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Linux for iPod Matures
elinenbe writes "The Linux on iPod Project has just crossed a milestone. Currently their firmware works on all ipod models other then the new mini. Sound plays and for many people it has more features then the original iPod firmware!"
How do you use a command line interface on an ipod?
If I point out that you are incorrect, making me a foe does not make you any more correct.
Maybe apple really is an "open" company, they just didnt want anyone to know =)
Let me reiterate this for the last time.
On an MP3 player, the ability to run EMACS is not a feature. The lack of music-playing ability also seems like a pitfall.
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
I'll settle for Easter OGGs
This is obviously a violation of the DMCA. I hope these criminals rot in hell.
my Linux for iPod already has breasts and pubic hair. and still maturing every day.
No, you are wrong. Only *BSD is dying...
If I point out that you are incorrect, making me a foe does not make you any more correct.
Begun the "KDE looks better on iPod than Gnome" war has.
Windows XP SP2 told me to install third-party software that prevents viruses and protects stability... I chose Ubuntu
The OGG player runs at 80% of normal speed. So when you play rave music it sounds like house music, when you play speed metal music it sounds like metal music but when you play pop music it still sounds like crap.
If only they could get the OGG player to play at 150% speed, then all music would be chipmunk music...
If I point out that you are incorrect, making me a foe does not make you any more correct.
a webserver in the palm of your hand
You are gonna need one hell of an firewire extension cord when you are on the go...
If I point out that you are incorrect, making me a foe does not make you any more correct.
Anybody know if he's claustrophobic? Such a little window, geez..
Next generation power for iPods.. Tux running on an exercise wheel?
Read; Write; Execute
I propose a theorum: It does not matter how expensive a device is, some nerd will castigate and cripple it for no readily explainable reason other than pure anarchic hubris.
Hey freaks: now you're ju
Good thing they make a 40 gig iPod, you'll need it to fit on Emacs! :-)
So, other than the storage and display it's fine?
Duh, everyone knows that Apple, like *BSD, has been dying for years. An Apple produced *BSD will only die faster...
"Hey, you stupid kids, stop poking well enough and leave him alone!"
EVERYDAY IS CATURDAY
But if you could get that Beethoven conducted by a robot illegally downloaded onto your Beowulf cluster of Linux iPods and played it back through your sake-soaked wooden speakers as Cowboy Neal dances like an insensitive clod, I believe this site would somehow slashdot itself.
Windows XP SP2 told me to install third-party software that prevents viruses and protects stability... I chose Ubuntu
"then" != "than"
This doesn't seem complex enough to be a confusing thing, but many seem to get it wrong.
The last time I heard it was after the ENIAC port which is after the PDP-7 which is after...
Karma whorin' since 1999
You sound like an asshole. Are you an asshole? I'm just saying because you really sound like one, is all.
Then you could stream music from your computer or over the internet while wearing it around the house.
Back in my day, we had no fancy shmancy ipods to wear around the house. We just turned the volume on the stereo up.
Of course. Many of us assholes devote our time to debunking useless and stupid ideas on slashdot. Not all of us feel the need to post anonymously, though. It takes some of the fun out of it if they can't holler back.
Hey freaks: now you're ju
There might also be a few problems with the audio not working...
Everything else appears th be just fine though...
If a job's not worth doing, it's not worth doing right.
"Petrol", not "gas" :)
You obviously are not a true vi'er. To quit and save, you should type 'ZZ', which is the actual vi(sual) command. The :wq (the ! is not necessary,
because the w has brought the file up to date)
command exists for compatibility with ex, which
in turn is a bloated version of ed, the second
greatest editor of all time.
While it's certainly good to know the line editing commands (incidentally, :x quits and saves from
ex and therefore also vi), to be a true vi god,
you should use as many of the weird visual-only
commands as possible.
As an aside, I've never understood people that flame each other about vi and emacs. True hackers can use both proficiently (as well as ed), and know when one should be chosen over the other. The 'emacs commands are too long and cryptic' whine is very unhackeresque; ours is a culture that idolizes those who interface most cryptically and efficiently with their computers.
Whining about an interface is akin to admiting that you lack the brain power to master it.
Having said that, I tend to use vi more, because it has a smaller memory footprint and so can be comfortably invoked from the command line when emacs would be a pain, for example, when su'd root. It also serves as a better EDITOR (see env) for the same reason.
But emacs rules because it uses lisp. Learn the ways of the hacker, son. Time spent bitching is time better spent learning how to input cryptic commands into even more cryptic software, thereby impressing your friends. If you can type something like 'C-x C-m c chinese-iso-8bit-unix C-x C-f love-ya', the women will be beating down your door.
Trust me.
Man, you just don't get it!
I'm a typical slashdot type, hell, programming pays my bills
/. type.
if programming actually pays your bills, you're not a typical
(ducks)
My problem? I was perfectly gruntled, until some numbnuts came by and dissed me.
I have *very* good reason to believe the iPod hardware is sufficient to play MP3s at real-time. ;)
Random is the New Order.
A tcsh prompt.
This sounds like the product of an American school system.
I for one am waiting for the protests and petitions demanding to be able to buy an iPod without an iPodOS tax...
I wrote a webserver that ran on a 3G mobile phone once. Is that cool?
People don't buy harleys because they want a good bike they get one because they think it makes them cool and rebellious.
Fuck that belt-driven piece of shit. So much power loss, and it makes the single part that connects the engine to the drive wheel a regular maintenance replacement. Give me anything else, a chain, (preferably) a shaft, but not that belt. Harley owners are frequently proud of that belt. Can't figure out why, it's the single most annoying point of failure on those bikes.
I can make any bike sound like a Harley, but I don't want *noise*. I want comfort and weight on my bike. I want to be able to cruise at 70 without having to bend over and put my forehead on the handle bars, and I don't want to be driven deaf by the exhaust noise to do it. Yeah, yeah, loud pipes save lives and all. Riding smart will do more for you than any pipe noise.
Like what I said? You might like my music
So what do you have to smoke (and how much of it) before that sounds like it's playing at the correct speed?
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Powerful? You and I must have ridden a different harley. That twist grip on the right handlebar isn't a throttle my friend... it's a volume control.
You misspelled Zsh.