Ever wondered what the factories that churn out products as varying as sneakers to the most advanced computers look like? Check this page out http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/index.php (scroll down a bit)

 Bunnie was the guy who was responsible for dumping the BIOS of the original XBOX, and as a result, all of the linux and media center add ons that followed. The guy is ridiculously smart, with a Ph.D. in Massively Parallel/ Supercomputer design, and is a very good writer for an engineer.

 As an added bonus, he links to the site under Useful links.

Very interesting look into what makes all our favorite amenaties possible.

pretty cool stuff. i should read more of these kind of interesting blogs.

forgot: funny how in the end it was the firmware provided in the US that's causing the problem. 

Hey cool, Foxconn! They make Wiis! And PS3s (i think).

Unfortunatelly they make crappy PC parts too... I remember a heatsink for CPU, it was "made from copper with heatpipes"... but the heatsink was no copper at all, it was painted copper-color! And you know that heatpipes are filled with liquid/gas etc.... but the ones on this heatsinks were empty!