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Grant Sewell wrote:
I do actually do that for map and speed camera updates for my TomTom. Download the files, bung the SD card in a USB reader, drop them on it It's only if the TomTom @ Home program needs/wants an update to the functionality that I (like Tom) have to use Windows.On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:40:09 +0000 Rob Beard wrote:tom wrote:Rob Beard wrote:tom wrote:It really annoys me that they havent the wit to make a linuxupdate app. And they're paying MS a fortune to use windows as a communication method. Richard Heads!Even more annoying when the device itself runs Linux! You'd have thought it would be easy enough to put together a simple application to update it. RobUnless that was part of the patent agreement? Tom te tom te tomWho knows (apart from Microsoft and TomTom), maybe it could be. I can't see why these devices need fancy programs to update themselves, why on earth they can't just give you a file to download and dump on an SD card or onto the device itself I don't know. RobSecurity through obscurity. The mistaken belief that if they make the process awkward enough then it is automatically a "secure" process. If all you need to do is download a file and dump it on the device, then anyone can check out the contents of the file and reverse engineer it for their own purposes. Grant.
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