Posts by ChrisInBelgium

Strong-armed out

I tried to purchase a Linux netbook some months ago here - ALL the shops, without exception only had netbooks with XP on them. When asking the shopkeepers why you get no sensible comments, apart from 'they come delivered like that'. Another monopolistic strong-arm tactic no doubt.

Did I buy one? NO. First give money to Microsoft and then put the time in myself wiping their shite off it and installing everything myself? Why should I?

I'm still a potential customer for a Linux netbook. Anyone?

(and no, I don't want to order one online from some other country)

Scorpion

'I was bringing you over to the other side of the river, you promised not to sting me. You did anyway, and now we'll both drown and die! Why?'

Scorpion: 'I'm sorry, it's my nature'

Good release

It's faster, all my add-ons still work, and an annoying bug finally got taken care of - the blanking out of 'Open in New Tab' when right-clicking on an RSS-feed.

Excellent.

Utter rubbish

What? Is there any point in having a password for anything if world+dog can simply look over your shoulder, read it while you type it and use it behind your back.

The whole problem is different. At work, for instance, I have well over 40 passwords I have to remember, they all regularly change and they all use different rules for creating a password. You miss 3 times and your user account is locked out, what lobotomised piece of sh*t thought thàt was a good idea. I'd sure like to meet him/her once (although he/she wouldn't like it very much!).

And yes, I DO keep all my passwords in a file on the shared fileserver here. But it is encrypted with a piece of self-written encryption software. Some of these passwords protect very sensitive information, I cannot take the risk of storing them in any other way. And NO, I do not want them written all over my screen in plain text. God! What a kakamimi idea!!

I much prefer what Gmail does, show me the IP-numbers my account has been accessed from and when. That IS a good idea.

An accident waiting to happen

That's what it looks like to me. Can you see all these people who can 'finally' have their own webserver at home - without knowing the first thing about it - opening up their computers to the outside, ready to be enlisted in the next spam-sending botnet...

My computers are not visible on the internet, and that's how I want to keep it. If I want to take data on the road with me, I'll use a USB-stick.

Why?

"Several journalists at the event were confused as to why Phorm had chosen to announce a product that is only available on a limited basis in South Korea"

Why? Because "they don't hype things" of course.

Phorm: what a load of utter BS.

Music

Is that a fat lady I can hear singing in the background??

No thanks

Windows? Sorry, don't use that. Silverlight? No thanks.

The sad thing is Microsoft never does anything without it serving the 'ultimate goal' - getting everyone to use 'Microsoft only' technology. That's also why they make rubbish, because the service they provide is never made with the right goal in mind that would actually make it a good product. Mars? They don't care about Mars or pictures of it, only the fact that you use Windows and Silverlight.

@Don Mitchell

"under the hood the NT kernel is still superior technology to the Mac or Linux operating systems"

Haha! Thanks for the good laugh ;-) You should have used the 'Joke' icon though...

Now let's see

I refuse to install Silverlight at work on my Windows PCs, and at home on the Mac. I have two Linux laptops... mmm how likely is it I will install it on them?

NOT

Sign of the times

Company fat cats are our civilization's undoing. Mark my words.

oh please

The main problem is that you cannot find anyone trustworthy enough to be trusted with such a list. Power always corrupts, and EVERYONE always has his/her own agenda.

As a Belgian myself, I just know this is going to go pear shaped in our country. for a multitude of reasons...

A word of warning

I gave the Windows 7 beta a try as well. It decided it was a good idea to install itself on my slave disk instead of the master, and - without any asking or warning - changing the start-up sequence in the BIOS of the machine. The result was that the slave disk, which was the DATA disk used by several different OS's and which held pictures, documents, music, etc... got formatted.

I had to go into the BIOS and change the startup sequence back to what it was before to be able to boot the PC with it's usual Mandriva disk.

Result? That peace of sh*te is not coming anywhere any of my computers again!

No matter

We don't want Sony's products either

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We all know what exactly

The tower was of course struck by a weather balloon! It's obvious, isn't it?

Vista -> Windows 7

You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig

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@A J Stiles

Mainly because the 'Linux version' was already the Windows version in a Wine coating?

I for one welcome a Mac version - but I'll have a look at it first this evening to see if it's native or another re-hash...

iPhoto is handy though, it is very well-integrated with other Mac OS programs, and as I keep some photos on Google webalbums, the Picasa uploader does the trick really well.

Oh, another thing... you INQs are really annoying lately with the over-use of 'fanboys' and words like Mactards. Grow up already. YES, I have a mac, so what? During the day, I develop software for a company using Visual Studio .NET, at home I love my mac and my 2 laptops, both with Linux. So how would you call me?

chore?

The 'chore' of installing X11? Come on, that's as easy as pie. It's worth it anyway, because if you want to use some other tools like The Gimp you'll need X11 too.

I am using the native beta at the moment, and will upgrade as soon as the rush-hour traffic has past ;-)

A long way to go

Lately, I have the impression we're going in the opposite direction. Examples? I used to buy music from the 7digital online store in the UK (I live in Belgium). I have only last week had a mail from them to tell me that their store is now for UK customers only. Then there's the BBC and Sky with their media-players, eg. iPlayer... Also country-specific. There's the iTunes-stores, again per country. And instead of getting better, it's getting worse.

While some online resellers seem to have no problem supplying other countries, like Amazon.co.uk, for others it doesn't seem possible.

My guess? In Europe, it's never going to happen. Too many conflicting interests, licensing problems, regulations on local markets, protectionism, etc... The EC is anyway only for the rich to take advantage of us all. The whole 'open borders' and free circulation of goods and services between countries is a joke. The EC doesn't even manage to have the same VAT percentage throughout the union. But then, it was never intended to work for joe average, only for him to be taken advantage of.

The EC is a total joke, and not a very funny one at that.

Typical

That's what's wrong with everything on the web lately, "Only for viewers in the US" - "Only available in the UK", etc...

That seems to be the new way of aggrevating people. The video on these sites is not available to watch, but they don't mind showing us their ads while telling us that.

'Inter'-net? Don't make me laugh. More and more it's becoming localised and licensed-net.

@ Mycho

Strange, the sysadmins in the company where I work use a Windows option called 'RunAs..'. They don't seen to have any problem running a program in Admin-mode while I am logged in with my normal user. By the way, I just checked in my old Win2000 box, and that has the option as well.

Maybe you should have checked before?

Is Silverlight evil?

Is the pope catholic?

Auw!

It bites doesn't it Microsoft, when the monopolistic boot is on someone else's foot?

Suck it up. It's what we get from you all the time.

Paris because she too doesn't understand how other people can act like spoiled brats...

Why the Vista disk

Well, you need something to put your drink on I suppose

What?

I've rarely seen so many people over-reacting... quite funny really. Firefox is one of the best and most interesting pieces of software in the last years.Especially the add-ons make it a versatile piece of kit.

As it is open sourced, I can't see any problem with this opt-in/opt-out whatever, as you can take it out or just sideline it if you don't like it.

How anybody can suggest using IE with a straight face is beyond me. IE is everything that Firefox is not, in a bad way.

Favourite add-on: Google Browsersync - pure genius. Paris, because she'd be right at home in this conversation.