On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 09:48:17PM +0100, Laurens Holst wrote: > > Pah. imho, realplayer sucks bigtime. Sure, it compresses quite nice and all, > the image quality is nice so the base product is really great, but oh man, > if you install it it tries to integrate with your system in every possible > way, wants to install additional software, and crams your desktop and start > menu full with icons and bonzybuddies and offercompanions and everything > else you can think of... I really hate the realplayer setup,
Bizare, never had any problem with it: downlaoded the tar and typed : apt-get installl realplayer, said where the tar was located and voila, done. Clean install , no idiotic icons or anything, nice entry in /etc/mailcap,.. Works just fine > (the new player) on another computer (I couldn't find a way to remove the > residential part of the program at all) dpkg --purge realplayer Not a trace left! > And ah, netscape pretty much sucks, so also in that case it's just the > better software which won. In that case everybody would be using konqueror (or opera) by now !! (and we all would have Betamax instead of VHS) Besides getting IE on my machine here would cost me at least 279 euro for the NL edition (UK edition 309 euro), while I can get netscape for free. And my bank refuses to do internet banking if you use IE (for security reasons they say) I also like IE more for the fun we had with it on our intranet, placing a link (named "do not click me") to a file named 'runme.bat' which contained "format C: /U /Y". We tought it was fun, the people at support reasoned otherwise. > Ah, but ofcourse I am all against all those money-oriented developments... I > myself can see the future world (as depicted in star trek ^_^) in the > internet... A lot of people do stuff for free. I hope someday everything > will just be free. Here speaks somebody whoms main interest lays with free beer and not so much with free speech. David -- "Never assume malice when results can be explained through incompetence"? -- Napoleon Bonaparte -- In the case of M$, the distinction can be a difficult one to make -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
