I have the exact situation with a co-worker. I need to completely rebuild
her machine due to a virus infection. I looked into Linux, but
unfortunately, had to discard it since this person uses iTunes
exclusively. While I could install Wine and have her use iTunes through
Wine, I just didn't
The main problem with Songbird is that while it gives you access to your
library, and handles iPod syncing, it doesn't allow you to buy new music
(through iTunes). As a result, I end up using Amazon MP3 to get new music.
If your co-worker is OK with that, then switching to Songbird shouldn't be a
I'm thinking of setting up a dual boot for her. The only hangup is
the iTunes. She does buy a lot of music through iTunes, so I'm not
convinced shell do it.
I agree with you that apple is trying to sell more Mac hardware. It
would be nice if they supported the actual device (iPod) as
I have a curious story.
My father bought a HP printer on which his mac would not print. Then,
he asked me to check it out one of thouse lazy sundays.
I googled for a while and found a howto (sorry, I don't have the URL)
on how to install CUPS on the mac. The last step was to copy the
printer
I actually prefer buying from Amazon to iTunes. Though iTunes no
longer encrypts their music it's still in AAC format. Amazon sells
MP3s, which are guaranteed to work absolutely everywhere, such as the
MP3 CD player that came with my car.
- Josh
On Jul 14, 2009, at 9:40 AM, Mark Fortner
I think it's a trade off though. AAC sounds awesome.
I bought a Seagate Freeagent external hard drive. It comes with Mac
software, but there is a bug / oversight causing it to go to sleep
after 30 seconds. This makes it painful and impractical to use.
There was a patch that 'might fix it',
I prefer Amazon as well. Thanks to VirtualBox, I can sync my ipod
touch to iTunes (really just for the occasional free tv episodes they
give out). That, Netflix and ABC.com are the only things I use the
Windows disk image for.
On Jul 14, 1:16 pm, Joshua Marinacci jos...@marinacci.org wrote:
I
All I have is my own experience.
I stuck a new disk in my 5 year old vaio laptop and installed the
latest Ubuntu. Graphics, wireless network, power management all
detected automatically. It also had drivers for my HP printer while
the windows machine needed 10 minutes with the CD.
Very happy
I think the phrase is Vertically integrated - just like the most
successful drug cartels in the world, Apple is extremely vertically
integrated. They have their own suppliers (heck they are starting to
design their own chips) all the way to their own retail stores.
On Jul 12, 2:21 pm, Joshua
Nintendo have always been nice and vertical. They even control the
publishing of software for their machines. (Third parties can write
it, but Nintendo control the packaging).
I used to play with hack around with gameboy development (emulated).
The Nintendo logo which appears at boot up, is
On Jul 12, 4:30 pm, Peter Becker peter.becker...@gmail.com wrote:
I believe the main point is that you can tell before the buy if it is
going to work. I suspect most Mac users will buy only those products
that are labeled to work with MacOS. Hardly anything gets labeled to
work with Linux,
Is there a good way to get iTunes port on Linux yet mainly for ipod
and iphone syncing? That would be a biggie for me to recommend Linux
or even Chrome to 'grandma'. Almost everyone I know has an ipod if
they have a digital music player and I can't expect them to hack'em.
On Jul 13, 12:11 pm,
http://gpodder.org/ is a good but minimalistic podcast downloader
which syncs to your ipod and similar devices too. GTKpod is a tool for
managing playlist etc manually and is also usefull for troubleshooting
or restoring media from your ipod.
not as good integrated as itunes but at least an
TorNorbye wrote:
[...]
I'm sure most devices work with Linux -- especially if the devices
aren't new. The story from some other post in this thread of somebody
taking their 5 year old system and hooking it up to Ubuntu flawlessly
didn't surprise me in the least. But where you can run into
I think songbird can sync iPods
- Josh, on the go
On Jul 13, 2009, at 11:59 AM, E Winter ejwin...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a good way to get iTunes port on Linux yet mainly for ipod
and iphone syncing? That would be a biggie for me to recommend Linux
or even Chrome to 'grandma'. Almost
Because Mac OS X fully supports the hardware it is sold for.
It's not expected to support more. It's part of the Mac-way.
One of Linux x86's promises has always been to support the broad range
of x86 hardware. People expect to grab any old x86 system and for Linux
to work. Same goes for
And don't forget, with Linux, if my mother buys a lexmark printer and
it doesn't work she can just 'write here own driver'. :)
She GPLed her banana bread recipe, so this shouldn't be too difficult
for her.
(ps. im not bagging linux, im just being silly)
On Jul 12, 9:42 pm, Jess Holle
I suppose a BSD license is completely out of the question? Oh well,
could you perhaps get her to change it to LGPL, so that I can sell my
derived peanut butter banana bread, without having to reveal the
recipe.
/Casper
On 13 Jul., 00:49, Christian Catchpole christ...@catchpole.net
wrote:
And
Where can I find the source to both of your recipes, as I contest they
violate my prior art on peanut brownies.
mark
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On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Casper Bang casper.b...@gmail.com wrote:
I suppose a BSD license is completely out of the question? Oh well,
could you perhaps get her to
It's free as in 'lecture' not free as in 'banana bread'.
On Jul 13, 9:18 am, Casper Bang casper.b...@gmail.com wrote:
I suppose a BSD license is completely out of the question? Oh well,
could you perhaps get her to change it to LGPL, so that I can sell my
derived peanut butter banana bread,
Weiqi Gao wrote:
[I'm 15 minutes into #266 and I have to pause the podcast and shoot this
email out. (If I don't and wait till the end, I would forget all about
it.)]
Why is it that when it comes to the question of Linux's hardware
support, people always bring Windows out for
Joshua Marinacci wrote:
I think it's because Mac's aren't an OS. They are a software/hardware
combo, all provided by the same vendor. Thus all of the built in
hardware is guaranteed to work because it's built by the same company.
True, there are peripherals, but it's less critical than
I think it's because Mac's aren't an OS. They are a software/hardware
combo, all provided by the same vendor. Thus all of the built in
hardware is guaranteed to work because it's built by the same company.
True, there are peripherals, but it's less critical than it is for
Windows.
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