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HP and Apple Separate; Apple gets Custody

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the can't-buy-me-love dept.

Kasracer writes "Yesterday, The Register reported that HP separated from Apple's iPod selling agreement. 'Doing its best to erase Carly Fiorina's mistakes, HP has culled an iPod reselling agreement in place with Apple since January of 2004.' It is unclear whether or not HP will create an mp3 player or partner with another computer to fill the void."

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  1. They have to wait until 2006 by IIDX · · Score: 5, Informative

    As far as I know, their contract stated that HP has to wait until 2006 before they can release their own MP3 player.

  2. HFS+ is the default file system by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    For an iPod out of the box. They are all HFS+, but if you install the PC software before connecting the iPod it will prompt you to restore it to be FAT32. If you connect the iPod before installing the software, things get all confused, the OS will prompt you to reformat it, and it'll cease to play music until you restore it.

    There used to be FAT32 iPods and HFS+ iPods from the factory, but not any more.

    iPods don't journal their HFS+. I'm honestly not quite sure what good journalling HFS+ is anyway, I've seen many friends have their drive go corrupt even with journalling on, and it does slow things down a skosh too.

  3. Why does everyone misunderstand journaling? by Some+Random+Username · · Score: 5, Informative

    Journaling is 100% purely a way to repair the filesystem quicker than doing an fsck. It does not prevent any corruption on a drive ever, and it does not identify or correct problems when they occur. The journal is just a log, and instead of an fsck you replay the operations in the log file to ensure that every operation that was supposed to happen actually finished happening.