http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Mon, 11 Apr 2005 20:47:58 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/04/11/145004.php#comment-138683 being a Fan of David Pogue's stuff for quite the number of years..it was good to see him tee off this way.. i also am in a dual boot household..i went from an Amiga 500 to a 386 PC, next computer was a Mac and kept with them for years ...my better half being into graphic design for 10 years... i went with 2 computers when i needed to learn XP for work, since the game center LANs were going to be using it, while our servers were Linux builds... while XP is by far my favorite flavor of n Windows...there are sO many problems inherent in the OS that the strange "unistall" difficulties are merely the surface... Apple tends ot avoid a lot fo this by requiring their software makers to adhere to a very strict code fo standers...from the way a program installs, to the look and feel as well as function of the Interface and beyond each has it's strength's and weaknesses but for Bloat and obscurity..nothing tops Windows... nuff said? Excelsior! 138683@blogcritics.org Mon, 11 Apr 2005 20:47:58 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/04/11/145004.php#comment-138651 As someone who has worked with both Mac and PC, I would have to agree that Macs side-step a lot of the problems seen in Windows. On the other hand, they also have problems with some common stuff. (If I had a nickel for every attached eMail file my Mac-dedicated friend Dave told me he couldn't see, I'd have a szit-load of nickels!) Same thing holds true with Linux and Unix and other operating systems. You pays yer money, and you takes yer choice... 138651@blogcritics.org Mon, 11 Apr 2005 19:32:03 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/04/11/145004.php#comment-138596 the .net comment was particularly funny. great solultion to bad software...wrap it in an even heavier layer of more software. 138596@blogcritics.org Mon, 11 Apr 2005 16:22:06 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/04/11/145004.php#comment-138585 Pretty funny stuff. A nice shortening of the discussions highpoints. There are still some odd things left if you uninstall a program in Macs. But normally these are in only two folders and are fairly easy to determine where they go. Pogue is a guy who used to write for MacWorld but has affection for both PC-Mac. Not me. I've never sent my Mac in for repair; never wondered what the hell happened there. I did have to erase everything on my work disk once, but that wasn't my fault (I was assured) And OSX has elimnated program crashes completelty. One program dies, you force quit it and the computer runs as before. Of course, it's all down to what you started with and I started with Macs in 1995. 138585@blogcritics.org Mon, 11 Apr 2005 16:13:47 EDT