specific settings. I don’t want to export which specific JRE location to use because it won’t be the same on a Mac and Windows. Nor do I want to export other settings, probably having to do with plugi-ns installed. And I especially don’t want another user’s recently used workspace locations. So what do you do?
So, I’m starting this much sooner than I would have anticipated but I suddenly got the urge to start.
Problem 1 is pretty straight forward:
If we list all the natural numbers below 10 that are multiples of 3 or 5, we get 3, 5, 6 and 9. The sum of these multiples is 23.
Find the sum of all the multiples of 3 or 5 below 1000.
About a year or so ago, I was told of this site, Project Euler. Unfortunately I didn’t get into it back then, but an email from a mailing list that I’m apart of re-sparked my interest in it. In case you haven’t heard of it before, here is the description of it from the site:
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I guess I’ve lagged on completing this blog entry series for long enough.
Indeed I was able to complete my application in the time frame I set out for. The application itself worked pretty well. I know I could have made it a lot better if I were actually able to get the application onto my iPhone during the development phase or have the simulator use the iTunes library as the basis for its library. I am now debating whether or not I want to put the application up on Apple’s App Store.
