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Manage your Internet activity with OpenDNS

As you might know, I owned two cybercafes, which give me headaches to manage them. Nowadays, all my customers now utilizing all the bandwidth by installing illegal p2p/filesharing software like they owned it. Yes, I can install IPCop/Smoothwall to manage the cybercafes, but still I have to get an old pc , plug in 2 network card, plusmore the electric bill will add up at the end of month.

Now that I have discovered a new services that excludes all the hassles (pc, nic, bills). OpenDNS now provide new services that cater all the hardware related firewall/ids/proxy can do. With simple solutions, adding the dns thru the router, dynamic dns also supported (will update the ip automatically to opendns).

Here is the link for how to -> http://www.ehow.com/how_4556123_bad-web-sites-using-opendns.html

PSP Custom Firmware 5.00M33-4 Released

Another released by the maestro Dark-Alex. Here are changes from the previous released.

Changes:

- Speed selected for umd/iso was not properly locked in some new games that used scePower_EBD177D6 instead of scePowerSetClockFrequency to change speed.
- UMD/ISO speed settings now apply to PSN games too.
- Fixed libupdown.prx connecting to dark-alex.org instead of sony when npsignin_plugin checks for a new version and m33 update is enabled.
- Iso file descriptor was not closed in driver deletion
- Added a shutdown command to vshmenu.

Here are the files -> http://rapidshare.com/files/170591048/500m33_4.zip

Sony PSP Custom Firmware 5.00 M33-2, 5.00 M33-2

DarK AleX has done it again.

Changes for M33-2

- Popcorn bug fixes

* Fixed bug that caused some games with certain icons not to work, and caused document.dat not to work.

* Fixed critical bug that caused continous corruption of psx games in RAM.

- Core bugfix: Fixed sctrlKernelSetInit* functions not working.

- M33 network update doesn’t work in 5.00 M33, fixed.

- Added the posibility of loading version information from the file flash0:/vsh/etc/version.txt

By default is disabled. If you enable it in recovery, you could for example dump 5.01 firmware,
copy the version.txt from it to the flash, and bypass firmware check restrictions like those that
may be in psn, etc.
This will also fake official network update (not m33 one), and running the update eboot (again, not m33 ones).

- Plugins configuration file format changed.

The new format is as follows:

* There is no more conf.bin file.
* Now each line in vsh.txt game.txt and pops.txt will have a 0 or a 1 at the end. 1 indicates
that the plugin will be loaded, 0 (or anything else) that it won’t be loaded.

Entering in recovery in 5.00 M33-2 wil automatically convert the old format configuration
to the new one (this may cause a delay first time you enter in plugins because of conversion).

- Added optins under advanced configuration that allow enable/disable of plugins in a certain configuration.
By default they are enabled.

Download M33-2 update here

Changes for M33-3

- A bug was introduced in 5.00 M33-2 that made some games and homebrew not to work.

- PSN version check is now automatically bypassed without need of touching any setting.

Download M33-3 update here

PSP Custom FIrmware 5.00-M33

Dark_AleX has done it again. Only a few days after the official firmware released, the M33 version is now available.

As usual copy UPDATE folder /PSP/GAME/ and run. Put the 5.00 sony update as 500.PBP in same folder, or let the program download it for you using a wifi connection.

5.00-M33 Files -> http://rapidshare.com/files/154847567/5.00M33.rar
5.00 Eboot File -> http://rapidshare.com/files/154173870/500.PBP

Some changes are : -

1. 4.01 to 5.00

2. Bug fix: when changing speed in xmb, and the psp turned the brightness to 0 automatically the speed was reseted to 222 again.

Enjoy your custom firmware.