According to GameDaily, Sony and Immersive have reached an agreement about the force feedback technology used in the Playstation controller. The “rumble” technology was initially removed from the PS3-controller due to a lawsuit, but the two companies has now “entered into a new business agreement to explore the inclusion of Immersion technology in PlayStation format products”.

This will probably mean the PS3 controller will rumble again in upcoming versions.

(Thanks to PSUbuntu Forum user Eidan for the link)

The ps3mods blog has a short tutorial on how to turn your PS3 into a DVR using a Plextor ConvertX PVR PX-TV402U. You need a GO7007 driver and MythTV. Don’t know which Linux distribution the writer used, but it should probably work with Ubuntu.