@Danny @Paul Talbot
all very valid points about OS X...
...however....
... you can uninstall all of the above mentioned if you dont want them!
See the difference??? I hope you do!!
Posts by Nick Oram
5 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Oct 2007
Korean software firm sues Microsoft
Wednesday 24th October 2007 13:46 GMT 
Come on.....
... yeah okay the figure their quoting as losses is proberably wayyy over the top.
However... what they are suing about is true... its the same as the old Internet Explorer been bundled in to Windows argument... its fundamentally wrong.. its an operating system not a bundle of applications!
As for the muppets above spouting things like "shouldnt halfords sue car makers for supplying wheels, steering wheels etc for lose of earnings as they supply those with a new car when halfords supply them as well... muppets!!"... well no.. the steering wheel, wheels, seats, exhausts or what ever are integral to how a car works and runs... now the "optional accessories" that would be different.... how many times have you looked at a car and haggled on the price cause you wanted the bigger alloys and not the better quality floormats? thats the whole point... choice!!
UK gov advisor proposes 'licence to smoke'
EDS beagles blast 'absurd' BSkyB
Tuesday 23rd October 2007 13:45 GMT
As bad as each other?
Yes I know EDS (and other outsourcers... such as Cap Gemini.. whom I used to work for) are quite happy to keep ramping up the price for contarcts they have under bid in an effort to make money... however if the case is true that BSkyB kept changing specs or asking for as Barnes says "new requirements kept on emerging like handkerchiefs from a magician's sleeve" and that then never had a complete idea of what they wanted (Which I have been at the recieving end of many a time, either from customers or my own manager) then they are both at fault and should shake hands and split the difference
I hope they both lose to be honest!!
Virgin Media pins hopes on the broadband donkey
Tuesday 23rd October 2007 12:16 GMT 
Another Happy Virgin...
...customer.
Well if you ditch the crap TV system and focus on BB, ive been with VM (formally Telewest Birmingham.. and I think it does matter who you were with before the mergers/takeovers) for about 5 years and ive been on their top BB from the start.
Ive not had a single problem with uptime, connectivity or speeds. Since been upgraded to the 20mbit service I can (out side of throttling hours) quite happily down load at 1.8mb/sec for hours on end... not that I need to wait that long ;)
Inside of the throttling hours, you can tell its doing its job, but its never really effected anything ive been doing as I do my bulk downloading out side of those hours..
So my final say is my BB is perfect for VPN, Remote Connections, P2P, downloading, uploading and gaming (xbox 360 and PC) too.. ADSL is unreliable, reliant on BT and from all my expeiances ive had a pain in the @ss!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
