HOW TO install SLAX on an iPod nano
Great HOW TO from Jake “I was intrigued by the idea of having all my own bookmarks, my own desktop/icon artwork and themes and preferences, all my own programs and data instantly available to me on any computer on campus. The computer essentially becomes a temporary host for my personal operating system — which I carry in my pocket. SLAX seemed to be the best balance of customization, function, and ease of use…This is a howto on installing SLAX on an iPod nano. It may seem long, but I tried not to gloss over or leave out any details”. Link.
Wow, I need to try this – Everything you modify, create or download during a Live-CD session is kept in memory until the computer is rebooted; then it’s all lost. More precisely, it WAS lost until SLAX came out and the new era of portability began… Don’t carry your settings along with you anymore, just remember a secret pass phrase! 
Handy…script which runs once a day to get the links for my link blog. It now crawls each link and sends an email to a Gmail account with the From field being the page URI, the Subject being the tags, and the body being a copy of the page. In addition to searching the page text, I can filter by tags by using an advanced search (e.g., subject:python). Now I love del.icio.us and Gmail more than before. 
Looks like it might be running something other than Windows too – Radio shack is getting in a shoebox sized computer for surfing the web. It appears to be DC powered, has built in Ethernet, modem, VGA, and USB ports. This might make a good car computer if it is truly DC powered! [
Nice to see articles like this from the NYTimes…Many new multimedia notebooks include built-in television tuner cards and software that let them double as digital video recorders. But you don’t have to buy a whole new laptop just to record your favorite shows… Not bad for $90. 
With this Google maps hack you can see the spammiest places on the planet, well- at least where a lot seems to be coming from. Mailinator is a service that gives you free, disposable email anytime, anywhere. No need to ever sign up. Send first – come to the site later. Mailboxes are created when email arrives for them. This map shows (in semi-realtime) ip addresses that are currently sending the most spam to Mailinator. 
