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iPhone crashing computer work-around

So I got an iPhone for my birthday yesterday and was all excited this morning to get it up and running with apps, my music/podcasts etc and of course to do that you have to connect it up to your PC. So I plug it in to the USB port via the supplied lead and my computer crashes. 'Well it must be a fluke' I think 'Apple products are known for their ability to "just work" right? That couldn't just be marketing bullshit' I continue to think. So I reboot and plug it in again. Same thing. And this isn't just any crash either, this is a 'screen goes black, all keys cease to work, forcing a hard reset' kind of crash. So after (literally) three hours of tinkering and searching Google I have come up with a work-around. The problem was caused by the iPhone/iTunes software having a software clash with my HP Photo transfer software for transferring pictures off my digital camera (which BTW has never happened before with previous iPods or ANY OTHER SOFTWARE I...

Recursive acronyms

In computer science, a recursive function is a function that calls itself it order to perform some complex calculation with relatively few commands. An acronym is a phrase for which the first letters of each individual word form a new word. Mash them together and you get infinite fun! For example; 'TIARA' is an acronym that stands for 'TIARA Is A Recursive Acronym' You could blow it up one more level and say '(TIARA Is A Recursive Acronym) Is A Recursive Acronym' Or one more level and say '((TIARA Is A Recursive Acronym) Is A Recursive Acronym) Is A Recursive Acronym' Repeat until dead.