Incidentally, boot2 is way smaller. (as everyone already pointed out)
I wish they'd done that with the rest of the OS.

Anybody analyzing the new downgrade protection?

Of course.

It's not in the TNC/TNO header anymore...

Hard-coded in the OS?

Not sure yet.

Did you see Lionel's latest post in the bypassing RSA thread?

I'm pretty sure that the application I posted a video of did not use the iPhone's GPU to create the graph. It was using OpenGL to draw it, but the CPU did all of the computation.

It's 2011. Three years ago I could buy an iPod touch for $200 with a 400Mhz CPU and an OpenGL 1.1 GPU. Today, $200 gets me an iPod with a 1Ghz CPU clocked down to 800Mhz, and OpenGL ES 2. The games I've been able to make for the current gen iPod can't even run on the older ones, because the hardware has improved so much.

Apple has at least been improving the hardware on their products. TI has not been keeping up.
The Nspire CX's memory and screen are better then the older models, but the processor appears severely outdated.

Wild ideas, probably unworkable (though nobody has yet explained why to me):
* fiddling with the boot2's load_os_image and subroutines, in such a way as to make the boot2 load a TNS file containing the raw TNO/TNC for the same or the other calculator model. For example, proceeding forward no matter what the result of checks performed by some subroutines is. However, judging by the RunOS video, that's not what it did - but it looks like that in order to replicate RunOS perfectly, the tricks would have to be independently rediscovered...

Does this subroutine load a TNO/C into RAM without installing it? 

* using launch_os_image after loading the OS image at 10000000 (in such a way as not to trigger the errors mentioned by critor

I haven't gotten this far yet.

- perhaps by using the boot2 stdio/POSIX file functions ?).

I was also thinking about this, I'm not sure if you could call the function in C though.

If you're gonna have a USB port where you could potentially connect HD's and stuff, will there be a power adapter to connect to an outlet or something to help power those devices? My friend once connected his 500GB portable HD into his TI-89 and it instantly drained his calc so it'll need something like that for the more power hungry devices.

Standard USB ports only provide 500ma of current. His external hard drive probably already had another port on it for power, sometimes in the form of a second USB port. With high current draw devices, you would usually want a second power supply anyway.

Somewhat NSFW (Duke Talk)

And even funnier:
(More Duke Nukem Quotes)

I wanted to know what y'all think I look like by drawing/sculpting/whatevering something. How is that vauge???

Hmm. inb4 someone makes something creepy.