PlayStation 3 keeps restarting my router!

I'll keep this post brief.  The Linksys router keeps restarting when the PS3 attempts to log into PSN.  I couldn't get any updates going reliably.  The simple fix happens to be to go to the Network Settings on XMB and disable Media Connection.  The connection became stable right after.

Thoughts on Wii U

First thing I noticed is the constant updates that streamed into the machine.  It was annoying, but it seems to have tamed down.

The Wii U Gamepad was sweet but I couldn't step out of the room and keep the connection to the console.  Pitiful.

Nintendo seems to be in the spot where third party developers just don't care about the console.  Maybe they should instead do everything like them producing games like NBA Courtside, the canned project NFL Retro Football, 1080 Snowboarding and Wave Race.

Old Youtube Doesn't Work Anymore

I'll keep this brief.  Awhile back, I had issues with the Youtube android app as it always had the "An error occurred" error, making me downgrade back to 4.1.23.  Now, the old Youtube version doesn't work at all because it cannot seem to connect to the network.  So, I looked for a replacement and found TubeMate.  It works really well though beware of fake apps!  I have a new post regarding this issue, please look into that one!

Fun with EXCON

I took a bit of time to revisit a fun script I wrote some time back.  I felt it was time to improve on this and build a full parser and encoder using TCL.  Scripting is such a great way of manipulating and playing around with strings.  TCL is my natural choice at the moment.  So the final script I ended up is this.

This will accept a file path and attempt to read the contents.  It will print the output on stdout and can read a long list of EXCON instructions or encode ASCII text into EXCON.  One note on the parser code (which is just the old script).  It will always clear the binary buffer after every line.  The script also does not support the fancy ! instruction call to simply print out the binary value in the buffer by the previous command.

Open Source Radeon Drivers and Power Management

Just a quick note here.  I switched to the open source drivers for the multiple monitors but along with that, my battery life had been slashed by one half.  I used to get approximately 4 hours of life from the fglrx driver and now I have barely 2 hours.  Sad, but the big desktop is more important to me at the moment.

Error 207 (net::ERR_CERT_INVALID): Unknown error

Last night, I came across a curious issue with secure http connections to Google products on Chrome using my Vista laptop.  I could surf normally, but it would always go crazy when it'd go secure.  Researching online a bit for the issue, I've found that there are various causes for this.

The most common cause of this issue is the system date/time.  People advise to configure your date/time and timezone and sync it to time.windows.com.  I checked mine but it was already correct, so I kept looking.

Some of the other solutions being thrown around were clearing browser cache, playing with the SSL/TLS options on Google Chrome (via Under the Hood).  One serious suggestion was virus infections and a tampered hosts file (e.g. C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts), but I checked and there was nothing wrong with the file.

At the end of it, I found that Google, at one point, posted a note saying they fixed a browser bug, so I decided to update my browser.  Lo and behold, it fixed my issues.  But that doesn't mean it's the be all and all solution.

Done! Goodbye fglrx!

In short, I've given up on AMD's drivers.  I waited as long as I could but there is just no improvement.  The notes here details on how I got rid of the fglrx and switched to open source.

Basically, I followed the instructions from this article for removing.  I did not however perform the steps to reinstall the open source drivers from there.  I ran the software sources application and clicked on the open source drivers, applying the changes and letting it reinstall the packages.  Then, I deleted xorg.conf and rebooted.

Voila!  Multiple monitors are back!