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From feed by engfeed on Sunday April 08, 2007 @07:32PM

The Apple TV has received two new abilities in its second week of availability thanks to a couple of new hacks: one, a fully functional and integrated RSS reader, and two, video game emulation for NES, SNES, N64, and Sega Genesis game consoles. The RSS reader comes courtesy of the bloggers over at twenty08, who've managed to put together a plugin that adds an option to read RSS1.x/2.x feeds right alongside your Media and Photos. (Might we be so bold to suggest a few feeds?). The video game emulation isn't quite as clear cut, with a Wiki over at AwkwardTV saying that several popular emulators from Richard Bannister work on the Apple TV OS with the addition of SSH. Fortunately, we don't have to take the editors of the Wiki's word for it, because there's also a link to a YouTube video which shows an Apple TV playing a NES emulator with an attached N64 controller. We've embedded the video after the break, so take a look. Finally, a look at what could be next for the totally ok to hack, as long as you watch the warranty Apple TV: a $1000 bounty for a hack that enables external drive support through the USB port. Will it be enough of a motivation for all the hackers out there?

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Submission + - Why is RAM so bloody expensive?

Submitted by LuckyEdBoy66 on Friday February 16, 2007 @11:46PM

LuckyEdBoy66 writes: This has annoyed me for a while, but today i was surfing Newegg for some RAM (Random Access Memory), and I was outraged by the price tags on those things. none that i found were under $100 for 1gb (ok, i didn't look that hard). What is the deal? I have seen 1gb SD cards for under $10, so why is RAM so pricey? sure they use different types of memory and formating, but if technology can produce cheap SD cards and flash drives, one would think it could do the same for RAM... The only possible explanation i can think of is that all the people upgrading to Vista are flocking to upgrade their machines and thus causing a huge supply shortage (ya, right. we all know better than that...). ok, so if thats illogical, then where IS the logic? is there any foreseeable price drop in the near future?

Submission + - 802.11n AirPort Extreme reviewed: 90 Mbps +

Submitted by

Glenn Fleishman

on Friday February 16, 2007 @10:39PM

Glenn Fleishman writes: "In my review of the Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station over at Macworld.com, I note that the thing really can break 90 Mbps with real throughput using 5 GHz wide channels. Pretty impressive. The base station desperately needs gigabit Ethernet, and needs a fix to a glitch that throttles speed in limited cases between the LAN and WAN segments of the router. (A networking stack in NetBSD, the unit's OS according to documents on the CD-ROM, might be the cause.) Despite those couple of provisos, it's pretty slick to fire up a wireless router, walk halfway down a block, and still get several Mbps."

Submission + - Apple CEO lambasts teacher unions

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 16, 2007 @10:38PM

An anonymous reader writes: After publishing a controversial open letter taking a stance against DRM, Steve Jobs turned his attention to teacher unions. As reported by Associated Press, Jobs said "I believe that what is wrong with our schools in this nation is that they have become unionized in the worst possible way," during an education reform conference. He stated that no amount of technology in the classroom would improve public schools until principals could fire bad teachers. Acknowledging the potential fallout of this stance, Jobs also said "Apple just lost some business in this state, I'm sure."

On the other hand, Dell responded that unions were created because "the employer was treating his employees unfairly and that was not good. So now you have these enterprises where they take good care of their people. The employees won, they do really well and succeed."

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