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Apples priorities? lack of polish on ichat ?

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Apples priorities? lack of polish on ichat ? except perhaps the icon !
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No sooner do they add a feature to the operating system, they then fail to update it. Logged on to ichat again recently and tried to have a chat between me and a friend. I had just about forgotten about the troubles I had setting ichat up 5 years ago so I thought it might be worth a try today, only to discover similar flaws to the ones I experienced 5 years ago. Joy joy for whatever reasons we spent an hour and a half trying to make the heap of shit software behave and then gave up.   ichat v4.0.8 on both sides.

Initially I knew he was logged on but it perceived him to be offline. Resolved that issue by recreating him as a buddy or something, then he could hear me but I couldnt hear him. Then set up tons of port forwarding on the router including trying dmz my own machine. Still couldnt hear the other guys voice. He could see his own voice input on the meter though. Could have been his router, although I went through setting up all the port forwarding on his machine GRRR to no avail. I could screen share to him but not the reverse ? Also my machine kernel panicked with a grey screen of death crash with my dual monitor setup when he was controlling my machine and the pointer wandered onto the second screen, GRR .

Then I thought maybe I have to upgrade to a mobileme account from my dotmac acct which was still functioning from a buddy list point of view in ichat. So I signed up for a free trial entered in my card details blah blah blah. Did it then function any better with both of us on mobileme accounts ? No not at all, all the issues were the same.

Answer – ichat is still a pretty poor program. Why is it they plough all this new investment into new stuff and features and yet they can barely maintain the stuff they’ve already written ?

ichat is still a dog in comparison to skype, and why oh why is spotlight and file searching still an absolute dog in mac os x ? no control whatsoever in that department.

Apple your priorities are all wrong. Get it together man, why the hell should I pay you £59.99 a year when I cant even get ichat to function properly,  let alone syncing issues with multiple users on a single account ? As I know from trying to support it from an IT perspective is a nightmare. All this apple mobileme stuff seems to break if you fall out of some small ill defined parameters setup by apple.

Cultural identity britain nick griffin question time.

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nick griffin question time

Seeing Nick Griffin on Question Time determined me to write the following:

In that debate he referred to the english natives of this isle as being the aboriginals of this isle, which I found an important point, the bit about telling a maori he wasn’t a maori, as being rude was actually pretty salient, the fact is British people should not be prejudiced against, in terms of claiming our own identity as a right, in case it offends recently naturalised immigrants. Also nicks claim that immigration was an experiment, and that the class group it was acted upon had no say in, is also accurate, unless you count people getting to vote in a different set of middle to upper class duffers in, once every four years as a form of democracy, personally I don’t, democracy has not really expanded in quality for the last 70 years, pretty poor considering the technological evolution in that time.

Bonnie Greer (A known beeb favourite, ethnocentric black feminist who is often hauled out of there narrow politically correct little black book to represent us on the Question Time panel) started banging on in her adopted middle class academic accent, there was no such thing as a native british person, at one point trying to assert that all humanity was african because of genetic science that informs us so evolutionarily, were all descended from tribes that left africa etc , although this does have scientific merit it has little merit to the british today, she then spouted some duff science that the only true british person was cromagnon man, who had been wiped out, or some such other witter. This was a rather lame intellectual attack on Mr Griffin, and most on the panel and in the audience seemed to lazily beat up on him. Of Course Nick laid himself open to this intellectual berate-ment by trying to assert british identity back to some crazy period of time just post ice age, which was im afraid, a pretty unsound assertion. Sadly … Though … Nick Griffin, has the will to stand up and defend his own cultural identity, he does not yet possess enough intellectual prowess to shoot down this panel of middle class and middle weight intellectual snobs arrayed around him. Which is a huge shame as actually hes carrying quite an important cultural ball for the native man, as to whether the native rather than the recent arrivals, get a chance to have a proper debate on further and future immigration, denied to us so far, whereas the usual parade of middle to upper class simpering politicos on the panel, jack straw et al, whove no loyalty to the concept of nativity or identity, are as usual prepared, to lie, kiss and please any ass in the ugly mob, that will vote to get them re-elected. and will sharp elbow any competitor to reach first place at the I’m the most hyper politically correct person in the camp, so desperate to please everyone they fail to recognise that by that “lack of stance” they actually cannot offer to please any group at all.
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Religious archaic crap now common in the UK

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dedicated to tulay goren

Mehmet Goren tying up his daughter to prevent her being with a different kind of muslim.

honour killing article

To think how few of this primitive cast of people we had in this country, and how we had no necessity to take into account or deal with such religious social bullshit as this 40 years ago, and now we live in a country now riddled with such “hideocy” (something idiotic and hideous at the same time). Sad that time is taken up in the legal system, dealing with the noise generators of primitive religious beliefs of any sort.

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The Death of Boy Scouting … Sorry Scouts !!!!!

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Boy Scouts … Oh Sorry … apologies for being male … Scouts ! what ?

Save the Scouting Association from this Madness.

Boys May not Join guides or brownies, but girls may join cubs and scouts, this is ridiculous over PC male prejudice gone mad.

There is another organisation that caters for both girls and boys in the same troops “woodcraft”, there is no necessity to insist on being a cub or a boy scout as a girl, all you need to do is make sure the ethos in the brownies or guides is more adventurous as there is no reason why brownies and guides can’t be as exciting as cubs and scouts ?

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Mac os X Bug Number Whatever

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Why when your dragging a folder into another folder does only work if you drag it to the icon of the folder, if i drag it onto the name of the folder what does i think i want it to do make them rub against each other and not go one inside the other ??? GRRRR. mac os X needs allot of polishing still 5/6 versions in ? when will they get it right ? actually im doing this on leopard but as per asual I doubt theyve fixed this on SL either ?

Bloody iTunes whats up with apple ?

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Having previously allowed my itunes to organise my music folder, this time when re-associating my itunes mp3 containing folder with itunes its attempting to reorganise my music into a different folder layout than it decided on previously ?! now it wants to shift all 40gb about to satisfy its organisational structure ? anybody got any reasoning as to why the damn thing is attempting to do this on the basis that shuffling around 40gb worth of files for the sake of putting them in a new folder orientation compared to the ones it was using previously seems ridiculous as in reality there was nothing wrong with the way it had previously organised stuff, and this shuffling of every file around takes huge amounts of time and wear on my disk ?

plist naming in preferences ?!?!?!

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more bizzare stuff from apple ?
why oh why do nearly all plist files start with

com.apple.blaah blah blahh ?

I mean when one is scanning up and down the list with the eye to find one in particular ? it becomes difficult, and orderering them by name forget it ?! the only way is to search hurumph.

more signal less noise please louise

theyre better be something other than an inane reasoning behind this naming schema.

OH also why do I have 7 of a program preference but postfixed with gibbersih like this ? bad form of backup ?

0017f2d21416

before the .plist part of the name ?