To me this is a free jukebox. I'm listing to song after song without paying anything, it's great. So what if I can only listen to it once? I'm into discovering new stuff, and this has a great selection.
I totally agree. The moment you ask regular end users to go to a command line, you have lost the battle. The command line should be for techies that like to fiddle with stuff and fix stuff and mode their machines. But installing an app for Joe Blow should be point-and-click via a GUI interface every time.
And we also need more PLAIN ENGLISH descriptions of how things work and how to do things. Instructions, dialog boxes, error messages should have a simple strighforward explanation. "Devices using the ralink chipset are listed with the rt2x00 driver. the rt2x00 driver only works for kernels 2.6.13 or greater. For a kernel older then this you need to use rt2500 for pci devices or rt2570 for usb devices". Joe Blow has no frickin' clue what this means, and he shouldn't have to. He just wants things to work.
Mozy does this (http://www.mozypro.com/mozy_pro/comparison/), and they just started supporting Macs in addition to PCs. Great service. Simple, hassle-free, encrypted. No, I don't work for them. Just a satisfied user. They have a free version of their service, too (2Gb).
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To me this is a free jukebox. I'm listing to song after song without paying anything, it's great. So what if I can only listen to it once? I'm into discovering new stuff, and this has a great selection.
I totally agree. The moment you ask regular end users to go to a command line, you have lost the battle. The command line should be for techies that like to fiddle with stuff and fix stuff and mode their machines. But installing an app for Joe Blow should be point-and-click via a GUI interface every time. And we also need more PLAIN ENGLISH descriptions of how things work and how to do things. Instructions, dialog boxes, error messages should have a simple strighforward explanation. "Devices using the ralink chipset are listed with the rt2x00 driver. the rt2x00 driver only works for kernels 2.6.13 or greater. For a kernel older then this you need to use rt2500 for pci devices or rt2570 for usb devices". Joe Blow has no frickin' clue what this means, and he shouldn't have to. He just wants things to work.
Good luck - the ISPs are the ones that are *hosting spammers* for profit:
You think Verizon cares about spammers? Think again:
http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/listings.lasso?isp=verizon.com
You think Comcast cares about spammers? Think again:
http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/listings.lasso?isp=comcast.net
You think AT&T cares about spammers? Think again:
http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/listings.lasso?isp=att.net
Large ISPs are too busy making money off spammers and pretending they care about the spam issue to listen to the piddly whines of their customers.
Mozy does this (http://www.mozypro.com/mozy_pro/comparison/), and they just started supporting Macs in addition to PCs. Great service. Simple, hassle-free, encrypted. No, I don't work for them. Just a satisfied user. They have a free version of their service, too (2Gb).