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December 2008, #176
The Oxford English Dictionary says the word "gadget" is a placeholder name for a technical item whose precise name one can't remember. Like that book-reader thingy from Amazon...what's it called? Spindle, Gindle...Kindle, that's it. Check it out in this month's gadget issue.
Other gadgets covered include the Nokia tablets, the BlackBerry, the Neo FreeRunner, the Dash Express, the Roku Netflix Player, the Kangaroo TV, The TomTom GO 930 and the MooBella Ice Cream System. On the larger hardware front, read the reviews of the Acer Aspire One and the YDL PowerStation. On the software front, check out the articles and columns on memcached, Samba security, Mutt, desktop gadgets, bash and Puppet. To wrap it all up, read Doc's thoughts on Google and the browser platform.
I found Rockbox really
On June 5th, 2008 arbulus (not verified) says:
I found Rockbox really lacking. I also found it difficult to install. Firstly, the iPod must be formatted with a Windows filesystem. Since I have no Windows box at all, I had to go to my sisters house and plug it into her Windows box and use iTunes to re-format it. Rockbox's website gives steps on how to reformat it under Linux if it's in a Mac format, but the instructions don't work. And that also is the same for most instructions on Rockbox's site: they are not at all concise and very hard to follow.
Secondly, the controls are really difficult to get used to. Depending on what menu/sub-menu you are in, the controls are different. Why they couldn't standardize the controls across each menu is beyond me. It's also very slow and very unresponsive at times. And further, it basically halves your battery life.
So in my opinion, it's just not worth the trouble. I want to be able to use my iPod on my Linux box, but Rockbox just isn't the answer. So I'll just use my wife's Mac to sync my iPod until I can afford a Cowon iAudio X5, which is Linux compatible and can play OGG formats.
/Not a Cowon plug, I just think it's a better option.