How to: PC + PS3 = love

The point that the PS3 only has that much memory available, or that it doesn't work as a x86 Intel would is of no importance to what can be done to play said PC games on the PS3, because "to play" isn't well defined.

You do not actually "play" the game on your PS3, as in the game works off of your PS3. You merely stream the game from the PC, the base of the processing being done by the PC, not the PS3. That is part of the innovation, this is why the project is called "StreamMyGame", the fact that you stream the games off the PC, NOT process them with the PS3.

So, to put is straight once and for all, this is NOT Sony fan-boy nonsense, as some have said. Perhaps I am a Sony fanboy, so let me show you just what to do to make it happen!

What you need to pull this off is:

1. PS3 with Linux installed (Ubuntu, Yellow Dog - you can download them here and here, respectively - or any other distribution)

2. PC with the StreamMyGame software (get the software here)

First, register an account on StreamMyGame.com here. Then, log in to your account and follow the instructions here to add a new game. You can find out plenty more, along with a step-by-step tutorial on the PC-part of this operation here.

For the Ps3 part, start by installing the Linux distribution, if you haven't done it already. (get help on YDL here)

- Secondly, download the Streamer Linux Player (here) on the Ps3.

- Open a Terminal on the PS3;

- Go to the directory where you saved the player (by typing "cd /home/your_username/your_directory"in the Terminal, replacing the username and directory in which you saved the file) and install the Linux Streamer (by typing in the Terminal "sudo sh ./smg-installer.sh" ). Make sure you read the Readme. When you're finished reading, press Q to quit.

- The next step is associating the files on the StreamMyGame website to the software you've just installed on your Ps3. Do that by typing "smg-protocol-setup" into the Terminal. From my experience and the StreamMyGame website help page, using the Gnome option over the KDE will prove much more reliable. Supposedly, the KDE will also work, but it didn't, at least for me.

- Browse to the SMG website and select the desired game. The Streamer software will start - insert your username and password.

- The SMG app will connect to your Windows PC and start displaying the game on Linux. Now, just click anywhere on the player and start using your keyboard & mouse for play.Notes (off the page of SMG.com):

"Note on Firewall

On Ubuntu use the Firestarter tool if that is what you have installed
On YellowDog the firewall configuration tool is under the Administration menu

Just add the ports listed in the README

Note on Resolution

Ubuntu may not display full screen on your TV / LCD and will have a black boarder around it. It will display at 1124 x 644 so you cant open a 720p game stream unless you change its resolution. We will release a new page in January about how to change this and display Ubuntu at 720p and 1080i."

What else could you want? Oh, yeah, playing with the Sixaxis on Linux? Check - some have even reported it works "out-of-the-box", just by connecting it to the USB.

Anything else left out?

Origami

Perhaps you have heard of origami...

Origami is the art of paper folding, an ancient Japanese art originally brought from China.
"The goal of this art is to create a given result using geometric folds and crease patterns preferably without the use of gluing or cutting the paper medium. "Origami" refers to all types of paper folding, even those of non-Asian origin." - says Wikipedia, our faithful helper;

Let us find out more about the history of this form of art (again, Wikipedia FTW!): "Origami originated in China as "Zhe Zhi" in the first or second century AD, and it reached Japan in the sixth century. Over the next few hundred years, origami became familiar in many aspects of Japanese culture. By the Heian period of Japanese history, origami was a significant aspect of Japanese ceremony. Samurai warriors would exchange gifts adorned with noshi, a sort of good luck token made of folded strips of paper. Origami butterflies were used during the celebration of Shinto weddings to represent the bride and groom.

Origami was introduced to the West by the Moors. They made geometric shapes as their type of origami. This all happened between 800 - 1100 AD. After about 300 years of primital uses, Yenni Tan began to help spread origami by selling origami animals and other shapes.

In the 1960's the art of origami began to spread out, first with modular origami and then with various movements developing, including the kirikomi."

'Very interesting and all', you would cynically say, 'but what does all of this have to do with me? I'm not planning on spending hundreds of hours working on perfecting my origami skills (I don't even HAVE any origami skills).'
That's exactly why I have made the following page (tutorial), allowing you to learn fast and interactively how to create an origami figure on your own.

The Origami master

Yahoo Messenger Fix

Yesterday, a pesky bug surfaced on Yahoo's Messenger. 40 characters in his/her status. Seems thatOne was not allowed to have more that this can be easily fixed by editing a file or by using a small home-made program to edit it for you. I am not to be held responsible for any potential damage to your computer, inflicted by not following the instructions or pressing the Format button from your drive's properties because you are not skilled enough to follow these simple instructions. Here are the two methods explained:

1. Editing the file yourself

- Make sure you have exited Yahoo Messenger;
- Go to C:(or whatever drive you've got Windows installed on)\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\Cache;
- Open system.xml with a word-editor, like Notepad;
- You will see something like:

system
.
.
.
/system"

- Look for "server
max_custom_status 40 /max_custom_status
/server” ;
- Select the 3 lines of text and delete them;
- Open Yahoo Messenger, notice the 40-character limit is gone, and wonder at the endless possibilities of longer-than-40-characters statuses;
- Return to this blog and post something like "It worked!
Woot!" or "I just formated my hard drive! What should I do?", depending on your
IQ and age.

Optional : If you have just destroyed your computer, any part of it or just deleted a lot of important information, go back and re-read the instructions.

2. Helper program

Here's what you do:

- Download the program from http://uploaded.to/?id=ylhma8 ;
- Close Yahoo Messenger;
- Messenger should be installed in the default folder : C:(or whatever first drive you have)\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger;
- Run the program and press any key in the end;
- Again, observe the lack of 40-character status limitation and ponder the infinite status possibilities;
- Return to this blog and post something like "I did it and it works!" or "WTF my computr jst xplodid, wtf j00 n00b ave distroyed my compter!!!111!oneone", depending on your
IQ, age and vocabulary capacity.