vw, I've been able to sync my iPod with iTunes on a couple of computers. But try to save your library if you can, because iPods have been known to "erase" songs wholesale (it's happened to me once in 3 years, and I've heard of one other time it's happened). If that happens, you have to reset the iPod completely, which causes you to lose everything on the iPod.
Jayne, your mouth is talking. You might wanna look to that.
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Fred Pete - Jun 25, 2006 6:22:21 am PDT #8373 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
amych - Jun 25, 2006 7:11:50 am PDT #8374 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
vw, while your iPod is plugged in, go to the preferences in iTunes, find the iPod tab, and set it to "manage playlists manually" (or whatever the exact wording is that isn't syncing things automatically. You'll have to drag songs to the iPod rather than having it done as if by magic, but the new machine won't erase your whole library that way.
(If you decide to live dangerously and not do it manually, you'll still get an alert when you plug in that says "do you want to replace the whole damn library?", but not that clear. I've watched untold dozens of people blow right throw that message and then realize it too late. It's human nature to click on warnings without reading them, and it's not like it's clearly worded.)
Jesse - Jun 26, 2006 1:59:37 pm PDT #8375 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yo -- a guy I know (and his company) are rolling out a service for sharing photos AND video. Check it out: [link]
Gudanov - Jun 27, 2006 9:25:55 am PDT #8376 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
Opera 9 has been released: [link]
It has some nifty features. It makes me want a new threadsuck that just shows names and messages so Opera can read it to me.
Also, GeeXBox 1.0 [link] has been released. This is a nifty OS for turning an old computer into a media player. I have a GeeXBox/Debian dual boot so I can boot into Debian to run Samba for copying video to the computer, and GeeXBox to play them. Has replaced my treadmill TV. The old computer doesn't like running a Mythfrontend to connect to my MythBox, but has no problem with GeeXBox.
§ ita § - Jun 27, 2006 9:34:35 am PDT #8377 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I installed Opera 9 on my work machine and it failed utterly to authenticate or play nice with our proxy server. So off it went, once I got out of the cascade of username/password prompts.
This makes me less interested in installing it at home.
meara - Jun 27, 2006 2:22:13 pm PDT #8378 of 10003
So, what's a good AIM-and-MSN-chat-in-one thing for Mac? I know y'all have recommended some in the past.
Tom Scola - Jun 27, 2006 2:24:34 pm PDT #8379 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Adium.
DebetEsse - Jun 27, 2006 3:57:45 pm PDT #8380 of 10003
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Seconding adium.
Gris - Jun 27, 2006 4:44:55 pm PDT #8381 of 10003
Hey. New board.
Adium is my favorite piece of free software ever. It's such a wonderful piece of macintosh open-source (far too rare a breed)
Plus, it's pretty.
DebetEsse - Jun 27, 2006 4:48:35 pm PDT #8382 of 10003
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I, personally, love the meta-profiles and the ability to change the display names.
eta: That is to say "great taste!"