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I heart linux

because it makes it so easy to mount things like iPods and download all your music to your new computer. It would have been harder on a Windows Machine, and even slightly harder on my mac. Now if I could only figure out how to install Lotus Notes…

This entry was posted on Wednesday, September 6th, 2006 at 10:05 pm and is filed under technology. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

5 Responses to “I heart linux”

  1. Suresh Says:
    September 6th, 2006 at 11:25 pm

    You can use wine and winetools to run the notes. i am using it on my laptop.

  2. Tim Says:
    September 7th, 2006 at 1:05 am

    Doesn’t an iPod just show up as a generic USB mass-storage device under Windows/OS X?

  3. Jim Says:
    September 7th, 2006 at 5:05 am

    “It would have been harder on a Windows Machine”

    Huh? Plug IPod in. See it appear as a new drive. Copy files. Profit.

  4. Mike Says:
    September 7th, 2006 at 6:00 am

    I reckon that your readers should know that, moments after I read this entry, I witnessed your Linux iPod download operation crash and burn.

  5. Akshay Says:
    September 7th, 2006 at 12:31 pm

    BTW Lotus 7.0 has a Linux native client…
    http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=463&uid=swg21229858

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