Note: I’m using a network cable, not wi-fi.

This is a really annoying bug that’s present even in the current version (2.10 as of this post) of the Playstation 3 system software. When I got my PS3 earlier this month, it was using the oldest version, 1.10, but I couldn’t update it because the DNS error was preventing me from getting online.

After searching online for that error number, I came across a few sites that said the PS3′s DNS server needs to match that of your router. I made the appropriate changes to the PS3 and off I went. There was still a problem, though: it wouldn’t login to the Playstation Network, even though it passed the DNS test. Augh.

Some of the more silly answers I found included resetting your modem, calling your provider, telling the PS3 to automatically find all settings, and turning off your firewall. None of these make any difference.

The only option I had left was to download the update to a USB flash drive. This is a poor solution because not everyone HAS a flash drive. (You could probably do this using the 80 gig model’s card reader, though I wouldn’t know about that.) Anyway, here is a simplified version of the directions I followed:

1. Make a new directory in the flash drive named PS3, then one named UPDATE (both must be in all caps).
2. Save PS3UPDAT.PUP to /PS3/UPDATE
3. Plug the flash drive into the console, then from the XMB: Settings -> System Update -> Update via Storage Media

After this is done, you can delete the stuff you created on the flash drive.

Now, you’re using the most recent software and it still keeps giving you DNS errors? The only solution I’ve found so far is to keep trying to login until it works. That may sound like a shitty answer, but it’s the only one I’ve found that works with any certainty. After searching for a good amount of time and trying every suggestion, brute force is the most dependable answer I found.

Update: I’ve been using OpenDNS (208.67.222.222 & 208.67.220.220) for a couple of weeks now with little luck, but some people say it helps.

Update 2: I solved the mystery: spanning tree. Spanning Tree Protocol is a protocol for preventing loops in a network of switches. I had to turn on spanning-tree portfast on the port my PS3 is plugged into. Chances are this solution is completely unhelpful for most people, but I’m putting it up here anyway, just in case.

The impossible quiz is impossibly long! Here are all the answers!

http://www.addictinggames.com/theimpossiblequiz.html

1. Four

2. No, but a tin can

3. K.O

4. click on “the answer”

5. move your mouse outside the boundaries of the flash application to get to the destination.

6. Shallots

7. An elephant.

8. Mouse around until you find the green checkbox. (It’s under the SE)

9. Click the “That one” answer in the upper right that points to the lower left.

10. The teeth. (chews food)

11. n

12. Click the dot in the “i” in the question.

13. F’taang

14. Torch

15. spell “HORSE”

16. H

17. Click the “17″ question number.

18. Click on the “Hammer”

19. Blue, Orange, Green, Green, Yellow

20. Seal!

21. Upper left

22. +1 Skip

23. Bran

24. Click the “V” in lives

25. Shoe Polish

26. Arsefacey

27. Go to 28

28. Abundance

29. Egg Mayonnaise

30. Slowly

31. Woof. Woof. Woof.

32. Babycham and Human Faeces

33. 7

34. Hover over the skip arrows.

35. Wait until the button changes.

36. A walk.

37. Doesn’t matter.

38. Mary Rose

39. Cylindrical Adventures

40. Right click to create the pop-up menu and hover over that to get over.

41. Afro

42. Click on the 42nd (bottom row, 2nd from left)

43. Tom Cruise

44. Move the (44) piece and there’s a circle underneath to click.

45. Top Right

46. OMFG U kills sonikku u bastud

47. Click the button. Put the mouse cursor right where the arrow is when the bottle stops. That will be where the button will appear.

48. Snaaaake!

49. Splapp-me-do

50. O.K.

51. Click on the monsters.

52. Click on the third leaf.

53. …but pa might not

54. No, about 20cm off the ground

55. A games console for wholemeal biscuits

56. Click blue, red, blue, yellow.

57. Erm… one?

58. Shepherd’s pie

59. Click on the thing in the bottom left as fast as you can.

60. Tell the truth.

61. Thumbs Up

62. Moss (middle left)

63. Tasteless White Filth

64. Egg > 28

65. the word “Largest”

66. Click on the exclamation point ! at the end of the question.

67. A big hairy arsonist

68. Drag from one end of the cat to the other until the bar is full.

69. Lol, 69

70. Using its anus

71. Click on the top left when it’s green.

72. Below the question number.

73. upper-right

74. No one knows that

75. When it appears, click the “Escape” word just underneath the question number

76. Sugar, Honey, Honey

77. Question 77

78. Four

79. Click the “U” in “What do you mean?”

80. Filthy Romanians

81. Hover your mouse over the pole and move it up and down the length.

82. Quickly click on each of the nails.

83. National Dyslexic Association

84. Right click to give you a place to hide. The star will first come across the bottom part of the screen from right to left.

85. I loved it!

86. The prince

87. Click on the invisible dot in the circle 87

88. Click on the foot as fast as you can

89. Blindness

90. Nonce

91. Drag the mouse from left to right from the start of the tear.

92. 194, 27, 26, 14, 9, 3, 2.4, 1, 0.4

93. Drag the bomb away and click the arrow.

94. Do nothing.

95. Move mouse over the skips, wait for the cat.

96. A right mess

97. +10 Times

98. The WORDS blue, red, blue, yellow

99. Wait for the lights to turn green, then click on the sign.

100. Two

101. Type “chihuahua”

102. Touch the circles only. If you don’t see any circles, then don’t do anything.

103. Find the tomato. Before everything disappears, put your mouse between the “C” and “H”.

104. Sad yellow moon. (bottom right)

105. Click on the letters to spell: goose(B)erry, (A)pple, nectari(N)e, (A)pple, nectari(N)e, (A)pple

106. Complete the game.

107. Put your mouse on “I am ignore you” and wait.

108. Type in these numbers: 4 8 15 16 23 42

109. Click the monkey, the poop, and the arrow.

110. Use all the skips.

What could be better than a game where you have to light people on fire.  I mean, really, lighting people of fire should be everyone’s mission in life anyways, but now there’s a video game for it.

http://www.addictinggames.com/lightpeopleonfire.html

You start the game by bursting into flames courtesy of a lightning strike.  You have to run left and right across the screen lighting people on fire when you touch them.  There are storm clouds overhead which drop rain down, and you’ll want to avoid those.  Rain helps to put out your fire, and end your game.

It’s simple, it’s pretty easy, and it’s a great concept for a game.  What are you waiting for?  Start lighting people on fire today!

Well lets have another game on the listing block.  This game?  Pimp My Grill of course!

http://www.addictinggames.com/pimpmygrill.html

tips to get past the levels for this game.

1.  You can only move pieces that cause a move.  No connection, no move.

2. The more pieces you put together, the quicker you will beat the level

3. Combos are pretty good too!  If you set off one row which then sets off another row and so on!

Good luck and Pimp My Grill!