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From: David Cantrell Date: 19:28 on 17 Oct 2003 Subject: Mapping Hate One of the most important applications for me on my Palm is Tomtom Citymaps. For pretty much any town of any consequence in the whole of western Europe, it helps me find pubs and other important places. It works really well and I don't have any complaints about the current version at all. But I do have a big complaint about the next version. You see, the current version doesn't work on Palm OS 5 devices, like the shiny shiny Tungstens which magpie-me so desperately wants. Palm no longer sell Palm OS 4 devices. Tomtom have no plans to release an updated version of their software, and so I hate them. I've looked around for an alternative map application. There are none. Garmin have released a combined Palm and GPS device, which looks very nice indeed. And they have European maps! Hooray! Oh, but what's this red text on their webshite? Maps of Europe are only for sale in the US. So let me get this straight. They'll sell me maps of irrelevant places thousands of miles away, but won't sell me maps of London or Paris. So I hate them too. Suggestions for less hateful suppliers off-list please.
From: David Cantrell Date: 12:27 on 25 Aug 2003 Subject: Mac usenet software I will first commit two heresies, so please forgive me. Heresy the first: there is one piece of Usenet client software which I happen to think Doesn't Suck Much. That is Forte Agent, and I have been a happy customer for many years. Heresy the second: it runs on Windows. But for many years, I have been a Windows-free zone. Thankfully, there is Wine, which I hate for all sorts of reasons, but at least it mostly lets me run Agent on Linux. I say mostly, because for no apparent reason a couple of years ago the cursor keys stopped working (and no, I hadn't been dicking around in the config files), and they remain not working despite having upgraded X and Wine, moved my installation to a machine running in Virtual PC on a nice shiny Mac, and indeed still not working in a brand new fresh install in Virtual PC. Cursor keys work everywhere else, including other applications running under Wine. But that's not what I am currently hating. Y'see, running Windows apps under Wine on Linux in Virtual PC on Mac OS X ain't fast. Screen refreshes are nasty. I can see the individual letters appear on the screen with a noticeable lag when I'm typing. Every so often I have to stop typing to let it catch up. For reading news, it's fine, but posting is made hard (which some would say is a good thing, but I hate those people). So every few months I get sufficiently pissed off and decide to find a native OS X client with a shiny GUI. You woulda thunk that Mac people, being into shiny things and usability, would have at least one useable news program. But no, they don't. They all suck, and they all manage to suck and deserve hate in interesting, new and different ways.
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