Kevin Railsback

Update: Duke iPods get Voice Recorders

When I posted in July about Duke handing out iPods to all incoming freshmen, my first thought was Why not give them the voice recorders so these are actually useful for more than music?

Belkin saw the opportunity, and has decided to give 1650 of their Voice Recorders to go along with the iPods.

Inconceivable!

I'm a big fan of The Princess Bride. Not what I would call an extremely popular movie, but one of my favorites. I was surprised to see this story with Inigo's line taking the #1 spot for the best movie lines ever. Then I was even more surprised when I looked to see that the top 4 were all from The Princess Bride.

1. "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." --Inigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin) in "The Princess Bride"

2. "Inconceivable!" "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
--Inigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin) in "The Princess Bride"

3. "Have fun storming the castle."
--Miracle Max (Bill Crystal) in "The Princess Bride"

4. "As you wish."
--Westley (Cary Elwes) in "The Princess Bride"

5. "I'll have what she's having."
--Female diner (Estelle Reiner) in "When Harry Met Sally"

6. "You had me at hello."
--Dorothy Boyd (Reneé Zellweger) in "Jerry Maguire"

7. "Fasten your seat belts--It's going to be a bumpy night."
--Margo Channing (Bette Davis) in "All About Eve"

8. "You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together...and blow."
--Marie Browning (Lauren Bacall) in "To Have and Have Not"

9. "If I'd been a ranch, they would've named me Bar Nothin'."
--Gilda (Rita Hayworth) in "Gilda"

10. "Veda's convinced me that alligators have the right idea: They eat their young."
--Ida Corwin (Eve Arden) in "Mildred Pierce"

http://channels.netscape.com/ns/movies/package.jsp?name=fte/bestmovielines/bestmovielines

iTunes For Linux, Thanks To CodeWeavers

Wow. Crossover is an awesome product, allowing you to run MSOffice and other such business apps on your Linux desktop. The CodeWeavers folks do excellent work, and they contribute most of their code back to the open source Wine project. Now they've added preliminary iTunes support, including the ability to buy and play iTMS protected tracks. Cool!

"The folks over at CNet have the scoop that a new version of CrossOver Office (3.1) now supports Apple's iTunes. The preview version of the software is being tested and is currently only available to current CodeWeavers customers. They expect a final version to be available later this year." Reader snowtigger contributes a link to this screenshot. White demonstrated iTunes on a Linux machine at OSCON as well; a rendering glitch marred that demo, but he was still able to demonstrate playing back a song which he'd purchased from iTMS using iTunes on Linux. [Slashdot]

Don't mess with IT....

Mmm... sounds like something we'd do in the InfoWorld Test Center. =)

Yes, that's Cat5 wired directly to an AC cord.

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