This is an article which looks at the alternatives for networking your home to use all the media you have with any computer, or audio or video device in your house. Here is part of the story…At these prices, a roll your own thing built around a low-cost PC becomes quite tempting. Start with a $200 Linux box from Wal-Mart, the Microtel PC with an AMD Sempr0n 2200+. Throw out the CD-ROM and replace it with a double layer DVD drive ($99). Add your choice of disk drives, since it has two open 5.25-inch bays and a 3.5-inch bay, plus four USB 2.0 ports. If a no-name box from Wal-Mart makes you a little uncomfortable, you can get your hands on an entry-level Mac Mini for $499, add a couple of drives through its USB and/or Firewire ports, and set up file sharing. It's not the prettiest answer, but you get a Mac to play out of the bargain.The Inquirer
So you’re feeling lucky with that new Mac mini of yours, are you? But lucky enough to pop off a couple soldered jumpers on the motherboard in order to get an extra couple hundred MHz out of the thing? Oh really? And what if the chip doesn’t take the overclock, and runs unstable, as they often do? (You might not know this, but overclocking is more of a PC thing.) Well, step right up then, Mac mini enthusiasts have sorted out how to get 1.5 and 1.58GHz out of your cute little new box—whether it wants to or not. We can’t wait for the water cooling mods.
Oh boy if the Mac Mini I bought doesn't work out I guess I could convert it to a Windows PC and have it run in the same case. This is hilarious. [KevinRose.com]
The Globus Consortium, founded by Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, and Sun Microsystems, announced today plans to design and market commercial grid-computing software applications. The consortium will promote technical standards to make grid computing a viable option for businesses. With a quarter million dollar investment from each company, the organization is sufficiently funded to begin operations. Other contributing participants include Nortel Networks,
Man oh Man there must be a lot of people sharing brain waves as the idea has already taken off to put a Mac Mini in a car, in place of a traditional car stereo. But I do not really want to drink the Kool Aid yet, and as I alluded to in my podcast, I want a Windows Media
To archive 20 years of Usenet newsgroups has to be considered one of the major feats ever completed. Google has done what would have been unimaginable a few years ago. The question I have is where did they get all of the archives from. I did some searches on topics that I was involved in apporx 10 years ago and