Yup, my iPod crashed. I was happily listening while doing some work in the front yard when my playlist ended. Through my pocket, I press the play button again, not willing to get my silicon iPod casing all dusty and dirty (that thing attracts dirt). Nothing came through. I shrugged and got on with my work. When I came inside and took the iPod out of my pocket, I saw the screen shown above. It’s still like that, and nothing seems to affect it. The following is a list of things I’ve tried.
- Press and hold the menu button
- Press and hold any button
- Press and hold all buttons (yes, you can do this)
- Insert, remove, re-insert, re-remove headphone plug
- Plug into computer via firewire
None of the above had any effect on the iPod whatsoever. I suppose I’ll wait for the batteries to drain or something, then see if it’ll come back.
Update (20 minutes later): Following the directions on Apple’s iPod support article, I was able to recover the iPod. Thanks to Lina for the link.
Since I’m staying with Mum lately, I’ve had a chance to cook a little. Normally, at school, I’m not able to cook at all. Between the lack of cooking facilities, time, and ingredients, it just gets tough. When ingredients are already paid for, and utensils are provided along with top-class facilities, it’s too much to refuse.
So that’s just something I cooked up for lunch today. Ingredients: ‘Hong Kong’ noodles, frozen pre-chopped (so sue me — they’re easy to cook!) veggies (including carrots, red bell peppers, squash, baby corn, peas in pod, whole muchrooms, and some other veggies whose names I should know but don’t), two chicken thighs, soy sauce, salt, and olive oil. Yup, that’s it. Took me all of 15 minutes to prepare and cook (not including defrosting time).
Joe Jezak has been putting in a great deal of work on sys-apps/coreutils-darwin and sys-apps/baselayout-darwin. With Kito’s advice and my pushes, shoves, and testing, we were able to put together a working coreutils package, as well as a preliminary baselayout. So far, the baselayout consists only of env.d stuff, but will grow with time. This is a great step forward for Gentoo for Mac OS X. Time for me to go celebrate in some more code.
For a long time now, cascading profiles have served Gentoo for Mac OS X very well. For too long now, cascading profiles have been insufficient. Conflicting statements? I think not. Multiple inheritance for cascading profiles would solve a great deal of problems for the Gentoo for Mac OS X team. Continue reading ‘Multiple Inheritance for Cascading Profiles’
Over the last couple of weeks, PulpFiction has been breaking down on me. It started with the poocs.net feed about a month ago. This I wasn’t too fretted about — I figured something odd had happened to the feed. Then it happened with SlashDot. Now that’s something I can’t do without. I’m sure it’s just PulpFiction, since OmniWeb could read SlashDot’s RSS just fine. So I went on a hunt for other decent RSS readers for Mac OS X. Continue reading ‘Feed the Fire - NewsFire and RSS Readers’
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