Tag Archive for 'iPod'

Stupid Apple AV cable @#$%^

The other week I decided to buy the AV cables for my iPod/iPhone, thinking it would be handy to play a few show that I have on my iPod.  After I got home from buying the (expensive) cables, I learned that they didn’t quite fit my television inputs.  With a little bit lot of force, they might fit, but at the risk of breaking the inputs.  A little bit of googling shown that other people have gotten the same results.

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Music Tux

So my iPod (a 20 GB 4G color) has been sitting on my desk, faithfully streaming music to my head. It has occured to me that I’ve never tried installing linux on it. So a night passes by and a failed attempt at manually installing iPod Linux (and not to mention about three restores). I found an installer this evening and I got a bit farther, but now the kernel can’t find init. I’m too lazy right now to find out the reason, but I’ll try once again in a few days.

I know people have installed linux on their 4G colors, just that I haven’t found anyone with hints.