bored crackhead...

[merlocka]

I was bored, looking for a few extra keys around the house. Saw my Palm Vx just sitting there, wasting cycles....

hmmm, mwahahahah


I know the Palm prolly can't but I wonder if some of the newer PocketPC's (iPaq, etc) will every be jumped by the crackheads.

 

[IJump]

I am starting to look into getting my iPag 3650 to crack. It sits in its cradle a lot and could get a few blocks a day, I am sure. Heck, it would be faster than the few 486s I have cracking. 🙂

 

[phatstyl]

i think that the palm series there is a program that can interperate C and C++ so depending how your code was written and if you can access the source, you may be able to run it that way

 

[Train]

maybe we can get a version of klinux running on it?

 

[AppleTalking]

Uh, guys, I hate to break it to you, but cracking on a Palm would not be worth the cost of the batteries (or even electricity). The Palm series is equipped with a Motorola DragonBall processor. The fastest Palm runs at 33MHz.. For reference, my old Mac Performa 550 had a Motorola 33MHz. processor in it, and it cracked at a whopping 9,000keys/sec. That's 100x slower than my current computer, a Power Macintosh G3/266. My computer finishes a block in about 5 minutes. That means that a Palm could finish a block in about 500 minutes, or roughly 8 and a half hours. So you'd get, at best, 3 blocks per day. Not worth it as far as I'm concerned.

Now a PocketPC, that'd be worth a good 100-200K keys/sec at least. Coding for one of those machines might be worth it.

Nick

 

[merlocka]

Yeah, I knew the Palms were slow. But some of the new PocketPC's have screaming little uP's in there.