iPod gives away secret code
A German computer connoisseur has found the iPod a remarkable manner to crack. He wanted to play the Apple-player its secret code and took the on with the pc. After that was the relative easy the Apple-software at to fit so that Linux on the iPod turned.
The 17-birthday Nils Schneider had to turn eager Linux on its iPod. But the very last model contain new hardware through which the existing Linux-versions worked not longer. Therefore Schneider the software decided to develop totally again.
The sorting out of the code some parts on to steer, pale easy. Finally remained alone the bootloader [the software component that the OS loads, nvdr] about. Of that had he no code.
Fortunately had Schneider source worked out how the pizo-element works that for the click-sound of the iPod-touchpad sees to. Because a click as a “1″ count can, while a silence are can” 0″, the iPod its own bootloader-code wanted to give up. After a few adaptations - so must he a geluidsdichte room find -, Schneider a sounds tie full click sounds had that he play could on its pc. A stiff software translated the recording prevent back to real code.
Single days later on was it so far: Schneider has now an iPod on which Linux turns. According to the programmer, the refrigerator white music player can become uses for totally new applications, as sounds recordings, a calculator and perhaps ever even GPS-navigation.