Re: [ilugd] Free iPod Manager For Wine-doze?

2008-10-25 Thread Linux Lingam
[snip] Well, one of the options is not to use the Ipod because of its restrictive nature!! Other devices like those from Creative, Cowon and even Mio are linux-friendly and are well supported in Amarok (in addition to Rhythmbox) currently my thinking too. how the music streams through the

Re: [ilugd] Free iPod Manager For Wine-doze?

2008-10-25 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
currently my thinking too. how the music streams through the air to your two biological and analog ears does not matter, so long as you get juiced up with good-enough quality. check this 'roll your own ipod (sort of)' approach, based on a tip kishore bhargava gave me last year:

Re: [ilugd] Free iPod Manager For Wine-doze?

2008-10-25 Thread Linux Lingam
Completely agree. Let's bycott Apple completely. And I trust you also will not endorse Macs as apesome hardware-software integration anymore ;-) er... And you know what the name of my iPod is Ubuntu, with a big Ubuntu Logo at the backside. Apple just sucks. the ubuntu you use is totally

Re: [ilugd] Free iPod Manager For Wine-doze?

2008-10-25 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
the ubuntu you use is totally inspired by apple. check mark shuttleworth on this. He said in his blog that they should increase the icandy element in Ubuntu so as to leave Macs behind. There is nothing in Ubuntu that is inspired by the iSucker. Ubuntu is plain Debian, with some fixes and a

Re: [ilugd] Free iPod Manager For Wine-doze?

2008-10-25 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
The 6th gen classic is not supported, no. Full details on support are here: http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/IpodPort manoj -- Thanks Manoj :-) Swapnil ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org

Re: [ilugd] Free iPod Manager For Wine-doze?

2008-10-25 Thread Linux Lingam
I dont want you to become iNiyam iBhushan :D hehe iNiyam wants to use third-party hardware accessories like specialised music-gear, color-measurement instruments, and other blah-blah that does not work yet in foss, even after waiting for 3 to 4 calendar years. that's a lot in a professional

Re: [ilugd] Free iPod Manager For Wine-doze?

2008-10-25 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
so *when* i *have* to use, should i give the money to apple or microsoft? My suggestion. Sponsor a FOSS project. The iCrap will cost you some 1 lakh. That is good money to sponsor a set of developers and you will have an awesome product at your hands. i am considering downgrading myself

Re: [ilugd] Free iPod Manager For Wine-doze?

2008-10-25 Thread Linux Lingam
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 11:16 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so *when* i *have* to use, should i give the money to apple or microsoft? My suggestion. Sponsor a FOSS project. The iCrap will cost you some 1 lakh. That is good money to sponsor a set of developers and you will

Re: [ilugd] Free iPod Manager For Wine-doze?

2008-10-25 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
1) specialized gear comes with firmware the hardware vendors don't share or reveal. Build pressure, so they budge. You have that power. c'mon, we can't get the full capabilities of commodity 3d graphics cards to work yet, or even flash or full acrobat equivalents. what i'm talking about

Re: [ilugd] Free iPod Manager For Wine-doze?

2008-10-25 Thread Linux Lingam
[snip] oh wait! why buy a mac, when i could buy a bmw? atleast it'll come with Linux pre-installed. http://www.autonews.com/article/20081023/COPY/310239911/-1/SUPPLIERS also, interesting they wish to do this to drive infotainment in the automobile, given that they were the first to make an

Re: [ilugd] Free iPod Manager For Wine-doze?

2008-10-25 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 2:07 AM, Linux Lingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] oh wait! why buy a mac, when i could buy a bmw? atleast it'll come with Linux pre-installed. http://www.autonews.com/article/20081023/COPY/310239911/-1/SUPPLIERS Wow. Nice. Thanks for the link. I will read. Its

Re: [ilugd] Free iPod Manager For Wine-doze?

2008-10-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, Oct 21 2008, Shiv wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cannot find any FOSS iPod Manager. Can anyone help? Well, one of the options is not to use the Ipod because of its restrictive nature!! Other devices like those from Creative, Cowon and even Mio are linux-friendly and are well

Re: [ilugd] Free iPod Manager For Wine-doze?

2008-10-21 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
Well, one of the options is not to use the Ipod because of its restrictive nature!! Other devices like those from Creative, Cowon and even Mio are linux-friendly and are well supported in Amarok (in addition to Rhythmbox) With Warm Regards, Thanks Shiv, but as I said in the original post

[ilugd] Free iPod Manager For Wine-doze?

2008-10-20 Thread swapnil . bhartiya
I have several friends who are still stuck with Wine-dose, while I am slowing getting them install FOSS solutions so as to make them comfy with foss before asking them to migrate to GNU/Linux, I cannot find any FOSS iPod Manager. Can anyone help? Regards Swapnil

Re: [ilugd] Free iPod Manager For Wine-doze?

2008-10-20 Thread Gaurav Mishra
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 1:32 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have several friends who are still stuck with Wine-dose, while I am slowing getting them install FOSS solutions so as to make them comfy with foss before asking them to migrate to GNU/Linux, I cannot find any FOSS iPod Manager. Can

Re: [ilugd] Free iPod Manager For Wine-doze?

2008-10-20 Thread Bibek Paudel
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Gaurav Mishra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 1:32 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have several friends who are still stuck with Wine-dose, while I am slowing getting them install FOSS solutions so as to make them comfy with foss before asking

Re: [ilugd] Free iPod Manager For Wine-doze?

2008-10-20 Thread Shiv
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cannot find any FOSS iPod Manager. Can anyone help? Well, one of the options is not to use the Ipod because of its restrictive nature!! Other devices like those from Creative, Cowon and even Mio are linux-friendly and are well supported in Amarok (in addition