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More info about Geohot and PS3 on BBC news.

"In particular, he said, he would publish details of the console's "root key", a master code that once known would make it easier for others to decipher and hack other security features on the console."

I've been following this. Some of his assumptions contradict what little I recall of Cell security, but I could easily be wrong. I'm guessing he's reading and writing memory from an external FPGA wired into the memory bus... assuming that's possible. But he's assuming that by playing with hyperviso...

If You obtained devkit in a legal way (from Sony) you should have access to http://www.scedev.net with full documentation, samples etc.

Maybe an strace would be helpful - sometimes missing file opens or something can be an indicator as to why things failed? Thanks for the strace hint. This looks like a really useful tool. // 32 bit lib + XOpenDisplay( NULL ) socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 3 connec...

This probably means it wants you to use: XOpenDisplay(NULL);... not passing NULL as a string.... Yes, I'm using XOpenDisplay( NULL ). I also tried ":0.0" (the value of my DISPLAY env variable). There are plenty of xlib tutorials on the web you should probably read..... I was googling for ...

Hi, I'm trying to create a window for my spu software rasterizer (fb approach isn't very crash friendly). I'm using YDL 6.2 distro and GCC 4.3.2. int main() { if ( !XOpenDisplay( NULL ) ) { printf( "Can't connect to x ser...