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I got a 512M iPod Shuffle a few days ago now that Apple reduced the price.
I always take my iPod to the gym, but I notice that I spend too much time fiddling around with playlists. I was starting to get bored with the workout playlists I set up, but I always forget to set [...]

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Malian singer/guitarist Ali Farka Toure has died. He made one of my all-time favorite albums, “Talking Timbuktu” with Ry Cooder. I loved his bluesy sound.

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I cleaned up MacMegasite’s theme a bit, getting rid of the blue story headings and eliminated the tables.

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The one thing missing from my LinkStation was the ability to access it by name, so I needed to add Bonjour support. I couldn’t find anything already available, so I built Howl, an open source implementation of mDNSResponder.
For anyone interested, I uploaded the MIPS version here. Since I have a MIPS-based LinkStation, that’s the only [...]

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My LinkStation is running beautifully with the new firmware and NFS is especially nice, since it’s a lot faster than SMB, doesn’t have the long filename problems of AFP, and will remount after my powerbook wakes up from sleep.
The one problem I had with it is their built-in backup is very slow and unreliable. I [...]

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I finally set up a working GP2X development environment on my Intel Mac. I’ve uploaded the build script & libraries here. The libraries won’t build cleanly on a Mac, so I built them on my Linux box.

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While looking for the documentation for MT-DAAPD, which I just installed on my Linux server for iTunes sharing, I discovered that it can also be installed on a LinkStation from this LinkStation Wiki and I also discovered that alternate firmware is available for the Linkstation.
I didn’t install MT-DAAPD on my LinkStation, but I did install [...]

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For several weeks I’ve been trying unsuccessfully to convince an insurance company I won’t name that a) my mother died in december of last year, and b) she sold her condo several months before that, so she doesn’t need to renew her homeowners policy. I just sent them a paper documenting the sale and yet [...]

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I’m really disappointed with Yesterday’s announcements from Apple. The iPod Hi-Fi is probably Apple’s lamest product. There are already third party products like it which are a lot less expensive. Apple didn’t add any innovative features that none of the other products have. There aren’t any special Apple touches to make it better than other [...]

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