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iPod Shuffle RAID
ricercar writes "So, what do you do when you and some friends are all getting iPod Shuffles? You make a RAID array out of them, of course! The original intent was to actually install OS X on the RAID and boot from that, but the OS X (Panther, 10.3.5) Installer wouldn't allow it."
I don't think I could afford that without going to the ATM Machine and using my PIN Number to withdraw more money!
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
This and other hacks can be found at hackaday.com
"If it has screws, it was meant to be taken apart."
That is unfair. The Apple Store is sold out of them for weeks, and I can't buy one for my wife for Valentine's Day, and these guys have so many they are making a RAID with them.
:-)
Where is the justice?
And the best part is that every file request is randomized! You'll rediscover the data you already own and haven't worked with in years!
doing this with 2 normal usb key drives, a raid array with the striped data on them, you could save all kinds of secret stuff on them which would be useless unless you had both drives!
It could replace those security systems where 2 people have a key and there are 2 locks which must be opened at the same time for it to work.. just have 2 usb keys stripped, with a pgp key on them, which must be then inserted in to the security system at the same time for it to work or something
i dunno, im just spouting things!
The problem with slashdot is that most of its users were bullied and stuffed into lockers as kids!
Site's been slashdotted...or the damn battery died again!
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You could use it as a portable music player.
Oh.
ok... I'm not usually a fan of moderation meta-humor, but this is a gem!
Whoever moderated this post "Redundant" is an evil, evil person...
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You catch enchiladas by picking them up behind the head and holding them underwater until they don't kick anymore -VeGas
That's hardly the right attitude from a supposed hacker.
When Solaris 10 wouldn't allow installation on my Ultra1, I hex-edited the ISO, reburned, and installed anyways (and that only took me one evening).
It's SOFTware for crying out loud! Show some initiative!
Can you make a raid array out of me, Greg?
Tape? Hmph! Back in my day, we used punch cards! I was the junior operator, so they made me shuffle them. My forearms looked like Popeye's by the time I got promoted to lead assistant over-junior peon. No to mention the ferocious paper cuts! But no one was faster, no siree. I got 30 bytes a second on the read I/Os. Writes were a little slower though, because I had to punch the holes with a dull pencil.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
Brain: Are you thinking what I'm thinking, Pinky?
Pinky: Yeah, Brain, but if we could get that many iPod Shuffles and set them up as a RAID device would we still be able to listen to music on them?
Brain: stares blankly at Pinky
Brain: Pinky, have you been reading Slashdot again?
So? You can make a raid array out of anything
Not out of expensive disks
You had punches? Back in my day we applied the charges to the core manually. One finger in the socket...timing was everything! What's left of my hair still stands on end...
...carrier dead.....
The Shuffles kept returning the boot blocks in a random order!
Um, actually you don't. Linear flash went out of style years ago, as any Newton owner can tell you. With the exception of flash cards for older Cisco gear, all flash cards these days use an ATA interface. Anything that uses a non-PCMCIA slot (CF, MMC, SD, XD, SonyStick) is 100% ATA.
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"Open source is good." - Steve Jobs
"Open source is evil." - Microsoft
I now have this vision of 4 scruffy terrorists in a room, three iPods hooked in to the array and the 4th guy listening to some U2 track and going "what? What'd I do?"
-Charles
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
But wouldn't they want to know how to assemble an atomic bomb?
You had a cell? Back in my day all matter and energy in the universe was compressed into a point smaller than those tiny transistors you punk kids use as a sorry excuse for a switch! You can imagine it was pretty tough to program in that cramped enviornment, infact, that thing you people have misnamed the Big Bang was actully Lepton slacking off, he spun left when he was supposed to spin right, the whole thing crashed, that bastard.