Hmmm... I've read the comments on Slashdot, and I noticed that many people got it wrong. They think that we want to hack the Nspire to be able to cheat on tests, whereas our real purpose is just to make it possible to program on it.

@Silver Shadow yeah

This isn't to mention on tests, either the questions will render the calc cheat programs useless (questions where you must write down the entire solution to the math problem) or teachers will clear your memory/lock down your calc before the exam start

@Deflect I wonder what would be a good way to get as many people together as possible to factor the keys, especially for something like calculators, which not a lot of people outside the TI community care about when it comes to 3rd party dev? If we got enough people (and computers) together, maybe it could be possible.

Well... one thing that encourages me is that non-calc programmers care a lot about freedom and rights. That, combined with pro-open-source people, could be enough to gather people together to help factoring the keys or something like that. Back when the z80 TI OS keys were factored, a lot of people joined UTI (where was located the key factoring discussion) and wanted to help.

I hope we can manage to allow TI-Nspire users to be able to do what we could do on the T-82, 85 and 92 (ASH, ZShell and Fargo). Just seeing a 90 MHz platform not even be able to do something the 83+ can is pathetic.

That said, I agree the program needs to be easy to run. It also need to be cross-platform, since a lot of people use Windows or Linux and some only have access to Mac.

Oh wow I remember that "If they build it, they will come" thing now o.o

weird that I forgotten this, being a former Montreal Expos fan

And yeah, true. One concern I have, though: I remember hearing something on UTI or an IRC channel once, that claimed that while doing this with the 8x keys, it would be illegal with the Nspire. I totally forgot what, though. Was it because of the issue about allowing a CAS OS to run on a non-CAS Nspire? TI would probably have a problem with that, since it could hurt their sales (instead of buying a Nspire CAS, people would buy the regular model, crack it then put a CAS OS on it, which is apparently doable because the hardware is exactly the same. When we buy a CAS Nspire, we pay for the software, mostly)

yep. we might as well try using boinc, though.

Yeah, but why not at least start the factoring of the keys with boinc like we did last time, and eventually as computing power increases (Well GPUs are really the powerhouses now) we will have it .... ok still in a looong time, but at least eventually we'll have it!

Yeah, but why not at least start the factoring of the keys with boinc like we did last time, and eventually as computing power increases (Well GPUs are really the powerhouses now) we will have it .... ok still in a looong time, but at least eventually we'll have it!

I don't disagree with that- I'm just saying that concentrating all the community's resources on it right now might not be a good idea. Because in the short term, hacking 1.7, or 2.0 or 2.1, will be much more beneficial. And probably easier/faster to do, too.