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I had the opportunity to give codeman, the man who discovered
that the I-Opener could be modified like this, an interview.
The Interview:
Q: What drove you to hack the I-Opener in this manor, not many
people would
have thought of such things.
codeman: well i seen it at cc and look at the back and poped
off the memory cover and
seen a sodimm a guessed it was a pc
Q: What was the biggest channel involved with hacking your I-Opener.
codeman: the ide port . it took about 2 hours to get it to boot
after getting it home..
Q: How did you figure out that the IDE header was mirroed?
codeman: after i pluged in a straight thu cable and it wold not
power on i found the 44pin diag and followed the voltage and ground pins
and also the sandisk docs helped
Q: Do you think that with the mass influx of Linux users buying
these units NetPliance will take a significant financial loss, blame the
fall on Linux users and give the community a bad name?
codeman: i hope not this was just a little hack to have a small
linux box they had to
know it would be done ?? i hope?
Q: With Linux growing popularity at an alarming rate, where
do you see linux headed in the future?
codeman: heading everywhere even in you fridge
Q: What other types of hardware hacks like this do you see in
the future with
cheap computing devices.
codeman: well once the ce stuff gets going that will be a big
one. that might be the
next one for me the hp jornada 820
Q: What other types of hardware modifications have you done
codeman: you name it, if it can be reprogramed i will try to
reprogram it.
Q: Thanks for your time codeman, anything else you would like
to add?
codeman: just hope i dont get sued !!
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