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I know that Dingux runs off the memory stick. But what exactly is keeping it from running off the NAND or accessing the kernel or what not?

It's not encrypted or locked like the new PSPs right?

Well... That's all I have to say because I am "code"illterate. Although I do wish to learn. I've already started! I can write stuff in BASIC! OH JOY!!! *rolls eyes...*

BTW. Can someone answer my question on why I can't transfer the Dingux files "normally" onto the memory card? It always says that I have a file with the same name or the files are transfered at like .6 kb/sec... I think that it might not had happened for 7-Zip though... xd

WHERE CAN I LEARN ME SOME GOOD CODE? SOMEONE HELP ME BE LEARNED!!!

(It's not like I'll use C/C++ to make game hacks anyway...) o.o

`xD

pokiworms wrote:I know that Dingux runs off the memory stick. But what exactly is keeping it from running off the NAND or accessing the kernel or what not?

It's because by installing linux on NAND you'd have to replace the original OS.
I guess that people wait 'till dingux supports all the dingoo hardware, like tv-out, before taking that step.
On the other hand, I have no idea why can't we just access NAND from dingux, when running it off the SD card.

WHERE CAN I LEARN ME SOME GOOD CODE? SOMEONE HELP ME BE LEARNED!!!

82 Stanford University of Engineering lecture videos on learning programming:

I recommend taking them in order, because they assume you took the previous course(s) with their teaching.

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p ... C7F4A1F852 Level 01 - Programming Methodology stanforduniversity
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p ... F856038C69 Level 02 - Programming Abstractions stanforduniversity
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p ... 49CA734A02 Level 03 - Programming Paradigms stanforduniversity

Try BloodShed Dev C++ for C and C++ it is only about 12mb.

Also, search for tutorials on youtube, there are a lot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgmh__rtUDY
I recommend using this video as your first C++ application. If you type everything the same and compile then run it, it will work in both Visual Studio 2008 and Bloodshed Dev C++. Once you have it working, you can modify it and try copying and pasting lines and changing some words to make it funny or entertaining. That video is a few lines of code for making a simple DOS program and some things are explained. You can do simple DOS commands like "Pause" "dir" "cls" and other things with the
system("CommandGoesHere");
code which is shown and explained.

Chris Pirillo had someone recommend to him:
http://www.ocwconsortium.org
for free schooling, but it looks like you have to register with a name/pass/email. I prefer to just watch the youtube videos i listed above. StanfordUniversity youtube channel is an engineering school for everything. Youtube's ugly visual update to the channel layout made is so that all but 3 of their playlists show up now, but they have about 20 playlists, you just have to search for them now, get a course name and add stanforduniversity and search playlists like "programming methodology stanforduniversity" without quotes. and you get a link like this
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_q ... type=&aq=f

Wikipedia C++ entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B

I know that Dingux runs off the memory stick. But what exactly is keeping it from running off the NAND or accessing the kernel or what not?

Well, besides what was said, you have to hold B while turning it on connected VIA USB which tells turns it into a boot-device which is when you install the dual-boot loader which tells it if SELECT is being held or pressed during the Dingux splash screen, then boot Dingux, otherwise boot Native OS.

I don't see why you shouldn't be able to tell it instead of looking on an SD, to look on the NAND, but I think the main reason they have not done it, is because it is still being developed and they may do some accidental code that corrupts the drive it is on or something bad, and if it is on a removable SD, its no big deal, but if it was the internal hardware, the device could become completely useless and not be able to turn on or be formatted.

In the beginning you had to connect it to a computer to run Dingux, then you could run it off an SD, but there was data corruption. I believe they fixed the data corruption before v 0.30a came out. Plus by updating it, it adds write cycles to the drive, so it's better to wear out SD cards at $10-$20 than to wear out a $80-$100 Dingoo.

The only reason I can think that it doesn't detect the NAND, is because it isn't mounted as a readable drive that it can send/receive data from. The Dingoo OS was designed to look at that port for data, Dingux was designed to be the only drive. Sometimes it can be frustrating mounting a drive in Linux, but everyone should have the same NAND so hopefully it would not be as difficult.