<p>The folks over at Something Awful are <a rel="external" href="http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&amp;threadid=2391956" target="_blank">hacking Apple TV</a>. Since the ATV runs Mac OS X, this is almost trivial: pop the cover, take out the hard drive, mount it on a Mac via a Firewire case, and modify. They have it playing Xvid movies, running SSH, and more. The hard drive can be replaced with a larger one too. ... http://www.webdotdev.com/nvd Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:34:04 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 <p>The folks over at Something Awful are <a rel="external" href="http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&amp;threadid=2391956" target="_blank">hacking Apple TV</a>. Since the ATV runs Mac OS X, this is almost trivial: pop the cover, take out the hard drive, mount it on a Mac via a Firewire case, and modify. They have it playing Xvid movies, running SSH, and more. The hard drive can be replaced with a larger one too. <br /> </p>