A lot of you have probably unlocked Athlon's and Duron's the same way I have, using a mechanical pencil to join the L1 bridges. Many people doubted the author who first wrote the article about unlocking these chips with a pencil, but to many peoples surprise it turned out that it worked. While it did work many people found that over time it stopped working and the lines had to be redrawn. As each day passes, more and more devices using Linux are announced. Some of the most notable are TiVo which has been on the market for some time, Nokia's upcoming Multimedia Terminal, and a soon to be released PDA from Sharp.
Developers claim the choice is obvious.
Small footprint, open code, free availability, efficiency, and stability all help give Linux the upper hand in embedded development. AM CST Iamnotageek has a review about Samsung's DVD-D1000 DVD player. Another option in the DVD Setup menu worth looking at is something called Dynamic Compression. What it does it is constrains the dynamic range difference between the quietest and loudest passages of a DVD sound track. Basically it makes loud noises quieter and quieter noises louder.