So... what'd you get?

[techieMoe]

I haven't been on the forums in a few weeks due to the holidays so apologies if this thread has already been started.

So... what did you all get for Christmas/Hannukah/<insert gifting occasion here>?

[geese]

I got a really nice jacket. I can't remember the brand right now, but it does look a bit pricy.

So what did you get?

[oz]

So... what did you all get for Christmas

Valuable time spent with the family.

[djap]

Some DVDs, a nice warm sweater, way too big bunch of chocolate and 5 liter beer can

[rokytnji]

A New STANLEY STAINLESS STEEL THERMOS. A Foldout camping Rocking Chair I can Pack on my motorcycle. A New Battery Setup for my Amrel Laptop, (I bought that one myself) which gives me 5 hours of battery time running Puppy dingo. Woo Hoo.

[techieMoe]

Valuable time spent with the family.

...And there's nothing wrong with that. Perhaps I should have clarified. What items and various sundry gadgets did you receive for Christmas?

[techieMoe]

Just realized I asked everyone else and neglected to answer my own question. My family was pretty light on the gifts this year, but apparently it didn't phase my wife's family. The bulk of the gifts I received came from my mother-in-law, interestingly enough.

• Xbox 360 Pro (60GB Harddrive)
• The Dark Knight (BluRay)
• Various accessories for said Xbox 360
• New hooded jacket (nice one, lined)
• Enough chocolate to kill my wife's dog, twice over.
• Sansa Clip (2GB) Music Player, Ogg-Vorbis compatible
• $240 cash
• New set of seasonal red/green Silly Putty
• Tiny Optimus Prime action figure
• Gift Certificate to a local steak house chain.

My wife's family have done their part for the economy. I'm still dizzy from it all.

[elija]

Very Very drunk,
A stonking great hangover,
A nice leather jacket,
A new network switch,
A much needed new Sky remote,
and bizarrely a new kettle!

[bigtomrodney]

• Enough chocolate to kill my wife's dog, twice over.

I always confuse that with razorblades .

I got a bunch of stuff: clothes, toiletries, DVDs. My main presents were hard drives. I'm now running my OS from a 10K rpm drive and have 2x1TB drives in an LVM configuration. That was most of my weekend setting that up and moving enough data to fill a third of that

Hope you all got what you wanted and enjoyed the time with your loved ones.

[Thrillhouse]

You're going to love that little Sansa, Moe. I don't know if you have the same model as mine (the e250) but I think they're great.

I bought one about a year ago off of woot for like $25 and the damn thing has been durable as anything. I bought it because I knew that if it took some abuse and crapped out on me, that'd be OK because it was so cheap. I went through 3 iPods before that (starting with the first generation, the second two paid for by the warranty I purchased with it) and I was tired of having to deal with such a delicate thing. So, I picked up this Sansa, expanded the memory to 10 GB with a microSD chip, replaced the earbuds with a better pair of Sony's (~$15-20) and have been using it happily ever since. It even comes with the FM tuner which is something I never had in an iPod.

One tip, which you've probably already come across if you've tried to hook it up to a Linux machine: change the USB Mode in Settings from MTP to MSC (I believe it defaults to MTP). That makes it much easier to work with but you'll have to change it back to MSC if you want to add songs from Windows. Also, if you supplement the memory with a memory card, both Windows and Linux will detect them as two different storage devices. That might seem trivial but when I ran out of the memory in the onboard 2GB, I could still transfer songs through a file browser fine; it never gave me an error message that the device was out of memory so I thought they were on there but if you look through it from the touchpad, you'll see the songs aren't there. So, once you run out, you'll have to transfer everything to the second storage drive. Again, it seems like a simple thing but that was a roadblock I ran into.

Oh yeah, gifts. I got a nice new watch, some fly-fishing gear for an upcoming trip, some cigars and some kitchen things that I needed.

But the gift I was most proud of was one I gave. I gave my technically challenged parents a Roku. They have been using Netflix for a while now and my mother has sometimes complained that they never have a movie when she wants to watch one. So, with that, they can stream the movies over the Internet and watch them whenever she wants. I was a little worried that they wouldn't be able to use it but the thing was dead easy to set up and use. It reads right off your Instant Queue on Netflix so it's really just a matter of picking what you want to watch. The selection isn't great but from what I've read, titles will be gradually added and Netflix expects streaming videos to eventually become the bulk of their business.