Hello, I've got an iPod photo, which I would like to use as a disk drive with both my Macs and the PCs at my university. If I restore it on a windows PC, will I be able to keep i…

Surely someone else has needed to do this and can tell me if it'll work OK?

For sharing between mac and pc ipod must be pc formatted. Os X will work with it as just an external hd.

So I can't use it with iTunes on the Mac then?!?!?

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I imagine no one is answering this question correctly because it's been gone over and over on these forums, just not since the ipod only forum was created. As long as you PC forma…

Quote: Originally posted by grovberg: I imagine no one is answering this question correctly because it's been gone over and over on these forums, just not since the ipod…

Quote: Originally posted by blackbird_1.0: Question. If I have a PC, and an iPod. Could I still manually copy songs to and from the iPod without iTunes? How? I'm n…

Quote: Originally posted by grovberg: I'm not really sure what you're asking. You need some kind software to move the files into the hidden folders where the iPod keeps …

Quote: Originally posted by blackbird_1.0: Thanks. I was asking for a PC using friend. I love iTunes, and use it all the time on my macs. If they don't use iTunes can't …

Now I'm really confused. Maybe because I've never used an iPod. However.. I just ordered a new iPod mini (blue) today and it should come in during next week. I just want to copy s…

How much more direct would you like it? You'd still need something to rip the songs to MP3, unless you were planning on using lossless audio, in which case your mini wouldn't hold …

It seems to me that every day CNET has a story about the newest iPod killer, be it portable satellite radio, the PSP, or some ugly rip-off mp3 player. How much money are all of th…

they call them iPod killers because that makes people read the article. If the review was titled "satellite radio mobile player - sucks compared to your iPod" do you really think …

The only iPod not rated with a 9 rating is the Shuffle. It's their favorite mp3 player by far.

Hey it only makes them look stupid as people love the iPod.

Quote: Originally posted by Dalhectar: The only iPod not rated with a 9 rating is the Shuffle. It's their favorite mp3 player by far. Exactly. They love the iPod.…

i was playing around with iphoto. exported a slide presentation to idvd only as an example. after some play with idvd quited both programs, maybe idvd was still doing something. s…

more data.. i got into activity monitor. locate the perl process, wich belongs to the system, and try to force quit. asks for pw, and i force quit it. a few seconds later it starts…

update... i think i finally killed it. started to kill every single root process wiith a perl name or similar, it started again but did it faster until i got rid of them. now the…

What was the name of the perl script and from where was it being run? You say it was being run as root? Unless there was a root compromise, which would be big news, it's safer to a…

If you go in through the command line and use ps -aux, you get a list of all the process and their parents -that is, the processes which spawned them. You get all this information …

hi again. the powerbook (1.25) is ok now. the perl process didnt activate again. i'm afraid is too late to recap info on what happened. i dont know much about unix yet. is there a…

It may have been a maintenance task, depending on what time it was. Probably could have let it run.

A perl task does not sound like something that would be performing maintenance. jindrich was right to be suspicious.