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Ars System Guide: Home Media Server

For our first Home Media Server guide, we’re including two options: Budget Media Server and the Performance Media Server. For the most part, the parts are interchangeable between the two so you can mix and match the components to meet your needs.
by Brian Won.

Seagate introduces us to DAVE

More drive-makers are adding to the selection of mobile content servers to debut in 2007, as Seagate formally announced this week the Digital Audio Video Experience (DAVE). DAVE will be a small, portable hard drive that will use WiFi and Bluetooth to transfer media and other files between devices. Seagate’s goal with DAVE will be to allow users to freely access their files at any time from nearly any device.
by Jacqui Cheng.

AGP Platform Analysis, Part 2: New Cards, Single-Core System

In this second part, we examine how these new AGP cards perform on a newer, but not cutting edge, single-core Athlon64. The Athlon64 architecture was king before the new Conroe-based CPUs came along from Intel, so there are quite a few of them still out there, and many are based on motherboards with AGP slots instead of the new PCI express standard.
by Don Woligroski.

Building Linux Device Drivers on FreeBSD

Linux has a large amount of device drivers for hardware not supported on FreeBSD, especially USB devices (see here for a related discussion). Not rarely, such drivers have been written based on information derived by protocol sniffing, reverse engineering and the like. This makes the code highly undocumented, and renders the porting effort extremely error prone.
by Luigi Rizzo.

Share application data with UNIX System V IPC mechanisms

he UNIX® operating system provides a rich set of features that allows processes to communicate with each other. Known as Inter-Process Communication (IPC), you can use this communication method to reconfigure an application at run time or to share data between different processes that are running in parallel. This article teaches you how to identify the methods that applications can use to communicate with each other, select the most appropriate method for your application, and begin your implementation.
by Sean Walberg.

Turbolinux’s Wizpy multimedia player coming in February

Japan’s Turbolinux will begin selling its Wizpy Linux-based multimedia player in February. As a bonus, the device can also be used to boot a PC into the Linux OS, allowing users to access their files in their own working environment on almost any PC.
by Martyn Williams.

TurboLinux’s Wizpy in the wild

Well, it looks like TurboLinux’s Wizpy can official join the ranks of living, breathing devices, now that Impress Watch has gotten a hold of the little Linux number. Not much more real info about this guy, just the usual PMP / Linux-booting fare, but if that 33,800 yen pricetag for the 4GB version is a bit steep, you might be glad to hear TurboLinux has a 2GB version on the way as well, which should cost 29,800 and drop at the same time on February the 23rd.
Paul Miller.

Workaround Discovered For “Clean Install” With Vista Upgrade DVDs

Microsoft internal documentation reveals workaround for Vista Upgrade DVDs with no need for a previous version of Windows.
by Brandon Hill.

Handling RAR and 7-Zip archives in Linux

The RAR and 7-Zip file compression formats originated on Windows, so support for them on Linux is not as automatic as it is for old Unix holdovers like Gzip and TAR. But with the right software, you can handle these compressed files without much trouble.
by Nathan Willis.

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