Amazon has the Archos 20GB Recorder for $130 after a 50 rebate. They have both version 1 and 2 as well as many other Archos players. Get it at www.amazon.com
Archos products have been known to be somewhat less reliable than the high-end stuff like iPod, but for this price you can't go wrong.
To make this player/recorder even better, simply drag-n-drop files, umount/eject and play. There is no rearranging of your music... it's there just as you placed it on the drive. Not sure about this unit, but batteries are easily changed in version 1 (which I own).
Go get one today... then load the Rockbox firmware and keep on rockin. In version 2 you can even flash-upgrade the flashrom for a 4sec bootup.
btw... I posted a review on Amazon just this week and bought the rebated unit for my neighbor to use on his bike.
Yea, this sounds like an ad... but it's not. I just want to make sure people know what kind of bs they are getting from the major 'players' out there. Make sure you check the music management issues when you do your research. Any player I will buy must be Linux compatible.
What has griped me about MS? Well, lots of things they do. I use Linux. I know, you think that makes me a MS basher. You're partly correct in that assumption. However, unless you have had a Hotmail account since it's inception in 1994, you can not fully appreciate my pissed mood toward MS.
All was working well with Hotmail until MS bought it and, sometime more recently in it's supposed wisdom decided to BORG everyone (like the "Resistance is Futile" bill on slashdot) into requiring a 'passport'. Should we accept such "big brother" tacticts? Of course you know the answer.
Up to the time I started getting so much true garbage spam that I just emptied the whole lot daily (450 messages a week), I relied on this service to keep in touch with my friends. After the passport came into view, I tried to login to hotmail and got rejected with the nasty box about requiring a Passport. I tried in vain to setup this passport, but the system did not like my password and kept kicking my out. I contacted MS 5 times to no avail.
Now for my MSN IM account, that still functions to this day with the same password I had been using for hotmail. Go figure on that one. With this news I will finally dump MSN for good. I rely on GAIM to do my messaging now... and Jabber. GAIM supports almost all IM services out there and Anyone can get a Yahoo account or an AOL IM account and keep right on truckn'.
Don't give up the fight. Unless the idiots truly realize their position in the World Community, their services and software will fall into disuse. MS has adopted such an idiotic stance on things. Bill Gates, I hope someone points this out directly to your face. Get with program... it's about helping people communicate with people... not keeping Proprietary locks on what you are providing. You are forgetting the numero uno rule in customer service - the customer ALWAYS comes first!!
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strings /usr/bin/ftp | grep Copyright
@(#) Copyright (c) 1985, 1989 Regents of the University of California.
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Archos products have been known to be somewhat less reliable than the high-end stuff like iPod, but for this price you can't go wrong.
To make this player/recorder even better, simply drag-n-drop files, umount/eject and play. There is no rearranging of your music... it's there just as you placed it on the drive. Not sure about this unit, but batteries are easily changed in version 1 (which I own).
Go get one today... then load the Rockbox firmware and keep on rockin. In version 2 you can even flash-upgrade the flashrom for a 4sec bootup.
btw... I posted a review on Amazon just this week and bought the rebated unit for my neighbor to use on his bike.
Yea, this sounds like an ad... but it's not. I just want to make sure people know what kind of bs they are getting from the major 'players' out there. Make sure you check the music management issues when you do your research. Any player I will buy must be Linux compatible.
Cheers! nomasteryoda
Yeah! my first posting!
aka ...
What has griped me about MS? Well, lots of things they do. I use Linux. I know, you think that makes me a MS basher. You're partly correct in that assumption. However, unless you have had a Hotmail account since it's inception in 1994, you can not fully appreciate my pissed mood toward MS.
... not keeping Proprietary locks on what you are providing. You are forgetting the numero uno rule in customer service - the customer ALWAYS comes first!!
All was working well with Hotmail until MS bought it and, sometime more recently in it's supposed wisdom decided to BORG everyone (like the "Resistance is Futile" bill on slashdot) into requiring a 'passport'. Should we accept such "big brother" tacticts? Of course you know the answer.
Up to the time I started getting so much true garbage spam that I just emptied the whole lot daily (450 messages a week), I relied on this service to keep in touch with my friends. After the passport came into view, I tried to login to hotmail and got rejected with the nasty box about requiring a Passport. I tried in vain to setup this passport, but the system did not like my password and kept kicking my out. I contacted MS 5 times to no avail.
Now for my MSN IM account, that still functions to this day with the same password I had been using for hotmail. Go figure on that one. With this news I will finally dump MSN for good. I rely on GAIM to do my messaging now... and Jabber. GAIM supports almost all IM services out there and Anyone can get a Yahoo account or an AOL IM account and keep right on truckn'.
Don't give up the fight. Unless the idiots truly realize their position in the World Community, their services and software will fall into disuse. MS has adopted such an idiotic stance on things. Bill Gates, I hope someone points this out directly to your face. Get with program... it's about helping people communicate with people
Maybe they should rename it CanofSpam.org? ;-)