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Posted by Hemos on from the l33t-walking dept.

asv108 writes "It seems that people are finding new uses for their iPod. According to this story in Wired, a Dallas area CompUsa employee caught a teenager transferring a fresh copy of Office for OSX to his iPod from a store demo machine."

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  1. Re:Wait a minute... by Masem · · Score: 5, Informative
    It wasn't a Compusa employee, just the author of the article; he did try to get a Compusa employee to do something, but the employee acted as if the writer was stupid.

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  2. Re:And I Thought... by nomadic · · Score: 5, Informative

    According to the story, it was a computer consultant shopping in CompUSA who saw this.

    It's irrelevant, I guess, since nobody actually reads the stories anymore.

  3. Your are right! by John+Harrison · · Score: 5, Informative
    If the poster of the article had read the story he would have noticed that is was a customer who witnessed the iPod piracy. He contacted a CompUSA employee and according to the article:

    Webb watched the teenager copy a couple of other applications. He left the kid to find a CompUSA employee. "I went over and told a CompUSA guy, but he looked at me like I was clueless," Webb said.

    Unsure whether the kid was a thief or an out-of-uniform employee, Webb watched as he left the store. "I thought there's no point in getting any more involved in this imbroglio," Webb said. "Besides, this is Texas. You never know what he might have been carrying."

    CompUSA representatives didn't respond to requests for comment. Neither did Apple officials.

    So basically the CompUSA people had no clue what was going on. Typical.

    Also note that nobody was caught as the poster claimed. The event was merely witnessed, nobody was caught.

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  4. "To install..." by phillymjs · · Score: 4, Informative

    "...copy this folder to your hard drive"

    That's what it says on the Office X CD. You copy that folder, and when you launch an Office app for the first time it checks to see if that other stuff isn't there. If it's not, it copies it there to complete the install.

    From the article: When installing Office, users simply drag and drop the Office folder to their hard drive. Everything is included, including a self-repair mechanism that replaces critical files in the system folder.

    Chances are, just copying the Office folder worked like a charm. If not, it's not like he can't grab a .dmg of the Office X CD from Hotline or Carracho, and registration keys are easy to find for almost anything online.

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  5. Re:quick delete.. by imac.usr · · Score: 5, Informative
    Anyone know if there is a way to quickly reset the ipod?



    Depends on your definition of "quickly"; it can be done, but you'll need another Mac handy....

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