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Comment Re:I never liked the iRiver (Score 1) 278

by bssteph on Thursday May 31, 2007 @10:50AM (#19337489) Attached to: Syncing Music Players In Linux?

Yay mangled links.

Anyway, as people are mentioning, Amarok is popular, and for very good reason. It uses libmtp to do its syncing, so that advice should carry over.

Is Vista a Trap? 559

Posted by Zonk on Friday March 02, 2007 @01:43PM from the please-keep-ackbar-quotes-to-a-minimum dept.

logube writes "BBC has up an article about the trap of installing Vista in your existing desktop. Written by Tim Weber, a self-confessed 'sucker for technology,' this article is a good introduction to the pain and extra money required to get going with the newest version of Windows. See how you can spend an extra 130 british pounds, and still have no working webcam! Says Weber, 'It took me one day to get online. The detail is tedious and highly technical: reinstalling drivers and router firmware didn't work, but after many trial and error tweaks to Vista's TCP/IP settings, I had internet access. Once online, Creative's website told me that my sound card was a write-off. No Vista support would be forthcoming.'"

Real Life Spy Gadgets That Anyone Can Buy 171

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday June 11, 2006 @11:00AM from the show-cams-and-pen-grenades dept.

Ant writes "Here is a collection of "spy equipment" found for sale around the Internet. Everything listed is completely real, is sold at online stores, and almost any item listed here costs less than $500, and often times can be bought for less than $200. Seen on Compfused."

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