on the front page there is a link that says view svn (http://svn.ps2dev.org/), and when you click on it, it says you do not have permission to acess it. is this normal? also in the psp demos jasons site's links are completely broken, and for some reason pointing to his desktop :P
Yes, the web access to the server has been down a LONG time. There's a mirror though. Just look through the General Discussion forum for one of the other threads on this very subject. Can't help with the second part.