Kernel 2.6.31 To Speed Up Linux Desktop

I was reading /. today and found this article about the next Linux Kernel performance; it makes me drool.

Dan Jones writes: "As the Linux community looks forward to another kernel release, the kernel hackers have been working on improving the memory management so that the X desktop responsiveness is doubled under high memory pressure. The result is an improved desktop experience. Benchmarks on memory-tight desktops show clock time and major faults reduced by 50 per cent, and pswpin numbers (memory reads from disk) are reduced to about one-third. Another improvement coming with 2.6.31 is kernel mode-setting support for ATI Radeon graphics cards, enabling faster user switching and a more seamless startup experience. Peripheral developments that will also improve the Linux desktop experience include support for the new USB 3.0 specification and a new Firewire stack. Even minor Linux releases have heaps of new features these days!"
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BluRay games running VIA HDD (POC)

StreetskaterFU has found a method to run BluRay games from the PS3 HDD. Now before everyone gets excited and yells "ISO LOADER", this method only works with older gamers (with older update codes). The games currently confirmed to be working this method are Warhawk, MotorStorm, RFOM, GT5, COD3. (The legitimacy of this has been confirmed by Mathieulh



There are two methods to do this, the legal and non legal way. The legal way requires (The legal way requiring the original disc, the non legal requires the game dump and any PS3 bluray game but two same size HDD's).

The video below demonstrates the non-PKG version of Warhawk being ran with Motostorm being "the proxy disc".
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Source: PS3hacks

Nothing new but too funny not to be posted.

Probably Funniest Microsoft Video Yet.Enjoy:





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NAND Extractor updated, PS3 game backups successfully run?

Half of the world may have stopped spinning when word spread of the apparent successful runs of PlayStation 3 backups - those ripped straight to the Sony PS3's own hard drive and an external USB HDD. And close on its heels is the news that PS3 coder Mainman has also moved in unison with the recent exploits on Sony's console and updated his PS3 NAND Extractor/UnPacker to version 0.4.

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PlayStation 3: Game disc EBOOT.BIN decrypted

As some recent events indicate, the community is beginning to make headway in cracking open Sony's PlayStation 3 console. The PS3News site's dev has announced that they have successfully decrypted ELF file from a PS3 game disc.

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Team ICE releases ELF2SELF tool, Hello World PS3 underway?

It seems Team ICE is hot on trying to find any possible Sony PlayStation 3 exploits and the team already has several tricks up its sleeves. According to QJ.NET forums user snap006, the team agreed to release the ELF2SELF tool that it uses to run ELF files on the Sony PS3.ELF2SELF is an exploit that utilizes Resistance: Fall of Man and Motorstorm to run ELF files.
As snap006 explained, "The tool allows us to run ELF files via RFOM/MS exploit on the PS3 which can potentially lead to the first 'Hello World' on the PS3 if our cards are played right."Not long after Team ICE made the .TIFF exploit public, the group released yet another Sony PS3 hacking tool. Does this mean we can expect the first "Hello World" on Sony's console faster than most would expect? We're sure to keep tabs on this, so watch this space for updates!

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New TIFF exploit discovered for Sony PS3

Recently Team ICE discovered that they could crash a Sony PlayStation 3 using a well-crafted .TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) file loaded in the Sony PS3's XMB. And the team has released that same .TIFF to the public yesterday, targeted at Sony next-generation consoles running on firmware version 2.10, regardless if it's PAL or NTSC native.
Similar to past revelations, this .TIFF exploit does cause an overflow, only this one wrought havoc on the Sony PlayStation 3's heap data area. Some have also noted that the file released contains the words "Tavis Ormandy" in hex code - a misspelling of Travis Ormandy, a member of Google's Security Team, we speculate - which somehow links this to the .TIFF jailbreaking of the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch, though coincidental.Team ICE calls it a heap overflow and will permit other aspirant hackers on injecting simple code if they know the backend number and what calls to make.
However, they didn't attempt to test the full potential of the .TIFF exploit because they lack the resources to do so.But the team made it clear that PlayStation ISOs cannot be played with this exploit - at least not yet. They say that hackers might need Sony's PlayStation 3 Software Development Kit (SDK) to expand upon this latest exploit and see how far they can push with homebrew development.

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