Computers & Mobile

From Etsy – a place to buy and sell all things handmade…an inside-out computer. The motherboard, instead of being hidden away, faces outward for all to see. The entire case was made by hand using oak hardwood and 1/4″ amber-tinted plexiglass. [via] Link.

A time-lapse series of the PVR assembly. Nothing fancy or great. Just a quest for a DRM free PVR. Photos here and a bit more about the PVR project and specs here.

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.

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.

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.