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IBM Using iPod to boot Linux on PCs
Applejack writes "Looks like iPod fever has caught on to Big Blue. IBM has a yet unreleased iPod-based software for rescue, restore, and recovery of failed Windows PCs. I read this description of the software on Amit Singh's blog, whose group at IBM apparently created this stuff. If I understand this correctly (and I think I do), the iPod contains IBM's rescue software along with Linux. A crashed PC boots into Linux from the iPod, after which you get all kinds of rescue & restore functionality ... web browsing and all, even if the PC's drive is totally hosed. All this while the iPod keeps working normally as a music player as it would. The blog has pointers to further information, including a Windows Media demo of the thing. " Should be noted this is not iPod specific; USB devices will do.
Recovery tools? On an external hardrive of some sort? What will they think of next?!
That what was all this school was for... to teach us how to solve our own problems. -- janeowit
With the new color iPods you can even display a Blue screen so Microsoft addicts can feel right at home....
- Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum pantorum.
1. Take any generic news item
2. Try to work the iPod into the story, no matter how forced
3. Front page!
Is it just me or is the iPod becoming more and more like a Tricorder every day. (The small do-everything-device used in Star Trek)
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Dude, no need to explain what a tricorder is around here ok?
You must be new here
$699 iPod? Did you pay for the SCO license?
Thank you steve jobs for your magical machine of reconciliation. Do you think we could use IPODs to achieve peace in the mideast?
Play back OOG or FLAC audio files? Oh i know, gapless MP3 playback? Hava a good EQ?
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
If you're looking for a cheaper solution, check out the Ultimate Boot CD. It has tools to test memory, CPUs, hard disks, and so much more.
It's definitely something to keep handy and is much cheaper than an iPod.
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Item Name: Apple iPod
Description: To be used as an external bootable storage device for diagnosing and recovering PC's with failed hard-disks.
Hmmm, wonder if the boss would go for it...
It was a windy day and I had a stack of papers that I wanted to sit down on the bench next to me....There were no rocks in site.
I made an awesome discovery. It just hit me. I could use my iPod layed at just the right angle on top of those papers to keep them from blowing away.
I had done it -- I had invented the first paper weight that could also play music. How did we all survive before iPods. This damn swiss army knife in my back pocket seems so useless now.
(+1 Funny) only if I laugh out loud.