Posts by mattmoo

Intel says 'no' to Windows Vista

What a load of bandwagon muppets

Yes Vista is a resource hog, yes vista needs a "decent spec" but so what? get over yourself.

I have a P4 3.0ghz, 1GB of ram and piss poor graphics card yet i still run Vista because despite what i am told to belive by all the super cool techy people, who tell me you need 4GB of ram and a quad core processor, Vista does a job for me which i am happy with and to be honest despite its resource hunger it is a lot better then XP IMO.

No i don't play games on my PC thanks to my Wii and Xbox 360 but i do everything else without any issues.

Mac OSX fanboys can go look at their apple for longer if they like although lets be honest with the 25% premium you have paid for that shiny apple, you could have bought a better processor and twice the ram.

As for those who love their linux distro's, excellent! good for you, i don't need to tell you how much better you are then me because you use open source software.

Whilst the business case for upgrading to Vista may not be there, i remember it wasn't there when XP came out and it took maybe 3 years before all of our machines were "migrated" although none were really migrated as much as dumped when new ones came in with XP OEM.

XP before SP1 was crap and SP2 certainly made it the OS it is today so is it any surprise given microsoft's obvious business case to release a new OS every few years, ($$$$) that they end up releasing an OS that isn't excactly "finished" along with the fact that the hardware manufacturers have to spend a few years making drivers etc.

Now bring on the flame throwers!!

Thanks

Matt

eBay slams UK.gov touting ban

What about the cheap tickets?

In the past 4 years, because of ebays policies, i have managed to get;

2 x V Festival Tickets inc 6 x bacardi and coke vouchers for £150 saving me around 50%

6 x Beastie Boys tickets @ £15 each saving me over 50%

1 x Reading Festival ticket around face value.

How have i done this? Well i am not DESPERATE to go to any event, if i see something i like the look of i will wait until a day or two before the event to get the tickets.

The V Festival tickets above, i have to drive 100 miles to pick up adding a little to the cost but it is worth it given the total saving.

With other events i have waited until the day and picked them up or meet people outside.

It depends entirely on the demand and had ebay not had the tickets then i would definatley not have got the tickets, i would not pay full price for certain events as i don't think its worth it a majority of the time and in Reading festivals case, its a hit and miss trying to get on the webstie/ticket agents in the ~4 hours you have before they sell out.

Ebay has been responsible for me going to lot of event, don't take this away now otherwise i will be forced to trawl the net for the inevitable other ways to get tickets.

Thanks

Matt

MySpace trumpets music service

@ Garry Byrne

"Every other service is destined to play pointless-catchup, and should just get over themselves and move on."

Really Garry? In that case every entrepreneur, small business owner or pretty much anyone self employed, go home and get over yourself as you will never make as much as the people who employ you or own a bigger company.

Is competition a bad thing or should we just leave iTunes to it because it has created a solid business model? Competition is the key to consumers gettings cheaper prices etc

Paris would agree that competition is a good thing thats why she tried to rival pamela anderson on the home movie front. Praise good competition or not!!

Matt

Unpatched RealPlayer bug paves way for drive-by downloads

Real Player is aweful

Probably one of the worst media players i have ever used except for the original player as someone mentioned above, now it comes with annoying notifications and other such crap.

Real player alternative is the only way to listen to BBC stuff without the pain.

Thanks

Matt

Asus CEO: Eee PC to get HDD options, Intel Atom CPU

Asus EEEPC 701

I have been waiting for over 2 months for my 5 x 701 and cant see them arriving anytime soon. Does this increase my excitement about future models? No infact it makes me think what is the point in ordering future ones if they are going to have the same supply issues.

Yes they may have sorted out the supply issues by then but i fear that there is enough people annoyed about it that they will go elsewhere anyway so if Asus are doing this on purpose then i think it will have a negative effect.

Matt

Cometh the hour, cometh the iPhone SDK

Only available through iTunes...

or your favourite torrent site right? I assume the unofficial sites will appear allover the net. Although how long it will take for Jobs and co to remove them?

matt

Microsoft jump starts IE 8 with community push

Alright alright you got me

Fair points made by all, i do agree its a pain in the arse trying to things right for all versions of IE browsers and i do agree that IE should follow standards.

/coat because i don't comment here much and Tim reminded me why. Think before you type matt :p

matt

Why is this?

Why is it accecptable to have to test in opera, safari and firefox and not in internet explorer? Given that IE has the biggest market share, should we not get it working in IE and then worry about the others?

Too many elitests here that will flame my comments but from a customer point of view (and my customers/colleagues come first) it would be great to have it working in firefox and IE from the offset but if there are issues i will go for IE everytime.

Matt

UK rattles 'three strikes' filesharing sabre (again)

Impossible

There is no way this will be possible.

It will not take long before people are using proxys or some form of encryption to transfer the files or changing every file so the file name is the same, that would be very funny actually.

Lets change all torrent files to freefilesforeveryone.rar with just the link containing the actual files that way if every file is the same name then they could never find the "illigal" ones.

Result

mattmoo