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Apple Cuts Off Linux iPod Users
Will Fisher writes "New iPods will no longer be able to work with Linux. iTunes now writes some kind of hash (SHA1, md5?) to the iPod database which new iPods check against. If this check fails then the iPod reports that it contains 0 songs. This appears to be protection against 3rd party applications writing out their own databases. We haven't found out how to generate our own valid hashes (but we do know the hash includes the database itself, and possibly the iPod serial number), and are looking for help."
...installing linux on the new iPod is out of the question?
I've heard this is the best way to make a good hash.
"I'm just here to regulate funkiness."
My old 5 gb iPod just jumped in value.
Not that I'd sell it.
I thought Apple had embraced open source
46. The Hobo smiles, his eyes glaze over, and he burps. "Beware the man who has lived longer than the Wasteland."
I heard cannabis brownies were the way to go.
...iPod Genuine Advantage?
I just emailed Apple a few days ago asking for a Linux version of iTunes. No wonder I didn't hear back from them.
This revolutionary new tool allows any audio device with a 3.5mm stereo output jack to dock with any other audio device with a 3.5mm stereo input jack.
Great. So now not only the audience has to read the TFA before posting, but the author has to read it as well before publishing? You're going to ruin the whole system here.
the more accurate the calculations became, the more the concepts tended to vanish into thin air. R. S. Mulliken
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It is a proprietary format for encoding troll posts.
..and gained about a hundred in the time it took you to post this.
There's a sucker born every minute.
Microsoft says legacy (serial/parallel) ports are bad. They don't obfuscate the hardware enough.
Yea i got one as a gift too... What a POS! Itunes totally took over all my file types, & I have yet to find a way to remove the damn thing completely (have to kill it from taskman on every boot, even though its been "uninstalled") What a fucking nightmare! The one saving grace was the hacked winamp plugin i found, but now thats blocked too?
Why does apple intentionally hamstring everything they make?
Anyway, i was actually quite relieved when the damn thing got stolen & i could go back to using my sandisk without the wife getting upset that i hated her gift.
I didn't even know Apple had a Directory Access Protocol implementation that they were selling. That's... so... uh... X.500 of them.
They don't see the irony that Apple has become Microsoft of the DAP market.
They can have the Double Anal Penetration market, I want no part of it!
Under capitalism man exploits man. Under communism it's the other way around.
There was nothing sick about GP's comment. It was just plain funny. As for yourself - sounds like you are not a sick bastard at all, in fact wimpy dork is the term that comes to mind.