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.

Quote: Originally posted by Thinine: It may have been a maintenance task, depending on what time it was. Probably could have let it run. i have never ever seen a si…

Quote: Originally posted by Big Mac: A perl task does not sound like something that would be performing maintenance. jindrich was right to be suspicious. Actually, …

Quote: Originally posted by Millennium: Actually, many Unix sysadmins use perl and its ilk to perform system maintenance, as it makes excellent "glue" between other tool…

I was wondering if anyone ordered an ipod shuffle from apple recently, and what the ship date of your shuffle is going to be.

ok so 30 something views and no response. Well finally found out that my ipod shuffle will ship on 3/9 and it was ordered on 2/14

I just walked into Target and bought my 1GB Shuffle... they had several.

Yeah, as I remember it, Circuit City has them on their online store as does Best Buy (but they are sold out as of now). Target was stocking them in some stores and they had them o…

Order date: 02/10 Approx shipping date: 03/21

picked up a 1gb a few weeks ago at best buy, they didnt have any 512mbs though.

Sometimes, after I pause my shuffle and let it go to sleep, it won't wake up. Most of the time I think it's on "hold" and I can't get it to wake up so I can take hold off. But now …

i've had that too... its annoying i know. but i dont thing there is anything we can do about it... maybe a firmware update about sleeping would fix it, but i dont know if it is eve…

Do I need to go to the gym or something? Are the screws usually on this tight?! It doesn't help that the screwdrivers for these things are so small and you have to turn them with…