Dear Apple,
If you are going to waste my time adding podcasting support to iTunes, can you also give me a bit of love on the whole ipodhelper.exe thing where it sometimes malfunctions and needs to be restarted in order to properly sync my iPod? I'm not rebooting because of YOUR software. Task manager (and regedit to find the right command) is fun and all, but no thanks.
With Love,
Paul
Protected: w00t, time for step 2.
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Dear Internet
Dear Internet,
Today I upgraded to iTunes 4.9. It includes support for "podcasting". Now, despite the wankery about this perpeptuated by every computer technology reporter ever, as if this were some sort of messianic second coming of Jesus, I can't think of any practical reason I'd want to hear people talk about crap.
I ask all of you who support this technology, which is apparently some sort of wet orgy between RSS 2.0 and MP3, to convince me why this is such a earth shattering technology that I should bother messing with it. Preferrably point me toward compelling content, stuff that I'd spend time listening to. You know where to find my interests. I'm not trying to start a technical debate here, but this is only the 200th technology I've been told will change the course of human history forever, so I remain sceptical.
Thank you in advance,
Paul
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for my own reference, how to repair an ipod running hfs under darwin under vmware.
disktool -l
look for iPod
mkdir /whatever
mount_hfs /dev/disk2s3 /whatever (or whatever the mount appears as)
umount /whatever
disktool -e disk2