unwatchable > Episode 18 - Thumbs Up For Dave...
Lets stop this who should be on the show crap, it isnt productive, its often rude to those involved and to be frank none of our business its their time. Lets focus on content, direction and promotion. Help rather than hinder I say!
PS eye candy on a audio podcast called "!unwatchable" that make a whole lot of sense :-P
I may do some video stuff soon if itidiots wishes to use it your more than welcome
Supernova
I was just suggesting that Nick offered more entertainment with his tales of bygone years at Portsmouth... and other little remarks that you don't get with Sufay or Dave, with Sufay and Dave it feels more formal than with just Nick and Nicky. When I said "Eyecandy" I meant about the video episode she was in...
Sufay isn't always easy to hear / understand but would be a nice fixture from time to time... I never said that she was rubbish or really bad, I just think she could participate a bit more instead of letting Nicky and Dave take over the episode...
Jamie
A very enjoyable episode. I found the personalities worked well.
Well done all.
Mark H
I'm looking forward to this new ITidiots episode... hopefully if it is in the next week or so I can download it quickly as I am in the UK...
But hey, no pressure guys, just do an episode when you feel like it!
Jamie
I liked the last episode a lot. Thanks guys!
I guess a leopard really can't change its spots...
Tom
I was watching what Steve Jobs had to say about the new iPod Nanos on Cnet News and I think he oversells them quite a bit, putting an FM radio in? The camera is nice but in the wrong place. If they had all the same features in the iPod Touch, I would buy it straight away as my old iPod Nano 3rd Gen is looking a bit bashed about.
Anyway, I took that off topic a bit and I don't want to slip back into my old ways by commenting after every post...
lol, just got the leopard can't change its spots joke, I take it u hate macs as well?
I am considering dual booting my XP box with Ubuntu Studio but I might just keep it running in VirtualBox (I switched back as my XP machine doesn't have VMware Workstation on it and I have to say the latest update has fixed a lot of bugs I was having with it).
Jamie
hmm...
You obviously didn't get my joke... It was nothing to do with apple. I like apple hardware and software. Don't like the company, but I do like their work...
Tom
... Slaps Jamie around the chops with a virtual haddock !
Supernova
oh, I just thought because leopard, ect... apple...
I hate apple as a company too but they ship safari with their os and they just sailed past the eu...
ipods I do like along with safari. iTunes? Stick it where the sun don't shine...
Jamie
I hate apple and most of its fan base they're just so up themselves and ignorant e.g. the whole i use a mac so must be secure BS.
Lets face it macs are really for male professionals that have just entered mid-life crisis and wont to be cool again.
Supernova
I agree, I personally still would stick to my good old XP box which is going to get a nice upgrade for its 4th birthday.
I'm keeping the hard disks, motherboard, graphics card (may change, not sure yet) and I'm going to change the Memory (from 1GB DDR2 to 4GB DDR2) and the processor (from 3.0GHz Intel Pentium D to a nice Intel Core 2 Quad) and I might even ask my dad nicely for a copy of Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 7 Professional. As I still run some old software that works fine on XP but not on Vista so I would need the XP Virtual Thing unless I can stick the next version of Virtual PC on the home edition and it will work with my own copy of XP (I will have a legit one by then as it would be the same copy as the one that went on the computer originally). Who knows...
As for the other copy of Windows 7, my Vista laptop which runs fine (only uses 1GB RAM at the best of times!) needs re-installing as there is something wrong with the .NET framework 3.5 SP1. It might have been from when I installed the express editions of Visual Studio 2008...
Jamie
Hmm OK since we are slamming Apple users lets have a look at just how lame Micro$oft are.
They are now entering the retail sector by opening a chain of stores within spitting distance of Apple stores in the US, they are unable to employ capable staff so are trying to poach Apple staff by enticing them with inflated salaries. They have come up with the novel idea of having specialists train their would be clients at the "guru bar" (sic)
Lets face it what are Microsoft going to put in these stores, they don't manufacture anything, are there just going to be racks of over priced legacy software for the windows shmucks to drool over?
Ok so Apple machines are not cheap, that's because they are not "cheap". My iMac was purchased on a 3 year business lease, but here is the good news. After 18 months I can take it back and get a new iMac, why?, because it has a residual value unlike the POS desktop that you buy from PC world.
A very good friend of mine told me that he would never be able to switch to Mac because he knew PC's inside and out. I told him that I haven't even tried to learn Unix or figure out how my Mac works, why?, because I don't need to.
BTW I am male and also a professional however my mid life crisis was spent trying to keep a crappy XP box from crashing on a regular basis.
I am in now way an Apple fanboy, I do realise that that both companies are huge corporations driven by profit however I am also not arsed if my Windows VM "catches a cold" because all I have to do is delete it and start again.
Years ago Macs used to emulate PC's and they were crap at it, these days they don't need to.
clint green
Just wanted to say what a fine addition Su-Fay and Dave are to the podcast. I could use a little more Mac content, though. (I thought podcast subscribers were mostly Mac.)
Somebody must have had problems with Snow Leopard's under the hood changes - I had a few weeks before there was a published a workaround to install my FireWire audio interface drivers (or is that kext?) Is Photoshop Elements 8 any better for being on Mac? That kind of thing…
It's fun for a short while listening to Windows tribulations, but really- Windows, why would you bother? (at least it keeps IT people in work, I suppose)
Mac Idiot
I wouldn't go as far as saying that I hate Macs, it is just that I have always been a windows guy, at school everything is windows, I grew up from Windows 95, 98, 98SE, ME (for a very short time) 2000, XP, and Vista (soon hopefully Windows 7) so as you can see I have grown up with Windows and I know that they have their downsides (like constantly having to run a virus checker, firewall ect...) and I know they might be slow, but PCs can be modified so much more than Macs. If you want a bigger display on a PC, you go down t'shop and buy a bigger display, plug it in, adjust the screen res and off you go, where as with a mac (apart from mac mini) you have to go out and buy a whole new one. It is the same with hard disks, to upgrade your Mac Book or iMac, you have to take it to apple, where as I can just unscrew a little hatch on the back of my laptop or take the side off my PC and stick a new hard drive in (my laptop has two slots for hard drives, so I might get another one just for music and videos)...
See, also everything I use works great on Windows and I'm even dipping into Ubuntu and other linux distros (OpenSUSE has to be my favorite at the moment...) and I showed my Dad VirtualBox and OpenSUSE and he went out and brought me VMware Workstation, PowerISO and a virtual floppy disk program so I could make ISO images of all his old operating system install CDs he has lying around in a drawer downstairs.
And virtualizing windows on a mac? It just seems messy to me...
Until Apple let you install OSX (I call is OS and then the EX, not 10) on a PC then I might consider it but the day that happens is the same day the worlds first flying pig is born...
Jamie
the old Microsoft copies Apple is pretty lame really !
the whole concept of windows came from Xerox parc originally and *both* Apple and Microsoft hired staff from that original project.
Also if you look at new features in mac osx (and windows for that matter) look how many small companies provided those features as third party add-ons and have had there ideas legally taken. Same for many open source projects for that matter eg open office.
And look at how many patients Linux originally breeched
... basically they all copy each other to a degree always have and always will
Supernova
in regards to XP been unstable.
system internals, before been brought out by Microsoft, did research in BSODs , found when I studied debugging memory dumps.
it was found that less than 5% of BSODs were caused directly by MS code, this means that most BSODs are cause by third party code. Which is why driver signing, Logo and WHQL are so important for stability.
This is where the market share goes against them , i fact MS would be better off developing there own hardware, however, imagine all those partners, VARS, OEMS etc they would loose.
Look at all the problems Apple had with Mac powerpc clones when they originally encouraged it though hardware developers. OSX became very unstable to the point that they pulled the plug and left people with useless door stops.
anyway i use whatever is in front of me, i can find faults in anything
"Years ago Macs used to emulate PC's and they were crap at it, these days they don't need to."
because under the hood it terms of hardware they're are no different nowadays.
Also PCs have been able to emulate Mac for years going back to the original OS8 (maybe even before)
emulation is nothing new.
I hope my comment wasn't take to heart , its not all mac users just the one on crusades getting all the facts wrong in the process.
I actually own and use a Mac, use BSD, Linux and Windows
Supernova
I do partly agree with you, I just feel that microsoft are more open (in other words by supporting multiple hardware) than apple.
OEMs customise windows with drivers and software tweaks to make it work with their hardware.
However, it is a tough debate and I think it will be one that continues until Steve & Bill (or whoever is head of microsoft now) end up uniting against Linux or joining forces we won't ever have an end to this "apple vs microsoft" thing.
But it seems microsoft get more law suits and apple get off scot free...
hmmm... maybe the lawers were held at gunpoint...
Jamie
I think Dave should be a permanent fixture along with Sufay just occasionally instead of Nick as Dave worked really well, Sufay just seemed to sit in the background quite a bit but other than that, three works really well, just Nick instead of Sufay. But then Sufay has more eye candy than Nick.