Yesterday, the second official trailer of the soon to be released Prince of Persia movie adaptation hit the web. If you want to know more about the movie, check out my first post on the topic. Prince of Persia will be in cinemas on May, 21st. Without further ado, here’s the trailer:
This march promises to be quite eventful. I’ve just pre-ordered Battlefield: Bad Company II and God of War III from Amazon.co.uk. Best of all, Amazon is kind enough to provide an in-game early AK-47 weapon unlock code for BC2. According to a preview over at Ars Technica you can beat the single-player game of BC2 in about eight hours or so. That’s O.K. because multiplayer ist the meat of the game. Apparently, you’ll also get a day-one map pack in the form of a one-time-use code included with the game. Just enter the code and you get two additional maps. If you buy the game used, you’ll have to unlock the content for US$ 15. Here’s a preview of things to come:
God of War III on the other hand is all about the single-player experience. Amazon bundles the game with a code to unlock a Forgotten Warrior character skin, if you pre-order with them. GoW III ups the ante in terms of size by offering areas up to fours times larger than those found in its predecessor. The programmers and designers have included new instruments of death and ruthless techniques for Kratos to learn. The third installment will conclude the trilogy but there already are plans to create more games with Kratos. Here’s a trailer for your viewing pleasure:
Obviously, the 8001050FPSN error fixed itself when the internal clock date changed from February 29th to March 1stUTC. If the time displayed on the XMB is still incorrect, you can fix it by adjusting time settings manually or via the internet. I just took a quick look at it before going to work and I could sign in to the PlayStation Network without experiencing any error message. I’ll have to check whether I’ve lost any data but I don’t think so because I really couldn’t do anything.
If you started a game while this happened your local trophy collection may be blank. Just get a new trophy and your local list should be refreshed and alright. If it doesn’t work, you’ll have to wait until Sony makes an official statement regarding this issue. Have fun once again.
Just a few hours ago I said that you couldn’t fix the error 801050F on your own. Looks like I was wrong. Some guy claims that you only have to open your PS3, disconnect the battery for a few minutes, stick it back in and you’re fine. Sounds very nice if you’re adventurous and don’t care about opening your PS3 system. I don’t know for certain but I’m pretty sure you’ll lose your warranty so it is safer to wait for Sony’s fix to arrive. If you absolutely can’t wait, that seems to be the way to go!
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The PS3 error code 8001050F is wreaking havoc on the Playstation Network. Apparently, this problem is caused by a bug in the clock functionality and affects models other than the new slim PS3 (120÷250 GB models). According to some reports in a number of forums some »fat« PS3s have worked ok.
If you are affected, date and time settings have been re-set to January 1st, 2000. This prevents you from signing in to PSN with the error message »An error has occurred. You have been signed out of PlayStation Network (8001050F)«. Your trophies will also not display correctly or fail to sync.
You can’t fix it. Sony probably stores some form of date in UTC format, then modifying it according to your timezone to get whatever you see on your on-screen clock. If it won’t fix itself, we’ll need a firmware update which we will probably have to install manually from USB stick (I don’t really think so but always expect the worst). Changing the system date manually won’t change anything at all.
What did Sony have to say about the issue? Not much but they do advise us to »not use the PS3 system, as doing so may result in errors in some functionality, such as recording obtained trophies, and not being able to restore certain data«.
Over the last few days I’ve tried a new Firefox extension called After the Deadline. This extension is a grammar, style, and spell checker which does a better job than the built-in proofreading mechanism in Firefox. Actually, I’ve always considered OSpell for Opera far superior and I desperately wanted the same features in Firefox. Until recently no extension or user script could offer the same functionality.
With the introduction of After the Deadline things changed. It’s unobtrusive and it doesn’t slow down Firefox (Yes, I’ve already decreased the value of extensions.spellcheck.inline.max-misspellings to 50 or so). Anyway, AtD provides a small icon in the lower right corner of text areas which you click to check the text it contains. It also has a nice options dialog and the latest version (1.11) fixes a few bugs. Check it out!