Andrew Shane Huang is a 35 year old hardware hacker, known to some as
bunnie, and others as that guy who
hacked the Xbox and went on to
write a book about it.
Finding the hidden key to the Xbox was
an enjoyable distraction while he worked on getting his PhD in Electrical Engineering from MIT as
part of
Project Aries. Since then, he has
written for (and
been written about) in
Make Magazine, has
giving talks on the strategy of hardware openness and
manufacturing practices in China, as experienced with the development of the opensource
ambient "
internet-based TV" called
Chumby. When he's not busy on such excursions, bunnie writes about
hacking (and more specifically,
Chumby hacking),
technology in China, and even
biology in exquisite detail on
the bunnie studios blog (
previously).
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posted by filthy light thief
on Jun 17, 2010 -
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BeOS has been reborn a number of times, often without significant success but
things are looking up. Starting in 1991 with the production of an all-in-one hardware/software home multimedia computer (the
BeBox, the first of which was
available to the public in 1994), the possible purchase by Apple was at the height of success for BeOS (instead Apple
chose to buy NeXT in 1996), and the low point of being when BeOS was
bought by Palm for $11 million in 2001, where it became part of the
Palm OS Cobalt that nobody wanted. In 2002,
news of BeOS' rebirth as yellowTAB came out, with another shift as yellowTAB became
magnussoft ZETA, which finally folded in 2007, as
their figures were far below expectations. From here, fans and enthusiasts took over, with a number of attempts to re-create BeOS from scratch. Most failed, but
Haiku (
previously) has survived, and today they announced that the
first alpha version of the Haiku operating system is
available for download (direct download or through torrent), and
a preliminary review sounds positive.
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posted by filthy light thief
on Sep 14, 2009 -
59 comments
