http://www.robgroove.com Things I find funny or interesting Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:52:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.robgroove.com/robgrooves-playstation-3-junkie-blog/geohot-3-21oo/1158/ http://www.robgroove.com/robgrooves-playstation-3-junkie-blog/geohot-3-21oo/1158/#comments Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:00:18 +0000 Rob Groove http://www.robgroove.com/?p=1158
No more Proxy hack : ( Call me curious George, but whens this CFW coming out? A few PS3 owners who have not updated to 3.21 to keep the option of having Linux on their PS3's have been using a Proxy hack to get their 3.15 PS3's online (myself included) But it looks like Sony have pulled the plug on that and managed to cancel the Proxy hack from allowing PS3's running system firmware 3.15 and before from connecting to the internet. So while GeoHot (aka the iphone / PS3 hacker) sorts his taxes out, we have to wait a little longer for the G man to release the custom firmware. I get the feeling he's giving sony a chance to rectify the problem before releasing it to the masses. The War continues............]]> http://www.robgroove.com/robgrooves-playstation-3-junkie-blog/geohot-3-21oo/1158/feed/ 0 http://www.robgroove.com/robgrooves-playstation-3-junkie-blog/ps3-hacker-update/1061/ http://www.robgroove.com/robgrooves-playstation-3-junkie-blog/ps3-hacker-update/1061/#comments Sun, 04 Apr 2010 14:43:49 +0000 Rob Groove http://www.robgroove.com/?p=1061
Latest on GeoHot Recap... So..... On the 1st of April sony deployed the update 3.21 for PS3's which took away the ability to "install other OS" meaning if you update to 3.21 you can no longer install OS's like linux on your PS3 but if you do not update then you cant go online with your PS3 OS. Which means PS3 owners with the old Phat PS3 had to make a choice. Linux or PS3 on their PS3's.  GeoHot aka the iphone hacker responsable for sony making this update due to making the fact that he had hacked the PS3 public, has appollogized and claims to be working on a third party Fix CFW (Custom Firmware) for this situation caused by himself. GEOHOT George Hotz recently wrote on his blog..... A note to people interested in the exploit and retaining OtherOS support, DO NOT UPDATE. When 3.21 comes out, I will look into a safe way of updating to retain OtherOS support, perhaps something like Hellcat's Recovery Flasher. I never intended to touch CFW, but if that's how you want to play... Two things, some people seem to think CFW will enable some sort of piracy. It won't. It'll just be [...]]]> http://www.robgroove.com/robgrooves-playstation-3-junkie-blog/ps3-hacker-update/1061/feed/ 2 http://www.robgroove.com/robgrooves-playstation-3-junkie-blog/no-more-linux-on-ps3/1009/ http://www.robgroove.com/robgrooves-playstation-3-junkie-blog/no-more-linux-on-ps3/1009/#comments Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:00:59 +0000 Rob Groove http://www.robgroove.com/?p=1009
Firmware 3.21 Update Looks like your Playstation 3 has a new update coming it's way on Thursday 1st of April and no April fools jokes here. Thanks to the douche George Hotz who hacked the PS3 a little while back, Sony have retaliated by fixing the exploit he used.  Which means all old Phat PS3's that are able to install linux will no longer have that ability.  For those of you who choose to NOT install  the 3.21 PS3 System Firmware update to keep linux on your system will no longer be able to connect to the Playstation Network and play games online anymore. Yeah it sucks, even if you don't use that "install other OS on your system" feature its a nice little thing to have over the PS3 Slim, but it does make the PS3 system more secure. George Hotz recently apologised for this on his blog Note! If you use linux on your PS3 you have a partitioned hard drive right. Well you will need to back up all your linux files if you want to keep them as updating to the new PS3 Firmware will erase all your linux data saved on that partition. You can find Sony's [...]]]> http://www.robgroove.com/robgrooves-playstation-3-junkie-blog/no-more-linux-on-ps3/1009/feed/ 0 http://www.robgroove.com/robgrooves-playstation-3-junkie-blog/playstation-3-hacked/642/ http://www.robgroove.com/robgrooves-playstation-3-junkie-blog/playstation-3-hacked/642/#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:03:48 +0000 Rob Groove http://www.robgroove.com/?p=642
Playstation 3 Hacked! Thats right you read it right. News just in tells me the guy responsable for hacking the iPhone in 2007 at the age of 17 has now turned to the PS3 and he's done it. George Hotz (cambridge) wrote on his blog that he now has complete read/write access to the Playstation 3 allowing him to make it backwards compatible with PS2 games but he's still unsure on how to wield his new found power. It wasnt no easy hack. It took him "3 years, 2 months, 11 days...thats a pretty secure system"  He goes on to say he's not going to make some easy to use download tool so everyone can jump on the bandwagon. As far as i can see its still in the early stages of infancy and im  sure will be quite a while before we start seeing mod'd PS3's  all over the place. Is this the end? Does this mean PS3's can me moddified and we can get cheap games meaning you end up with every game that ever comes out but you dont play them as they have no real value and Great games dont get released as no one buys [...]]]> http://www.robgroove.com/robgrooves-playstation-3-junkie-blog/playstation-3-hacked/642/feed/ 1