Seems I selected the wrong thing during the install, so now my system clock is wrong. I can’t remember how I fixed it on the Mac. I’m a bit of a numbnuts.
As for my Mac, I’m wondering whether to upgrade it to Dapper Xubuntu. Since it shan’t get much use, the frustrating things I found on Breezy Xu wouldn’t be too bad; assuming those frustrating elements haven’t been fixed (I hear wonderful things about Xfce 4).
Also, is being able to put a 5 second gap between audio tracks REALLY too much to ask of Gnome? It’s halfway through my broadband billing month and I’m already over halfway through my download allowance, so I don’t really want to download 500 megs worth of KDE stuff and K3B! I also don’t like the thought of burning from the command line, although I did do it this once. I’ve heard that iTunes runs on WINE; seems it can’t access an iPod, but maybe it can burn CDs?
Final thing: I want to create my own distro based on Dynebolic. My reasoning is simple: Dynebolic is easy to use and kinda cool looking, it already has many of the programs I’d want on my distro, there’s a guide in Linux Format about how to customise it. The reason why I want my own distro is so I can send copies to my friends; they’d be more likely to run something that I claimed to create. Then I might be able to get them to use Ubuntu 
Speaking of Ubuntu, I still cannot BELIEVE how much faster it runs on this computer than Windows. Windows is no speed slouch really; it transcodes MP3s to WMAs in about 14 seconds!
I’ve been converting MP3s to WMAs so my mother and father can put lots more music onto their MP3 players. While trying to do so, I made a couple of shocking discoveries:
1. Windows Media Player only rips CDs, it doesn’t convert files from your hard disk.
2. There is no way to get Windows Media Encoder to batch encode WITHOUT using the command line! (obviously, this is what I did)
3. The iTunes Music Store has Mylene Farmer albums! (actually, I discovered this AFTER converting the WMAs :-) )
I bought an iTunes Music Card, but I’ll wait a little while before downloading one of Mylene’s albums; I don’t want to run out of bandwidth at a crucial time. At the end of the billing month I’ll probably dist-upgrade to Dapper Flight 7, then a week later I’ll be able to just download the updated packages.
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