Sounds great. "You show me yours and I'll show you mine" night, right?
ctw On Feb 28, 2005, at 4:40 PM, Ward Oldham wrote: > Hey Guys, > > Let me add a twist to Cathy?s suggestion. > > Maybe an iPod meeting where everyone brings their favorite ipod > accessory to demonstrate to the group. ?It could be a simple show and > tell of their favorite case or skin, but I?m thinking more along the > lines of the typical accessories one would find on the Apple site i.e. > FM transmitters, cassette adapters for the car, microphones, auto ipod > holders and chargers, third party earbuds, media readers, socks, > battery packs, etc. > > Now as most of us know, all the standard iPods are, in essence, > glorified firewire hard drives. And I suspect that many know that you > can install OS X on a firewire drive and boot from it as well. ?What > tickled Cathy?s fancy was my telling her that I had an iPod whose > primary use was not to play music. ?Simply put, I installed OS X on to > my iPod and loaded all my favorite diagnostic utilities. ?It beats > carrying around a pack of diagnostic CDs and overcomes an occasional > problem as well, such as not having a Disk Warrior CD that will boot a > G5. > > I vote for an accessory show and tell night. > Ward > > Ward Oldham, MacDude > MacTown > 1041 Bardstown Road > Louisville, KY ?40204 > 502-485-1243 > ward at mactown.us > http://www.mactown.us > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2371 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050228/517a6506/attachment.bin
