I have read many accounts of unexplained ipod beeping, and several which suggest it means the ipod hard drive is toast. Mine is a 20GB 4th gen.classic color screen (A1099). It had a low battery (I assumed) and would only show up on my itunes device menu after being plugged in a long time, and never mounted on the desktop of any Mac it was plugged into. So I erased it, reinstalled all the songs I had on itunes, then went and bought a lithium-polymer battery for that model and installed it, without running into any problems. I charged the battery through a dock for well over 12 hours, and the screen of the ipod would still not display. But the ipod icon does appear on my desktop, and in my device menu with all the songs I had installed on it. I ran through all the reset procedures for that model. Nothing changed. I let it sit for a month or so, plugged it back into the dock and computer, got nothing on the ipod screen, but, as before, got every indication that the hard drive is fine because my songs show up under the device menu, and in the itunes window. Can't play them though. This time though, the ipod begins to emit clicking sounds every ten seconds or so, does this for about 15 minutes, then emits 2 beeps close together, continues clicking for about the same time as before, then emits two pairs of beeps, then goes silent. However, when I do reset protocols again, the click reappears after 6-8 seconds, but only once each time. No change in the way it is functioning, or not. No ipod screen image. I also managed to run OSX disk utility on it once, and it said it was OK, but now when I try to use disk utility it won't unmount the ipod from the desktop. What gives. Is the logic board gone, or is it in some kind of electrical freeze that can be corrected. Is the screen gone, or is there some connection problem I can check out. I did take the screen connector off the board when I had it apart and reconnected it. I believe I did all the technical hardware procedures correctly, and I'm generally fairly adept at such things. I did get a message that said using a faster USB port would speed things up, but I hardly think that is the issue. Hoping for an epiphany.

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I'm quite often confused by those who consider themselves big supporters of pure free market capitalism, but who also are adamant believers in the importance of intellectual property. Perhaps the largest group of such folks are the so-called "Objectivist" followers of Ayn Rand. Capitalist Magazine is running an a href="http://capmag.com/article.asp?ID=5358"Objectivist defense of the recent ProIP law/a that was recently a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20081013/2256222533.shtml"signed into law/a despite basically being a government handout to the entertainment industry. Stephen Kinsella has a href="http://www.againstmonopoly.org/index.php?perm=593056000000000190" target="_new"responded to many of the points made in the original article/a, and picks up on a key point that many defenders of intellectual property always pull out in their defense: blockquotei The creator of content owns the content because he created it through his own labor, and you should always own the fruits of your own labor. /i/blockquote The problem is this just isn't true and never has been. Simply providing the labor does not equal ownership. As Kinsella notes in his response: blockquotei His argument? "If a baker bakes a loaf of bread, he therefore owns it." And likewise, for "music, movies, software." But note the mistake here Johson makes: "If a baker bakes a loaf of bread, he btherefore/b owns it." The "therefore" is the giveaway: he says this because he thinks of the creation of the loaf as the act that gives rise to ownership. Then this leads to the analogy with other created things, like music. But creation of the loaf is not the reason why the baker owns it. He owns the loaf because he owned the dough that he baked. He already owned the dough, before any act of "creation"--before he transformed it with his labor. If he owned the dough, then he owns whatever he transforms his property into; the act of creation is an act of transformation that does not generate any new property rights. So creation is not necessary for him to own the resulting baked bread. Likewise, if he used someone else's dough--say, his employer's--then he does not own the loaf, but the owner of the dough does. So creation is not sufficient for ownership. /i/blockquote Exactly. Creation alone does not grant property rights if none existed prior to that transformation. I would even take the argument a step further. Even if you own something due to the fact that you created it, once you have igiven away/i or isold/i that product, you no longer have ownership of it -- and claiming you do actually iremoves property rights/i from the lawful owner. br /br / That is, if I make a loaf of bread, and then sell it to someone, I no longer have control over that loaf of bread. I cannot tell the new owner that he can only make French toast with it and cannot feed the bread to the pigeons. That's for the new owner to determine. I certainly cannot tell him that he cannot take the bread and try to resell it or even give it away to others. That's part of the free market. Yet, intellectual property enthusiasts ido/i want to remove these property rights from the recipients of icopies/i of the original good. Despite their claims of being property rights supporters, they are actually the opposite. They are trying to deny property rights to any recipient.br /br /a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081123/1245112929.shtml"Permalink/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081123/1245112929.shtml#comments"Comments/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/article.php?sid=20081123/1245112929op=sharethis"Email This Story/abr / br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=cb167aa87f434f4c3b391f009570800ap=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=cb167aa87f434f4c3b391f009570800ap=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=cb167aa87f434f4c3b391f009570800a" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?a=IyBBo"img src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?i=IyBBo" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~r/techdirt/feed/~4/472662031" height="1" width="1"/

Hi all,

I'm new in mac world, got my mac book pro recently, and now i'm trying to burn >6gb files to dual-side dvd. I got dvd's, and are obvious dual-side (cannot make mistake there ;-)), but cannot make Toast to recognize them as dual side and reports that there is not enough space to store the files. I've tried to set DVD DL from the drop-down menu, ejected dvd, put it back in, and when trying to burn it, same thing happens.

Recorder that is in this mac book pro is some Hl-dt-st DVDRW GSA-S10N. I'm not sure if this type of dvd burner can actually burn dual-side, although there is DVD DL (dual) option in Toast..

Can someone tell me if I'm doing something wrong? Thanks in advance.

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I have a 2007 17" MacBook Pro
2.4ghz
MacBookPro3,1
SMC Version: 1.18f2

The Optical Drive is:
MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-85J
Firmware Revision: FBZ8

Ok after that, here is the problem I am a problem as you can see with my optical drive giving me these errors: The device failed to calibrate the laser and medium writing error when I try to burn any type of dvd or dvd dl. I have tried Disk Utility, Toast, DVDRemaster and some other applications that I can't remember the name of. I was able to burn DVDs before but for some odd reason I now can not burn anymore. I have tried several types of dvd brands even studio quality dvds that my buddy gave me from the local tv station. I can write cds from toast and itunes. figured i would throw that in if someone asked. anyways. I have also taken compressed air and blown out the drive but still no luck. So I am asking someone please help me with this let me know what I need to do. Thanks in advance

With old-fashioned liquor laws and complicated shipping procedures, selling or buying wine online has never been easy. But as CNETs Kara Tsuboi explains, it no longer has to be so hard.

With old-fashioned liquor laws and complicated shipping procedures, selling or buying wine online has never been easy. But as CNETs Kara Tsuboi explains, it no longer has to be so hard.

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/91633?ns=guardianpageName=Football%3A+Liverpool+blow+chance+to+lay+down+title+markerch=Footballc3=The+Guardianc4=Premier+League+%28Football%29%2CLiverpool+FC+%28Football%29%2CWest+Ham+United+%28Football%29%2CFootball%2CSportc5=Not+commercially+useful%2CPremier+Leaguec6=Andy+Hunterc7=2008_12_02c8=1127238c9=articlec10=GUc11=Footballc12=Premier+Leaguec13=c14=h2=GU%2FFootball%2FPremier+League" width="1" height="1" //divpGianfranco Zola handed Chelsea a multitude of reasons to revere him as their greatest ever player. Last night he gave them cause to toast his move into management as West Ham restricted Liverpool's rise to the top at an angst-ridden Anfield. Reaching the summit has rarely been greeted with such bewilderment in these parts./ppLooking down on Chelsea and Manchester United is the only view Liverpool want this season and, as Rafael Benítez repeatedly said afterwards, the league table makes pleasant reading today. But - there is always a but - it should look much better. Benítez knew it, Liverpool's players knew it and the boos that greeted the final whistle, swift yet audible, showed a frustrated home support knew it, too. A second successive 0-0 draw at home to mid-table opposition was not the response of championship contenders. For the second league game in succession, Liverpool were left to reflect on an opportunity wasted./pp"We have one more point than Chelsea now so, if we can beat Blackburn at the weekend, we will stay top of the table," said Benítez, spelling out the facts. "Yes we are frustrated again, it is clear we deserved to win and some people can be disappointed. We are disappointed. But we are also top of the table and the fans will enjoy seeing the table tomorrow."/ppLiverpool were dominant last night and but for an inspired performance in the West Ham goal from Robert Green they would have achieved their aim of establishing a three-point lead over Chelsea. Yet this was a far more satisfying evening for the genial Italian than the ambitious Spaniard who, with George Gillett in attendance, called on Liverpool's joint-owners to conclude talks on his contract extension as soon as possible. "I am waiting for a communication," Benítez said. "Maybe we have to finish the conversations now and just think about the football."/ppHis contract had no bearing on this stalemate, however, and only two errant offside decisions against Carlton Cole late on, plus a wild miss from the substitute Luis Boa Morte, prevented Zola's plan of containment and counter from working to perfection. The visitors' point was delivered around the outstanding Green, Matthew Upson and James Collins, although a lack of confidence in front of goal from Liverpool also contributed to the outcome. Robbie Keane, substituted to his obvious disbelief for the 15th time in his brief Liverpool career, was a notable but far from isolated culprit in the absence of the injured Fernando Torres./ppBenítez and Jamie Carragher had pleaded for patience from the crowd following the frustration of being held to 0-0 by Fulham last month. Liverpool also gave their backing to the family of Michael Shields last night, the fan jailed for allegedly attacking a Bulgarian waiter after the Champions League Final in 2005, as they campaign for his release before a judicial review on Thursday. Once the Kop's mosaic of "Free Michael Now" had come down, the siege of Green's goal began. But this was a night that would stretch reserves of patience to the limit./ppCole cleared off the goal-line from Albert Riera, Sami Hyypia headed the first of several invitations over the West Ham bar and saw a second header blocked on the line by Cole again - all inside the opening 21 minutes. Steven Gerrard and Dirk Kuyt also missed good openings before the interval, yet it was West Ham who came closer to a breakthrough when their former Liverpool striker Craig Bellamy beat José Reina from 25 yards only to see his drive rebound off the inside of a post./ppUntil a pulsating finale, when Kuyt, Boa Morte, Ryan Babel and Cole traded chances at will, the momentum flowed towards Green. One save from the former Hammer Yossi Benayoun, to tip the Israeli's half volley at close range, was sublime. "I've told Robert [Green] that, if he keeps performing like this, he is going to be in the England team," said Zola, manager of a club that had lost on their seven previous visits to Anfield. "He has taken some stick this season but now he is getting what he deserves."/ppBenítez denied reports, however, that Michael Owen would be the January solution to such frustrating nights. "I can guarantee we are not going for Michael Owen," he said./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/premierleague"Premier League/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/liverpool"Liverpool/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/westhamunited"West Ham United/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/Qf0h6YLRcbNqkormvLfBZ38IgZU/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/Qf0h6YLRcbNqkormvLfBZ38IgZU/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

Chris reviewed "The Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments" as well as "Mr Wizard's 400 Experiments in Science", he writes -

"Mr Wizards 400 Experiments in Science". (Reno: "Emilio Lizardo is a top scientist, dummkopf." Perfect Tommy: "So was Mr. Wizard." -The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, now available on DVD!). Written by Mr Wizard himself, Don Herbert with Hy Ruchlis, this book is more about demonstrating scientific principles and phenomena in the home with less-sophisticated equipment. No beakers and Bunsen burners, this is all water glasses, pencils, string, tin cans and rubber bands. Just like the original Mr Wizard shows. This stuff is great. This book, thankfully, is a little more affordable! There seem to be several reprints of this with different covers, as you can see from the Amazon link. There's even one called "Soft Blu Bonnet Margarine Presents Mr. Wizard's 400 Easy Experiments in Science by Don Ruchlis, Hy Herbert". Because when I think of melting something on my toast, I want to think of chemistry! And who the heck are these Hy Herbert and Don Ruchlis guys? a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/12/mr_wizards_400_experiment.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890" /Read more/a | a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/12/mr_wizards_400_experiment.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890" / Permalink/a | a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/12/mr_wizards_400_experiment.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890#comments" /Comments/a | a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/retro/?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890" /Read more articles in Retro/a | a href="http://digg.com/submit?url=blog.makezine.com%2Farchive%2F2008%2F12%2Fmr_wizards_400_experiment.htmltitle=Mr%20Wizard%26apos%3Bs%20400%20Experiments%20in%20Sciencebodytext=%20Chris%20reviewed%20%26quot%3BThe%20Golden%20Book%20of%20Chemistry%20Experiments%26quot%3B%20as%20well%20as%20%26quot%3BMr%20Wizard%26apos%3Bs%20400%20Experiments%20in%20Science%26quot%3B%2C%20he%20writes%20-%20%26quot%3BMr%20Wizards%20400%20Experiments%20in%20Science%26quot%3B.%20%28Reno%3A%20%26quot%3BEmilio%20Lizardo%20is%20a%20top%20scientisttopic=tech_news" /Digg this!/a