as the MW band has been so poor it has given me time to play around with other things and a few months ago i started to get Linux running on an old original xbox which i finished yesterday and while the original xbox by today's standards is very old you can still have allot of fun with them and i hacked mine so it can play backup games from the hard drive which i swapped the original 8 gig one for a 120 gig hard drive which lets me put on allot of games and with XBMC ( xbox media centre ) i have put on my avi files ( movies ... tv series etc ) and allot of mp3 music etc and i can also stream movies or music from my pc in the shack to the xbox in the living room.
going back to linux and i installed a version called " damn small Linux " which can be found on any xbox update/program disk and the original xbox has an Intel celeron processor running at 733 MHz with 64 meg of ram and graphics is Similar to the GeForce 3 Ti500 and with the new 120 gig hard drive by today's standards you wouldn't bother with it and on the front of the xbox there are four controller ports which are basically usb ports and with a simple mod to a mouse and keyboard or you could buy/make an adaptor it gives you the full functions of a pc and if i am not in the mood to climb up into the shack and use my pc and if the xyl/daughter are using their own pc/laptop i can switch on the xbox and run Linux to browse the web .... check emails .... or even go onto skype and as i said by today's standards the system is ancient but its an interesting project to turn a xbox into a VERY handy media centre ( which plays all formats ) and web browser and make it do things what its not supposed to do
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