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Old Yeller
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MP3 Player
Since my two-week vacation on Lake Michigan is coming up and since I had planned to listen to books as well as read them -
can anybody point me towards a simple MP3 player that will work on the Iliad and doesn't require major (or even minor) hacking? Or are we not quite there yet and I need to wait for a couple more software upgrades? |
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Wait for release 27.9 or higher for this.
With the current software release the iliad is unhackable, there's no legitimate way to run your own applications and iRex didn't even finish developing their viewer software, let alone add in new stuff like an mp3 player. And guess what? They don't really plan to increase their development speed nor do they plan to accept (or even tolerate) us trying to do their job. At the moment i'm seriously considering to send the iliad back in the repair box and ask for a refund instead of a reperature. If they keep the 75 i already paid for repair - i'm really in a mood that i don't really care, at the moment. Btw: we had an console mp3 player up and running, on v2.4. Finding and compiling one with a GUI would have been possible for sure. |
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I'd not say the machine is unhackable; just we do not have accumulated enough free man-hours to address the quest. It is possible a serial port is available somewhere (most probably they plan to login via serial to repait you machine, Dher) and then the only issue is to crack the root password. And there are some extra bugs in mozilla and Xwindows we could try, but we do not have the knowledge nor the information. |
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Question from the non hacker dummies. iRex has a developer site. Are they not allowing development if you register there? Seems to me they want a modicum of control to ensure bad stuf doesn't get into the wild.
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Which is why I'm going to wait for the SDK. As we have seen Irex can chop and change anything at will, and relying on anything with the Irex won't prove to be fruitful. |
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For the mac, the reference docs were fully covered of confidential tags, and we were expected to get a LISA machine for crossdeveloping. A MacBASIC was developed, seen at version 0.99 and then retired due to an agreement with microsot. The really "final" machine was the MacPlus, two years later.
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some companies
some companies are really very idiotic - instead of supporting the customers they kick them ... not very professional indeed ...
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Ok, it seems like the situation is going to get better fast. In a, well, not completely sober state last sunday morning i wrote a slightly angry email to iRex asking for a refund instead of a reperature. (i also said a not so nice thing about a way to flash the device and gpl violations) Well, they didn't trash it but i got the following response.
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We told them that we'd welcome any iRex employee in our community.
And guess what: first they agreed. But then the idea was refused, apparently by someone from the upper management, and my only guess is that they didn't like the idea of having no control of what's been said here. I must say I am more than slightly disappointed that they didn't even bother to put us in their links collection - despite everything our members have done to increase their sales and to smooth out their frequent miscommunication. |
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hm. manybooks and a video review as links from iRex, but not mobileread? That's really weak.
And concerning the forum: I think they would be the first company to declare an external forum as the official iRex Technologies forum. As you said, no control over what is said and done. But that really doesn't mean that they couldn't have one or two spokespeople join us and keep us informed. |
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Yup, the idea was not to be an "official" forum (that would have been also contrary to our plans), but to have iRex employees voluntarily participate here.
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Hmmm...maybe we have to give them some time to sort their stuff out.
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