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1. HasseMan said:
   On June 11th, 2006 at 12:20 pm

   Good episode again! Disk space blunder forgiven.

   First off: Thanks for reminding me about magnatune.com. I actually read about this record label in a issue of the Linux Journal magazine (Feb 2004). I’m not sure if you’ve mentioned it earlier, since I haven’t listened to all of the older podcasts, but if you haven’t already I recommend you take a look at the “Why I created Magnatune” page on the site. Personally I think Magnatune deserves to be mentioned much more than it does (which reminds me that I really ought to start bugging my friends about it again ).

   I won’t dispute that MS probably has run out of ideas and are frantically trying to come up with ways to get people to stay with their products.
   But… I think it’s actually nice to see MS add good and useful features to its products.
   Earlier (before GNU/Linux got the big spread it has today) the OS and applications you were running were proprietary and any new innovation came from the big vendors. That’s not the case anymore. Most of todays innovation come from the end users who get so annoyed with a certain feature (or the lack of it) that they simply write their own Library/Plug-In/Application/OS.
   Think about Granny, or your spouse, who only run Windows, Office and IE. With MS adding new features like browser tabs (Opera), Vistas UAC (Unix), Widgets (Konfabulator), etc other people will get the benefit of them as well as us nerds… ahem I mean “techies”.

   There’s a lot of new and useful applications/features under development that I look forward to and I genuinely regret that I have to choose Windows as my platform today because of lack of time, otherwise I’d be playing with and most likely adding to a lot of them. Here’s a few:

   • Dashboard (http://www.nat.org/dashboard/) (This one would be REALLY helpful at work)
   • Beagle (http://beaglewiki.org/Main_Page) (Today I have to stick with Google Desktop)
   • Tomboy (http://www.beatniksoftware.com/tomboy/) (If I could get rid of half of my physical post-it notes perhaps I could find my mouse)
   • The Gnome application for storing your root password for a short while so that you don’t have to give it each time for several tasks that require root privilege.
   • Paint.NET (http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/)

   Please keep adding the “bloopers section” at the end of the podcast!

2. HasseMan said:
   On June 11th, 2006 at 1:37 pm

   Oh… and thanks for In The Trenches!

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