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You're right. Iomega's Peerless supports only "Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, or MAC OS 8.6-9.X." with no linux mentioned on their Future page.

To complain, fill out this form.

You're right. Iomega's Peerless supports only "Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, or MAC OS 8.6-9.X." with no linux mentioned on their Future page.

To complain, fill out this form.

Bernouilli is old Iomega technology. Very reliable! I didn't find much references on the product on their site, but it is one of their products: look here .

Instant Portability! Satisfaction Guarenteed!

So if I'm not satisfied, what do I get in return? Personally, I think I'd like some rebate coupons for some reliable products.

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The interesting thing is that I used to own a Palm IIIc, then "upgraded" to a Compaq iPAQ. I've switched back to Palm now, for the following reasons:

Palm's battery life is *much* better.

WinCE/PocketPC still has some usability issues as far as interface design is concerned.

Far too much "demoware" and "shareware" software in the WinCE world.

I *don't* want to deal with a "file explorer" on my PDA when trying to launch a program.

WinCE/PocketPC doesn't play nice with non-Microsoft OSes

PocketPCs are just that: an attempt to squeeze a relatively full-featured computer into a pocket form factor. Only I don't want to mess with registry entries, file explorers, and the like while using a PDA. Given their relatively high-powered CPUs and capabilities, they *suck* power like nobody's business. I was used to charging my Palm IIIc once every month or so. I left my iPAQ off for about a week (went on vacation), and when I returned, the battery was dead and all my contacts, notes, and software was gone (my own fault... but still, 6 days, starting with a full charge, and the unit turned *off*?!)

I've switched to a predominantly Linux environment at home, and the PocketPC, while supporting TCP/IP, doesn't sync with anything except Microsoft's Windows-based ActiveSync tools. On the other hand, there is support for the Palm on most major computing platforms, including MacOS and Linux.

For those that want an all-in-one MP3 player, contact list, organizer, and don't mind being trapped in Windows, then the PocketPC might be for you... Personally though, I'd rather have a Palm for a PDA, and save the MP3/multimedia functions for a dedicated MP3 player. I personally own and love the Iomega HipZip MP3 player - it's USB based, and works wonderfully under Windows, MacOS 9, Mac OS X and Linux (in OS X and Linux, it appears as a simple SCSI drive).

Does anyone here want to buy a iPAQ 3650 w/USB cradle, CF sleeve, serial adapter, manuals, disks, etc? In great condition... ;)

1. Rebate request form: of course you need proof of your claim, so be prepared.

2. Rinaldi Class Action Settlement: Iomega's page about the settlement, just because the information might be of use to some of you.

I hope that anyone looking for a rebate of any kind on a defective drive can find what they need!

1. Rebate request form: of course you need proof of your claim, so be prepared.

2. Rinaldi Class Action Settlement: Iomega's page about the settlement, just because the information might be of use to some of you.

I hope that anyone looking for a rebate of any kind on a defective drive can find what they need!

Ohhh, good idea... get your pound of flesh, eh?

Only problem I see is that you have to buy direct from them and they seem to overcharge by about 20%-50% compared to, say egghead or something.

Quick check, $105 for a SCSI* at egghead, $150 at iomega

bleh, not even worth it just to make them follow through with honoring the settlement. I'd say they are walking out of this one with a slap on the wrist. Then again, this is their proposed settlement, do we have to accept this proposal? Do the lawyers representing the class still have to approve this or can they/will they still pursue the litigation?

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Nothing against the work that these attorney's did on this class action (as I'm sure it took many hours of discovery and brief writing), but this settlement really stinks. Each customer gets a coupon worth up to $40 (but more like $5 or $10 for a reasonable purchase), but the attorney's get $4.7 million dollars in "fair and reasonable attorney's fees." That seems a tad unfair, don't you think? The settlement also calls for $1 million in donations to schools, but the settlement calls for 38% of that money to come from donations Iomega gives to schools. Go read the settlement, see for yourself ...
Rinaldi Class Action Proposed Settlement

http://www.iomega.com/rinaldi/request_rebate.html.

See also http://www.iomega.com/rinaldi/faqs.html and http://www.iomega.com/rinaldi/index.html

You don't need your receipt, or box, or UPC. The date(Year?) of purchase and drive's serial number is sufficient.

Fill out this form online.

Note that, in order to get the rebate, your drive has to actually have done the Click-of-death as they describe it. Also note that they're not handing out rebates /yet/ - You're just putting your name in the queue to get one - You have to return at/around October 31st to actually get it.

Make sure you keep notes on your filing - Fulfillment companies are famous for 'accidentally' dropping stacks of requests into the trash.

You get credit at the Iomega store. You also have some rights with respect to accepting the settlement. IANAL, but for those who are, there's a big section on "excluding yourself from the class action lawsuit", in case you want to litigate your own terms.

Me? I'll see if I can use my rebate to by iomega brand CD-Rs. My zip drive hasn't been plugged into the SCSI bus since I got a burner and broadband.
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the notice that was mass-mailed out to seemingly everyone can be found at Iomega's site in PDF. I haven't checked word-for-word, but the PDF appears to have the same content as the mailing.

Iomega is already pioneering media storage copy protection schemes with its "HipZip Digital Audio Player" ... From the corporate profile:

"The HipZip player recognizes MP3 format and Microsoft Windows Media(TM) Format (WMA) actively and is upgradeable to additional formats. It supports digital rights management (DRM) technology to secure commercial music content to PocketZip disks, offering artists and publishers protection from the unauthorized distribution of commercial content."

This is "phase one" in a larger project. Take a look at a document from InterTrust outlining the plan it is implementing along with Iomega.

(Don't know InterTrust? Read what CEO Victor Shear had to say to the US Senate just yesterday in this pressrelease.)

While the claim is made in that document that "Iomega and InterTrust are removing the roadblocks for consumers," it's clear that they're really just building their own roadblock around the corner: the consumer will download an mp3 or whatever from an InterTrust-enabled service directly to a Zip disk; the consumer is then free to carry that mp3 around from device to device on that disk; the consumer is NOT free to copy the mp3 to any other storage medium. Once all the "good" music is safely stored away behind InterTrust-enabled walls, an Iomega-branded disk then becomes the carrier-medium of choice (the LP or CD of the future!), and Iomega cleans up on the digital-content revolution. That would seem to be the long-term vision anyway. ;)

So: Iomega benefits from increased sales to end users (Bob needs an Iomega disk to store his download of Britney Spears' latest hit and play it in his ZipWalkman, his ZipCarstereo, etc). Iomega benefits from industry kickbacks which reward this kind of stuff, directly or not. Iomega benefits from sales of "solutions" to other companies. Iomega benefits from CPRM adoption because it makes the whole Iomega/InterTrust scheme that much easier to implement.

In short, Iomega wants to position itself as a "key component" in the "civilizing" of digital distribution networks, and CPRM and similar initiatives would seem to be crucial to achieving that end.

I imagine that many of the others in the yay column have similar vested interests.

PCMCIA would allow for a modem, ethernet card, or even better an Iomega PocketZip. Granted you can get USB version of any of these periperals, but USB modems and etherenet cards are notoriously slow and buggy. PCMCIA cards are easier to transport.

They even have a full set of linux drivers on their page! Stop giving money to companies that obviously aren't willing to work for it. Iomega is. Hell, if you look in the credits on the player, the Red Hat logo comes up ;)

PS: Search the Ogg Vorbis mailing lists for 'hipzip'. You'll find that they have a beta version of their player firmware that supports Ogg Vorbis as well!

Imation sells disks that hold 120 MB, have the same dimensions as regular 3,5" disks, and the drive can also read old (1.44MB) disks. These things rock. The drive will cost you about $75-$100 or something.
Castlewood manufactures 2.2 GB portable disks that cost $30 each (the drive is a little expensive though)
IOMega sells 100 and 250 MB disks for around $10 or so

I'd advise you to try the Imation drive, then decide for yourself whether you like it. I sure did.

Yes, there is a MD camera. There are a bunch of links, so I suggest checking out this page at minidisc.org.

Zip disks are a bit on the "too big" side, but there is the Iomega clik! - there is a thing to hook it up to digital cams, but I have have no idea what it does.

I do recall seeing a device that was a hard drive that would work with most cameras. The drive would hold 99 rolls of "film". You hooked up the camera, started the device up, and it would pull the pictures off. It did not work with all cameras, but it would work with most of them.

As for the Superdisk, have you ever used one? It is the slowest damn thing I have ever seen in my life.

Did you hear about Crusoe? The CPU market is ready to offer a small/low price processor with very-low power consumption. Memory?. Well, there are new models in production. Storage?. See Iomega Click!. And, you don't need a 35MB browser!!!!! There are very small browser with a lot of features, like Opera Maybe, the reason would be "economic" (in terms of competivity with other hardware) and no technological

There are some ultra orthodox religious conservatives in Utah, and considering that the state legislature is about 70% Republican, with so much control that the Democrats can't even stop a bill even if it is vetoed by the Governor. This tends to make legislative activity more like political platform actions, and some people have even suggested that most state legislative action actually occurs during the state Republican party convention, or at least during the party legislative caucus meetings.

Even with all of that kept in mind, it is still surprising how much erotic literature can be found in paper form, even at public libraries in a very conservative state like Utah. And don't think that the people in Utah are technically illiterate. Senator Bob Bennett chairs the Senate Special Committee on the Year 2000 Technology Problem (The Y2K Comittee), in fact he helped push the formation of the comittee in the Senate. Utah is also home to tech companies like Novell, Caldera, Thiokol(the makers of the space shuttle booster rockets), Iomega, and many others. To say that Utah is being backward in their decisions is not really taking notice of what happened. The state legislature took the considered opinions of many tech professionals, together with the screaming opinions of a strong conservative religious constituancy and came up with the legislation that could be considered "the will of the people" in a representative democracy.

This isn't to say that this is a one-way street either. If it turns out that net filtering will keep out politically sensitive sites (which it does), it will eventually prove to be a faulty technology.

Why haven't I seen a portable MP3 player using this EXISTING technology?!

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