Here's an interesting little tidbit from Japan's financial newspaper Nikkei. According to an article translated by andriasang -- who also provided information this morning on a wireless ebook reader -- Nintendo's 3DS will be able to copy multiple games to internal memory and selected from the menu. Now, that can be interpreted in many ways. It could mean 3DS carts installing fully on the system à la Xbox 360's game install. Another -- and we think more likely -- interpretation is that games can be downloaded via some store and saved internally. At this point, however, we don't have any details on a 3DS online marketplace, and in an interview with Joystiq, the company's in-house legend Shigeru Miyamoto wouldn't comment on compatibility with current DSiWare. As for theoretic storage capacity, Nintendo still isn't saying how much internal memory is in the device, but we do know the SD card slot is still there. All this discussion, of course, is assuming the translation is correct, and since we're currently unable to verify for ourselves, consider all this a rumor right now.Nintendo 3DS to allow for game installs? originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 19 Jun 2010 06:48:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink Kotaku  |  andriasang  | Email this | Comments

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Sure, we might be seeing some big changes to the iPhone tomorrow, but what if you could see some big changes on your very own iPhone, today? Well, you can if you're brave enough to try installing Android on your iPhone, which we've seen done before, but not with Android 2.2 (otherwise more deliciously known as Froyo). Still not convinced that such a thing is possible? Then head on past the break for the video evidence, and hit up the link below for the complete, not-for-the-faint-of-heart instructions for performing the feat yourself. P.S. Of course, "runs" isn't exactly the same as "runs well." The iPhone in the video apparently got noticeably hot after five minutes of use, and there's some issues with Android not recognizing little things like WiFi or the phone's GPU. Continue reading Yep, the iPhone runs Android 2.2, tooYep, the iPhone runs Android 2.2, too originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink   |  Gadgets DNA  | Email this | Comments

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modprobe vboxdrv
FATAL: Module vboxdrv not found.

Although some may see this as a simple resolve after upgrading VirtualBox; for some reason, it wasn’t that obvious to me until I found the problem. If you upgrade your kernel, you need to make sure that your applications that require non-standard kernel modules are updated as well. In this case, I had to re-emerge virtualbox-modules and then I was able to modprobe vboxdrv as the kernel modules were now installed into the new kernel.

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So recently, I was tasked with reinstalling windows on all of our spare PCs in the office. A few were some of our tech guys computers (some of which had linux on them). Most of the processes went as expected with the exception of the linux to windows conversion. After researching, I found there was an error/incompatibility with the Master Boot Record that Windows could not resolve, causing the screen to boot to blank after the “Setup is inspecting your computer’s hardware configuration” prompt stating the CD was checking the hardware.

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So I recently switched my linux flavor to Gentoo on my laptop. It takes a couple days, but has proven to be well worth it. Although that’s not the topic of this post, it should be understood that the following instructions are based on a Gentroo distro. These instructions can be tweaked to get this working in other distros as well.

There are a couple apps involved: cowsay, and fortune-mod. The fortune-mod app is a simple app that outputs fortunes, there are a number of plugins (I installed them all, but you can choose to emerge particular ones, as desired.

The cowsay app is a simple ascii cow that has a comment bubble allowing you to specify the text the cow should say. It has some customizeable features such as the eyes and the tongue.

The following instructions will get your ascii cow to output a fortune from the fortune-mod library.

First, you need to emerge these packages (the fortune-mod-all package is optional, although you need a fortune list, this pulls them all in:

emerge -av cowsay fortune-mod fortune-mod-all

Now you can output a cowsay fortune:

cowsay `fortune`

I took this a level further and added the preceeding to the last line in my .bashrc file, which has a random fortune popup on every terminal/console session entry.

It’s a lot of fun and a simple install. Have fun!!

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