links for 2008-08-05 [delicious.com]

• Boot Linux from a FireWire device
  A much better solution is to purchase an external hard drive and install Linux on that. This lets you leave your existing hardware and software untouched and simply connect the external drive when you want to use Linux.
  (tags: linux boot howto firewire ieee 1394 external drive)
• HP Support & Drivers
  Find drivers for HP products
  (tags: hp notebook drivers)
• Universal IEEE 1394 Device Driver Software for Windows (IEEE1394a, IEEE1394b, FireWire, i.Link) – FireWire Development Kit – Tool-Kit FireWire
  The IEEE 1394 High Performance Serial Bus(FireWire)is supported in all current Windows operating systems.Windows provides a bus driver and device drivers for various IEEE1394 OHCI compliant host controllers(e.g.from Texas Instruments/TI,VIA,RICOH or NEC).
  (tags: firewire windows controller drivers)
• Firewire – Community Ubuntu Documentation
  Firewire is the common name for the standard known as IEEE1394. Many digital camcorders and computers have a built-in Firewire ports. You can read more general notes about Firewire and see what the ports and cables look like in the Wikipedia entry.
  (tags: video ubuntu linux kino howto guide firewire ieee 1394 dv)
• Kino: raw1394 kernel module not loaded or failure to read/write /dev/raw1394! – Adventures in Switching to Linux
  The first program I decided to install was Kino. It seems pretty full featured so far and I am impressed. I wasn't able to pull down video over the 1394 (FireWire) interface (/dev/raw1394) at first though. This was an easy fix.
  (tags: linux firewire ieee 1394 kino howto fix-it fix)
• Playing with Firewire | Linux Magazine
  I often see questions from people trying to install Firewire devices in Linux. Some newer distributions support FireWire “out of the box,” but not all FW hardware is compatible with Linux. This month’s column answers some burning questions about FireWire.
  (tags: linux howto firewire ieee 1394)
• The Man Behind Ubuntu: Talking with Mark Shuttleworth | Linux Magazine
  Mark Shuttleworth is a man who wears many hats. To some, he is the founder of the Ubuntu project. To others, he’s the man behind Canonical, and HBD Venture Capital. Much of the world knows him as the first African space traveler.
  (tags: ubuntu technology tech shuttleworth mark linux interview foss free open source software)
• Wine @ Work: Running MS Office and IE on Linux | Linux Magazine
  King Solomon called wine a mocker and the same can be said of Wine: The software package that runs Windows software under Linux. It mocks the way we think about platform-specific programs and applications — blurring the lines between Windows and Linux.
  (tags: linux wine microsoft office internet explorer howto)