Someone has documented his progress in hacking around with Oracle's ThinkNIC box. The device certainly has great possibilities for use as various network appliances. The site describes what it is, what's inside, how to add a hard drive, and how to customize and burn a new system CD.
Abit: motherboards, video cards, Linux distro, and...speakers? Yes, folks, Abit has made a foray into yet another area of computer products. Firing Squad has a review of the Abit Emodulator SP-50 speakers. They're juiced up for Dolby Digitial 5.1 sound and they come in pretty colors, but do they measure up to the usual standards we've come to expect from Abit? Well, the review is there for the reading, but the basic impression from the FS folks seems to be "Not bad."
There's an interview with Michael Abrash on Daily Radar. Michael is an ex-id Software programmer now at Microsoft working on the Xbox, which is the subject of the interview. Covers a lot of stuff including NVidia, HDTV, Lens Flares, and how the X-Box might run quake
