Currently Listening To:I'd Rather Be In Love from the album "The Spirit Room" by Michelle Branch
Someone finally took the time to slap the bloody ignorance brigade into shape after all their lameass "G5 benchmarks faked" crap. Read it here. The only problem with it is the constant wintel user bashing which doesn't help his argument which is otherwise sound.
I was on an MSN chat channel with some idiot who tried to claim they were faked. Sadly I don't know much about compilers so I couldn't say much. Now I'll just link the bitches up :)
At the moment MSN is currently 'updating itself'. Basically I started up the official app because I wanted to group chat (Fire doesn't yet support Group Chats, although they have someone working on it according to the Sourceforge page). It signed me in and then asked if I wanted to update.
Given that its current incarnation looks like it was sewn together by a 4 year old and scattered with brightly coloured blobs I am eager to see what has changed - god only knows they can't make it suck any more than it already does. Unfortunately the manner in which it updates is just as graceless as the rest of the application.
You log on, you start talking to people and nothing happens on the download front, no status window, no dialog box. Then after a few seconds it suddenly opens this status window which shows some downloading going on. However it also locks you out of MSN insofar as you can no longer type to anyone or select other windows. So in effect you basically have said hi to a bunch of people and now must ignore them whilst the update loads. Apart from making you appear very rude its extremely frustrating to see people going "Hello? You there?" In the end I quit it, told people what I was about to do, restarted the app to reopen the "update" choice window (because I can't find it in the app for love or money) and clicked "now". That's just poor ass design and to be honest I shouldn't accept anything more from Microsoft.
I'm off to the orthodontist today, after a prolonged absence effected by my father's unwillingness to pay orthodontists bills (its all about saving Grandad's reputation don'tcha know?).
No fecking way! The download finished and the application quit. I start it up and turns out its done sweet FA because its still asking me if I want to update! Man thats weak. If I gave a crap about MSN I would be seriously pissed right about now :)
- Update: MSN is still total crap :)
Later
John
Posted by John Swaine at July 31, 2003 09:33 PM