I just read an article about iAudio, a portable little audio player which — unlike the iPod — might be worth owning. It uses a real AA battery, not some expensive proprietary failure-prone one; it plays unencumbered audio formats like Ogg Vorbis; it has a little FM tuner. The iAudio might be the player for me.
4 February 2018: I did end up getting one, and I really liked it. There’s a newer version available, too.
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I just read an article about iAudio, a portable little audio player which — unlike the iPod — might be worth owning. It uses a real AA battery, not some expensive proprietary failure-prone one; it plays unencumbered audio formats like Ogg Vorbis; it has a little FM tuner. The iAudio might be the player for me.
4 February 2018: I did end up getting one, and I really liked it. There’s a newer version available, too.
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When I replaced the faulty drive yesterday, I discovered that I had screwed up my IDE configuration: both mirrors were on the same IDE bus, one master & one slave. This meant that it was almost always saturated. I fixed it, and now everything is fast, blazing fast.
For those who don’’t know, an IDE bus can handle one or two drives. If two, the one at the end of the bus must be configured as the master and the one in the middle as the slave.
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When I replaced the faulty drive yesterday, I discovered that I had screwed up my IDE configuration: both mirrors were on the same IDE bus, one master & one slave. This meant that it was almost always saturated. I fixed it, and now everything is fast, blazing fast.
For those who don’’t know, an IDE bus can handle one or two drives. If two, the one at the end of the bus must be configured as the master and the one in the middle as the slave.
Read more →
An interesting geek toy to send MP3s to one’s stereo. It looks pretty sweet, although the OGG suport is kinda shaky (it re-encodes to MP3 on the fly, which eats CPU). I want one.
06 February 2018: updated URL
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An interesting geek toy to send MP3s to one’s stereo. It looks pretty sweet, although the OGG suport is kinda shaky (it re-encodes to MP3 on the fly, which eats CPU). I want one.
06 February 2018: updated URL
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