Grant wrote:
Nah, my friend was talking about how iPods suck. (I disagree, BTW, plus he hates Macs. Even the new dual-G5 Power Macs.) He said that once you copy your files to it, then it automatically synchs with iTunes, so you can't just use it like a hard drive and copy off the music due to the FairPlay DRM. My other iBook, iTunes and iPod-owning friend said he was right.Out of curiosity, who here would say they have experienced any type of emotional discrimination because they use Gentoo? I find this in correspondence with other Linux people sometimes. Is Gentoo far enough "out there" to warrant this type of attitude? It seems like these people are conservatives unwilling to roll with the changes to me.
Then I mentioned that it could be mounted under Linux as a hard drive to bypass the FairPlay DRM. I used the disclaimer that I've only heard about it being done, since I don't have an iPod. He asked what version of Linux, and when I said Gentoo, he said "good man." I almost felt like adding "kernel version 2.6.11-gentoo-r9," but I guess that was enough to make his day. And mine, too.
Plus it's hard to beat "emerge -u world". It's better than Mac OS's Software Update (which doesn't always get updates for every app), and world beyond Windows Update plus the Nero auto-updater, the Java VM auto-updater, my DVD burner's firmware auto-updater, my DVD burner's software auto-updater, my auto-updaters' auto-updaters. (OK, so I made that last one up, but it could happen.)
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