I still have visions of a 50 storey Morrissey stamping downtown Salford though..
The perennial problem with home computing; Gates. Indeed, I can appreciate the 'having to install it myself, gasp shock horror' thing as that is still the attitude I encounter with most other people. I'll never know enough about these funny boxes with their keyboards but the little I've come to divest from various sources is enough to tell me what a crock of guano-cookies all things Microsoft is.
Aquaintances with Macs - using OS Ten that 'sits' on 'Linux' (isn't that uncomfortable?) and is "rock solid" - and having seen BEOS in action are enough to show the clear difference between something that fails daily to do what it's supposed to. And Windows is SO BIG. I was told that they way they "improve" (clearly some new meaning of the word that I was previously unaware of) each new version of windows is something like this: To get it to do something better instead of deleting a line of code and writing a better one they keep the bad line and write a nother one, or another ten, on top countermanding the original one and getting it to do what it should that way. Only it doesn't always work. So they end up with instead of something svelte and efficient, something fucking huge and crap.
I muddle through on Windows 98 (2nd ed) and it's a huge megabytage. I daren't think how big XP is. It would probably take up half the hard drive (well, it would on my five year old charcoal burning steam powered box with barely minimal bakelite hard disc).
I AM as guilty as anyone else; I bought Windows because EVERYONE ELSE USED IT. I wasn't enough of a revolutionary to go another road, and at the time definitely needed the parallel of a home system to match those at work. I have paid though. Windowas has killed my PC stone dead at least three times and I've had to learn the hard lesson of reformatting/partitioning the hard drive from scratch and loading everything again. In the process losing both documents (I know! I know!) and performance. The damn thing never fully recovers.
I think that I would be happy to attempt using an alternate to Explorer (though I don't know HOW, in practical terms, Netscape/Moz is different) simply because it isn't Windows but is compatible. IF I ever get another computer and start from scratch. This one's failing so fast it crashes if I try even loading CorelDRAW onto it.
I wonder what the Bill Gates who started out with all this would DO to the Bill gates now if he could meet him. Going by various documentaries and articles I've seen over the years I find it hard to believe that the thenGates had a dark and evil plan and intended to be the vile and appalling Monster that nowGates so evidently is.
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Ah, I see, thanx.
Date: 2003-09-27 04:55 am (UTC)The perennial problem with home computing; Gates. Indeed, I can appreciate the 'having to install it myself, gasp shock horror' thing as that is still the attitude I encounter with most other people. I'll never know enough about these funny boxes with their keyboards but the little I've come to divest from various sources is enough to tell me what a crock of guano-cookies all things Microsoft is.
Aquaintances with Macs - using OS Ten that 'sits' on 'Linux' (isn't that uncomfortable?) and is "rock solid" - and having seen BEOS in action are enough to show the clear difference between something that fails daily to do what it's supposed to. And Windows is SO BIG. I was told that they way they "improve" (clearly some new meaning of the word that I was previously unaware of) each new version of windows is something like this: To get it to do something better instead of deleting a line of code and writing a better one they keep the bad line and write a nother one, or another ten, on top countermanding the original one and getting it to do what it should that way. Only it doesn't always work. So they end up with instead of something svelte and efficient, something fucking huge and crap.
I muddle through on Windows 98 (2nd ed) and it's a huge megabytage. I daren't think how big XP is. It would probably take up half the hard drive (well, it would on my five year old charcoal burning steam powered box with barely minimal bakelite hard disc).
I AM as guilty as anyone else; I bought Windows because EVERYONE ELSE USED IT. I wasn't enough of a revolutionary to go another road, and at the time definitely needed the parallel of a home system to match those at work. I have paid though. Windowas has killed my PC stone dead at least three times and I've had to learn the hard lesson of reformatting/partitioning the hard drive from scratch and loading everything again. In the process losing both documents (I know! I know!) and performance. The damn thing never fully recovers.
I think that I would be happy to attempt using an alternate to Explorer (though I don't know HOW, in practical terms, Netscape/Moz is different) simply because it isn't Windows but is compatible. IF I ever get another computer and start from scratch. This one's failing so fast it crashes if I try even loading CorelDRAW onto it.
I wonder what the Bill Gates who started out with all this would DO to the Bill gates now if he could meet him. Going by various documentaries and articles I've seen over the years I find it hard to believe that the thenGates had a dark and evil plan and intended to be the vile and appalling Monster that nowGates so evidently is.