Science Addiction

This is the IInd part of an ongoing series on my experiences with installing Linux on my Xbox.

SO MAYBE I’M CRAZY ENOUGH TO TRY THIS- WHERE DO I START?
Ah, nice to know there are other zealots out there. So, before you do anything else, you want to bookmark the Xbox-Linux website. Lot’s of interesting information about how and why you would want to attempt this project- the kind of stuff I’ve already written about. Read more »

HOW DID IT COME TO THIS?
So a few days ago, I finally decided to sell my Xbox. Purchased in a frenzy of going-to-grad-school shopping, knowing fully well that you can’t get through a degree in computer science without putting in your hours behind the controls of a powerful gaming machine, this black and green monster has served its purpose.

But since then, I’ve graduated. I work full time. The few games I owned started finding their way to Half.com and pretty soon it had become clear.

The Xbox had to go. Read more »

This is my constructive response to the column at CoolTechZone on the 5th of August titled Is it Wrong to Love Microsoft? To give you a little perspective, I have a WindowsXP desktop dual booted with Fedora Core 4 Linux, Windows XP Professional laptop, and Mac Powerbook at home and so have sufficient experience with all of them. Read more »