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Here’s how to set up a Linux based answering machine from the Linux Hosting and Indian Users Group using a mic, phone line, modem and mgetty/vgetty – Link. Related: HOW TO make an Asterisk answering machine – Link. A Guide to VoIP and Asterisk – Link.
This is neat, run the Mac OS (7.0.1) ona 32 MB thumb drive – ” Running Linux, Windows or applications like Firefox, Thunderbird and AbiWord from a USB flash memory device is old hat. How about a Mac 128K or Plus on a USB key? Using a ‘portable’ Mac system you can: play with old […]
Finally, at last! You can build a low-cost, fully professional ASCII keyboard and encoder “Popular Electronics April 1974” – Link – but wait, there’s more, this keyboard showed up on the Apple 1 Computer – Link.
This clever Maker swapped out the LCD screen in a 15″ Powerbook with a higher resolution (1920 x 1200 display) – it should work in a new Macbook pro, and doesn’t require soldering, just assembly. Interesting, you’d get the same resolution as a 23″ Cinema display… [via] – Link.
Here’s how to make a 4 x AA USB battery pack for an external USB hard drive, Sitnalta writes – “Not long ago, I upgraded the hard drive in my laptop from an 80GB 4200RPM to a 120GB 5200RPM. Not wanting to let my old 2.5” drive go to waste, I bought a rather nice […]
Mqtthiqs writes – “I found a couple of those *really* old laptops at garage sales. They are 100% functionning, and the screen of this one is a wonderfully old school blue-white one. I *had* to do something with it… If you remove the whole plastic case, keeping only what really useful is (screen, motherboard and […]
You can buy a TiVo, a TiVo-like video recorder, or a Microsoft Media center PC, but who knows how long you’ll be able to keep/record all your shows – so – I usually try and get folks to take MythTV for a swing, an open source alternative. That said, sometimes setting up a Linux box […]
