Guy's, I need some help, I'm not quite up to speed on the hardware side of thing, motherboards/cpu's and gpu's and the technologies they run on.

Basically I would love if someone could point me in the direction of the history of different technologies, where and how it started, and what technologies are expected for the short-term future.

Also, another thing I don't understand is how and why different cpu's go into different motherboards but don't go into others.

Any info appreciated

regards Pete.

Quote from Jakamo5 of ipodtouchfans.com :

Yes, it's illegal, see below for why. BUT will you get in trouble for it? Unlikely.

Most people will tell you jailbreaking is "100% legal", probably because thats what one person started saying and that's what everyone wanted to believe. Their argument is that "we bought the Ipod/phone, its our property, we can do what we want with it." Wrong.

Exhibit A - EULA that we all agreed to (credit for this goes to Avatarv, for his post pointing out the bold lines):

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1. General The software (including Boot ROM code and other embedded software), documentation and any fonts that came with your iPod touch, as may be updated or replaced by software updates or system restore software provided by Apple, whether in read only memory, on any other media or in any other form (collectively the "iPod touch Software") are licensed, not sold, to you by Apple Inc. ("Apple") for use only under the terms of this License, and Apple reserves all rights not expressly granted to you. The rights granted herein are limited to Apple's intellectual property rights in the iPod touch Software and do not include any other patents or intellectual property rights. You own the media on which the iPod touch Software is recorded but Apple and/or Apple's licensor(s) retain ownership of the iPod touch Software itself.

2. Permitted License Uses and Restrictions
(a) This License allows you to use the iPod touch Software on a single Apple-labeled iPod touch. This License does not allow the iPod touch Software to exist on more than one Apple-labeled iPod touch at a time, and you may not distribute or make the iPod touch Software available over a network where it could be used by multiple devices at the same time. This License does not grant you any rights to use Apple proprietary interfaces and other intellectual property in the design, development, manufacture, licensing or distribution of third party devices and accessories for use with the iPod touch. Some of those rights are available under a separate license from Apple. For more information, please email [email protected].

(b) With respect to updates to the iPod touch Software and system restore software that Apple may make available for download (“iPod touch Software Updates”), this License allows you to download the iPod touch Software Updates to update or restore the software on any iPod touch that you own or control. This License does not allow you to update or restore iPod touchs that you do not control or own, and you may not distribute or make the iPod touch Software Updates available over a network where it could be used by multiple devices or multiple computers at the same time. You may make one copy of the iPod touch Software Updates stored on your computer in machine-readable form for backup purposes only, provided that the backup copy must include all copyright or other proprietary notices contained on the original.

(c) Except as and only to the extent permitted by applicable law, or by licensing terms governing use of open-sourced components included with the iPod touch Software, you may not copy, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, attempt to derive the source code of, decrypt, modify, or create derivative works of the iPod touch Software, iPod touch Software Updates, or any part thereof. Any attempt to do so is a violation of the rights of Apple and its licensors of the iPod touch Software and iPod touch Software Updates. If you breach this restriction, you may be subject to prosecution and damages.
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Ok, so some of you hardcore Jailbreaker coders and know-it-alls might point out that:
1) The EULA is NOT law, and nothing that Apple chooses to put in the agreement suddenly becomes the law. It's simply an agreement, and it is up to our legal system, and not Apple, what happens when you break the agreement. Apple only has the right to not deal with you anymore (warranty, etc).
2) EULA's may or may not even be enforceable depending on your jurisdiction - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EULA
3) Jailbreaking actually does not rewrite or remove any code, but actually just adds to the existing code. It places a door where there was none before, but technically, the barriers that Apple had placed do still exist. So it is questionable whether or not the EULA is even being violated.

Fine then, at least now you can't say that Jailbreaking is 100% illegal. But to show you that it is not even a little bit legal, I give you Exhibit B:

Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 - Section 1201 - definition of "access control" as follows: "circumvention of technological measures employed by or on behalf of copyright owners to protect their works." The DMCA makes a point to "...criminalize the act of circumventing an access control, even when there is no infringement of copyright itself." If you are jailbreaking an Ipod/phone you are clearly circumventing the access control to be able to install 3rd party programs. However, enforcement of the DMCA has mostly been limited to people a) creating programs to circumvent access control or b) hosting content that does.


And just a side note - "unlocking" a phone, while questionably violating the EULA, is NOT illegal as far as the DMCA goes, because there is a special exemption in the DMCA which does allow circumvention of access controls on cellular phones for their use on another carrier.

Hope this answers people's questions.

There ya go

Sounds really dirty

anyone know if such a thing could work on a pda(hp ipaq)?

You + your friend = 2 tits

Probably a useless piece of info, I ain't up to speed on imports but a friend in work recently knocked a fair bit off of an LCD searchlight by convincing the store he bought it off to mark it as repairs or returns. Apparently in Ireland dunno about UK theres no tax on such items

How much do they want for shipping anyway Kev?

- I'll be a bit late this morning as I need to pop round to your wife for a minute

Im reading on NASA's site that after they found methane everyone is going absolute nuts about life and how Urey is going to work there, a lab in a box indeed, this vehicle is going the first attempt to understand.

As with all scientific missions it just raises more questions than answers, without astounding amounts of tax payers hard-earned $ it fails, NASA just got two billion to further Urey's efforts. Go Urey!

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars/news/index.html

http://scrippsnews.ucsd.edu/Releases/?releaseID=903

Quote from sam93 :

wtf are you on about!...

Oi! watch your effin language kid

now thats not nice... he's a kid

this is nothing compared to the BS I have listen too on the factory floor absolute senseless idiots strolling around like zombies texting their GF's, all in love and all, Grrrrrrrr. had one guy say to me today that I was right to not believe the lie he had just told me as he himself doesn't trust the words that come out of his mouth!(his own words) Go figure

Quote from sam93 :

Lol, Okay. I did a search in the LFS Forum when making this thread for answers but didn't actually bother looking at what the threads contained lol, just looked at the thread name.

Excuse my French but WTF are you doing searching a forum of a racing sim for information on hacking an ipod

Talk about getting off on the wrong foot Sam theres more to life than lfsforums.net

The world is now your oyster my friend! Go free!!!

Edit:

Sam, here's a cookie, don't eat it all at once

Quote from JamesF1 :

See here.
6th entry down... I mean, come on... I know it's a search for "iPhone", but the same applies to the iPod touch.

+1

Honestly Sam what are you doing, are you waiting for an answer that might arrive in time...you know, if you thought about it hard enough you'd realise that the answer to ALL of you questions are just a descriptive search away

eg. Google this I want apples
the result is a list of pages that contain any of those three words in any order BUT!!! if you Google "I want apples" the result is pages with that exact string of words

Sam, stop being lazy and DIY

Quote from GrIp DrIvEr :

it took me two hours to study and i still failed. Science to me is like :eek:

I lol'ed

:eek:

yeah kev - get bent

! Don't listen to them Sam, break that puppy out of jail Ångström style, it's easy, just follow the instrustions

Quote from dougie-lampkin :

Oh dear :rolleyes:

Sorry

Quote from dougie-lampkin :

This patch sounds relative to my interests

I came to the same conclusion!

lmao

Quote from Takumi_lfs :

I completed the game. And the only thing what I actually liked was her swimming outfit.

E: From behind then.

I see your completion in a swimming suit and raise it with a nudy patch 1.7<OMFG!!! 1 11

Quote from Migz :

Edit: what dyu mean by check what's in mine? I don't think theirs anything physically in my gpu.

I meant what gpu was in your model of Anus as you were'nt sure which model of Anus it was

Why not drop it down to a PC repair shop and get a quote to fix it for pig iron, surly it's worth ~£200 to you?

Quote from sam93 :

I was also trying to do it when I was really tired last night lol. Just sat down and read it and done what you guys said to do really.

Going to install my Wifi adapter and then Wine, any other programs I should put on it that are good?

This is where you'll learn that a dual boot is a must, in all honesty Linux does not have an extensive list of user friendly tools or applications, don't get me wrong all of the tools you'll find for any job are in the Synaptic Package Manager(don't forget to read up on repository's and how to enable them) most of the open source applications take a little command line knowledge to get working at the worst of times and for video editing there are not a whole lot of options whereas in Windows there are countless.

Use Firestarter to manage your firewall(or if your bored look into iptables)

Remember any tools you use has a help file alongside it, to use it for firestarter open a terminal and type man firestarter.

All in all Linux is best as server, so if you wnat to host a media server for you other machines on your network XBMC(X-box media center) is a good choice.

To find any software search through Synaptic Package Manager and it usually turns up a lot of interesting results.

As I said Windows is best at some things and Linux is best at others, if you come to not like it as an everyday OS you'll learn the power of it's networking capabilities and keep Ubuntu as one big tool

Good on ya Sam, you see it wasn't all that hard

Quote from Migz :

I did that last night and I checked the wires around the screen that I could see. I also tried using the LCD screen from my old dead laptop with the new laptop. But it still displayed nothing.

I've had a quick look around Asus forums for you and there are at least a dozen threads of people complaining of their Asus screens dieing. There are three sides to it

1.) Nvidia have acknowledged that large quantities of the 8 series GPU's are defective, check whats in yours

2.) people on the Asus forums are saying there is a standby/hibernation problem with the screen and it will not light up, fix is to remove the battery( I know your problem seems to be more serious)

3.) Like you people are also complaining that their GPU's or motherboards are failing and as far as i looked I did not see one reply from an Asus rep to any of them.

It's a pity the warranty is gone mate

...sorry to say that it looks like you may be kind of screwed.