further teeth
Oct. 17th, 2004 08:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
baratronOther sources of pissed-off-ness in my life:
T-Mobile, who are bastard spammers of a different order. This is a more complicated issue that would require friends-only-ness to go into. But believe me, it's annoying.
Twonkyvision, a.k.a. the linux server for the Netgear MP3 player-that-plugs-into-a-proper-stereo thing that Richard bought. It is complete and utter pants. Bastard thing crashes at least every 6 songs, if not more often. It also removes a lot of the bass from tracks, which isn't so bad with perky synthpop but is bloody annoying with punk or METAL!! We know it is the software at fault not the hardware, because Richard installed the corresponding Windows server under WINE, and it played the MP3s flawlessly, complete with bass, and didn't actually crash.
We can't run the player using the Windows server, though, because a) Windows is evil and more importantly, b) we have a network and it can't cope with files that are on non-local drives.
I would just like to be able to hear more than half a song at a time! Argh!!
And I hate being in a bad mood because there are many things in my life that are not crap, such as we have a wonderful house which is amazingly more tidy than before the party?!, and we had a great party last night with extremely cute and sexy people, and the house is still full of interesting people and things. But I'm all full of growl and teeth and I need to get it out.
Apparently I have to stop ranting now because Richard wants to eat dinner and I'm stopping him doing that :)
T-Mobile, who are bastard spammers of a different order. This is a more complicated issue that would require friends-only-ness to go into. But believe me, it's annoying.
Twonkyvision, a.k.a. the linux server for the Netgear MP3 player-that-plugs-into-a-proper-stereo thing that Richard bought. It is complete and utter pants. Bastard thing crashes at least every 6 songs, if not more often. It also removes a lot of the bass from tracks, which isn't so bad with perky synthpop but is bloody annoying with punk or METAL!! We know it is the software at fault not the hardware, because Richard installed the corresponding Windows server under WINE, and it played the MP3s flawlessly, complete with bass, and didn't actually crash.
We can't run the player using the Windows server, though, because a) Windows is evil and more importantly, b) we have a network and it can't cope with files that are on non-local drives.
I would just like to be able to hear more than half a song at a time! Argh!!
And I hate being in a bad mood because there are many things in my life that are not crap, such as we have a wonderful house which is amazingly more tidy than before the party?!, and we had a great party last night with extremely cute and sexy people, and the house is still full of interesting people and things. But I'm all full of growl and teeth and I need to get it out.
Apparently I have to stop ranting now because Richard wants to eat dinner and I'm stopping him doing that :)
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Date: 2004-10-19 01:41 am (UTC)Last time I tried phoning her I got about 3 attempts into getting my name across before she gave up and hung up. Trying to do this from work would probably make me about as popular as the guy who listens to his voicemail on speakerphone.
And I protest - I was prodding h-l about it since late September because she had the book with the dates of everyones' birthdays in and I wasn't sure it was Grandma's birthday in October and not somebody elses, which would have made sending her a birthday card look a bit silly. Except that the book has gone missing. Sounds like we still beat everyone else to it in the end.
p.s. I'll be less incoherent in a couple of days when I'm not ill.
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Date: 2004-10-22 03:37 pm (UTC)And why am I posting this in livejournal instead of just telling you? hmmmm