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« Reply #60 on: October 20, 2006, 10:43:24 PM »
slink!  we don't see enough of you here!  I hope you're rocking it out. 

Thanks for the reply - with your continent hopping, I'm sure you know.  The sockets in Indonesia are the same round prongs as in Europe (as several travel guides and the little wall chart at the travel shop confirmed), and this type of adapter is very easy to find here - the plain rubber ones are only about $4, and nice and small.  This means there's no need to buy anything elaborate, which is great!  Huzzah!

Also, I (ASCII symbol for "am obsessed with") my iPod.  So much.  It's been less than a month since I got it, and I can't even imagine life without it now.  Is so good.
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« Reply #61 on: October 21, 2006, 05:56:00 AM »
Quote from: side_show on October 20, 2006, 10:43:24 PM
Also, I (ASCII symbol for "am obsessed with") my iPod.  So much.  It's been less than a month since I got it, and I can't even imagine life without it now.  Is so good.

Welcome to my world.  A world without an i-pod is a world I don't want to live in.

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« Reply #62 on: October 21, 2006, 07:34:25 AM »
damn, don't get all up in my world, then. iPod all being broken, all suddenly working on the day I decide to take it to Apple... all breaking again the next day... screen all blank, all telling me that This USB Device is Not Recognized...
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« Reply #63 on: October 21, 2006, 02:28:19 PM »
I will deny the possibility of this happening until it happens to me.

Also, I was disgusted at the exorbitant price of skins, and so I made my own out of craft foam based on this template.  It only vaguely looked like an 8 yr old made it until I put the glitter glue on... But at least I have the template, so I can remake a better one now that I've had practice.  I found the semi-rigid plastic packing makes and nice screen cover... but what about the click wheel?  Any suggestions as to a material to cover the click wheel with that wont bar functionality?
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« Reply #64 on: October 21, 2006, 07:44:49 PM »
oh, no, side_show, the reason mine is being a bitch is... it's kind of old at this point. And I am against my two options: "Daddy, I want a new iPod! This one is so... old!", and "I am getting a job, for purpose of buying a new iPod, which... I don't know how much I'll use it. And I'd rather buy shit for my guitar."
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« Reply #65 on: October 21, 2006, 08:08:20 PM »
Man, those things got tracking devices and the new ones, microphones.

Stick with CDs, they're virtually free.
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« Reply #66 on: October 28, 2006, 12:23:58 PM »
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Cort, most of the new Mac computers don't have Firewire ports either.  Apple lost that fight, and gave up.

Not so. All current Mac models still ship with standard Firewire. There was a big kerfluffle when the rev.A MacBook Pro shipped without FW800, but that's been remedied in the latest revision.

Firewire is still the de facto standard for digital video and high-speed external storage. Apple dropped it from the iPod to cut costs and size.

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Personally I'm not happy about the switch. I use my 3G iPod as a boot drive more often than I use it for playing music, and as far as I know you still can't boot from USB 2.0 drives. When I replace this thing next year I'll probably go for the oldest refurbished unit I can find.
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« Reply #67 on: October 28, 2006, 03:39:05 PM »
You may not be able to boot from USB2 via the Mac, but I can on my Windows box.

It's a BIOS thing, it has nothing to do with the OS.
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« Reply #68 on: October 29, 2006, 11:03:31 AM »
I'm all for booting anywhere I can get it.
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« Reply #69 on: October 29, 2006, 01:29:16 PM »
S'truth.  I actually used my old 40Gb iPod as a lifeboat when I ran a linux live cd on my laptop and copied files to it when the hard drive crashed and it was unbootable otherwise.

Sure, some of the disc sectors were corrupt, but I saved probably 85% of what I needed to. 

Thanks Linux+iPod!
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« Reply #70 on: October 29, 2006, 07:56:29 PM »
Quote from: Bimmicus on October 28, 2006, 12:23:58 PM
Not so. All current Mac models still ship with standard Firewire. There was a big kerfluffle when the rev.A MacBook Pro shipped without FW800, but that's been remedied in the latest revision.

Firewire is still the de facto standard for digital video and high-speed external storage. Apple dropped it from the iPod to cut costs and size.

</>pedant

Personally I'm not happy about the switch. I use my 3G iPod as a boot drive more often than I use it for playing music, and as far as I know you still can't boot from USB 2.0 drives. When I replace this thing next year I'll probably go for the oldest refurbished unit I can find.


As I might have mentioned before, I got one of the 10-G second generation iPods when I was in grad school. Being a Windows user and trying to deal with Firewire is a huuuuge pain in the aorta. And the Firewire cable that was shipped with the unit was total crap -- I finally had to buy a new Firewire cable just to be able to load music onto it.

I can't fuck*ng wait to get one of the new USB iPods. My iPod is so old that it only supports MP3 format music, which blows because the AAC lossless format takes up much less space. Also making playlists on the fly would be nice.



EDIT: Also joughy******, the new rich editing in posts in Firefox 2 is great. highlighted misspelled words in red is super-fabulous.
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« Reply #71 on: October 30, 2006, 01:09:57 AM »
I'm a fan of any technology that makes me look less stupid.
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