Month: August 2005
A time-lapse series of the PVR assembly. Nothing fancy or great. Just a quest for a DRM free PVR. Photos 
Duck Doom Deluxe
Someone made their own Duck hunt mash up – called Duck Doom deluxe, all the best things about Doom and Duck hunt in one game! DUCK DOOM Deluxe – An overhaul upgrade to the original Duck Doom, featuring new difficulty levels, graphics effects, remixed music & enhanced sound, the BFG-9000, and more! Link.
Libraries offering audiobook downloads…
Here’s another story about libraries offering audio files and digital files for their patrons, sounds good right? No- as usual, someone sold a DRM solution that doesn’t really work. Each week I get emails from folks all over the USA trying to figure out ways to get the files on their “non-supported device”.Link.
Boot loader showdown: Getting to know LILO and GRUB
Most Linux users, from the casual desktop user to the Linux system administrator, have used a utility known as a boot loader. Different variations of this utility provide varying levels of support and functionality. In many cases, the default boot loader installed with a Linux distribution is not always the best for your needs; the same can be said for the default settings of each boot loader. In this article, Laurence Bonney discusses the pros and cons of two of the more popular boot loaders — LILO and GRUB — and suggests a number of configurations to get the most from your machine. Link.
Tour of the Xbox manufacturing facility
Here’s a tour of the Xbox manufacturing facility – I’m not sure where or when these were taken, but they look really neat. Link.
San Diego Computer Museum…
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.
An open source algorithmic, computer-generated podcast
The babelcast (RSS feed) is perhaps the first algorithmic, computer-generated podcast. Using generative algorithms available in the open source, cross platform, Python-programmed athenaCL system to control Csound, this series is a sort-of political media-talk mash-up. Sounds of politicians and commentators are collected during a period of days or weeks, and then algorithmically processed, recombined, and mixed with noise and percussive textures into a fragmentary, distorted landscape of sound. Link. It’s mesmerizing.
