Three Wise Men

A Sony figure called Eric Lampel announced on the 22nd April 2010 that new mandatory PlayStation 3 firmware system update is available for all interested users on PSN.

Sony continues with surprises. I will fire up my PS3 and update to the latest and the greatest system update. User agreement v1.4 – nothing new about that, accepting and checking turn off the system auto-magically after the update, and waiting … Must say that Sony could do a little more for us technical geeks. For example while we wait for download to complete we could browse through a list of new features, bug-fixes, possible new bugs, commercial about how movie downloading is the same as stealing.

Anyway since Sony doesn’t have this information available for us, Eric has a job that requires from him to pass some of this information to us. You know the tech geeks. And this is what Eric reported:

“Hi everyone, in our continued effort to provide the best, most comprehensive entertainment experience possible, we’ll be adding a few new features to PlayStation 3 (PS3) via the latest system software update, which is a mandatory update and will be available shortly.

Most notably, you’ll see some new sorting options within Trophies that make it easier to claim bragging rights among your friends on PlayStation Network.

• Trophy enhancements – Now you can more easily sort trophies in the [Trophy Collection] and [Comparing Trophy] sections. Sorting can be done with [Trophy Collection] in the [Game Category] and also when comparing trophies with your friends in the [Friend Category]

• Trophy Folder (Title List) can be sorted by game name/ by title according to the date in which you earned your last trophy (ascending/descending)

• Add-on list (Group list) can be sorted by original/the date in which you earned your last trophy (ascending/descending)

• Trophy list can be sorted by original/trophy name/grade/date of obtaining the trophy (ascending/descending)

In addition, this update preps the PS3 system for some upcoming new features, including 3D stereoscopic gaming, which is coming soon to PS3, in time for the launch of Sony’s 3D BRAVIA TVs.”

Update and you will have the capability to sort your trophies. I will never understand why is sorting called a mandatory feature.

The importance of backups? It actually differs from case to case, but it seems that in the end 95% of the people do not know how important backups are until their hard drive dies and their data is gone. In the past ten days I had three people complaining about losing their data. Two hard drive failures and one accidental Shift-Delete & Click Yes without reading the warning message. Backing up on Linux is a pain if you are not at least demigod of Linux administration. Linux really lacks a simple backup solution for regular users.

Read on if you want to know more on how to perform simple backup in Linux, what backups are and how to handle them.

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New major release of WordPress is coming our way. Current release is marked as WordPress 3.0 beta1. We will take a look at what is new and if the new is good or bad. And we will provide screen shots in our quick preview, we promise.

Upgrading WordPress is always something that we don’t take so lightly. A typical website based on WordPress, it could be a blog or not, will have a lot of plugins installed, some widgets and a more or less customized theme, sometimes perhaps even a custom made theme. Upgrading a minor version is a minor pain which means that upgrading a major version will be a major pain. That is why we did this just for you. So that our site will be broken first and you can see where we went wrong. Read on if you want to see how we handled the upgrade.

Less than a week ago another geek event was happening in Ljubljana. This time it was a MobileCamp – a barcamp kind of an event, with ad-hoc talks, lectures and debates. Big emphasis was on mobile technologies, everything from content providing to hardware hacking. If you were able to carry it around then it was mobile, whatever it was. We were there, we recorded some footage, made few interviews and wrapped it up in a movie …

We hope that this short movie will show to everyone how cool these kind of events are and that there is much to learn from other people. Camps are also a great way to hang out and meet a lot of new, interesting people.