French web site Macbidouille reported today that German hackers have successfully booted Tiger on an iPod nano.
The site was immediately contacted by Apple Legal, which angrily demanded that the images be removed. However, the company indicated that it was not because of concerns over losing control of its ability to control its market.
“It’s not that it violates our business model,” said Tim Cook, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Operations. “It’s just stupid.
“I mean… the iPod’s just got that stupid little scroll wheel… you can’t type with it… Just pisses me off.”
If Cook was “pissed off” by Tiger running on an iPod nano, he was positively furious at reports filtering out of the UK that indicate hackers there have successfully booted Linux on an iPod shuffle.
“What?!” an agitated Cook said. “How… how can you even prove that?! It doesn’t have a screen! It’s got five buttons! FIVE!”
Yet hacker Sean Neaves was insistent that his iPod shuffle was actually running Linux.
“It’s running a special build I compiled and loaded onto the unit via USB,” Neaves said.
“Here, look,” Neaves said, clicking on the shuffle’s buttons. “I just loaded GIMP.
“Totally. I’m… I’m… editing an image here. Um… la-la-la… now I’ll just… crop and… run a filter… and… see? See? I just edited this image.”
“OK, look, I’ll do it again. But pay attention this time.”
ichi?
First, and I read the article….
yes!
dagnabbit…
Hai. Saisho desu. Omedetou gozaimasu.
come back to me when you can get windoze to run on newton.
seven.
I prefer the nano shell.
Of course, there’s the Shuffle that boots into Nanoox – it’s very Inuit-ive…
Har har har!
Eighth?
masako,
i am honored that you would condescend to speak to this humble admirer.
otosan no boko ga tsuyoui.
jp
I knew it.
‘Leeben
Why would anyone want to have Linux or Windows on their shuffle. Mac OS X I can understand. But the very idea of installing Windows/Linux sickens me. Windows is an insecure piece of a crap. And Linux is a fake. It’s not a real Operating Sysytem.
This sort of thing is overhyped. I’ve had BeOS running on an Etch-A-Sketch for years, but it is so slow drawing the windows that it’s virtually useless.
Umpteenth!
Wouldn’t it be better if Apple employed these hackers to persuade OSX to run on Macs?
Yea I know, optimist.
Or anything?
Is this a Mega-Post or just a regular one?
If it’s a regular post here’s my comment:
You’re making this up aren’t you? Just because none of us can understand French…except the French…and some Canadians…or Canadiens.
If it’s a Mega-Post my comment is thus:
*brreeeeeeppps*
dives into butter fountain.
mmmmmnnnn slippery.
Bon Sang!
Vous ne pouvez pas laisser MacBidouille en paix?
Oh, et puis zut…ils viennent de me bannir, alors…
I booted Windows XP on my Walkman. It crushed. I had a blue …sound
I’ve been running bootleg Longhorn Beta on a Fray Bentos can, AND it is stable.
Vista also works on Windowlene bottles.
Both usable as palmtops.
New rules.
Masako only to be addressed in pictograph.
New rules.
Masako only to be addressed in pictograph.
じゃあ、日本語大丈夫？
Guys.
Just found your site. Love it to death. Real laugh out loud stuff. Makes me want to join in!
Which is handy, as I have had in my possession for some time a tape of mumbled speech that had me totally baffled. Now I know what it is – it’s Steve inside his chrysalis. Most of it is indecipherable, but there is one section that I have managed to figure out.
It sounds like Steve is rehearsing his next keynote, and goes something like this:
“And finally…
“Five years ago, Apple redefined the music industry with the iPod. Last year we redefined the iPod with the impossibly small iPod nano, proving that small is the new big, and tonight, ladies and gentlemen, Apple is redefining the word small in our most daring business move yet. I give you [pause for dramatic effect] the insanely great, Big iPod.”
Here Steve makes a sound like a whip cracking, followed by a noise that can only be likened to a herd of African elephants straining to pull a rather heavy object onto a stage. Then we hear clapping and astonished cries. Steve continues speaking:
“So, before we hear it, lets just sit back and admire Apples biggest product ever while I share a few statistics with you”
Here the tape becomes indistinct, although a couple of phrases can be made out:
“…over 21 feet tall…”
“…a stack of quarters taller than Everest…”
The tape becomes clear again. Steve is humming “Pomp and Circumstance”
“Doesn’t it sound great? How did we do it? Well, tonight we are going to take a look inside, but first let me just tell you that for years we have been asking people… dammit dammit rewind … I have been telling people what they want, and they unanimously said, “Put ASOC in it, Steve!” so let’s open it up and see how Apple Symphony Orchestra Compression works…”
Here the tape ends, so we may never really find out, although there may be a clue in a scrap of paper found in a tip outside Infinite Loop, depicting an opened up ipod completely stuffed with dwarfs holding musical instruments, and a note jotted on the bottom, reading:
“Steve, I got the orchestra in like you wanted. Sorry I still can’t make room for a replaceable battery. Love and kisses, Jonathan.”
Gordon.
The story was very funny, I loughed.
マサ子さん本当にいるんですか。ぼくはまさこが冗談だと思ってしまいました。びっくりしました。でも、さ〜。いたら、写真を見せてくれないか．．．
うそ、うそ。ジョークだった。しかし、エンティティの写真があれば…
Yesterday I installed Windows(TM) in my wall! It’s amazing! The graphics are excellent. There even is a beautiful blue screen with a sun.
Then I installed Mac OS X 10.1 in my trash! It works amazingly well. I can easily boot it sitting at my desk.
Tomorrow I’m gonna try and install GNU into my cat.
C’mon, the kid already got linux on the shuffle?!
And they can’t get a final release out for the 4th Gen?
He’s probably already playing Doom on it!!
But what do I have?
What do I have, I ask you!?!
Brick.
Ah, but where did they get the magic-cable-earphone lanyard?
-=Curtis=-
In the middle of the keynote, Jobs opens the Great Big iPod (later referred to simply as GBI). Low and behold, what jumps out?
Not tiny dwarfs (they prefer little people by the way) with music instruments and certainly not anyone from the board of directors.
No it is Hot Lesbian Sexbots (HLS). Yeah baby! Thanks the GBI!!!! I’ll take 4 so the HLS can fight!
Yeah, and they are Ninjas too! HNLS!!!!
I miss the Mega-Post
(Yes I will keep this up as long as possible. I just saw Forgotten which was a mistake of epic proportion and it taught me that if I refuse to give up on the Mega-Post it will be returned to me).
For those of you who don’t know because you DON’T KNOW THE MEGA-POST (Sorry still having trouble adjusting) I am the person who can listen to the same song on repeat for 3 days. Don’t think I will give up easily.
LONG LIVE THE MEGA-POST
Nano? Shuffle?
WUSSIES!!!
I’ve got 10.4 running on TINKERTOYS! That’s right, I built an entire CPU and support chips out of TINKERTOYS!
But that’s not all…soon, i’ll have my Lincoln Log Xserve up and running!
silly iPod hackers!
bah, thats nothing.
i installed os/2 warp on my inner thigh the sharpened handle of a spoon.
getting networking was a bitch, but i am really pleased with the result.
the copious bloodloss, i could do without.
hopefully there will be a patch.
soon….
fucking mistype:
i installed os/2 warp on my inner thigh WITH the sharpened handle of a spoon.
if i am going to keep messing up punch lines like this, i might as well take over moltz’s job.
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/nano.ars
Page 3 of the abuse testing of the iPod nano was very interesting.
The review almost makes me want one, but I’m happy w/ my 20Gb iPod… really I am.
Question: I’ve got OS 6.08 running on my Lite Brite, but it won’t share files with my Classic II running Mac286. Is there a special way I need to configure AppleTalk?
I topped you all. I got Virtual PC running from Mac OSX running on Mac-On-Linux running on Linux running on VMWare running from my big left toenail. Boooya!!!!!!!
Oh yeah, well I dual booted OS 10.5 and Vista in a barrel of mercury. Funny thing that mercury, it cam alive and now looks kind of like a cop. It keeps aking me if i know John Conner. Who the *^@% is that?
Guys, guys, guys,
Masako doesn’t read Chinese, so don’t try to bluff us. *Consults CARS rule book.* Sorry chaps, bluffing is in, but not Chinese as Georgie and Our Tone don’t like it.
Two things:
1. I have a sticker that reads “My other iPod is a BMW,” but the sticker is too large to put on an iPod. Plus, I don’t have an iPod. Nor do I have a BMW. Anybody want a sticker?
2. I’m trying to build a replica of Babbage’s Difference Engine out of Legos, but I don’t have enough. Please send any spare Legos to me at my email address. Or send an iPod. Or a BMW.
Thanques.
> “OK, look, I’ll do it again. But pay attention this time.”
Oh, yeah? Well, I was paying attention the first time, Buster.
Where’d you get that picture? You can get into a lot of trouble, sneaking around, taking pictures like that. You oughtta be ashamed of yourself!
That being said, GIMP on an iPod Shuffle is totally cool.
This sounds very familar.
Anyway Jobs, the eternal showoff *HAD* to “enlighten” me, ME (richest guy in the frickin world) that he (Apple) is coming out with a super-kewl new video iPod. It’s about the size of the second gen iPod but tilted 90 degrees, the front is all (widescreen) LCD display, with a few buttons on top to turn it on and connect it and whatnot, but the play controls are mostly on the LCD touchscreen and wireless (RF) remote. I shit you not, Young Skywalker. The speakers are much like that of the Sony PSP; little holes on the center left/right, like a snake’s ear, serve up generous stereo audio. Plus you can output to standard RCA or S-Video. *THIS* is the next iPod I’m going to get… I mean MICROSOFT will be coming out with something very similar, but with shitter controls, very much sooner that Steve and his crew!!! Frickin’ Mr. Smartypants, better OS, no virus lovin’, Pixar guy.
(True story: when I purchased my Lime iBook many years ago (99?) I told the guy at ComputerWare that the next PowerBook I was going to get would be one with a DVD burner in it. They laughed and laughed, until they had to go find new jobs. The future is everything you can think of, and more. Most ordinary folks can’t see past dinnertime.)
Ace Deuce go ahead and send me the bumper sticker I have both.
I INSTALLED A PIRATE COPY OF WINDOWS VISTA ONTO A SINGLE CARBON ATOM! I HAVE ALL OF YOU PWNED! I USE QUANTUM STUFF.
FOR SOME REASON I CAN ONLY TYPE IN CAPS, THOUGH. MAYBE I NEED A MORE COMPLEX ATOM.
OR MAYBE I’M JUST RETRO.
Okay, here you go:
______________________________
| |
| MY OTHER IPOD IS A BMW |
|_____________________________|
So what about some Legos. Fair is fair…
Oops, damaged in transit.
Nah, you just need my new Microsoft Wireless Buckytube Nano Keyboard. It’s about eight molecules wide, but does support lowercase and CAPS, it does not have *every* key available. It’s more like a FrodPad but molecule sized. We don’t support numbers in the first version. A driver will be relased later this year to fix that. It’s *perfect* for my tiny fingers! Other features include; both wave and particle communications to your host, Quantum entanglement connections are supported but you can’t observe them yet (driver update to fix in Q2 ’06) and until we get around the uncertainty principle you can’t actually observer the keyboard itself (you’ll have to trust that it exists and that you can type on it before it will work).
come on guys, we’ve lost our way a bit here. the question we all should be shouting is:
HOW CAN I GET THE IPOD OS TO RUN ON MY MAC??
[????]
[????]
[??]
Here’s your legos
I installed OS X 10.4 on a Powerbook.
Legos, you say? Here’s some more:
[::::] [::::] [::::]
[::] [::] [::] [::]
[:] [:] [:] [:] [:] [:]
[::::::::::] [::::::::::]
(.) (.)
Whoops, those last two are boobs.
You can get the iPod OS on your Mac, but it’s disguised as iTunes. I think the OS developer (Pixo) might have some dev wares that would do just that. Just a guess.
Well my legos looked better on my my machine, but the wonky font I used didn’t go through.
Here’s my Caiku
I will start digging
to find all our lost posters
I like to eat cheeze
Did anyone remember to bring Bill out of the Mega-Post?
Oooooh, Japanese. Me likes it.
Watashino mewa aoidesu. ;D
Of course nobody got Bill out. MASAKO CLOSED IT WITHOUT WARNING!
MARK
Poor Bill he’s dead and this time it’s not even my fault.
Not even a little.
Ok everyone we need to save Bill! Grab your shovels and start digging a hole to the Mega-Post. We need to save Bill!
I brought plenty of shovels.
*Del passes out shovels and begins digging towards the MP*
Where coming Bill! Hold on there should be plenty of beer and cheez whiz to keep you alive until we get to you. Hold on man.
As always, a damned funny piece. But I have to admit that the photo of the iPod Shuffle running Linux was 110% pure hilarious. The more I looked at that photo the more I laughed. It’s like the technological version of a Gary Larson “Far Side” cartoon.
Doesn’t Macbidouille translate to something like “bathroom fixture to wash Macintosh patooties”?
But then, pardon my French…
Umm… Del, Psyko – you’re digging in the wrong place, you’ll never get to the Mega-Post from here. You gotta dig from here:
http://www.crazyapplerumors.com/cgi-bin/mt/first-post.cgi?entry_id=550
Dig?
Okay, Owen, Carl, or anyone else who can tell me – how the hell do you get Japanese kana to show up in the post? I’ve tried and it always shows up as garble. C’mon, spill!
Del and “Mr. Tiny Fists”– thanks for the Legos. I’ve enough now to finish. In fact I might be able to make an abacus too.
And by the way, I’m digging a hole to the Mega-Post using a clam gun. What, you don’t know what a clam gun is? Well, it’s a tube with one end open at the bottom and handles at the top and a little hole on the other end that you cover with your thumb to create a suction effect so that when you pull it back out of the ground, well… it’s hard to explain but much cooler than a shovel.
Del and “Mr. Tiny Fists”– thanks for the Legos. I’ve enough now to finish. In fact I might be able to make an abacus too.
And by the way, I’m digging a hole to the Mega-Post using a clam gun. What, you don’t know what a clam gun is? Well, it’s a tube with one end open at the bottom and handles at the top and a little hole on the other end that you cover with your thumb to create a suction effect so that when you pull it back out of the ground, well… it’s hard to explain but much cooler than a shovel.
Please ignore the duplicate post.
Please ignore the duplicate post.
Please ignore the triplicate post.
OK, that wasn’t really him.
You have never seen porn until you have seen it on an iPod shuffle. Trust me.
Ace Deuce,
Thanks for the sticker, but when I cut it out of my Apple Cinema, the screen went dark. Trouble at your end, I suspect.
秘密のソースはGeckoです。つまり、FirefoxやCaminoなどを使います。なぜなら、Geckoが日本語の入力をHTML Entity（＆＃xxx；）に変えます。
Also, I just realized that Slashdot.co.jp is a website dedicated to open sauce software. Mmmm, open sauce.
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I installed OSX 11.tomato.3.1415926535897932384626433 832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679 on my existential ennui. I cannot get dashboard to function before the nihilism module kicks in.
And I just don’t care.
Or, if you prefer not to use Geckos (I don’t have the USB adapter for them yet) you can try javascript:var s = ”;var n=’カールさんの日本語がうまいですね。勉強になります。’;for(i=0;i<n.length;i++) { s += ‘&#’+n.charCodeAt(i)+’;'; } prompt(‘bananas’,s);return false; but all on one line or it doesn’t work.
BOOM! Just installed XP onto my brain, got you alzz beatwhn jak, l @ ln09(_ “||”"”"_____-…..
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abort/retry/fail?