Flickr Pitchr FrameTurn an old laptop into a picture frame that displays dynamic content from Flickr.com.
For discussion of this project refer to the mailing list:
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http://groups.google.com/group/flickr-pitchr-dev/
Virtualbox Drive Image (VDI)
A compressed Virtualbox Drive Image (VDI) is available at :
http://www.jasonellison.net/flickr/flickr-pitchr.0.0.7.zip (released on April 19th 2009)
This image is provided to make testing or contributing to the project easier!
How to use the VDI image:
download and install Virtualbox 2.2.0 http://www.virtualbox.org/
download and decompress the flickr-pitchr vdi image containing in the zip file http://www.jasonellison.net/flickr/flickr-pitchr.0.0.7.zip
decompress the zip file and note the location of the vdi file start virtualbox and create a new virtual machine give it a name and set the OS type to "Linux 2.6" assign 128MB of RAM when prompted for a boot hard disk choose existing and locate the vdi image you decompressed earlier Start the machine and log in as root with no password. You should see further instructions after the machine starts.
The image is a customized and trimmed Slackware 12.0 install that weighs about 100MB compressed and 320MB uncompressed. Virtualbox is an x86 emulator much like VMware workstation: there is an Open Source version licensed under GPL version and it is free for personal use.
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