Apple TV Patchstick/Testing --------------------------- With this stick you can modify your Apple TV without opening the case and removing the hard disk. It contains files from OS X 10.4.8, and while I would prefer to see a completely free and Darwin based stick, this is what is currently available. This stick is created using the guide on the AwkwardTV wiki (04/16/2007 version): http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Patchstick/Testing - all credits go to the authors there (Mactijn, Dobedobedoh, Hblaschka, Bjdraw, Aholtzma, Mikew, Skoops and Jason). I just cobbled it together. This stick will install and activate the Mac OS X ssh server on your device and also install the Perian Quicktime component (the latter is pretty useless until you install the Files Plugin for Apple TV). After you activated ssh, you can simply copy files to your Apple TV and modify it using tools like WinSCP or PuTTY. Installation instructions: bunzip2 the file, it will expand to about 500MB (it contains a lot of zeroes, so it was highly compressable). Use the gnu tool "dd" to write the software to a usb stick that is at least 500MB big. This will overwrite everything that previously was on the stick. For instructions how to do this see this page on the AwkwardTV wiki: http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Booting_from_a_USB_Thumbdrive Warning: dd is a powerful tool, you can easily erase your own hard drive if you don't use it right. Have fun.