Herrie released a new NEC hacked firmware, the NEC 108v2 Special (Booktype) Holiday Edition.

FEATURES:

- DYNAMIC BITSETTING:
Now your NEC can burn DVD R(W)s with different book types
DVD R, -R, RW, -RW and -ROM are possible.

- NEW AUTO RESET ROUTINE:

Region code - no problem. If you ever have set a
regio code to your drive this firmware will reset your
drive to factory settings once. Don't worry about the
flash memory. After this reset the firmware will
not(!) write in flash anymore.

Any temporary regio code setting will disappear after
changing the DVD.

- 2X RIP LIMIT:
removed for sure

The Sony DW-U10A to DRU500A and 4x firmware hack roundup I found is a nice summary of firmware hackers making their DVD a real DRU500A an capable of buring PRINCO 4x media at 4x speed.

WRT54G Firmware was hacked ... the LinkSys WLAN router actually incorporating Cisco technology can run a mini-linux :-)

Get the latest version Make by me, with Pingbug hack, Telnetd, VPN PPTP Passthrough - Christmas Version (Last update: 27/12/2003 - 01: 50 Paris)

features coming up:

Check this new Sony toy QRIO out... the amazing new robot is able to run, pitch a ball at high speed and dance a japanese choreographed dance with 2 QRIO friends.

More at asahi.com

LOOK AT THESE MOVIES!
in WM-Player format
in REAL-Player format

again via KoKoRo - cool work!

if you are into japanese, checkout Sony's original page on QRIO

KoKoRo has a link to the first Tae Kwon Do Robot Tanko

Medion 9170/MD 5044/SAA 7134 tv watching is fun again - actually... it was...

My upgrade to Windows XP and DirectX9.0b including the hotfix DirectX9b-KB825116-x86-DEU.exe could get my TV card to work again... it really sucks... and you know what? it's only a Windows problem - when I boot the Windows 2000 partition with the same drivers the whole thing works...

AND: after rebooting into XP without powering off the card even works in XP - it's just an initialization problem after a cold boot... oh my god - I see DOS/Win3.11 times being back again... some things never change... :-(

Update: another trick with TunerFix.Exe also didnt work...

Thanks to J2EEGEEK I could find this great Dilbert cartoon...

Very funny, because my project is an XP aswell - fortunately my customer understood the advantages and disadvantages and helps enforcing small featuresets per release... oh - btw: release in 1 week :-)