Technology
A time-lapse series of the PVR assembly. Nothing fancy or great. Just a quest for a DRM free PVR. Photos 
Libraries offering audiobook downloads…
Here’s another story about libraries offering audio files and digital files for their patrons, sounds good right? No- as usual, someone sold a DRM solution that doesn’t really work. Each week I get emails from folks all over the USA trying to figure out ways to get the files on their “non-supported device”.Link.
Boot loader showdown: Getting to know LILO and GRUB
Most Linux users, from the casual desktop user to the Linux system administrator, have used a utility known as a boot loader. Different variations of this utility provide varying levels of support and functionality. In many cases, the default boot loader installed with a Linux distribution is not always the best for your needs; the same can be said for the default settings of each boot loader. In this article, Laurence Bonney discusses the pros and cons of two of the more popular boot loaders — LILO and GRUB — and suggests a number of configurations to get the most from your machine. Link.
San Diego Computer Museum…
Steve writes “Among the many unique exhibits on display at the San Diego Computer Museum, is the think-a-tron by Hasbro. I visited the Museum for a last chance to see the exhibits before it closed its doors. I spoke with the curator, David Weil. He is currently seeking sources of financial support to help pay for a new location in the San Diego area. The San Diego Computer Museum is actively looking for a new site to house its exhibits, as the current location has been sold for redevelopment”. Link.
Windows Application With Wine + X11 Works
By adapting the Wine compatibility layer for Windows, some enterprising developers have developed a method to run Windows programs under OS X for Intel. While porting Wine to OSx86 requires some serious tweaking (which still results in some unstable programs), work such as this opens a wide range of possibilities for the future. Since future versions of OS X will be built on the same Intel processors that Windows programs use, will we one day be able to use Windows apps as if they were native to OS X? [via] Link.
HOW TO run Darwin on Xbox
Darwin is the base of Mac OS X, comprising the kernel “xnu”, the system libraries and the UNIX tools. Darwin does not include the Mac OS X GUI, and the future x86 version of Mac OS X will only run on Apple branded hardware. …at least the current builds of Mac OS X for x86 need SSE2 and SSE3 support of the CPU – the Xbox CPU has neither. And of course, OS X wouldn’t run with only 64 MB of RAM, and very slowly with only 128 MB. But here’s how to run Darwin on an Xbox… Link.
