{mosimage}Today I ordered my new Mac mini Core Duo 1.66 with 1GB of RAM and 120GB HDD. This device is going to be the crux of my Media Centre.



I was informed by Nextbyte, that if I wanted the 80GB HDD, I could have the unit that day, but as I wanted the bigger hard drive (quicker than an external), I was told there would be a 4 to 6 week delay.



In the meantime, I came across this site, OWC, who have posted a new video showing how to disassemble the Intel-based Mac mini. The video covers upgrading the Mac mini's hard drive, memory, and optical drive. Check it out.



Update (20/3): I've been told there is a 3-4 week delay. So, mid April.

{mosimage}"Meebo is a web based IM that lets you log into your IM networks from any computer with a browser and internet connection with no firewall issues.


It employs technologies (like AJAX) to make it act more like a desktop application, which dramatically improves usability."



It's pretty cool. Check it out here.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/tls/trailer/large.html

{mosimage}After, ZDNet's much publicised accusation that OS X was hacked in 30 minutes (the machine was hacked because local accounts were given out), the University of Wisconsin threw down a real challenge.



"The testing period is now closed and the response has been very strong.

• Traffic to the host spiked at over 30 Mbps.
  
• Most of the traffic, aside from casual web visitors, was web exploit scripts, ssh dictionary attacks, and scanning tools such as Nessus.
  
• The machine was under intermittent DoS attack. During the two brief periods of denial of service, the host remained up.
  
• The test machine was a Mac mini (PowerPC) running Mac OS X 10.4.5 with Security Update 2006-001, had two local accounts, and had ssh and http open with their default configurations.
  
• There were no successful access attempts during the 38 hour duration of the test period.
  

• The site received almost a half a million requests via the web.
  
• There were over 4000 login attempts via ssh.
  
• The ipfw log grew at 40MB/hour and contains 6 million events logged.
  
• More test results and information will be published here at a future date."
  

{mosimage}TechEblog.com has posted up their latest weekly Top 10 list, this week, they bring us the Top 10 Strangest (or Coolest) Lego Creations.




Personally, I gotta say, how cool is that Han Solo in carbonite ?