Lecturefox: free university lectures 12/25/2007 I think MIT coined the term Open Courseware, but there are several other universities that are releasing lecture videos for...
MediaPortal: open source media center software for PCs 12/24/2007 Paul McGuinness wrote in about a home theater PC system he is building, and tipped us off to a GPLed...
Johnny Chung Lee’s Wiimote hacks 12/23/2007 Johnny Chung Lee, who you may recall from $14 steadicam fame (read about it in Make:01), is also a very...
Run a nested X11 desktop on the XO Laptop 12/23/2007 The XO laptop continues to be very hackable. If you haven’t ordered one already, you really should because you only...
Essential hacker stocking stuffers 12/21/2007 Like most of us, you’ve probably got some last-minute shopping to take care of. Or maybe there’s a special someone...
HOWTO run Arduino on the XO Laptop 12/21/2007 The XO Laptop comes with the drivers you need to talk to an Arduino board, but you need to do...
Copy and paste (sort of) into the XO laptop’s Terminal activity 12/20/2007 According to ticket #5376, you can’t copy and paste text between Terminal.activity and other applications. This became a problem for...
Record more than 45 seconds of audio or video on the XO laptop 12/19/2007 If you go into the Record activity on the XO laptop, you’ll find that you can only record a maximum...
Read/write access to Linux partitions from Windows 12/17/2007 I read today on Lifehacker about a freeware tool called Linux Reader. It provides you with read access to ext2/ext3...
HOWTO – DIY radio modem 12/16/2007 Eric Seifert sent in some information on creating a home brew radio modem using a standard PC sound card, an...