From: "Charles Jackson" <clj@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Dewayne Hendricks'" <dewayne@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 07:30:49 -0400
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More grist for your mill:
LINUX POWERS INTEL "PERSONAL SERVER" CONCEPT PROTOTYPE
Intel Labs is prototyping a potentially revolutionary new "personal server"
that runs on embedded Linux. The tiny device -- smaller than a PDA --
comprises a hard disk, BlueTooth, a Web-DAV enabled HTTP daemon, and other
technologies enabling the user to access and modify their
files from any enabled PC within their "Personal Area Network." This
article by Intel principal engineer and senior researcher Roy Want provides
background on the personal server concept, explains how the device will
enable a truly mobile experience, discusses the basic technologies involved,
and provides an architectural block diagram of the prototype.
<http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT5772921353.html>
NEW BOOK: "HACKING THE TIVO"
This book delves into one of embedded Linux's biggest commercial
successes: the TiVo personal video recorder. In this article about his
book, von Hagen describes the communities of enterprising TiVo users that
have sprung up, bringing new functionality to the device through hardware
upgrades and leveraging the powerful flexibility of the device's underlying
Linux OS. Obviously a great fan of the TiVo, von Hagen likens his book to
the guidebooks for customizing classic cars, repairing televisions, or other
how-to guides to hardware modification. Despite the word "hacking" in the
title, von Hagen assures readers that nothing illegal is described or
recommended in the book. <http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT3304065196.html>