Back in 2005, Creative made a press release admitting a production mistake that caused 3,700 of the company’s Zen Neeon MP3 players that shipped from a company factory in late July to contain a Windows worm.

The worm was W32.Wullik.B, a mass-mailing worm that first appeared in November, 2003, and makes copies of itself in random locations on machines it infects. It is programmed to move to new locations when Windows Explorer browses the folder that it is in, and can be spread to floppy disks and shared network drives.

As a patch-up measure, Creative asked customers who bought the Zen Neeon 5GB players with serial numbers between M1PF1230528000001M and M1PF1230533001680Q to disinfect the systems using anti-virus software, or by manually deleting the worm file from the players.

USENET rant of the day.  This one from a Singaporean on my favorite Singapore-made gadget!!!

To be honest Creative Technology MP3 players sucks.

Creative CEO Sim WH must be scratching his head wondering why creative MP3 players (Zen micro, Neeon, etc, etc) just couldn’t compete with Apple Ipod.

In all MP3 market around the world, Apple Ipod is outselling all Creative’s MP3 player by 10 to 1.

In fact, the answer is very simple.

An Apple Ipod is truly made for music lovers, hence it is easy to use and not fill with confusing execution steps just to play a song. It is like a CD player. Nothing complicate, easy one step execution to choose a song, save it, and play it.

Creative MP3 players, on the other hand,  are just too complicated to use. It is build for engineers and geeks, not for music lovers. It is not even meant for ordinary music listeners because the first time you use it, it can be very frustrating to learn to use the player and play the song you want.

Although a Creative has cramped full of  features and selections and what not in its MP3 players, it is too much and confusing and its interactive touch pad is also tough to navigate.

To compare, buying a CD players is better than buying a creative MP3 player. It just shows Apple KNOWS what music lovers all over the world want in an MP3 player. And it also shows Creative has no idea what the consumer want in an MP3 player.

Don’t waste your money on Creative’s product, because you might want to throw them away later. This must be the reason why Paris Hilton ditched her Creative MP3 player.

In other words, Apple is perfect, Creative sucks, and Paris Hilton is the perfect epitome of a music lover.  Thanks for the enlightening wisdom woohoo!!!

I’ve been tinkering with recording music on my PC but having a hard time figuring out my Creative Labs SB0090 Audigy Platinum Sound Card.  Damn holes aren’t marked.

Looking at the back from right to left, the second hole is obviously the lineout or headset/speaker and the 3rd is the mic.  There is also a plug before the first, which is for the 5.1 surround, I suppose.

After a lot of searching, I finally got some Audigy docs and according to it:
1 - line/digital out
2 - line in
3 - mic in
4 - line out
5 - line out

If you can see the tiny engraved icons, look for the (()) with the arrow head pointing IN toward the
center of the (()). That’s line in.

So there, in case any of you have the same fishing trouble. Awww!