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From: Nicolas Alvarez
Subject: Re: iPod touch
Date: 28 Feb 2008 16:23:13
Message: <47c72641@news.povray.org>


>> I'll attempt the downgrade again... Wish me luck.
> 
> Bricked *sigh*
> 
> Now I have to wait for my dad to come back to work so I can restore 
> again with his Mac.

Wow!

Plugged iPod to a different USB port, tried again (with latest 
firmware), and it actually restored this time; no more error!! Why did I 
not think of that before?

Time to actually try 1.1.1 now.


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From: Warp
Subject: Re: iPod touch
Date: 28 Feb 2008 17:04:38
Message: <47c72ff6@news.povray.org>
Nicolas Alvarez <nic### [at] gmailisthebestcom> wrote:
> >   Whoa, TIFF decoding must be one of the most broken things in the world.

> Blame libtiff :) Its build system seemed to be one of the most broken 
> things in the world too, when I tried to x-compile POV-Ray.

  TIFF, the most popular image format in the printing industry, and the
one with the most badly broken codec library in the world...

  One would think that vast popularity in such a widespread professional
field would be a good incentive to make a good library, but seemingly not.

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                                                          - Warp


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From: Nicolas Alvarez
Subject: Re: iPod touch
Date: 28 Feb 2008 17:55:10
Message: <47c73bce$1@news.povray.org>

> Time to actually try 1.1.1 now.

Didn't work, different error. Tried 1.1.3, yet another different error. 
Only .4 worked.

But the hacking community rocks. With help from #itouch on the 
hackintosh server, I got it downgraded.


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From: Nicolas Alvarez
Subject: Re: iPod touch
Date: 29 Feb 2008 09:23:39
Message: <47c8156b$1@news.povray.org>
Well, it's jailbreaked, running firmware 1.1.2, and with OpenSSH 
installed. I tried running my POV-Ray binary, and got the big help 
explaining switches. Good start (valid binary, no missing libraries).

Copied scenes/camera/perspective.pov and its #included dependencies.

iPod:~ root# ./povray -Iperspective.pov -L. -w40 -h30 -fn
povray: cannot open the system configuration file 
/usr/local/etc/povray/3.6/povray.conf: No such file or directory
povray: cannot open the user configuration file 
/var/root/.povray/3.6/povray.conf: No such file or directory
povray: I/O restrictions are disabled.
povray: cannot open an INI file, creating a temporary file 
'/private/var/root/pov36.ini'.
povray: removing '/private/var/root/pov36.ini'.
Persistence of Vision(tm) Ray Tracer Version 3.6.1 (arm-apple-darwin-g++ 
4.0.1 @
  arm-apple-darwin)
This is an unofficial version compiled by:
  Nicolas Alvarez <nic### [at] gmailcom>
  The POV-Ray Team(tm) is not responsible for supporting this version.
POV-Ray is based on DKBTrace 2.12 by David K. Buck & Aaron A. Collins
Copyright 1991-2003 Persistence of Vision Team
Copyright 2003-2004 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.

Primary POV-Ray 3.5/3.6 Developers: (Alphabetically)
   Chris Cason         Thorsten Froehlich  Nathan Kopp         Ron Parker

Contributing Authors: (Alphabetically)
   Steve Anger         Eric Barish         Dieter Bayer        Steve A. 
Bennett
   David K. Buck       Nicolas Calimet     Aaron A. Collins    Chris Dailey
   Steve Demlow        Andreas Dilger      Alexander Enzmann   Dan Farmer
   Mark Gordon         Christoph Hormann   Mike Hough          Chris Huff
   Kari Kivisalo       Lutz Kretzschmar    Jochen Lippert      Pascal 
Massimino
   Jim McElhiney       Douglas Muir        Juha Nieminen       Bill Pulver
   Eduard Schwan       Wlodzimierz Skiba   Robert Skinner      Yvo 
Smellenbergh
   Zsolt Szalavari     Scott Taylor        Massimo Valentini   Timothy 
Wegner
   Drew Wells          Chris Young

Other contributors are listed in the documentation.

Support libraries used by POV-Ray:
   ZLib 1.2.1, Copyright 1995-1998 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler
   LibPNG 1.2.5, Copyright 1998-2002 Glenn Randers-Pehrson
   LibJPEG 6b, Copyright 1998 Thomas G. Lane
   LibTIFF 3.8.2, Copyright 1988-1997 Sam Leffler, 1991-1997 SGI
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'int'
Abort trap
iPod:~ root#


Aww :(

I wonder if anyone has ported gdb yet.


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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: iPod touch
Date: 29 Feb 2008 09:40:49
Message: <47c81971@news.povray.org>
> Support libraries used by POV-Ray:
>   ZLib 1.2.1, Copyright 1995-1998 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler
>   LibPNG 1.2.5, Copyright 1998-2002 Glenn Randers-Pehrson
>   LibJPEG 6b, Copyright 1998 Thomas G. Lane
>   LibTIFF 3.8.2, Copyright 1988-1997 Sam Leffler, 1991-1997 SGI
> terminate called after throwing an instance of 'int'
> Abort trap
> iPod:~ root#
> 
> 
> Aww :(
> 
> I wonder if anyone has ported gdb yet.

Um... OK, I'll bite. *Why* would you be attempting to run POV-Ray on a 
device that has a 3 MHz CPU and a monochrome display? This doesn't seem 
very sensible...

[FWIW, I recently discovered that my MP3 player now has an osciliscope, 
a 3D cube, and a Mandelbrot explorer. All very silly really...]

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From: Nicolas Alvarez
Subject: Re: iPod touch
Date: 29 Feb 2008 09:51:31
Message: <47c81bf3@news.povray.org>

> Um... OK, I'll bite. *Why* would you be attempting to run POV-Ray on a 
> device that has a 3 MHz CPU and a monochrome display? This doesn't seem 
> very sensible...

You're a few years outdated...

iPod touch runs OS X, has 128MB of RAM, a 620MHz ARM CPU underclocked to 
412MHz, Wi-Fi, and I can check my email from it.


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From: Nicolas Alvarez
Subject: Re: iPod touch
Date: 29 Feb 2008 09:52:06
Message: <47c81c16$1@news.povray.org>


>> and a monochrome display?

and 480x320 pixels at 163 ppi, of course color


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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: iPod touch
Date: 29 Feb 2008 10:10:02
Message: <47c8204a$1@news.povray.org>
Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

> iPod touch runs OS X, has 128MB of RAM, a 620MHz ARM CPU underclocked to 
> 412MHz,

That seems a little overkill just for a simple MP3 player...

> Wi-Fi,

Ah-HAH! I *knew* somebody would do this sooner or later... Why be unable 
to load more tunes onto your player just because you left the cable behind?

> and I can check my email from it.

Oh. Dear God.

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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*


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From: Nicolas Alvarez
Subject: Re: iPod touch
Date: 29 Feb 2008 10:12:10
Message: <47c820ca$1@news.povray.org>

> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> 
>> iPod touch runs OS X, has 128MB of RAM, a 620MHz ARM CPU underclocked 
>> to 412MHz,
> 
> That seems a little overkill just for a simple MP3 player...

That's because it's not a simple MP3 player.

>> and I can check my email from it.
> 
> Oh. Dear God.

Have you heard of the iPhone or are you still living under a rock? This 
iPod is an iPhone minus bluetooth, the speaker, the camera, and of 
course the phone features. All the other features are there.


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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: iPod touch
Date: 29 Feb 2008 10:37:14
Message: <47c826aa$1@news.povray.org>
>> That seems a little overkill just for a simple MP3 player...
> 
> That's because it's not a simple MP3 player.

Apparently so...

Well, I won't be buying one in a hurry. ;-) But then, we already knew 
that. I already *have* a nice MP3 player...

> Have you heard of the iPhone or are you still living under a rock?

Heh. Even *I* have heard of the iPhone. (Although I couldn't tell you 
what's supposed to be so great about it. Presumably the fact that it's 
shiny...)

-- 
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*


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