Codeception

Musings & ramblings of a Pythonista

New set of Developer Tools in Firefox

My friends at work were using Google Chrome for Debugging web pages saying that Chrome's Developer Tools are superior to Firefox. But starting with the new Aurora update Firefox Developer Tools looks way cooler with the new Page Inspector, Style Editor and Scratchpad.

The all new Right Click -> Inspect Element feature lets you select any HTML element and see the HTML code or Styles associated with it in clean ...

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Building Custom Firmware for PS3

The 27th Chaos Communication Congress revealed the Epic Programming Fail on the PlayStation 3 security. Finally it turned out that Sony's ECDSA algorithm for signing apps use a random number generator which always returns the same number (No, I'm not kidding). The fail0verflow team, who found out this fail, used the following famous xkcd comic to describe Sony's ECDSA algorithm.

Random Number

fail0verflow demonstrated their work on AsbestOS, which ...

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Factory/Service mode on PlayStation 3

Here is a happy news for those who updated to firmware >3.41 and didn't get a chance to enjoy the homwbrews for PS3. Yes, atlast we'll be able to downgrade the PS3 firmware to any version <3.50. The actual PSJailbreak team were the first team to release the downgrade. But many thanks to zAxis who created PSGrade, an opensouce version of PSDowngrade. Using this we can ...

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Hacking PlayStation 3 with Teensy 2.0

I've always been a proud and loyal owner of a Playstation 3 and still I consider it as the most powerful game console of this generation. But things were super-cool back on the days when Playstation 3 supported OtherOS by which you could boot and use Linux on your console. This was the very feature (other than GameOS which is why someone should buy a PS3 :-)) every PS3 owner ...

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