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Hack Your Wii For Homebrew Apps & DVD Playback

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

Despite the fact that it ships with a DVD drive, for whatever godforsaken reason, the Nintendo Wii doesn’t support DVD playback—until last week, that is, when a homebrew hacker released a tool that enables DVD playback on your Wii. The best part? You don’t have to crack open your Wii or disturb your hardware in any way to install it. Let’s take a detailed look at how to softmod your Wii with the Twilight hack to run homebrew apps. Then we’ll show you how to install the Wii port of the open source media player, mplayer, to turn your Wii into a DVD (or should I say WiiVD?) player.

Link: Lifehacker

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Set Up Your Firewall With Firewall Builder

Friday, October 10th, 2008

Firewall Builder (fwbuilder) is a graphical application that can help you to configure IP traffic filtering. It can compile the filtering policy you define into many specifications, including iptables and various languages used by Cisco and Linksys routers. Separating the actual policy you define and the implementation in this way should let you change what hardware is running your firewall without having to redefine your policy for that platform.

Link: Linux

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Ease Linux System Administration Tasks

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

The Puppet project allows you to issue system administration commands to one or more machines, and will smooth over the differences between distributions for you. For example, if you want to install MySQL, that action should be your primary aim, and you shouldn’t have to worry about if the machine is running Maemo, Ubuntu, or Fedora.

Puppet frees you from thinking about the hardware architecture a system is using, what Linux distribution it runs, or where that particular machine happens to store its Apache DocumentRoot by using a declarative language to specify the system administration task that you would like to perform. Puppet has many built-in facilities, such as classes, which allow the different details to be smoothed over when Puppet rolls out the system administration tasks you have declared.

Link: Linux

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A Light Weight, Ubuntu-Based Linux Distro

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

WattOS is a new Linux distribution that’s based on Ubuntu, but designed for low-power machines. It has low system requirements, which means you can run it on older hardware. But the developers are also hoping to build advanced power management features into the OS so that you’ll have a full Linux desktop experience without consuming much power (by today’s computer standards).

Link: Download Squad

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