Just by coincedence, I ran across this article:

Rebuild a lost iTunes library from an iPod?

eta: from the above link, a tutorial: How to get songs off your iPod w/ iTunes

That's fine if you remember to delete the original copied-from-iPod folder.

That's why I put it on my desktop, so it stares balefully at me.

Help! I have a new computer. It won't connect to my DSL account. I spent about an hour on the phone with two different guys on Earthlink. After trying millions of things, they finally decided that the problem is that the "LAN or High Speed Internet" icons are missing from "Network Connections" and that that was a Dell problem. Microsoft said that only Dell answers questions about Windows XP in Dell machines. Dell is living up to its reputation for uselessness. (Okay, I knew about the support problems, but it was a great deal. And I normally rarely need support. Ha!) I have done a repair reinstall of Windows. I have fruitlessly googled. I have randomly clicked everything related to network connections. Any ideas about what I should do next?

After trying millions of things, they finally decided that the problem is that the "LAN or High Speed Internet" icons are missing from "Network Connections" and that that was a Dell problem.

That seems very odd to me. Are you going through the Control Pannel to look for "Network Connections"?

Anyway, this is XP Home, right? (Networking in XP Home is different from XP Pro, which is what I'm using at the moment (at work)).

Yes, I'm going through the Control Panel. It's XP Home. I'm beginning to suspect evil forces.

Oh, does your new computer have an Ethernet connection? (It should - pretty much all computers have it these days.) If so, go into Control Pannel, System, then select the Hardware tab and click on Device Manager. Find "Network Adapters" and click on the plus sign - it should now show your specific network adapter. Right-click on the network adapter (under Network Adapters) and see if it says "This device is working correctly."

Yes, working properly. My second round with Dell has gotten suggestions to download some drivers. I'm doing that now. Sigh.

so I had a fucking incident with my new cell phone. I'm going to kill cingular. When I am done with them, I will take requests for individuals or corporations to harm later.

I ordered the cell phone off the cingular website (I discovered btw that cingular has a pretty decent corporate plan for those of you who work with companies they have agreements with) - I got the phone yesterday and spent 2-3 hours with nimrods on the online chat help who couldn't tell me how I could open up webpages on the new phone (motorola Razr). I went to Cingular store twice today to find out that the only way to do it (supposedly) is to use Opera's minibrowser.

WTF? My old (2-3 year old phone) did this without much trouble, why did I need to download crap to get it done with the new phone?

First world problems, but shit.

LeN, I did download Opera's minibrowser--but I used my phone's built in browser to get to it.

So that makes no sense. I more likely believe that tech support are dumb than they removed the built-in browser, but whatever it is--Cingular dumbness is there.

Dell's solution actually worked. It may be a sign of the apocalypse.