Comment No (Score 3, Informative) 177
There are already NCAA football playoffs. Just not the FCS division, formerly known as Division I.
New PS3 Firmware Causing HDD Upgrade Problems? 82
Channard writes "While there have been occasional reports of previous PS3 firmware upgrades causing system crashes and so forth, Sony's new firmware upgrade for the system, 3.41, is apparently stopping PS3 owners from upgrading their hard disks. This problem has been encountered by many users on Sony's forums and occurs when you try to put a new hard disk into a PS3 that already has the firmware upgrade installed. The general course of action for upgrading a PS3's drive is that you download the latest PS3 firmware onto a memory stick and, after swapping the hard drive in the PS3, plug the stick in, allowing the PS3 to properly prepare the disk for use. But as of upgrade 3.41, the PS3 fails to recognize the firmware on the stick, complaining that it can't proceed until you insert the correct firmware. Repeating the process and re-downloading the firmware does not fix the problem, as I can confirm, having encountered the problem myself. Users can put the old hard disk back in, provided they've not reformatted it for some other purpose, so all is not lost. Sony have apparently told gaming website CVG that 'The information available to our Consumer Services Department does not suggest that this is a problem PlayStation owners are likely to experience when upgrading the HDD with 3.41 update.' This seems to fly in the face of the currently available information — although whether or not this statement was issued by Kevin Butler is unclear. Either way, PS3 owners encountering this problem will likely have to wait a few days for a fix and use their old HDDs for now."
Tom's Hardware On the Current Stable of Office Apps For Linux 121
tc6669 writes "Tom's Hardware is continuing its coverage of easy-to-install Linux applications for new users coming from Windows with the latest installment, Office Apps. This segment covers office suites, word processors, spreadsheet apps, presentation software, simple database titles, desktop publishing, project management, financial software, and more. All of these applications are available in the Ubuntu, Fedora, or openSUSE repos or as .deb or .rpm packages. All of the links to download these applications are provided — even Windows .exe and Mac OS X .dmg files when available."
Comment Re:Were it not for Apple, (Score 1) 277
we would still be using floppy disks and parallel ports. Even if you don't like their products, or don't recognize this as progress, I see no reason to be so snide about it.
And 1 button mice.
Ahhh, I can dream. The 5 buttons on my current mouse only serve confuse and slow my work progress.
Comment Re:Makes sense (Score 1) 250
If it was after his investigation and they were impressed with his work, I still see absolutely nothing wrong with it.
If you did work for a company and they were impressed and offered you a job with more pay after you were done would you not be interested?
The problem is the conjecture that it happened during the investigation. Yes, that would be something I would be opposed to.
If you did work for a company and they were impressed and offered you a job with more pay after you were done would you not be interested?
The problem is the conjecture that it happened during the investigation. Yes, that would be something I would be opposed to.
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