Nintendo teams up with Opera

[Lead Head]

Nintendo teams up with opera in an agreement to release a web browser for the DS.

http://opera.com/pressreleases/en/2006/02/15/

Thats pretty cool should be interesting with 2 screens too.


(I wasnt sure where to post this so move if needed)

[Refalm]

You moderator should know better to post this kind of threads in applications.

But anyways, this is great news off course. And no one can do this better than Opera.
You couldn't browse the internet with Firefox or Internet Explorer on the DS without having to deal with horizontal bars, but Opera fixes this quite nicely!

Try Shift+F11 in Opera for mobile screen and Ctrl+F11 to remove horizontal bars.

[adiment]

I'm sure the 4 people who own the DS will be happy.

[Lead Head]

Try the over 12 million people that do :thumbup:

[piratePenguin]

Someone needs to make an X server for the DS.

EDIT: Maybe with DSLinux.

Firefox, GAIM, etc. running on the PC, displaying output to the DS. That would rock.

[Lead Head]

After all as far as I know, the DS has no software limitation unlike the PSP

[Jack2000]

I wonder if I can link my Desktop Pc
to my brother's DS ... you know like a mobile
Monitor

[piratePenguin]

I wonder if I can link my Desktop Pc
to my brother's DS ... you know like a mobile
Monitor

You could if you could run an X server on the DS (but you'd be using X, not Windows). The DSLinux guys will probably do it. Once they have an X server and the wireless connectivity (drivers), that's it. I'm not sure of how much progress has been made by them though.

X rocks.

[Jack2000]

I think Nintendo and Nvidia are
almost the only "MEGA" giants that have not
yet disappointed me

[worker201]

I think Nintendo and Nvidia are
almost the only "MEGA" giants that have not
yet disappointed me

Although Nvidia has proprietary drivers for its graphics cards, and they contributed the GPU to the original XBox, which housed the hidden BIOS.  Meaning that they aren't as Linux friendly as they should be, because they are way too Microsoft friendly.

But fuck, it's just a graphics card.

[H_TeXMeX_H]

Hidden BIOS ? What for ?

[worker201]

The original XBox was an abortion of trusted computing and DRM.  Supposedly in order to maintain a level playing field for XBox-Live (but really just because they're assholes), Microsoft used the concept of security-thru-obscurity.  The normal BIOS was in a flash chip, just like you might expect.  But when you dike out this chip to hack the XBox, a secondary BIOS kicks in, making your hack completely worthless.  In fact, it turns out that the original Flash BIOS was a decoy, designed to trick you.  After months of research and investigation, an MIT electrical engineer figured out where the real BIOS was.  It was hidden inside the NVidia GPU.  Once he figured out what board tracings the BIOS used, hacking the XBox became a trivial matter of soldering.

Microsoft was pretty upset about this, and so they released a new XBox, the so-called second gen.  Thanks to help from hardware hackers around the world, the second gen was cracked in 3 days.

There's actually a book that explains the whole story, written by the engineer who discovered the scam.  He also gives instructions for modding your XBox, and advice on buying electronics tools.  Even if you don't own an XBox, it's a damn interesting book.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1593270291/sr=8-1/qid=1140217177/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-5244716-7442530?%5Fencoding=UTF8

[Orethrius]

I seem to remember him being arrested and interrogated at the whim of the BSA goons some time ago, did he ever receive any kind of apology for that?

[H_TeXMeX_H]

The original XBox was an abortion of trusted computing and DRM. Supposedly in order to maintain a level playing field for XBox-Live (but really just because they're assholes), Microsoft used the concept of security-thru-obscurity. The normal BIOS was in a flash chip, just like you might expect. But when you dike out this chip to hack the XBox, a secondary BIOS kicks in, making your hack completely worthless. In fact, it turns out that the original Flash BIOS was a decoy, designed to trick you. After months of research and investigation, an MIT electrical engineer figured out where the real BIOS was. It was hidden inside the NVidia GPU. Once he figured out what board tracings the BIOS used, hacking the XBox became a trivial matter of soldering.

Microsoft was pretty upset about this, and so they released a new XBox, the so-called second gen. Thanks to help from hardware hackers around the world, the second gen was cracked in 3 days.

There's actually a book that explains the whole story, written by the engineer who discovered the scam. He also gives instructions for modding your XBox, and advice on buying electronics tools. Even if you don't own an XBox, it's a damn interesting book.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1593270291/sr=8-1/qid=1140217177/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-5244716-7442530?%5Fencoding=UTF8

Wow ... damn ... I bet I don't know even half the evil, greedy shit M$ has done. Is there a good news site to stay on top of M$'s evil deeds ?

[piratePenguin]

Wow ... damn ... I bet I don't know even half the evil, greedy shit M$ has done. Is there a good news site to stay on top of M$'s evil deeds ?

Just search "Microsoft" on any news website.