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  • Disabling Playstation2's Parental Level Control

    Came across my PS2’s parental level setting for the first time last night. A quick googling revealed the odiously complicated procedure of disabling it, as aquired by whimzywim straight from the horse’s mouth, the Sony tech support. I tidied it up and wrapped it in to a list to make it a bit easier to follow.

    1. Turn off your PS2.
    2. Turn it on and insert the DVD.
    3. When you are notified of the parental controls being set, choose Yes.
    4. It then asks you for your password; hit select. It should now say delete password.
    5. Enter password 7444.
    6. You are asked to create a new password; make it 0000 (and re-enter it when it asks for confirmation). It then should say registration complete and will continue to DVD menu.
    7. Start playing the movie.
    8. Once the movie begins playing press select.
    9. You should now have a bunch of icons on the screen; click on the stop icon.
    10. Bring up the icons again by pressing Select.
    11. The stop icon should be grey even though you are highlighting it. If it is still blue, press it again.
    12. Once the stop button is grey, even though you are highlighting it, click on the icon underneath the 7 – the one that looks like a briefcase and is called Setup.
    13. Hit the right directional button until you are at the custom setup screen.
    14. Hit the down directional button until you are on the parental control setting.
    15. Hit the right directional button.
    16. It should ask for your password; enter 0000.
    17. Press the down directional button until you are at Level.
    18. Press the right directional button.
    19. Press up on the directional button until you reach the desired level; off is at the very top.
    20. Click X.
    21. Go back to the original icon list and press play.
    22. Play the movie to make sure it plays. Do NOT turn off the PS2.
    23. Once the movie is playing, press the eject button, remove the DVD and close the tray.
    24. Once the tray is closed, turn off the PS2 by using the switch on the back of the console.
    25. Wait at least 5 seconds.
    26. Turn your PS2 back on and insert the DVD.
    27. The settings should now be saved and you should be able to play DVDs without the annoying parental controls.

  • Great Tasting Fruit

    L. Whittemore

  • Sony BMG releases an MP3

    “Record label Sony BMG Music Entertainment […] has become the first major record label to sell an unprotected digital song. Jessica Simpson’s A Public Affair went on sale this week at Yahoo Music, and unlike every digital song sold on competitors Apple iTunes, Napster and Rhapsody, it is compatible with all portable music players. The song is in the open [da-what?] MP3 format and can be transferred to an Apple iPod or players by Creative, Samsung and others.”

    USA Today via BlogsNow

  • Muistiinpano: Epson-tulostimeni malli ja mustekasettien koodit

    Epson-tulostimeni musta mustekasetti on ollut tyhjänä jo jonkin aikaa. Tämän tulostimen mukana ei tullut aiemman HP:n tulostimeni tavoin sellaista kätevästi lompakossa kulkevaa korttia, johon oli merkattu mustekasettien koodit. Tämän takia jouduin jo yhdellä aiemmalla, Palokan Euromarketiin suuntautuneella reissullani jättämään tarjouksessa olleet kasetit hyllyyn, kun en muistanut tulostimeni mallia, mustekasettien koodeista nyt puhumattakaan.

    Tulostimeni on siis Epson Stylus C42UX, ja se nielee T036-mallisia mustan musteen kasetteja ja T037-mallisia värikasetteja. Nämä ovat Epsonin C42-sarjan verkkosivun perusteella ilmeisesti kaikkien C42-alkuisten mallien kanssa yhteensopivia kasetteja. Pakkauksessakin luki ‘C42 Series’, jonka takia uskalsin tämän ottaa, vaikkei siinä C42UX:ää erikseen mainittukaan. Lisäksi pakkauksen takapuolelle merkattu kasetin tarkka malli oli T036140YT, ja se näkyy toimivan, joten vain tuo etupuolelle merkattu koodin alkupuoli, T036, on tässä tapauksessa merkityksellinen.

    Ostin kasettini Seppälän Prismasta, jossa se maksoi 21,90 euroa. Seppälän Citymarketissa, jossa myös kävin, ei ollut C42-sarjan Epsoneiden mustetta ollenkaan, vaikka muutamia muita Epsonin kasetteja olikin.

  • A Gamers’ Manifesto

    Pointlesswasteoftime.com via Atso

  • Croatian government adopts free software policy

    “The Croatian government has decided to […] move entirely to Open Source. [A government document] says that open source programmes make the government’s business more transparent and free access to information[, along with saving huge amounts of Croatian tax payers’ money].”

    The Inquirer via Juha

  • Quantum-Optical Technology

    “The density of information of this memory is 128MB/square millimeter having the thickness of the recording media(array) of 20microns. 3.2GB of non-volatile RAM are contained in one cubic millimeter. Also, this new Quantum–Optical technology allows to build up to 256GB in one package / or module up to 35TB.”

    Atom Chip Corporation via Juha

  • HOWTO: NTFS Write Support for Dapper Using ntfs-3g

    Ubuntu Forums via Lunapark6 via Juha

  • How to strip away <p> tags from the_excerpt

    “Easy question: when I use the_excerpt, it spits out the content enclosed in <p></p>. How do I makes those go away?”

    mbalara

    “Here is a plug in a friend made for me to do just that[.]”

    BPartch
    linkification added

  • Panographies: Panoramas on Steroids

    “Our pal Mareen does this neat thing she calls panography. Taking dozens of photos of a scene, she assembles a patchwork of images that more accurately represents what your eyes see when you’re not looking through a viewfinder.

    Call it super wide-angle panorama or call it panography, we think it’s awesome. Read on to learn how you can make one yourself!”

    Photojojo via BlogsNow