Its not been a great week with the tech stuff in my household. Inspired by my tales of podcasts (since getting my new Nano), my other half decided to install the Zencast software to use with her old Creative Zen Touch.

However, this in turn needed a firmware upgrade which nuked the contents of her player.

And then it wasn’t detected in the version of mediasource we had, necessitating an update of that.

Which still didn’t recognise the player, and I then realised it needed the appropriate plugin for her player to work.

So the software’s now setup, but she’s got the unenviable task of trying to re-setup over 20Gb of music on her player. Not helpped by the fact the software doesn’t seem to list what’s on the player in a way as easy as the older version. Plus it has a tendancy to lock the player up if you try and delete too much at once.

Meanwhile I noticed Ubuntu’s new release was out “Gutsy Gibbon”. And much like when I upgraded to Fiesty Fawn, my sound was automatically rendered dead. Fortunately it seems booting off of the generic kernel, as opposed to the i386 one makes all the difference. My Audacious audio player remains unable to play though.

Compiz is as neat as ever I love that desktop cube.