If you failed to notice, my site is probably loading much faster now. I’ve recently bought several Dell PowerEdge servers and bought one for personal use… seeing as the old box was 4 years old and already blew several drives and a PSU (and infact, only had one PSU), it seemed like a good idea to phase it out.

In other news, it takes a long time to copy a 20GB virtual machine image from a degraded RAID-5 array…

As an update to the previous post, well, MSKs tend to get leaked earlier than expected. There’s already a couple of custom firmware payloads for the PS3 that are signed and working already using the leaked MSK allowing the loading and execution of unsigned code. Note that I don’t condone piracy so I’m not going to open the pandora’s box of linking to those firmwares. They exist, you know how to use a search engine, but stealing people’s work sucks.

As an aside, I would like to point out that security models built on trust only work when you don’t consistently remove features during your product’s lifecycle.  If you remove features during a product’s lifecycle, then there becomes motivation for people to break the security model.  The only reason why people didn’t break the PS3′s security model earlier is because the Other OS feature allowed execution of “homebrewed” games and demos.