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[AiboHack] ZipIt Software Reflashing

Hack the $100 zipit (cheaper on ebay) to run Linux and some custom apps. Looks like a tight fit without much RAM or Flash, but certainly a cool hack.

# A Zipit device you are willing to screw up (see warnings above)
# A Windows PC (Windows XP recommended)
# A WiFi card, or WiFi access point, attached to the Windows PC (Linux version coming later)
# Optional: Linux PC or cygwin running on Windows PC (for compiling your own Linux ARM apps)
# Free software downloaded from this website (run on Windows PC)

Main Page - Linpedia - Your daily dose of GNU/Linux

Looks like there are a few interesting articles and difinitions up already. It appears though that they need to add synonyms for some words. Searching for kernel yielded no results. the page is titled “Linux Kernel”.

Linpedia is the first GNU/Linux encyclopedia designed to be read and changed by anyone. All the information you can find on our pages are distributed under GNU Free Documentation License, and can be read, changed, used for any kind of purpose by anyone. Our goal is to help oder users by providing them useful information about GNU/Linux. However, all of the users can participate by adding some useful information or documentation on our web site. That is the concept of our comunity. We believe the reader should be free and permited to copy and redistribute our documentation.

Seth Nickell - Design Fu : xshots

Cool new eye candy coming to Fedora.

The wobbly window effect is mildly addictive. Kristian hasn’t gotten much work done since he wrote it. He (and now I) spends all day moving windows around and watching them settle.

Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide

An amazing book on the BASH shell. I think I’ve learned more in the last half hour than I have in the previous 8 years. The book (all available online) includes many advanced topics including variable scope, sub scripts, and parallel processing.

Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
An in-depth exploration of the art of shell scripting
Mendel Cooper

Picking Off Podcasts in Linux | Geektime Linux

Tony’s got a good article over at Geektime about running iPodder on Linux. Tony has even started his own podcast, The Roadhouse where he discusses “The finest blues you’ve never heard”.

If you keep in touch with the tech world, you’ve already heard the phrase: “Podcasting.” It’s set to revolutionize the way you listen to radio, just as TiVo may have already revolutionized the way you watch TV. And, it’s not a revolution that’s limited to Mac users and their shiny ubiquitous iPods.

New Scientist Breaking News -
iPod ’squeaks’ betray software secrets

You think this guy has ever had sex?

Computer enthusiasts have worked out how to reprogram Apple’s iPod music player with their own code using an ingenious acoustic trick.

GROKLAW

A. Linux Kernel sends a good rebuttal to John C. Dvorak’s latest FUD about how MS could kill Linux. For those unfamiliar with John, he’s a grouchy old kermudgeon who makes stupid half cocked predictions of what will happen in the computer industry and is invariably wrong.

“At some point in the future Microsoft will make its move on Linux, you can be certain.”

In the *future*? Well, a stopped clock is right twice a day, they say. So far, you’re half as good. Try installing NTP.

Balloon v1.0

Sounds like a fun project. Makes me wonder if anyone could build a linux computer with gps and wifi for war ballooning.

This is the story of how I designed, built, launched, and recovered a high-altitude weather balloon. Actually, the term “weather balloon” might be a bit of a misnomer, because aside from the physical latex balloon, and the payload’s ability to measure temperature, this project bears little resemblance to a traditional weather balloon. The design and engineering process encompassed more disciplines than anything I’d ever undertaken before — system engineering, software design, hardware design, basic electrical concepts, radio and RF engineering, and even some plumbing.

linux virgin

Sex sells, even Linux. I love the cheesy music and voyeur, quite a nice touch to a funny set of videos.

Starting on February 14th this site begin weekly launches of the linux virgin 1.1-1.5 series, an erotic and informative video series about learning to build a computer to run linux on.

ARCHOS

Time to start saving my pennies.

The PMA400 platform is easily customizable by adding third-party software or self-developed applications (with the help of the optional Software Development Kit, coming soon).