Slashback: ITunes, Debian, ATMs 122
Apple Announces iTunes 7, Movies, Set-Top Box. This evening Apple released iTunes 7.0.1, which "addresses stability and performance issues with Cover Flow, CD importing, iPod syncing, and more." iTunes users, especially those on Windows, have been complaining loudly about iTunes 7.0 since its release.
Wal-Mart threatens studios over iTunes sales. camperslo writes, "Playlist reported that Walt Disney President and CEO Robert Iger said that 125,000 downloadable movies had been purchased in the week since Apple's debut of movies on the iTunes Store. That sales level generated $1 million in revenue for Disney, which works out to $8 per movie. They also state that 'Iger told attendees of an investment conference in New York on Tuesday that Disney anticipates seeing about $50 million in revenue from the venture during its first year.'"
Proposal to fund Debian sparks debate. lisah writes, "Debian Project Leader Anthony Towns is now facing a recall vote over his involvement with Dunc-Tank, something Towns himself is willing to explore. Not everyone agrees that such a move is necessary, or even acceptable, and fur is beginning to fly as one community member asks, 'So, just to be clear, you want to punish a Debian developer for their activities outside of Debian? Now that we're in crazy-as-batshit land, who do you want to bring up on charges next?'"
Googling for ATM master passwords. bagsc writes, "Kevin Poulsen of Wired.com strikes fear into another ATM manufacturer. This time, Triton ATMs had their super-secret master codes revealed by simple Google searches. Tranax was the most recent company with this problem, but probably not the last."
Dupe (Score:1, Informative)
Seems he also wrote that two days ago [slashdot.org].
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Not really. (Score:5, Insightful)
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Personally I like, which is why I haven't removed it from my prefrences. --- HINT.
iTunes (Score:2, Informative)
iTunes7 on Multi-User XP trashed my libraries (Score:1, Informative)
When I installed the iTunes 7 the other week, this appears to have all
Re:iTunes7 on Multi-User XP trashed my libraries (Score:5, Informative)
itunes by default stores stuff in a folder called "iTunes" under your user "My Music" folder, and th library itself in "iTunes Music" which is a folder under the iTunes directory.
You can make your "My Music" folder be the same for all your accounts, and then you don't have to worry about different libraries. use TweakUI to change the default location of your "My Music" folder.
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However doing the way I described, you keep the same playlists, same album art, same play history, same preferences--it's all identical between users, and all in one place
This is also ideal for BootCamp.
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i don't use BootCamp, so i was just sharing it between OS X users.
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Why not just right-click on the item in question and select "Run As" from the context menu? (you may have to hold down shift as you click). I do this all the time -- I know the magic admin password for the machines in the department office but the staff doesn't -- and so if they need something installed (Flash, iTunes, something that we know is safe and are OK with) I ask them to download the inst
Re:iTunes7 on Multi-User XP trashed my libraries (Score:5, Insightful)
You say that the expected behavior would be for iTunes to keep the same music library for two distinct users on the system. The whole point of having a multi-user system is so that different users have distinct settings and documents. iTunes behaved perfectly correctly, and, if it had done anything else, it would have been buggy.
You use two user accounts on your system to get privilege separation, and that's fine. Then, because you want the two accounts to share data (not the typical multi-user paradigm), you use trickery to get it to work, and that's fine too. What you shouldn't do is complain when software breaks it.
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Re:iTunes7 on Multi-User XP trashed my libraries (Score:5, Insightful)
ITunes should have given me a choice about setting it up for shared use or non-shared. Especially for a "personal computer", it's typical to expect that multiple users will want to share resources, and on a machine and an application program targeted towards consumer entertainment you'd also expect that. (That doesn't mean that I expect it to also force the same playlists onto each iPod - it seems to do a good job of keeping track of multiple iPods.)
If the system didn't insist on having a user with Administrator privileges install it, that'd be different.
I didn't use "trickery" to get it to combine the two accounts - I poked around in the menus until I found where it kept the directory information, and it lets you change it. It was annoyingly well hidden, given that music and especially video podcasts are large enough that many users might want to keep them on some drive other than the default C:.
Breaking user preference settings during an upgrade is a real annoyance - most other software, even Mozilla, has finally caught up with the idea that you might want to do a software version upgrade without forgetting all your settings, or at least the idea that if you're *going* to trash all their settings, you should give an "Are you sure?" choice. iTunes didn't actually forget all my settings - it just forgot some of them. It kept the database of information about the tunes I had - it just lost track of where they were stored, including the tunes I'd downloaded from the iTunes Store. Broken, broken, annoying, and not what I'd expect from Apple.
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Apple is deleting posts off their discussion forum by the hundreds, all from people just asking for help to get it working again. This update has done nothing to fix this problem for me so essentially the iPod I spent nearly 500$ on is worthless, Apple won't help me on the matter at all.
I'm glad some people aren't having issues. I've been using OSX since release, bought every update, never had an issue till now. I used to post here telling everyone how great my situation was while others complained. Now that I'm in their shoes, it's pretty shitty.
Apple is a gem of company when things go right, but when they go wrong, watch out. I've never felt so disrespected in my life when dealing with a corporation.
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That said, if that's the worst thing you've ever had a company do to you, you're pretty lucky.
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It's the Apple cycle (Score:2)
10: Make a great product
20: It becomes successfull
30: Sales begin to level off.
#End Engineering process
#Begin Managment Control - This is where new managemnt is assigned to the team.
#Usually coat tail riders, Noobs, and kiss asses.
40: Start suing everyone you can think of.
50: Start rushing development to keep market share.
60: Stagnate
#End managment control
70: goto 10
no problems here (Score:2)
I've never purchased anything from the iTunes store, but I have nearly 13,000 mp3s, which meant I had to wait awhile as iTunes analyzed every single freaking file for "gapless playback information." I suppose it was worth the wait. Oh, and I've used version 7.0 to rip several CDs with no problems, either. Still thrown off by the new location of the "import" button.
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Non-standard for Windows, you mean (Score:2)
Overall, I find the iTunes interface to be generally in-line with other Apple apps.
I think what you meant to say is Either version looks and feels totally non-Windows-standard
Whether Apple should have changed the Windows version of their application's interface to match other Windows apps is a different question
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Re:iTunes (Score:4, Insightful)
So you're saying that using a free program that can be used to buy DRMed music is evil, because DRMed music is evil? Well, I'm sure you'll agree that hacking into other people's computers is bad. And yet, you use a computer. And a computer can be used to hack into a computer.
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Syncing still doesn't work properly (Score:5, Interesting)
It's a relatively simple problem, and it kind of ticks me off that my 2G "old" iPod did this right while a brand new Nano doesn't.
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I know exactly what you describe about needed good control over what gets copied, and guess what, it works just fine.
I've got my base nano playlist that is always synced, which is about 300 songs. Then to top it off, I sync a few smart playlists that contain a portion from recently added, recently played, top rated but not heard recently, most played, etc... as well as a dozen or so of the latest
Re:Syncing still doesn't work properly (Score:4, Informative)
See http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID
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Since the iPod was not updated, there won't be a change to how it performs.
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Just Write Code (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Just Write Code (Score:5, Funny)
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KFG
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"Shut the fuck up and write some code."
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It's not really that big a deal.
There's a lot of traffic on the #humbug channel, still, and AJ remains a fun-loving codergeek. He also seems to have his head screwed on properly which is not something I'd say about many other debian organi
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No information about WalMart (Score:2, Insightful)
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Where in the blurb does it say anything about lawsuits? There's actually more ways to threaten someone (or something) than with a court case. Hard to believe, but it's true.
Just click on the link to the original story (this is a Slashback, ya know expanding on a previous story. Kinda like a dupe, only different) at the bottom of the blurb.
KFG
Hi, KFG. (Score:1)
I, too, am wondering just what the "threat" was.
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What Wal-Mart does not seem to fully grasp is that by selling online the studios cut them out of the distribution chain, e
Thanks... (Score:1)
I know it says "especially those on windows" (Score:4, Interesting)
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Album Artist vs Compilations (Score:2)
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$8 a movie? What a RIP (Score:1, Troll)
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640 x 480 == iPod Support (Score:3, Insightful)
The change has likely happened as by now both Apple and content owners are relatively happy with the distribution system and both are willing to make videos available at a higher resolution. Putting lower quality more 'disposable' content online (in the form of TV series at QVGA) lowered the risk from the PoV of content owners, but now the system is seen to be 'proven' (popular opinion being that the low
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* I say "slightly" because I was lucky enough to only have 2 or 3 videos at that quality.
ATM Passwords (Score:2, Insightful)
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Yes the Distributor, Operators and Merchants responsible for those machines are the ones to blame. my understanding is that the service manuals posted on the Internet were posted by Distributors and NOT the manufacturers.. Anyone that doesn't change the Vault combination or maintenance passwords is a fool imho. We all know that "A fool and his money are soon parted" how very true in this ins
It's funny, really... (Score:2)
What's funny, is it's a rather poor joke that I use as a take off point to discuss a specific sort of illogic.
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Tomas
Still running iTunes 4 (Score:2)
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Apple Update doesn't show it yet (Score:2)
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Debian developers are held accountable, period (Score:5, Informative)
Since the story submitter decided to display only one side of the argument here, I should point out that this objection is somewhat irrational. Several Debian developers have been forcibly kicked out of the project for actions that had no direct connection with the project. The details of names and events are usually considered private, but to pick one example that's already public knowledge - at one point a developer was an operator on the Freenode IRC network (then called OPN), abused this privilege in some fairly juvenile prank, and was promptly kicked out of Debian on the basis that they coudn't be trusted.
It is already expected that Debian developers will conduct themselves appropriately in all circumstances, not just ones relating to Debian. This is interpreted fairly liberally (the project doesn't care if you're an arse, it's primarily only interested in abuse of powers), but it is apparent that the current complaint is of this nature. Whether or not it is upheld by the project is for them to decide, but there's plenty of established precedent for this sort of thing. They're currently arguing about whether or not to uphold it; there appears to be little question as to whether developers should be held accountable in this manner.
ObBio: I'm an ex-developer who quit for personal reasons that had nothing to do with the project.
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2. It's not defended, and therefore unenforcable.
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IANAL, let alone an international trademark lawyer, are you?
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According to uspto.gov, the Debian trademark is still live. Why do you say it's lapsed?
iTunes 7 breaks DAAP compatibility with rhythmbox (Score:5, Informative)
So I downgraded to iTunes 6 immediately. Apple penalizes you for doing so: iTunes 6 cannot read iTunes 7 shares (but iTunes 7 can read iTunes 6 shares). Talk about a forced upgrade. It seems that the change to DAAP was fairly trivial and avoidable, which brings up the question of whether they did it with the sole intention of breaking compatibility with the other software out there that reads the v6 DAAP protocol.
It's just a music player, but now I'm getting a little taste of what Richard Stallman means when he tells you to refrain from using closed source software. Even when you think a closed source vendor has good intentions, there's always a chance that they'll turn on you and slap you with an upgrade that breaks compatibility with your other software.
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OTOH, you were really asking for it by expecting a whole-number upgrade to remain compatible with 3rd-party stuff. Even novices are supposed to understand that major whole-number upgrades are mostly likely to break compatability with previous versions as well as 'accessory' products and such.
Debian cracks me up... (Score:2)
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That's because Debian is a project that has high ideals:
Some other distros and projects have "self appointed benevolent dictators for life" but that's hardly democratic, is it? You can laugh at other peoples' ideals if you want to but does that make you a better pe
iTunes updated to 7.0.1 (Score:1)
I went back to iTunes 6.0.5 (Score:3, Insightful)
Apple needs to do a better of job of documenting versions, e.g. what's different or fixed. This is particular relevant with iPod code. Usually every new version is called "Bug fixes". Ok, what bugs? What's fixed?
Apple needs to do a better job with backwards compatibility or provide a rollback. Going from iTunes 7 to 6 requires you to delete the library and start over. So if the code recognizes that the library is a newer version it should be able to create an older version.
iTunes 7.0.1 and Podcast Issues (Score:2)
Anyway, I upgraded to 7.0.1 last night in hopes that they would have addressed my issue, but I'm still having the problem. I also did a restore on my iPod this morning, but I'm still not getting all of my podcasts. I only get a few on my iPod. I'm not sure why either. I'll keep looking into this, but it really is a pai
Apple Software Update for Windows does not have it (Score:2)
debian? Clinton says ubuntu! (Score:2)
i think there is a name of this (Score:1)