September 15th, 2007 by 
Baldy
If you haven’t updated your Windows computer in more than one year, you could be subjected to a barrage of unwanted adware.
(Don’t laugh I know of folks that have not updated since IE 5 for goodness sake! Baldy)
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September 15th, 2007 by Baldy
Will Fisher writes “New iPods will no longer be able to work with Linux. iTunes now writes some kind of hash (SHA1, md5?) to the iPod database which new iPods check against. If this check fails then the iPod reports that it contains 0 songs. This appears to be protection against 3rd party applications writing out their own databases. We haven’t found out how to generate our own valid hashes (but we do know the hash includes the database itself, and possibly the iPod serial number), and are looking for help.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Well Linux users would not pay $600 plus for a slow phone and Apple has decided they are not making enough money from the open source crowd and figures to play nasty with us. Haw there are better places to get legal music and cheaper too! Baldy
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