[Trombone-l] Advice on Minidisk Recorders

[Simon Bailey]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 10:35:33AM -0400, Walter Barrett wrote:
> There was an article in MacWorld about recording on an iPod running  
> Linux, here's something about that...
> 
> http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS8241260316.html
> 
> There's an audio sample that sounds pretty decent, and it was  
> recorded with the left earbud of the iPod!!!
> 
> I'm not a computer geek, so don't ask me anything about it, just  
> thought I would pass it on...

i'm a computer geek (actually a linux geek), and i'd be very careful about
putting linux on an ipod. one of my colleagues did that and broke it. another
plugged the linux ipod into a windows box, windows told him his disk wasn't
formatted and formatted it. plus itunes doesn't play so nicely with linux-ed
ipods. 

if you do decide to put linux on your ipod, please make sure you know what
you're doing. :) same goes for linux on any other electronic device (laptop, pc,
whatever, ...) that already has data on it that you might want to keep.

regards,
sb
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