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“Post-Christmas sales are a must for bargain hunters, but this year brings a new incentive to stock up on electronics: 2005 might be the last good year to get gizmos that aren’t locked down.”

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“We’re living in the golden age of the gadget. Don’t believe it? Check your pockets. Odds are you’re carrying a portable music player, an electronic organizer, a keychain-size storage device, a digital camera, or a cell phone that combines some or all of these functions. And you’d probably be hard-pressed to live without them.”

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“Video Without Boundaries (VWB) will introduce a new Linux-powered set-top digital media center at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next month. The MediaREADY 6000 combines a PVR (personal video recorder) with multimedia record/playback/jukebox functions, Internet Web and email access, voice/video-over-IP conferencing, and karaoke capabilities, according to the company.
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“Funny: Driving several times past a line of people waiting to buy an Xbox 360 as you tauntingly dangle your brand new ‘box out the window.
Not so funny: Your idiot friend drops the 360 out the car window and someone on line snatches it up and runs away.
More funny: Watching this all go down on video. “

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” Anyone with property insurance of any kind (not just home insurance) should have a record of the insured property for claim purposes. […] It’s much easier to take digital photos of serial/model numbers and receipts than to write them down, type them in, or scan them. It costs nothing. The data is by nature stored away from the affected insurance area.

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“Verizon gets all anal and prevents a Maryland town from putting up its Christmas lights. Townspeople get revenge by putting an inflatable Grinch next to the local Verizon office.”

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I love my WRT54G. Make sure you don’t buy a new one if you want to hack it tho..

Now I just need to see if I can hack my new TV, which runs Linux.

“The WRT54G in versions 1 through 4 used free and open-source software components for its embedded operating system and most of its functions. After some negotiation a few years ago, Cisco’s Linksys division released all the code they had modified as they were ostensibly required to under the terms of the GPL (General Public License) and other software licenses for components they had used. Wireless hackers immediately figured out how to replace the baked-in firmware with their own firmware images to take advantage of the WRT54G’s low cost and high availability. This appeared to end with the November 2005 release of v5, which switched to a proprietary OS while halving the RAM in the unit.

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“You know every year when the holidays roll around and that goddamned Peanuts theme song fills your head during the Charlie Brown Christmas Special, you get a warm-and-fuzzy feeling. That’s why you’re going to adore and love this Snoopy iPod Nano with a great Schultz cartoon engraved on the back. It features Woodstock talking to Snoopy and a single musical note coming from his speech bubble.”

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