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Danamania is attempting to run Mac OS X on an old 25mhz Mac, should only take one week to boot up, nice – “The victi-WMac used for this little project is a Centris 650, with 68MB RAM, a 25MHz 68040 and 4GB drive – JUST big enough to fit my existing PearPC drive image. I […]
Here’s how to mod your Sony DW-D150A SuperDrive drive (actually a NEC 4570) on a Mac Pro so it burns CD-Rs faster, adds DVD-RAM support, AND region-free DVD playing… [via] – Link.
Joshuamarius writes – “Simple operations performed by a hard drive with no cover, so that you can see what it looks like inside. This experiment was performed on an old hard drive, do not try this with newer expensive hard drives, it is a bit risky. “ [via] – Link. Related: Make a hard drive […]
Sylvain writes – “Here’s how to use the ENC28J60 chip and a PIC microcontroller to build a tiny web server for 30 euros ($38 USD).” – Link. Related: A Match Head Sized Web-Server – Link. PSP Web Server – Link.
Remember those huge Pentium II chip enclosures? MAKE Flickr photo pool member Treasonx made a hard drive case for a 20 GB drive out of one… – Link.
A towel, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value – you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady […]
Sweet, here’s how to enable geotagging in iPhoto – “By slightly changing the InfoPanel.nib file in the iPhoto 6.0.5 app bundle, you can see how this hidden feature works. Check the step-by-step on how to do this here…” [via] – Link. Related: HOW TO GPS Tag Photos: Flickr, Mappr, Google Earth…. – Link. Flickr Geotagging […]
