Yeah, I forgot to say that I wasn't entirely sure precisely what my friend's "magic box" ran but I was sure that is was ( he never trusted me to fiddle with it) definately a *nix with how some of the things worked, and all the directories were from / too... so I assumed...<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 8:49 AM, azmodie <<a href="mailto:azmodie@gmail.com">azmodie@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
My solution to this was the archos 605 <br><a onmousedown="" href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=gp04-21&path=http%3A//www.amazon.co.uk/ARCHOS-605-WiFi-multimedia-player/dp/B000S5ZUHU/ref%3Dsr_1_4%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Delectronics%26qid%3D1207899743%26sr%3D1-4" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.co.uk/ARCHOS-605-WiFi-multimedia-player/dp/B000S5ZUHU/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1207899743&sr=1-4</a><br>
<br>comes in cheaper versions with smaller hd, plays divx, has built in wifi, touchscreen and comes with tv out cables in rgb format and scart adapter. <br><br>(note above link not best price) <br><br>(sorry its not exactly open source) although it does run linux. <br>
<br>the source code for the firmware is on archos site and here is a hack to get root access and ssh working<br><a href="http://code.google.com/p/arcwelder/" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/arcwelder/</a> <br><br>
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month and decide all of our fates."<br>-- Jeremy Bolt - Producer - Resident Evil : Apocalypse
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