“Maanantaina 29.5. suoritetaan yhdistyksen palvelimia koskeva laajamittainen huoltokatkos, jonka aikana Nebulan toimitiloissa sijaitsevat palvelimet siirretään uuteen laitetilaan omaan laitekaappiinsa. Kaikki palvelut Xob-palvelinta [lukuunottamatta] ovat katkoksen ajan poissa käytöstä.”
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Flashing the iRiver T10
Today I received the iRiver T10 I’d ordered a week ago. Initially, I had been put off by the fact that the players sold inside EU were Microsoft-only. But then I found out it’s possible to flash the firmware to get rid of the MTP crap.After having tried the WMP10 approach with my new toy once, this is what I set out to do.
The Pure and Non-Pure versions were explained at MisticRiver forums. The “Non-Pure” version has an FM radio. Mine doesn’t, so it’s “Pure”. The firmware version my player came equipped with was 1.23P.
So I picked up the Pure version from mtp-ums.net and proceeded by the instructions provided there. I missed the verifying question about firmware upgrade after the restart, but you can start it from the advanced menu.
The first flashing took a little under a minute. After the restart there was the ominous “Scan music file…” screen, as promised, and the player was now a UMS device when I plugged the USB cable in. Halfway there!
I then uploaded the Australian firmware, from iRiver, into the player. During flashing this file, the screen was a backlit black, once again as promised. The flashing took closer to two minutes this time. After this, I had a fully working, UMS-abled T10 with the latest firmware version 1.70.
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BBC:n "Apple-asiantuntijasta" kansainvälinen naurunaihe
“BBC:n television uutistoimitus sähläsi perjantaina perusteellisesti, kun Apple-asiantuntijana haastateltiin vahingossa väärää miestä, oikean asiantuntijan odottaessa aulassa. Nettijakeluun päätyneessä hupaisassa katkelmassa näkyy, miten mies tajuaa kauhukseen tilanteen, mutta sinnittelee sitten urheasti kommentoiden musiikin nettikauppaa.”
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Kodak admits to spam, pays up
“Photo giant agrees to pay FTC fine after sending promotional e-mails to 2 million individuals, calls incident a ‘technical malfunction’.”
CNNMoney.com via Juha
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ASCII Maps
“Google Maps in ASCII characters. Pure silliness for your enjoyment by the good people at Poly9 and the invaluable Markus Gebhard […].”
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iRiver T series MTP to UMS conversion firmware
“iriver […] decided to only release Microsoft’s proprietary Media Transport Protocol (MTP) versions of their new T series MP3 players to Europe and the US, thus locking users into using Windows Media Player 10 and Windows XP to transfer music to their players.
iriver had a good reputation for listening to their customers and now maintains UMS firmwares for their older iFP line of MP3 players as well as firmwares for their own original proprietary transfer protocol. Luckily for us, they did release UMS versions to the rest of the world and so the firmwares were out there ready to be tried. Under normal circumstances an MTP player will not accept a UMS firmware, but we managed it! The conversion process is as simple as upgrading a player normally.”
mtp-ums.net via charles
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Kilpailuvirasto esittää Nikon Nordicille 300 000 euron seuraamusmaksua
“Kilpailuvirasto esittää, että markkinaoikeus määräisi Nikon Nordic AB:lle 300 000 euron seuraamusmaksun kilpailusääntöjen vastaisesta menettelystä digitaalikameroiden markkinoilla. Nikon kieltäytyi mm. vuosina 2004 ja 2005 ulottamasta tuotetakuutaan rinnakkaistuojien maahantuomiin Nikon-kameroihin ja asetti näin kuluttajat eriarvoiseen asemaan siitä riippuen, mistä kamera oli ostettu. Nikon luopui kuitenkin kielletystä menettelystä Kilpailuviraston selvitysten kuluessa keväällä 2005. […]
Nikonin menettely vaikeutti esityksen mukaan Nikon-kameroiden rinnakkaistuontia Suomeen ja vähensi siten kilpailua digitaalikameroiden markkinoilla. Menettelyllä katsotaan lisäksi olleen selkeä kilpailua rajoittava tarkoitus.
Tapauksen tutkinta käynnistyi Verkkokauppa.comin tehtyä heinäkuussa 2004 Kilpailuvirastolle asiasta toimenpidepyynnön. Verkkokauppa.com ei kuulu Nikonin viralliseen jakelujärjestelmään, vaan tuo rinnakkaistuojana maahan Nikon-kameroita muista EU-maista. Nikon Nordicin Suomen sivuliike oli evännyt Verkkokauppa.comin maahantuomilta Nikon-kameroilta takuuedun.
Kilpailuvirasto via YLE24
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Windows XP EULA in Plain English
“This is the EULA for Windows XP Home Edition. […] What does this document contain? Most people don’t know, because it is written in legal-speak. Still, you are expected to read it and are required to agree to it before using Windows XP Home. Even if you don’t read it, you are still bound by it, so it’s good to know what’s in there.
Let’s take a look at just what rights a user of Windows XP Home has given up.”
LinuxAdvocate.org via Juha
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iTTUSB – Turntable with USB Record
“ION has created the world’s first USB turntable allowing you to convert your old vinyl collection directly to CD or MP3 with the included recording software. […]The ION USB turntable includes Audacity software for Mac/PC for recording as well as a trial of Bias Soundsoap 2 for cleaning and restoring vinyl.”
ION via Juha
