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Reply to 2005: Where were the pundits right and wrong in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Linux has never been ready for the Desktop, still is not even close, and my prediction is that it won't be in the next years either. Why? Just a few areas where it sucks are: Inconsistent Look&Feel (worse than Windows by far), Lousy Laptop Support (don't bother telling me the manufacturers need to deliver drivers blahblah - I don't give a damn, neither does Joe Average), Lack of decent quality software... the list goes on and on. Oh, and I _

Reply to Cogent and Level 3 battle it out in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

That kind of dispute happens all the time. Theoretically there's always more than one way to get from A to B on the internet - except that some (apparently even bigwigs) scrounge on good routing/peering policies or just are not willing to update their policies as time goes on. Direct peering agreements should not be the only path from A to B - it's silly. Thus, Cogent blaming Level 3 is ridiculous. It's quite likely about as much their fault

Reply to Cable broad-band internet...why can't we have different pkgs in Internet WinCustomize Forums

No traffic limit here either using Comcast - but the low uplink speeds really hurt me as I work from home on occasion. I'd happily sacrifice a meg or two downlink, if I could just get a meg or maybe two uplink. Right now my measurements show 384kBit uplink and ~5MBit down. Something like 1MBit up and 3MBit down would be perfectly acceptable. Oh, and for business use it would be really great if Comcast offered decent static IP support. One st

Reply to Windows Vista Editions revealed in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I could not agree more - great article.

Reply to MSN Messenger 8 feature list leaked in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Nothing earthshaking. As long as Trillian and GAIM still support MSN Messenger I won't switch Especially not since with either of them I get MSN, AIM, Y!, ICQ, IRC, Jabber (including Google Talk) and a few less used IM protocols in one client. Now, if MSN would support all these... I might get tempted. What happened to "Unified Messaging" anyway? Got shot

Reply to Microsoft to VoIP: You will become one, with the borg in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I already have VoIP via Lingo - $24.95/month flat for US and most of Europe. If I add up how many calls I place it's about the same as Teleos deal - except that I can use a regular phone to call and don't need an awkward headset, or leave my computer running in case anyone wants to call me. Let alone connecting multiple phones throughout the house... So unless I missed something, only interesting for people who spend most of their free time

Reply to Take that file-swappers! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Jafo is right. Art has never been universally free. Neither have books been free, nor concerts. Professionals need to make a living - and the public defines whats professional art by buying it. Theft used to be quite difficult. But with digital content, theft is all of a sudden easy. First it was floppy discs, later BBSes, now the Internet. Just because a lot of people do it it's all of a sudden ethical. As mentioned earlier, there are limit

Reply to Take that file-swappers! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

The whole discussion of "does pirating hurt the bottom line" is pointless. There is no proof for either side. Think CD sales dropped because of pirating? Possible. But then again there are people like me who get fed up with silly protection schemes and simply opt not to buy anymore. Same goes for software. As michael havard pointed out: Most people who pirate (doesn't matter if its software, music or whatever) wouldn't buy it in the first pl

Reply to Windows beats Linux on security in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

hear hear sixshot. I could not agree more. I'd add this: I tend to say "Use the right tool for the job at hand". Sometimes that's Linux. Sometimes it's Windows. Or BSD. Or a hardware solution... OS zealots just are people who insist that their hammer can perfectly

Reply to Take that file-swappers! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

From a intellectual property point of view I applaud the ruling. I'm also pretty glad that noone here made the usual claim "that's lost sales for us!". P2P made pirating music, movies and software so easy it got out of hand. There HAD to be something done about it, and this ruling is still not enough. As far as I am concerned, it's a tough matter though. Look at DVD decrypting software: Without it, I could not watch my LEGALLY purchased DVDs (because I

Reply to Where did I lose control?? in Virtual Communities WinCustomize Forums

@Einstein: I am not quite sure if it's the same... you can group chat on MSN by inviting people. I.e. open a chat with one person, then use the menu "Actions->Invite" or if the skin has it, the invite button... works fine here. But I haven't used the original MSN in years, so I don't know if you're talking about something totally different I use Tril

Reply to Why doesn't WinCustomize have Section X? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

As much as I'd like a lively healthy Trillian section: Trillian skinning is just about dead. Look at the devs webpage - there's maybe one skin a month, if even that. Look at the deviantart Trillian section. It's dead. Overall IM skinning I don't know about, but I vote against a Trillian section (yes I voted FOR one a while ago - I changed my mind). Just add a Windowblinds -> Trillian skin converter to SkinStudio, that's good enough (I

Reply to Is Windows ready for desktop use? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Quite humorous article, that. I love (and use) both Linsux and Winblows - so much that I'd hazard to label them both as "big piles of S**T"

Reply to Airport screeners could see X-rated X-rays in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Truthfully I don't think a 9/11 discussion makes any sense here. The article is about security, not about 9/11. I don't mind increased security per se. However as many have pointed out, there is no really increased security. A few weeks ago I travelled to Europe for a family visit. Let's just say I forgot to take something out of my pocket and didn't even realize it until I was already in Europe. None of the screenings found it. It was metal,

Reply to Linspire vs. Windows in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I favor Linux in a server environment. It is however pretty amusing to see people advocate Linux on a Desktop. It doesn't matter what desktop environment one uses - they're all inconsistent with each other, use different nomenclatura and as such the whole environment feels very, very inconsistent. Due to my job I _do_ use Linux on a desktop machine, and am happy with it - at home though I'd never install it. Multimedia support is poor at best (try gett

Reply to Microsoft to abandon passwords in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I strongly agree to that. To me, passwords are a pain. For remote administration I already use certificate based authentication whereever possible... This way I have a public key and a private key, and the only thing I ever give out is the public key. Private key could, for example, stay on a USB stick if I ever felt like trusting a strangers machine with getting it.

Reply to More about evil old Capitalism in Industry WinCustomize Forums

It's getting tiresome. Use whatever you want. There's no reason to slam people for shelling out hard earned cash for commercial software. Neither is there a reason for slamming people who use free software. There's a good reason for using either. Sooo... lets get stupid and mix capitalism and socialism with software development (totally braindead comparison). Oh btw, I was born in a country that has social capitalism as its chosen mod

Reply to Didn't you know capitalism was bad? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

There's boneheads in each faction: Commercial boneheads and free software boneheads. It's the same thing all over and over... Linux vs. MS (why do they always pick THESE two??), open source vs. closed source... commercial vs. free... I'm rather sick of it. Brad, you basically descended into the same rhetorical junk that your opponents use. FUD is what some people call it I believe. As I've said so often before: There's a place for eac

Reply to Pop Goes The Weasel....Pop-Up Blockers in Windows XP WinCustomize Forums

I used WebWasher for the longest time to get rid of popups and web page ads. Recently I've used IE/Firefoxes native blockers, and my local Squid proxy server to selectively block ads on pages (like these stupid floating annoying "ads" on some pages).

Reply to Only MY intellectual property counts.. in Skinning WinCustomize Forums

I understand the issue of unauthorized porting and then publishing it somewhere. What I don't understand is the issue of porting something for your own pleasure (I don't distinguish there between copyrighted or even somehow copy protected work). As far as I see it, as soon as something legitimately makes it on my machine, I can do whatever I feel like with it. If its a skin I'll modify it to my liking. If it's a copyprotected game tha

Reply to New Year's resolution for Firefox: Grow in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

personally i don't like firefox, and i don't like IE either. Why? As far as browsers go they haven't evolved all that much. I use firefox for some pages (where tabbed browsing is convenient) and IE for others. At work I opted to use Konqueror because I chose to run Linux on my workstation - in that environment, Linux gets my work done faster and more reliably. At home however I use Windows. What am I getting to? There's a place for pretty much

Reply to What Skins, Themes, Stuff you want? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Well... what I would kinda like to see would definitely be a Trillian section - however, there's one big major problem with Trillian skins: They're version-specific. Sucks big time.

Reply to Utopia is here! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Whoa! Gotta buy them right now.

Reply to Here's a little information privacy horror story for ya in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

supposedly even the government outsources to india. At least that's what an employee at the INS centre in SLC told me a while ago (she referred to a callcenter in india). If the government does it, why shouldn't businesses think it's ok?

Reply to More sections on WinCustomize? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Trillian, although with v3 coming out and previous history being old skins not running all that well on new version... dunno. I'd love a WB -> Trillian skin converter though