Trouble free year?

Just curious to know if anyone has had their Ipod mini for a trouble free year? One year of reliable good constant service. Also if the battery lasts just a year, and its almost as expensive to replace the battery as it is to buy a new one, that basicaly makes it a throw away item in just a year, correct me if Im wrong.

"its almost as expensive to replace the battery as it is to buy a new one, that basicaly makes it a throw away item in just a year, correct me if Im wrong.
Ok, you're wrong. If it is out of warranty, Apple offers a battery replacement for $59, plus $6.95 shipping, and there are 3rd party battery vendors who do it for much less. And where did you get the idea that the battery lasts just a year? There has to be more myths and legends about the iPod battery than the legens of King Arthur!!
And yes, my wife's mini has had just over one year of trouble free use. Not one single issue.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5137
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Upgrade to CS4 Prod. Premium - is it trouble free

There is probably a forum for CS4 Production Premium but I wanted to get the opinions of a few photoshop users who may have made this upgrade.
I'm running Windows XP pro on P4 3.2gh processors with 2 gb Ram.
I've been using Production studio of CS2 and later upgraded some tools to CS3 like photoshop and Illustrator.
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curt y wrote:
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Yikes... I should have known someone would feel compelled to make that quip.
Must have been clear that my question was more... `was it a pain in the butt to install'.
Can you be a little more specific about what you are hinting at? Hard to know how to be wise with no clue to go on.
I have an Nvidia GeForce FX 5700LE (256MB) card
I guess another thing to ask is if its worth upgrading to CS4. Is there lots of new functionality?
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KT4 Ultra +Radeon 9700 Pro Trouble Free !

After a few months of relatively trouble free gaming with KT4 Ultra and Radeon 9700 Pro, I was shocked to find recently that my PC began to crash after only a few minutes of gameplay. 8o
Believing that a reinstall of all the relavent drivers would cure the problem, I set about trawling through the latest advice on what works / doesnt work. This I have to say was a minefield of anecdotes, mainly bad ones - as most of you guys are probably aware !
After installing drivers as 'best' I could, the problem remained the same.
It would appear that to ask for a complete list of recommended drivers is futile, since there is little correlation between reported 'fixes'. There is always someone reporting that the latest versions are causing problems.
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I have noticed that the heatsink on the ATI card gets very hot, even though it has a fairly serious fan on it (the fan on my Sapphire card is a lot like a blue orb).
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Adding on a free year

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Trouble grouping years into decade groups

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Hi,
The reason the change of the pivot table is effecting you charts, because the charts are linked to the pivot table.
Because it is linked it is called a pivot chart.
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IPad and ebooks .epub which fonts trouble free

Hi.
Does anyone have a CURENT REFERENCE a LIST of FONTS that will work without problems on the popular tablets specifically iPads and kindles.
I am creating an ebook - an .epub file on my Macbookpro OS X 10.8 using inDesign CC.
I searched the internet, this forum, other forums etc and included 2013 and 2014 in the search terms but I HAVE not found a list.
One tutorial discusses using TrueType Or OpenType Fonts not postscript fonts but although this was a very good tutorial about creating epubs....it is from 2009.
Another article listed fonts for the kindleFire and KindleWhite but I have NOT found a CURRENT LIST for IPADS or iOS.
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Does iBook just refuse to recognize any fonts but its own?
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Who has upgraded to 3.1.1 trouble free

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Free year of Creative Cloud that I can't use right away.

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How to have a trouble free upgrade to Snow Leopard

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A trouble free way of giving Administrators access to redirected folders on Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard?

A few months ago I set up some redirected folders on a clients Windows Small Busines Server 2008. I recall that setting up the redirected folders was straightforward, but when I edited the permissions to allow administrative access to these server located
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Now, I sit in front of a brand-spanking-new Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard box which is going to be installed with a new client within 48 hours. I would like to set up redirected folders and would like to grant admin rights on these folders so I can view
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Somewhere there are articles which describe how to do it on 2003, but this procedure does not work well in 2008.
There is an SBS article that admits permissions can be trashed, but this is no help on Standard edition:
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I have just posted a note on this rather long article:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-GB/smallbusinessserver/thread/70fa7f0e-7f2c-4f00-8401-42d262d80cd6
So, my question, hopefully to Microsoft employee, please can you document
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Typical Micro$haft answer!
Quote "Hope this helps!"
NO IT DOESN'T!
Did you bother to read the original question?
Quote "So, my question, hopefully to Microsoft employee, please can you document exactly how
to grant admin rights to users redirected folders on Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard"
So, Micro$haft, Why did you give instructions to Server 2003?
... When the requester SPECIFICALLY stated: "Somewhere
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It's been a whole two and a half weeks trouble fre...

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Line state
Connected
Connection time
0 days, 0:17:06
Downstream
2,990 Kbps
Upstream
890 Kbps
ADSL settings
VPI/VCI
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Latency type
Interleaved
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18.9 dB / 4.6 dB
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45.5 dB / 26.3 dB
Output power (Down/Up)
0.0 dBm / 12.6 dBm
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11
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Loss of Power (Local)
0
FEC Errors (Down/Up)
3754 / 4294967232
CRC Errors (Down/Up)
57 / 2147480000
HEC Errors (Down/Up)
nil / 0
Error Seconds (Local)
8256
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u/l 775 ip 889
I really hope i don't have another 2 weeks of poo connection speeds like last time, my worry being that the exchange will throw the toys out of the pram due to disconnections and nerf my IP profile....any thoughts?
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Checked line for noise (none), left it a couple of days to check connection was stable, then crossed fingers and reset hub.
IP profile was raised immediately which would suggest the new profile system is in operation - was hoping i wouldn't have to go through the waiting game this time, so pleasantly surprised.
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Download Speed
4781 Kbps
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0
Loss of Signal (Local)
0
Loss of Power (Local)
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2 / 2147480000
HEC Errors (Down/Up)
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Activating FileVault - a good (ie trouble-free) idea?

I'm probably about to buy a MacBook to replace a recently deceased iMac G5. I'd previously avoided using FileVault as I didn't set it up when I got the machine and there wasn't enough disc space on the HD when I later contemplated using FileVault. I was thinking of doing things differently this time and enabling FileVault from the get-go.
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I don't know exactly what your privacy protection needs are, but you may not need to encrypt
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Yesterday, I installed Leopard on my Macbook Pro with no problems what so ever. Before the install, I made sure my HD was repaired and reporting no problems. Then I made a boot back up on my G-Raid.
When it came time for the install, I put the Leopard install CD in the drive and it went to work. I just followed the system prompts. I was never asked to choose an "update" or archive and install or erase and install... nothing. The program just installed itself in all of about 40 minutes. No problems at all.
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Whoo Hoo! Trouble Free P965 Platinum Install!

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