Buffer-zone day

[tamaranth]

Delightful new boss granted me the day off (the office shuts down at lunchtime, and it's quite a journey: and besides, I presented him with My First (T)Wiki Thing) so there's no need to rush. Twenty-four hours, at least, before my marvellous Christmas guests arrive, so it does not really matter if things aren't done at once. Yay!

Presents all wrapped: cats sellotaped in their places: food in the fridges ... I've been experiencing that mild exasperation that comes from people being unable to see that there is an order, a scheme, imposed on things. I have a drinks fridge and a food fridge. Janet, my fabulous and hard-working cleaner, took delivery of my Tesco order on Tuesday. She does not distinguish between drinks fridge (full of drink) and food fridge (full of food): the categorisation is invisible to her.

I will move it all tomorrow.

Today, I get to write, to read, to have a long bath, to lounge around, to play computer games and possibly to put up a few more decorations. All ably assisted, of course, by two big black fluffy things, as soon as they realise that Janet and her Infernal Hoover have gone.

Meanwhile, I believe my iPod has finally died. It wouldn't play last night: heated up dramatically when I charged it: and is making a forlorn clicking noise, alternately displaying the Apple logo and an icon that probably indicates Beware of the File System. Any ideas? Any hard reset? Any comfort?

Have had enough Bach for one day. Time to put on the Christmas CDs. It's nearly a year since I listened to that Ramones track (and somewhere I have the fab Helen Love cover).

Comments

[ajshepherd.livejournal.com]

My iPod was acting funny this morning. Apple logo on screen, drive whirring.
Managed to reboot it into 'disk mode' (ff and rev after boot?), use the iPod updater to restore the system.
That got it up and running again, but now I've got to put all the music back on to it!

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

how do I get it to boot, instead of just clicking?

[ajshepherd.livejournal.com]

On mine I hold down the menu and play keys. Not sure what model you have,mine is 40Gb with four separate buttons over the wheel.
here (http://ipodlinux.org/Key_Combinations) documents the differnent versions.

If you do that as soon as the apple logo appears, it might get you into disk mode. You need to have it plugged in first.

I was getting apple logo - click, blank screen, apple logo etc... over and over again.

[drplokta]

This thread has a couple of things you could try, although it doesn't sound good:

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/showthread.php?t=38017

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

I think it's utterly dead -- cannot get anything but Apple logo and ! [folder]' icon, and I can hear the drive restarting, whirring, and then click-click-clicking.

Bugger.

But thank you for the link!

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

before my marvellous Christmas guests arrive

Do we know them?