Many websites restrict the access to their content by geo IP.
E.g. you cannot access the BBC streams outside of UK, you cannot access Netflix/Hulu/Pandora outside of USA and so on…
The solution to this problem is to use a VPN service that will give you an IP of the country of your choice.
I’ve now tried BlackVPN, a global OpenVPN service, located in the Netherlands.
If you like my work, buy me a beer. (Suggested: 3€ for a beer, or more for more beer ;-) )For fearless and lazy people only: 
http://jogglerwiki.info/index.php?title=Installing_Debian_Squeeze#Install_scripts_for_lazy_people
Update 2010-06-06, Version 0.2:
prepare_squeeze_joggler.sh has a –usage parameter now (and many more parameters):
If you like my work, buy me a beer. (Suggested: 3€ for a beer, or more for more beer ;-) )I’ve installed Debian Squeeze on my Joggler now: 
http://jogglerwiki.info/index.php?title=Installing_Debian_Squeeze
It’s working great with SqueezePlay and MythTV-frontend!
If you want to use MythTV, I can recommend EasyStroke to control it by gestures.
If you like my work, buy me a beer. (Suggested: 3€ for a beer, or more for more beer ;-) )Some news regarding Android @ Joggler:
As said in http://www.flattermann.net/2010/04/android-on-o2-joggler/ I’ve tried to install Android on the Joggler/OpenPeak.
In the last post, I said that Sound and Wifi did not work yet.
Well, that’s solved by now.
You can use Sound and Wifi on the Joggler now!
If you see this device:
http://www.openpeak.com/OpenFrame.php
What’s your first thought?
Right: Why didn’t they install Android on it?
I was able to get one of these gadgets from O2/UK for a discount price of 49GBP, so couldn’t resist.
In the meantime, I was able to install Android on the Joggler!
If you like my work, buy me a beer. (Suggested: 3€ for a beer, or more for more beer ;-) )You want to try the look and feel of Android?
There’s a great project to port Android to x86!
They offer a LiveCD that you can try without changing anything on your PC.
Furthermore, you can even install it on your PC/Netbook!
It should already run on e.g. many Netbooks like the Asus EeePC.
You want to have the benefits of a local SqueezeBoxServer but avoid a high power consuming PC running 24/7?
In this case, you should take a look at the SheevaPlug embedded PC.
It’s not exactly very pretty, but it’s cheap (~100$) and it serves it purpose. It uses a 1.2GHz ARM CPU, 512MB RAM and uses as little as 2.3W (idle) to 7W (100% CPU usage).
If you like my work, buy me a beer. (Suggested: 3€ for a beer, or more for more beer ;-) )As mentioned, I’ve got an Asus EeePC 901 Go.
It’s very nice to have internet-everywhere via the internal UMTS G3.5 modem, and this is very easy to accomplish with (Debian) Linux.
I’ve written a small HowTo that describes the necessary steps.
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As written in my first blog article about my Asus EeePC 901Go, there are two different versions of this EeePC model available, one with a very slow SSD and one with a fast SSD.
You can distinguish the two models by looking at P/N on the EeePC box or by opening the EeePC and identifying the SSD itself:
I made sure that I got a fast SSD model, but the question arises:
Today, I found the time to perform some benchmarks of the SSD read/write speed.
If you like my work, buy me a beer. (Suggested: 3€ for a beer, or more for more beer ;-) )By using my new Asus EeePC 901 Go while traveling through India for around a month, I noticed several things:
