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Using a 30G iPod Video With Linux

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July 4, 2007

At first I thought this would be a simple thing to do. After all, linux has great FAT32 filesystem support right? All I would need to do is format my iPod for windows and then everything would be great… right?

Then I remembered that I don’t have windows running on any of my machines! Well for once I will spare you the details and tell you the bottom line – using Windows XP in VMWare as a guest is great, but it won’t format your iPod for you. You’ll need to use Windows the way it was intended to be used, as the running OS. I ended up using a machine at work to do the job, and now all is well!

Now I can use my iPod with iTunes on my powerbook and Amarok on my linux PC. :)

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Kmail in KDE 3.5.4

Filed under: Computer Stuff, WTF? — 1 Comment
October 17, 2006

What is the deal? I add a new imap account and it doesn’t show up until I close Kmail and then open it again? And then it doesn’t accept even the correct username and password (ok fine that might have been a server issue… maybe) and then I try to just cancel and it won’t go away! If I say cancel, that means cancel! It doesnt mean cancel this little window and then bring me to another annoying window and then bring back the window I just cancelled. Cancel means cancel. It means no more, no mas, I’m giving up, please go away, leave me alone. I didn’t even want to try kmail because last time it decided to download all of my mail and re-upload it, effectfively destroying the date/time stamps on every message in my imap box. This time it gave me a new reason to hate it. I don’t get it… I mean kde is so nice… why does kmail have to suck for me every time?

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