[PLUG] I say "Uncle"!
Jeme A Brelin
jeme at brelin.net
Mon Nov 6 07:14:42 UTC 2006
On Sun, 5 Nov 2006, Chris Genly wrote:
> In the wireless area I have never been able to get a laptop to work well
> with wireless.
I don't know nothin' 'bout this.
> In the codec area, I am tired of having to boot windows to listen to
> certain audio and video feeds. For example I like to listen to
> zefrank.com occasionally. But I haven't been able to get it to work on
> linux. In windows this just works.
So, I just typed "zefrank.com" into my web browser and clicked on "the
SHOW" link at the top of the page.
A new page openned with a "click here to watch the show" box and when I
clicked there, the video buffered for a second and then started playing.
It just worked.
Of course, I have debian-multimedia.org in my apt sources and so all of my
codecs and stuff are up to date without me ever thinking about it.
> And of course the problem we are all aware of with games is that
> manufacturers write for windows and don't give a care for linux.
Yeah, if I were 15 and hadn't yet been discovered by girls, I would worry
about that. For me, it's not a problem.
> And finally, I am getting tired of all the tinkering I have to do to
> keep things working. I might be able to fix the codec problem with
> enough research, but I just don't want to do that anymore.
Huh. What distribution are you running? You shouldn't have to do any
tinkering.
> I am a proponent of platform independent software. I write in Java, I
> use thunderbird and firefox. I'll continue to support platform
> independence when possible.
Well, Java isn't exactly platform independent, is it? I mean, it's just
the Java platform.
> I want Gnu/Linux and FOSS to succeed. I hope these problems are fixed
> over time. But for now I think I'm going to switch. Who knows, after a
> while I may be so irritated by Windows and Microsoft that I'll switch
> back.
Well, when you stop having to tinker with Windows to get it to do things
like recursively rename files and directories or search for a single word
of text in a few thousand files or update the ID3 tags of a several
thousand MP3s based on the directories into which they've been sorted, let
me know. Maybe I'll switch, too.
Oh, and also when they stop thinking information is property.
J.
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