Wesley's Tool-Box

Here it is... Korea's first imported Mac mini based on Intel's Core Duo processor! Of course, its older brother, the one with Freescale G4, was also the first to land on Korean soil. My earlier experiment with running the website on a Pentium M system with Windows didn't go so well, so it's back to Mac mini's job again. I'll probably try Linux next time.

While those of you who don't use a Mac or have large collection of video it may have gone unnoticed, there has been a weird and annoying hole in video playback compatibility in Mac platform. Specifically, AVI videos that use Windows Media Video 9 (a.k.a. WMV9 and also called WMV3) codec could not be played, let alone viewed with subtitles. Due to the availability of the 'WMV9 VCM' for Windows it has been possible to use that video codec in AVI container instead of the WMV container originally intended. However, in Macs playing this sort of file (and preferably with accompanying subtitle file) had following roadblocks until early this year.

The new wearable computing project has now seen the first fruit of labour. The main system module, a completely functioning system that only needs power source, input device, and monitor, is now in working order with its own casing. As you can see, it is only as big as a novel, but houses a Pentium M 1.6GHz, 1GB of memory, 100GB hard disk, and a power supply that accepts 8V to 13.6V DC voltage.