{"id":106,"date":"2003-06-21T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-21T12:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=106"},"modified":"2003-06-21T12:14:00","modified_gmt":"2003-06-21T12:14:00","slug":"man_vs_machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"Man vs. Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"

As an early b-day present, my dad snagged me a 10 GB iPod on eBay<\/a>. I was really stoked when it arrived in the mail yesterday. I thought I’d have it crammed full of music in an hour or so. Twelve hours later, I had it working. First, I discovered it wouldn’t work with the FireWire port on my Audigy<\/a>, so I had my sister run to Best Buy to get a FireWire card. Then I had to install the damn card, which isn’t exactly easy when you have to verbally direct someone else who has never even cracked the case of a PC. After that, I hooked up the iPod to the new FireWire Card, only to have my system crash every time it detects the iPod. Now I’m mad. I poke around Usenet<\/a> and then uninstall some software that might be the culprit behind the crashes. I reboot…
\n…Windows won’t load. All I get is an arcane error message. I feel nauseous. I can’t even access Safe Mode. I pull out my Windows XP CD. After some incantations, conjurations, the sacrifice of a small goat, and much gnashing of teeth, I manage to restore my system with pretty much everything intact. By this time, it’s after midnight and I’m now on a personal vendetta against my iPod. No way am I letting some pretty little piece of plastic and silicon kick my ass. I reconnect it to the FireWire port.
\nIt works. Within a few minutes, I have a couple gigs of MP3s loaded up. Victory is mine.
\nThanks for the great product, Apple. But fuck your easy-to-use rep. And fuck your crappy MusicMatch software. Ephpod<\/a> rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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