Posts by geronimo hashbucket 21 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Mar 2010
It's a disease.
They don't give a toss about whether or not you get the speeds advertised, they care about you signing the contract.
And if Virgin have oversold their bandwidth then BT has probably done so several times over.
This is what you get when you a) live on an island and b) have a succession of supine, cretinous politicians who are so stupid that they don't know what questions to ask or what the answers mean when someone tells them what to ask.
aka - We're under a lot of pressure from MS to use only MS browsers and no one in our IT Department has the knowledge or will to stand up to them.
The IT world, after all, is filled with treachery and danger - Opera is made by foreigners and Mozilla is probably staffed by hippies or some other such godless scum.
MS, on the other hand, are a straight down the middle, sell your kids and smile at you while they're doing it, good old fashioned, money loving US Corporation and therefore "our kind of people".
gmusic browser is in the repo's for Ubuntu - it advertises itself as a player "capable of handling large collections".
There's also Zeya which is a kind of web-browser based service (also in the Ubuntu repo's), once you've pointed it at your collection, and let it munch the data, you then go the appropriate address in a browser and it lists the lot and has simple player controls too.
Hope that helps.
Silly people - it's because it's the Holy Factory of Appleness and since Apple make SUCH a big deal of how utterly groovy life with Apple is, people sort of expect that attitude to apply to the happy and blessed few who are allowed to assemble the end product.
The Imperial Steveness (may his pooh never smell) wouldn't exploit anyone, surely?
I can imagine him leaving timed recordings and new designs in a series of time locked vaults to be played at appropriate times like Hari Seldon.
The Board of Non-entities will gather with bated breath to receive the voice from the past telling them what to do next and unveiling the new design for them to follow. (He'll probably record about 1000 years worth).
Windows has been so sucsessful over the years because it works out the box and has been easy to use
No, it doesn't and no it isn't.
Windows is set up to work "out of the box" by the hardware manufacturers. If you install XP from an XP install disc, as opposed to a "system restore disc" you'll almost certainly find half your hardware doesn't work, you can't move windows without horrible graphics glitches and IE, Outlook and Notepad are poor offerings for those "everyday tasks".
And, as for "easy to use" - puleeze. It doesn't clear up after itself, it needs frequent defrags, cache emptyings, anti-virus scans, spyware scans and trojan scans. God help you if the hive becomes corrupted (game crashes can do this), or the registry gets messed up.
WIndows is the most badly designed piece of crap ever foisted on the paying public in the history of technology.
I've run them all at one time or another.
KDE (crashes a lot)
Enlightenment - beautiful but idiosyncratic
Blackbox - too minimal for me
Fluxbox - see above
XFCE - hmmm, OK I suppose but annoying in places
Rox
Windowmaker - just plain weird
Which is why I use Macs. Not to knock the effort of the Open Sourcer's and I adore the ethos behind it.
But...
OSX is a thing of beauty.
Installing Debian on a Mac is like buying a Ferrari and ripping out the engine and replacing it with a 2 stroke lawnmower engine. IMHO
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