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PS3 firmware update

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Firmware update 3.00 was released for the PS3 today.

The playstation firmware site hasn’t updated yet with all the changes, but, some of them are below.  This article “PlayStation 3 Firmware (v3.00) Update” says:

Additional highlights from update 3.00 include:

  • “What’s New” – The “Information Board” will be replaced with a “What’s New” section, which allows you to enjoy interactive PlayStation news every time you start the PS3 system. Located under the PlayStation Network icon, “What’s New” displays the latest and greatest game, video, PlayStation Network and PlayStation news and releases, as well as your recently played games, in a sleek, new animated format.
  • Status Indicator – In the top right corner we’ve added an indicator bar, which displays your user icon, friend icon, the number of friends you have online and a small message icon to let you know if you have any new messages. The indicator also includes a scrolling ticker that features the latest news from PlayStation Network. In addition, when you press the PS button, the battery life indicator will no longer cover up the clock.
  • Friends List – Now your PlayStation Network friends will appear in a slightly redesigned format on your Friends List. Also, messages will now be viewable from each of your friends’ respective profiles.
  • PlayStation Store Shortcuts – We’ve added a handy shortcut icon to the PlayStation Store under both the Game and Video categories so you can access the latest content quickly and easily.
  • Personalization – Personalize your PS3 with new dynamic custom themes and avatars. Dynamic themes as well as free and premium avatars will be available through PlayStation Store. A dynamic theme takes your screen to a whole new level as it incorporates animated objects into the background.
  • Trophies – Showcasing your hard earned trophies just got better. Update 3.00 gives game developers the ability to modify how they display trophies for add-on content. Base and add-on game trophies will continue to be combined into a single list so you can see where you stand in a game as a whole. Within that list, trophies will be broken out into subcategories—base trophies and add-on trophies—that way, you can easily view the percentage of your base game trophy collection,and separately track your trophy progress in add-on packs. Look for this enhancement to be included in upcoming games.

I hope they have sorted out the friends list as how it was, the Xbox 360 friends list was much better.

Windows Plesk 8.6.0 upgrade to Plesk 8.6.0.5 causes webmail issue

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The updater for Windows Plesk 8.6.0 to 8.6.0.5 is rather small and installs quickly, however, after installation Webmail maybe disabled on sites OR non-existant on new sites.  Also, clients could not click on the webmail button from within the control panel as it was greyed out.

I went to Domains->domain.com->Mail->Preferences and the options I received for webmail was: None

Then, going to:

Server > Plesk Components Management->Web Mail and selected Horde from the list, which, for some reason was disabled.

Then, going back to Domains->domain.com->Mail->Preferences I was able to select a webmail client from the list.

The following thread has the solution as well:

EDIT: Running into another bug

So, after changing the Domains->domain.com->Mail->Preferences webmail setting and being told that “Information: Mail services on the domain domain.com have been configured.” we tried going to the webmail page only to be displayed the default plesk page as before.

It turns out that even though webmail was set, going back to preferences results in the value being “None” again.

Will test a few more things, but, time to try getting through Parallels 1st line support. Ouch.

Note:

This appears to be a known issue as listed in the release notes for Plesk 8.6 which says:

12.  Horde Webmail settings are missing after the upgrade from Plesk 7.6.x, 8.1.x, 8.2.x

I wonder if it’s the same problem?

Wouldn’t it be useful if they provided knowledge base links in the release notes for the “known issues”, unless of course, they don’t have resolutions to the bugs.