Synchronizing music between iPod and PC

My music on iPod is categorized by genres on higher level, so the most important thing for me when writing music on iPod is correct genre value. I use Mp3Tag utility to mass-edit mp3 file tags. It is free, simple and nice. Then I use iTunes to actually write a music to iPod.
Open question left - what the utility I can use to export music from iPod. Currently I have tried CopyTrans and Ephod - noone worked for my environment.

Living with Linux, #3

So, much time have passed from my previous post about Linux. I was mainly obsessed with neural networks (and I continue to work in this field, at least I plan to continue). I have chosen Microsoft Windows + Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 platform for neural network development, so no place for Linux.

Then the project at my job when I worked the last year ended, and I was asked to learn Ruby on Rails. Some time passed and I have realized that I can resurrect my Linux experiments, because Linux is nice platform for RoR development. Later I have realized that it is more clean and native to ride RoR development on *NIX platform.

So, now I use openSUSE at my job as RoR developer. I have decided not to use xUbuntu, because of some problems - sometimes xUbuntu restarted PC while watching movies (why??? I don't know. I had to check logs, but I was too lazy at the moment) and sometimes it refused to take input from keyboard - both cases lead to restart. It fucked up my impression about Linux very much, so I decided to try another distributive - openSUSE with Gnome (openSUSE was chosen absolutely in a dumb way - because friend of my friend, whom I even don't know, installed it one month ago - "openSUSE" was just a latest Linux distributive name I have heard). Also I have found that XFCE is too lightweight and I need something more functional and feature-rich.

So, now I am almost totally satisfied with openSUSE as Linux distributive and Gnome as desktop environment - system is stable, almost all the needed software of latest versions is on install DVD, YaST system manager is nice and functional and Gnome is much more better than XFCE.
I have realized how to access windows shares from Linux box today -
smbclient ...
or
sudo mount -t cifs -o username=%%USER_NAME%% //%%SERVER%% /mnt/share

Now I need to learn some more - how to access our network printer, how to connect to our enterprise Microsoft Windows domain (don't know if I really need this - just for fun), how to customize my PC and video adapter to run Quake3 with nice FPS (I plan to write separate article about this) :>

Have a nice day!