In the middle of the first blizzard of the season, UPS delivers my new Creative Labs Rhomba. "Oh cool," I said, "a new toy to play with." I cut open the plastic pack, take out the device, hook it up to the computer through USB, and first the computer happily says "New device recognized." Then it pauses, thinks, and decides that it doesn't recognize it after all. On the screen of the Rhomba, a weird display, an open folder icon with the word ROOT next to it. A music note, with the words "reative PDF" in big type. Lots of other iconography including a telltale lock (I assume this means the device is locked). It's clearly not at all right. In the Windows Explorer it should show up as a drive, but it doesn't. Did I get a bad unit? Oy gevilt. I have the worst hardware karma in the world.

# Posted by Dave Winer on 12/6/03; 12:16:53 PM - --