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See "How to replace microdrive with compactflash in LifeDrive" at wikia.com.

Via TamsPalm

What I like in LifeDrive is that finally Palm have a device that is not seriously limited in any regard - it has a decent screen resolution, a 4Gb hard drive, WiFi and a mike (which Palm T|X lacks).

It is nice to explore hardware hacking pages. But I need to get some new gadgets first (and find some time to play with them). What are the recent cool gadgets out there?

Was trying to upgrade Fedora Core on one of the servers. It is a virtual machine running under VMWare and is currently running FC3.

I would not need to upgrade it if it did not have a problem known to Linux running under VMWare - it looses time. Every second lasts twice as long and the clock on the virtual machine lags behind. Not a good thing, even if it can be worked around by synchronising time.

Did try to install VMWare Tools but it says there are no kernel modules ready for my system and compiling from sources fails. Therefore one of the options is to upgrade to FC4 or FC5 and see if the problem disappears or if the VMWare Tools would install or compile better.

The result so far: failure.

I did not have a DVD-ROM drive readily available so tried 2 other ways to install it: (a) by donwloading a DVD image and mounting it locally as described in "Upgrading from Fedora Core 3 to Fedora Core 4 -- quick upgrade using ISOs from HDD" which allowed me to boot into the installer but failed later on and (b) installing via HTTP which failed at the same place.

In both cases the installer would collect information about the system, start the installation and then fail with an error message "There was an error installing filesystem-2.3.4-1" suggesting there was a media error, not enough disk space or other failure. This is a critical failure and the installation stops.

Will try to upgrade to FC5 now. Maybe that will work better. I wanted to upgrade one version number up first but probably there is no reason to hesitate going to FC5 (unless it is not compatible with VMWare that we have).

There is also an option to upgrade using yum as described in YumUpgradeFaq and mentioned in "FC3 to FC4 Upgrade Process Question" but is it is less tested than using an installer.

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Meklēju 3.5" hard drive enclosure. Palasoties atsauksmes par Maxtor OneTouch, nolēmu, ka labāk neņemt šādus te risinājumus un paņemt atsevišķi HDD un enclosure (ietvaru).

Te būs mazliet sarakste par tēmu un viens skaists ievars: MaPower MAP-KC31. Izskatās labi, testu rezultāti arī labi. Firma ziņās drīz sola arī TripleX interfeisu - USB 2.0, FireWire 400 un SATA. Jautājums vienīgi - vai man vajag extrēmo diska kasti?

Xoro 400 DVD player is a nice and inexpensive DVD player, capable of playing DivX.


However, the DivX format has many variations and while Xoro 400 plays many of them, regular firmware updates are needed to keep pace with DivX format evolution. The last firmware update on Xoro firmware download page is dated 13.11.2003.


Is there newer firmware for Xoro 400???
As far as I know, there isn’t.


Somebody mentioned that you can flash Xoro 400 (not plus) with the firmware for Xoro 400plus.

If so, can somebody confirm this?


I asked this question on Xoro forum, but the answer so far is that the ESS chipset in Xoro 400 is no longer supported by the manufacturer. And that you cannot flash it with firmware for Xoro 400plus.


If Xoro ceases to support their players so fast, I wonder if it is wise for consumers to buy their DivX player products.

The original /. article: DVD Authoring under Linux?


This guide was posted on the Gentoo Forums by shiznix. Find it here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=117709 [gentoo.org]


A few links:
http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net/

http://dvd-slideshow.sourceforge.net/
http://www.pcxperience.org/james/dvd/presentations/20031016/medres/text0.html

http://www.tappin.me.uk/Linux/dvd.html
http://gecius.de/linux/dvd.html

http://www.dahnielson.com/primer.txt
http://polidori.chapelperilous.net/

http://qdvdauthor.sourceforge.net/
http://dvdstyler.sourceforge.net/

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