Building a cluster of MSN TV boxes

[Steve]

Most Brits won't have heard of MSN TV. It's an appliance that allows wonders such as TV based web surfing. Basically it's not all that revolutionary, but the boxes themselves are pretty small and feature a 733MHz Celeron. So, some clever-dick has decided buy 20 for less than £150 and turn them into a Linux cluster.

came across the msntv 2 at CompUSA one day about 2 months ago. Ever since then I have been buying
them on eBay for around $0.99 cents. I have bought 20 so far for a total price of around $200.
After socketing the msntv bios and poking around. I managed to get Linux running and even better managed to get it running without any hardware modifications.

[Toc2rta]

Hats off for ingenuity! Found via Engadget.

[Funkstar]

Saw this last night. Pretty cool. The boxes look neat as a cluster too.

[just_laze]

I count 18 :-)

[Bob Crabtree]

Blimey, some of these Linux dudes are seriously clued-up people.

[kasavien]

what i want to know is what you could use this for, or is the guy doing it because he can?

[jamiecockrill]

i'm having trouble with the [Toc2rta] link, is there an alternative anywhere or has anyone grabbed a copy of the page?

Ta