Science Addiction

This is the IInd part of an “ongoing series”:http://www.scienceaddiction.com/categories/geek-projects/linux-on-the-xbox/ on my experiences with installing Linux on my Xbox.

SO MAYBE I’M CRAZY ENOUGH TO TRY THIS– WHERE DO I START?
Ah, nice to know there are other zealots out there. So, before you do anything else, you want to bookmark the “Xbox-Linux website”:http://www.xbox-linux.org. Lot’s of interesting information about how and why you would want to attempt this project- the kind of stuff “I’ve already written about”:http://www.scienceaddiction.com/2005/08/06/linux-on-the-xbox-reasoning-part-i/. Read the rest of this entry »

HOW DID IT COME TO THIS?
So a few days ago, I finally decided to sell my Xbox. Purchased in a frenzy of going-to-grad-school shopping, knowing fully well that you can’t get through a degree in computer science without putting in your hours behind the controls of a powerful gaming machine, this black and green monster has served its purpose.

But since then, I’ve graduated. I work full time. The few games I owned started finding their way to “Half.com”:http://www.half.com and pretty soon it had become clear.

The Xbox had to go. Read the rest of this entry »