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  • Oct 09, 2006
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  • I agree with a great deal of your picks. Hey, Steve, if you put Star Trek: Voyager on the iTMS, I'll buy EVERY SINGLE EPISODE!!! Maybe not the first day, but soon thereafter. I loved Voyager.
    United StatesCajunLuke had this to say on Dec 09, 2005 Posts: 5
    Coming Soon to An iPod Near You
  • If you're going to include Symbian and Palm OS or Amiga, you have to include the TI-OSes for the Texas Instruments graphing calculators (they are upgradeable on the Flash calculators, not totally hardcoded), the operating systems on HP's graphing calculators, and PedroM, a third-party OS for TI's M68k calculators.
    United StatesCajunLuke had this to say on Dec 05, 2005 Posts: 5
    How Many Operating Systems Can You Name?
  • I have almost 16 GB of music, lasting 8 days, 21 hours. While I never listen to it all, I have it split up into playlists. My Yanni playlist is almost eight hours long, my Celtic playlist is 17 hours, my Classical playlist is just over a day, and my Rock Mix playlist is over two days long. In total, those three playlists are 1,577 songs and about four days worth of music. THAT I listen to, frequently. How can I listen to so much music? I'm at college. I listen to music when going to/from class, doing homework, reading, going to the bathroom, etc. I listen to music whenever I'm not sleeping or actually in class and the professor or TA is talking. I probably listen to those four days of music in five days of real time, not to mention the other half of my collection (various soundracks from movies and musicals, the Capitol Steps, several Prairie Home Companion shows, and much more) that I listen to periodically (or seasonally, when you count my 21 hours of Christmas-themed music). I store it all on my 40GB iPod that I take to class and plug into my speakers when I'm in my room. So my point is that I listen to over 1500 songs on a regular basis, and even more irregularly. I would never get an iPod nano: my music would never fit. And, just for the record, I rip my songs as 192 kbit/s AAC.
    United StatesCajunLuke had this to say on Sep 27, 2005 Posts: 5
    "Screw the nano"
  • One problem: if you rip your CDs directly into the dashboard MP3 player, you don't have access to CDDB, and you have to type in the track names (unless you can remember the difference between Track04-CD06 and Track04-CD23). You could also rip a CD while it's playing the first time. Going one step farther (this is addign to your entire idea, no part removed), make a deep slot in the CD player that accepts a simple, flash-based MP3 player of your design (this MP3 is your new offering, and is sold separately). People can load the MP3 player off their computers by sticking it directly into the USB port (a la the Shuffle), loading their songs (probably oughtn't require software), and ejecting it. Then they listen to the player while jogging around the block and making breakfast. When they get in the car, they stick the MP3 player in the CD player's slot, and the CD player copies the songs off the MP3 player. It also copies the unnamed (Track04-CD06) songs to the MP3 player to have their ID3 tags added on the computer. When the MP3 player is attached, one of two things can happen: 1) the car player has the same, less, or slightly greater space for storage than the portable player, so it replaces all songs on itself with the songs on the portable (after confirmation), or 2) the car player has far more space than the portable, so it adds the songs off the portable. If 2) is applicable, it can be changed to 1) at a confirmation screen. Also, you can delete all songs easily on the car player. This idea gives the car player very little control (unless, of course, it's a high-end car like you stated above) over the music selection, slightly more playlist-editing capability to the portable player, and almost all to the computer.
    United StatesCajunLuke had this to say on Aug 29, 2005 Posts: 5
    How To Compete with the iPod
  • Which distro would you recommend for a Linux beginner on PowerPC hardware? I don't have an x86 box at the ready to try out a distro like Fedora Core or Ubuntu, and all the PowerPC distros I can find are pay-for or appear to be extremely complicated. Also, I've seen that some distros have the capablilty to run Mac OS X programs within Linux. Which flavors have that, and are any of them beginner-recommended?
    United StatesCajunLuke had this to say on Aug 27, 2005 Posts: 5
    A Mac User Tries Linux Part 2