This is already a fairly old article, but I’m pretty confident it never made OSNews’ front page. In this article, the author proves that Windows XP can be installed, and ‘run’, on processors with as little as 8MHz. “The target of this project was to find the weakest system where you can run Windows XP. Keep in mind, that Microsoft official requirements are a CPU with 233 MHz an 64 MB of RAM. But that had to be beaten!”
Originally from OSNews
Will you be able to dual-boot Windows XP and OS X? Well, many would agree that the likelihood of booting Windows XP on an Intel Mac is just about as certain as getting laid at the Chicken Ranch. Colin Nederkoorn of Houston, Texas decided to pledge $100 of his own money to anyone who can devise a method to boot Windows XP on an Intel Mac. He’s encouraging everyone to make donations, and since he first posted the contest on Sunday (Jan. 22), the pot is over $700 at press time. The first person to e-mail complete instructions to Colin will be the winner, taking home all that moo-la. He’ll post the results on his site.
How’s the fund-raising process going? Colin told Gizmodo, “Well, since I posted the contest it has averaged $25 per hour. I am anticipating that to spike as it gets around the net.” Why did he do it? Colin explained, “I had been watching the progress on message boards and saw a lot of people interested, but not a lot of progress past the early successes getting into the EFI interface. I knew there were other people willing to pay for a solution and thought an organized effort could speed up progress.”
Whoa, Colin! Cool. Good luck.
Cory Doctorow:
An enterprising hacker commissioned a business-card that converts to a set of lockpicks from a person who makes die-cut sheet-metal cards.
(Thanks, Colin!)
Originally posted by Cory Doctorow from Boing Boing
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Onimoto has an interesting post about how to trace an e-mail.
The purpose of this guide is to show the process involved in tracing an email. The first step required to tracing an email is finding out the headers of the email. What are headers? Email headers are lines added at the top of an email message that are used by servers as the email goes on route to get delivered. Generally email clients only show the standard To, From, and Subject headers, but there are more.
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