Want references for using ATX power supply with MDD.

There are references all over the place to adapting an ATX power supply for a MDD/FW800. But it would be nice to have links to as many useful ones as possible in one thread -- this one -- without too much superfluous verbiage.
Please post links with brief descriptive comments or, if you have some hard information that's not easily linked to, please post it as concisely as possible. Hopefully, the resulting thread will be useful to many people, and not just to me.

Watch these great YouTube videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xICg592xJTg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7RDGy34tjU&feature=fvw
Look at these links.
http://efeion.blogspot.com/2007/12/power-supply-fun-part-2.html
http://www.applefritter.com/node/23857
 Cheers, Tom

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