Kodi PS3 BD Remote

Setting up a PS3 Blu-Ray Disc Remote with Kodi

 Posted on June 16, 2020  (Last modified on June 17, 2020)  |  14 minutes  |  2960 words  |  Ritesh Raj Sarraf

Setting up a Sony PS3 Blu-Ray Disc Remote Controller with Kodi TLDR; Since most of the articles on the internet were either obsolete or broken, I’ve chosen to write these notes down in the form of a blog post so that it helps me now and in future, and hopefully others too. Raspberry Pi All this time, I have been using the Raspberry Pi for my HTPC needs. The first RPi I acquired was in 2014 and I have been very very happy with the amount of support in the community and quality of the HTPC offering it has. [Read More]
Linux  Debian  Kodi  PS3  HTPC  XBMC  BD Remote 

File System corruption and Recovery

 Posted on August 16, 2011  (Last modified on November 12, 2014)  |  3 minutes  |  588 words  |  Ritesh Raj Sarraf

So this is the 2nd time I ran into a problem like this again. My FAT32 file system on the external USB HDD, all of a sudden, started reporting: 00:47:32 rrs@champaran:/tmp$ sudo dosfsck /dev/sdb1dosfsck 3.0.9, 31 Jan 2010, FAT32, LFNLogical sector size is zero. I had been taking a lot of care to ensure that I don’t run into situation like this. No body likes losing data. The good part is that I’ve been lucky enough that, even without backups (now who’s gonna backup a backup disk), I have recovered all my data. [Read More]
ps3  fat  fat32  testdisk  data recovery 

Console Gaming - Sony Playstation 3

 Posted on July 6, 2011  (Last modified on November 12, 2014)  |  4 minutes  |  675 words  |  Ritesh Raj Sarraf

I have been thinking of this topic for some time. I am a happy owner of the old Phat PS3 Model. At one time, I use to do a fair amount of gaming on my computers. So when Sony marketed the PlayStation 3 product, it was cool to see a machine that did: Gaming Movies, Music, Pictures Blu-Ray Ran Linux I convinced myself to buy a PlayStation 3, that I’d use it for playing with Linux apart from gaming. [Read More]
sony  ps3  playstation  move  the fight  sports champions  game reviews 

Fuck you Sony!

 Posted on June 6, 2010  (Last modified on January 22, 2011)  |  1 minutes  |  54 words  |  Ritesh Raj Sarraf

First you go unethical by forcing users (stating security concerns) to upgrade to a newer firmware. And then, you don’t even do a good QA on the firmware you release. It clearly looks you were in a hurry to strip off the “Other OS” feature.

I lost all my gameplay in the firmware upgrade.

sony  ps3  playstation 

Debian PS3 Installation

 Posted on December 31, 2009  (Last modified on January 22, 2011)  |  1 minutes  |  87 words  |  Ritesh Raj Sarraf

It is holiday time and so finally time to installing Debian onto the Sony PS3 box. The installation was smooth as most of the stuff is already documented. The Debian Installer has all the support needed, to install onto the Sony PS3. As of now the only thing not working perfectly is the boot loader. It seems to be taking default is the kernel that was booted last. Even if I change the default in /etc/kboot. [Read More]
ps3  playstation  Other OS