Just Cause 2 Map

I recently brought Just Cause 2 for my PS3. It's an excellent game but the playing area can be a bit overwhelming in terms of size.

However I found this post over at the Playstation League forum which features an interactive map of a lot of the locations found in the game.

Important Console Updates

According to the following sites here & here; USB memory storage is coming to the Xbox 360 on April 6th in a console update. In other Xbox related news here; an official Xbox 250GB hard drive is to be sold separately.

It's reported on the PlayStation blog here, that an update is coming out for the PS3 on April 1st which will remove the ability from the original PS3 to install other Operating Systems such as GNU/Linux.

Miro 3.0

The new version of the Open-Source Media player Miro is available for download from here.

The makers of Miro have also released a Video Converter which can convert videos to a variety of different formats for mobile phones, iPods & the PSP.

MW2 - Stimulus Package

New DLC for Modern Warfare 2 is due to be released on the 30th March. It will include 3 new multiplayer maps; Bailout, Storm, Salvage & 2 maps from the first Modern Warfare; Crash and Overgrown.

The DLC is being released on the Xbox 3660 first & will cost 1200 MSP.

Uninstalling Wubi Completely

Recently I found myself running out of disk space so I decided to remove Ubuntu which I had installed using the Wubi installer. Removing Wubi was as easy as uninstalling any other program.

However when I rebooted my computer instead of Windows XP starting immediately, I discovered that the Operating System selection menu was still there, giving me the choice between Ubuntu & XP even though I'd removed Ubuntu.

Solving this problem was quite simple, all I did was follow the steps in this Microsoft article.

All you basically have to do is remove the unwanted OS from your boot.ini file.

You'll see C:\wubildr.mbr = "ubuntu" in the image below on the bottom line. It's that line which needs to be removed from the file. Once you've done that, save the file & reboot the system.

Also, don't worry I'm not going to stop using GNU/Linux. I'll probably be getting a new computer soon & when I do I think I'll be trying out the new version of OpenSUSE.

Popular Science Online

Recently I found this news story which stated that every copy of Popular Science magazine had been put online at Google Books.

The magazines can be found here & the earlier editions feature articles by Charles Darwin & Louis Pasteur.