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Re: Re: iPod Shuffle / ITunes



I use both XP/Office/Outlook/HP and Tiger/Office & several other
applications/Mail-Safari/Mac a lot everyday - for all the usual
things, and must say if there's something to be done, with speed &
minimum hassle, with a clear head, the choice is very easy to make ...

IMHO the first-named is ad-hoc rubbish written by monkeys who've seen
something that looked pretty & tried to copy it ... most things on
the former involve a distracting fight, and become very long-
winded ... sorry !

Chris



On 26 Dec 2005, at 15:01, noel_pilot wrote:

> Just a little positive in a n otherwise nailing Apple ocean!! :)
>
> Personally never had a problem with itunes or ipods! Never noticed any
> slowdown or CPU drain on the pc and it by far kicks the ass IMO of any
> other mp3 playing/indexing/sorting application.  used to use winamp
> and musicmatch many many moons ago and Itunes for me is far far
> superior!!
>
> Just so any people that haven't tried them don't think Apple is a
> complete pile of poop!! :)
>
> and for what its worth my ibook never ever given me a prob networking,
> to get past the delays associated with waiting for other network
> devices to popup I use an Applescript that mounts specific folders by
> IP address which never fails for me :)
>
> I don't doubt for a minute that there are lots of unhappy Mac
> Users/purchasers however ffor every one unhappy one Im sure theres
> lots and lots of truly happy ones!! :)
>
>
> merry Christmas!!
>
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> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Ian Lowe" <ianlowe@x...>
wrote:
> >
> > > Quite frankly my experiences of using the ipod shuffle have
> quashed any
> > desire to buy and sort of
> > > Mac...
> >
> > Consider yourself lucky - my enthusiasm for Mac got crushde by
> buying an
> > imac... :
> >
> > Admittedly, it's an old G3, so not exactly your normal Mac
> Pricing, but
> > still smarted a little.
> >
> > Actually, I had the opportunity recently to build a suite for
> demonstrating
> > interoperability and business systems - a very nice environment,
> with a
> > frankly delicious set of environments to play with ^H^H^H^H^H^H
> demonstrate
> > ;)
> >
> > We had Ubuntu linux on desktops, talking to a mixed back end of
the
> > Contribs.org e-smith server and SBS 2003, with AD integration all
> round - we
> > had XP workstations happily using resources from either server
> without
> > blinking..
> >
> > The only fly in the ointment? That would be the OSX machines,
which
> > resolutely refused to play nice. The Directory tool saw the AD,
yet
> refused
> > to bind to the domain - we could only get basic SMB networking
> going, and
> > even then... The powerbook would be fine for half an hour, then
> suddenly
> > decide that it couldn't see the Linux server - until you rebooted
> the beast.
> > The big iMac (one of the 20" screen ones) would play better,
as
> (bizzarely)
> > it had a different version of the Directory softwre, despite both
> machines
> > saying that they were up to date.
> >
> > What really did it for me was what seemed to be the sheer
> perversity of
> > Apple's devs - SBS defaults to a domain name of mydomain.local to
> prevent
> > the whole "can't see our own website" thing: it's an
eminently
> sensible
> > configuration, and something that the Linux and MS boxes
implement
> > trivially... But OSX won't!
> >
> > It's the most fiendish problem going - you can ping a host but
can't
> resolve
> > it, but can resolve anything else. DNS seems to work okay, for
> everything
> > except your MS servers...
> >
> > Cue the frankly bizzare discovery that apple have chosen to
> resolve any
> > domain which ends in ".local" using a multicast DNS
implementation
> that only
> > works with... Mac OS! It's hard to see it as anything other than
> > deliberately breaking interoperability with Windows, and frankly,
> that's no
> > more acceptable  from Apple than it is from Microsoft.
> >
> > Basically, I can see the appeal of Apple kit - it's *very* nice,
but
> their
> > business practices (ie, the clone vendor fiasco, DRM
implementation,
> DRAM
> > lockout, GPL issues etc) just make me want to scream. Bizzare
> though it
> > sounds, I actually that Balmer and crew are a little *more*
> ethical than
> > Steve Jobs.
> >
> > If I bought myself a powerbook... I'd be running Ubuntu on it,
> and I'll
> > stick with a Creative ipod lookalike (without the dodgy DRM!),
> thanks!
> >
> > I.
> >
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