This is going to be a boring blog entry about IT.
Sweet titty-fucking Christ, I recently switched to Windows 7 on my media centre PC having been using Ubuntu almost exclusively across all machines for the last five years. The only reason I changed was so that I could actually access the lovefilm service included in the subscription for which I am paying. I use XBMC for my media player, having it auto load as soon as the machine boots. But running it in windows is like having XBMC's idiot kid brother instead. I'm constantly having to keep an eye on it, to make sure its not drinking drain cleaner or jamming its head between railings. If more parents kept a closer eye on their actual idiot children my on-call shifts should be a lot more straight forward. The media player has crashed more times in the last week than it has in the preceding year.
Has Windows always been this needy? Even with XBMC running full screen windows either steals or allows other processes to steal system focus. Given that this is a pretty virginal fresh install I'm surprised how much crapware is included with it, I'm constantly being nagged to register this or pay for that. Windows is no longer a product in itself, it seems only to be a platform for advertising. Granted android, on which I'm writing this, is too but at least that's honest about it (and free).
I was listening to Siamese Dream while the video library updated but it seems to have stopped doing both, I best go and see what's the matter now.
Sweet titty-fucking Christ, I recently switched to Windows 7 on my media centre PC having been using Ubuntu almost exclusively across all machines for the last five years. The only reason I changed was so that I could actually access the lovefilm service included in the subscription for which I am paying. I use XBMC for my media player, having it auto load as soon as the machine boots. But running it in windows is like having XBMC's idiot kid brother instead. I'm constantly having to keep an eye on it, to make sure its not drinking drain cleaner or jamming its head between railings. If more parents kept a closer eye on their actual idiot children my on-call shifts should be a lot more straight forward. The media player has crashed more times in the last week than it has in the preceding year.
Has Windows always been this needy? Even with XBMC running full screen windows either steals or allows other processes to steal system focus. Given that this is a pretty virginal fresh install I'm surprised how much crapware is included with it, I'm constantly being nagged to register this or pay for that. Windows is no longer a product in itself, it seems only to be a platform for advertising. Granted android, on which I'm writing this, is too but at least that's honest about it (and free).
I was listening to Siamese Dream while the video library updated but it seems to have stopped doing both, I best go and see what's the matter now.