[Tfug] iPod Shuffle Battery Charging Question and Side Note

[Charles R. Kiss]

Speaking of iPod stuff, is there a way to charge the iPod "shuffle" 
battery without booting into Windows?

Side Note:

After lots of unpredictable behavior from the computer, crashes and what 
not, I ran a memtest86+ and got different failure addresses each time I 
ran the test; so I got a new K7 motherboard ($139) from "PCChips" :-)   
The $300 RAM modules, and the AMD chip were good, and so I was able to 
reuse them.

Everything ran great except the usblp module wouldn't always load and 
Linux not fully boot; so I changed the kernel from the *86 kernel to the 
K7 kernel and now all those great Linux applications apparently run 
perfectly, including CUPS.  It was so easy: *apt-cache search 
kernel-image*, then *aptitude install kernel...K7.*. and it 
automatically loaded it into grubs menu.lst.   Debian just keep getting 
better, Thanks!

Charles.

BTW, according to my predictions, it's going to get very, very hot there 
soon.  Over the next few months, it looks like the orientation of the 
Earth's axis relative to the Sun will be... it seems... yes, the Sun 
rays will be directly overhead!!   I recommend immediately wrapping 
things in aluminum foil and sending the heat back out into space.  Let 
the rest of the universe deal with it.