iPod clicks reveal details, allows Linux installation
updated 06:40 pm EST, Wed March 2, 2005
iPod clicks provide detail
Users have worked out how to using an ingenious acoustic trick, according to NewScientist. In an effort to install Linux on the iPod, a 17-year-old computer science student from Germany, used sound to decode to startup code on the iPod: "They adapted the component that generates clicks - or "squeaks" - as a user scrolls through the on-screen menu in order to extract vital information from the latest generation of the device. This allowed them to install an alternative operating system and make their iPods run games and other new programs." Nils Schneider constructed a soundproof box to record the iPod clicks and decoded the clicks into computer code to understand the hardware setup required to install Linux and other applications.
I thought it was...
03/02, 06:45pm reply
April 1, not March 1...
tvalleau
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Wow
03/02, 06:58pm reply
Talk about computer geeks!
mymacluvsme
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Why wouldn't Apple...
03/02, 07:06pm reply
... be the first to install a desktop operating system and install OSXStripped (Darwin) .... I mean, at the high-end 60GB, there's more than enough room!
Put a Blackberry-like keyboard and a HMD (Huge Magnifying Device), and you've got a winner! ;-)
Hey wait ... is that what's next?
trevc
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Ummm
03/02, 07:17pm reply
I read about this months ago this is very old news!
l008com
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re: Why wouldn't Apple
03/02, 07:18pm reply
Because the hard drives in the iPod aren't meant to do heavy-duty (or even normal-duty) desktop type hard drive work. The iPod drives are only meant to spin up periodically to read music into RAM, not run 24/7 like a desktop hard drive. Using an iPod as your main drive is an easy way to fry it :)
Nostromo
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Mmmmmm.....
03/02, 07:49pm reply
Yeah. I read the whole thing about two months ago too. Maybe more. Oh, and BTW, I read that Fujitsu is about to release a 120 GB 2.5 that lasts through twice as many write-rewrites; about 600,000, and Hitachi (I think) is releasing iPod sized drives commercially.
medmuse
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waste
03/02, 08:13pm reply
yay! a 60gb calculator!!
dlindsay17
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old news
03/02, 11:01pm reply
I thought linux has been on the iPod for over a year...
LouZer
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So, basically. . . .
03/02, 11:55pm reply
. . . . they f***'ed up their iPod, fooling around with it, and had to tell all of us about a hack-job, to make themselves sound hip.
Very hip, indeed.
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