Posted July 26th, 2007
by Josh
Its so annoying, your searching for a program that performs some specific task. You scour the net and eventually you find an app that sounds really good.
So off you trot and download it, only to find that rather than using bog standard windows toolbars and widgets, it uses a really awful custom theme.
Take this for example . A great little SIP app, works really well, but i dont want it to look like a cheapy phone handset! I know its a bloody SIP application, I downloaded it, I dont need to be reminded by the terrible theme its using.
Fair enough, i dont mind software being skinable, but its when it DOESNT include a default windows theme that really hacks me off.
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Tags: app, SIP, software, theme, themed, Windows Posted in Rantings
Posted July 20th, 2007
by Josh
Im getting so bored with people saying how crap Linux and Unix are.
I use various forums on a regular basis, and everynow and then this topic pops up.
The problem is that people dont relize what Linux and Unix are and what they currently do in regards to the worlds IT infrastructure.
Linux is one of the most widely deployed and flexible server operating systems there is.
Between them, Linux and Unix power just over 50% of the worlds web servers, and between 60-70% of the worlds DNSÂ servers, FACT!
I’ll say it once tho, ITÂ ISN’T, ANDÂ NEVERÂ WILLÂ BE A DESKTOP OPERATING SYSTEM!
This is the reason people moan about it being shit, they are trying to use it as a freebie windows replacement, which is isnt!
Theres a reason why Windows is the worls number 1 desktop OS, and thats because Microsoft plow billions of dollars into it.
Stop being tight, buy a windows license and stop bloody moaning.
Use Linux for what its designed for and its a brilliant platform.
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Tags: DNS Server, IT, Linux, Microsoft, MS, OS, Unix, web server, Windows Posted in Rantings
Posted July 18th, 2007
by Josh
Have a look at this.
The UK is supposed to be one of the worlds biggest super powers, yet we have some of the most out-dated and slow telecoms infrastructures in the world.
In laymans terms, this means that we are doomed to the current crap broadband speeds for some time to come.
Why is this? The reason is BT (British Telecom) (and the 80’s Tory government).
Since they were privatized in the 80’s its all become about the money. They do everything as cheaply as possible so that they can make the most money out of us poor suckers.
It galls me that countries like Korea have the forsight to invest in its Telecoms/IT infrastructure, whilst this county is starting to stagnate in its thousands of miles of 20 year old copper. I mean, BT had to be forced by the Government to impliment ADSL broadband, if they’d had their way, we still all probably be using dial-up.
I can seriously see our infrastructure colapsing under its own weight unless it is given a serious overhaul very soon.
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Tags: ADSL, Broadband, BT, dial-up, infrastructure, IT, privatisation, telecoms, UK Posted in Rantings
Posted July 9th, 2007
by Josh
I Finally found the finances to purchase new components in order to completely overhaul my PC at home.
This is what I Bought:
ABIT AB9 Pro iP965 Motherboard
- Intel Core 2 Duo E6600. Running at 2.4gHz with 1066mHz FSB and 4MB cache
2GB Corsair PC2-5400 XMS Memory
Xpertvision 8500GT Sonic edition, 256MBÂ RAM Video Card
3 x 80GB SATAII Harddisks
The gear arrived on Thursday 5th and I installed the new kit straight away that evening.
Ive configured the Disks in a RAID0 (Striped) Array, Ive then further partitioned this in to two logical drives, one for the system and the second as my working disk. The reason for this is to provide fast read/write access to the system and working disks.
The working drive contains my games and video editing files, so its brilliant to be able to have lighting fast access to resources on this disk.
All in all im very pleased with the upgrade. Including the sale of my old IDE disks, the upgrade came in at a ver reasonable £350 quid, all purchased from Ebuyer.
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Tags: 2gb, ab9-pro, Abit, core2duo, corsair, cpu, e6600, ebuyer, hard disk, IDE, intel, motherboard, PC, processor, raid, raid0, RAM, SATA, SATAII Posted in Personal
