On 2/14/2013 2:49 PM, Justin wrote:
BillW50 wrote on [Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:37:25 -0600]:

Yeah I used Winamp too, mainly I used sound cards in the past that
didn't work with anything but Winamp, some desktops replacements that
only worked with Winamp, and branded OEM that came with Winamp. It is
cute and bloated on all. The versions that I used never worked with
multimedia keyboards. But WMP always did. VLC does work with multimedia
keyboards too, but still can't hold a candle to WMP for flawless playback.

Winamp with the stock 2.x style interface works just fine, they did try
and screw it up when AOL took it over, but it's fine now

OMG! AOL bought out Winamp too? Surely this must have taken place before
Time-Warner bought out AOL. Steve Case was such a smooth talker that he
could fool many. But if you had some knowledge, you would see right
through his BS.

Then I heard Time-Warner was in talks to buy AOL. I was screaming don't
do it! You will lose millions if not billions. Those upper management
people are pretty clueless until it is too late and they are the last to
know.

The only good thing about the buy out or was it a merger, is that they
finally figured out what a crook Steve Case really was. And they made
him leave. But what they failed to do is to prevent him from laughing
all of the way to the bank and he had taken billions (yes that is right,
I said billions) of dollars with him. If I had any say so, Steve Case
would be rotting in jail and penniless.

Since then, Time-Warner has been trying to fix AOL (and it cost them
billions). And for that I have to give them kudos! Although I don't know
if they can ever undo all of the harm that the one man named Steve Case
has caused everybody. They are doing far better than I ever expected.
But it might not be enough in the end.

Well I am not a big fan of virtual machines whatsoever. I really don't
see the point of them at all. But I am sitting here with over 30+
machines, so it really makes no sense to me at all. And anything that
makes performance worse than before can't be good.

I used the VM because I didn't want to upgrade anything to a beta version
and wanted to see how it works.

Well I have 30+ machines, but even if I only had one machine... a spare
drive would solve that problem.

That would require more effort than I was putting into it at the time.
Oh, and that I had a spare drive.

I had taken a trip that would send me away for two months back in 2008.
The Asus EeePC 700 series were the very first netbooks and I bought a
few. Cute little things about the size of a paperback book. They ran
Linux or XP pretty well. So I had taken a chance and taken one netbook
with me and an USB drive for backups and that is it. And you know what?
While I feared that I didn't bring enough... it did everything I needed
to do for those two months. I was totally shocked that it did better
than I ever expected. Would I do the same in 2013? Hell no! We have
better stuff today. ;-)

This requires you have a spare machine that you can install it on
and wipe out and reinstall if you run into issues.

In this day and age, I can't see anybody being stuck with one machine
anymore.

Maybe if they were home where all their hardware is, sure.

Even carrying one netbook or even a PC tablet as a spare I would feel
safe today.

Oh come on! An OS without some sort of text editor?

I dunno, it's a PITA to type on these things anyway

Ah... while I have used tablets for over 10 years, I only have been
using PC tablets for 2+ months. Yes I went crazy and I own 9 PC tablets
now. The only way to learn quickly is to try many of them at one time.

And one of the amazing things to me, many of them has a dock option.
Yes, I bought those too. And having a tablet docked is so much like a
laptop or even a desktop. And you can use one docked for many hours and
totally forget you are actually using just a tablet. Although once you
pop it out of the dock you recall oh yeah, it is just a tablet. ;-)

There's also no shell, unless you install the adb on your computer and hook
into it via USB

You're kidding? Heck why bother with an Android at all? Why not just get
virtually any PC tablet and throw Ubuntu on it (or your favorite distro)
and be far ahead of the game without all of the limitations of the
Android? The Android reminds me so much like being stuck with Windows 8
Metro (aka Windows RT) and you can't go anywhere else (at least not very
easily without some sort of hack).

That's kind of the point, "it just works"

I dunno... I used Windows v1 and thought this is going nowhere. Then
Windows 2 and 3 came out and I thought the same. Then 3.1 came out and I
thought whoa! They really have something here. I really thought the
other GUI OS would have fought back and made theirs better than 3.1, but
that never happened.

I joke a lot and say Linux is nothing more than a glorified PDA OS. It
still is in many respects as I still can do tons more under Windows than
I can do under any Linux. But Android is so much closer to a PDA OS than
Linux ever was.

--
Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Thunderbird v12.0.1
Centrino Core2 Duo T5600 1.83GHz - 4GB - Windows XP SP2