Wed 2nd Feb 2005
Posted in the evening, filed under
Languages ,
PalmOS.
I don’t write too many blog entries on my Zire (thanks to Jason, I’m not game to call it my Palm), and I just remembered why.
It takes ages to enter data, and the error rate is too high. I was just trying to write a program in python (to run at home - I need to reinstall it on my Zire) and writing commas in particular is quite difficult.
I might get around to buying a keyboard, or maybe just a laptop! I kind of like graffiti, but I wonder what the Palms with a keyboard are like.
Using a retractable pen with the tip up is more comfy than the stylus.
Wed 2nd Feb 2005
Posted terribly early in the morning, filed under
iTunes.
I’m putting my whole iTunes Library, and all of my iPhoto pictures, and the various movies I’ve collected onto my NSLU2.
To shift the iTunes library, I just changed the library location in the Advanced Preferences, and then Consolidated the Library. I’m hoping I’ll be able to do exactly the same with Jaq’s and it won’t actually have to copy the files across, as they will already be there. It will be interesting to see how clever it is. It takes a couple of hours to transfer the many gigabytes of music I’ve encoded, so hopefully it won’t have to be completely redone.
Either way, it will keep all of my ratings, and so forth.
My tip for sharing songs from a library between multiple users - just point all of the iTuneses at the same location for storing the files, and make sure all of them are set up the same in terms of organising. When one person adds songs, the others just need to drag the folder/disk onto the iTunes Library icon in iTunes, and only the new files will be added.
There are occasionally issues when someone changes an album or track name, but iTunes seems to cope pretty well most of the time.
