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Thanks, Nullsoft!

By ucblockhead (Tue Dec 16, 2003 at 05:13:50 AM EST) (all tags)

For saving me work! And a fond farewell.

Winamp 5 is out. For those who don't know, Winamp 5 is actually an upgrade of Winamp 2. They dumped all of Winamp 5 and updated Winamp 2 to support the new skins. (And other things, I suppose.)

I'd review it, but I've been running it for six minutes and twenty seconds, so it seems premature.

RoboDJ appears to work fine with it, which makes me smile. Now if I could only get the motivation to finish it up.

Also, I woke up coughing this morning, so I appear to have the Fijian death influenza that is going to kill us all ^tm. So I just thought I'd say that it was nice knowing you guys, and I hope to see you on the other side. You better hurry, I hear they are running out of pitch forks.

Apolitical lesson: suppose your country is attacked by a madman, and you are unable to capture that madman. How do you keep your poll numbers up? Easy. Find some other madman who is easier to get. Spend a your or so muddling the issue and confusing the easy to get madman with the hard to get madman. Then get him. Everyone will think that you "won" and "succeeded" when all you did was create an entirely new problem to solve.

Hmm. I seem to have coughed up a lung.

I hung "icicle" lights on my house this weekend, which is amusing considering that I a) am an unbeliever, b) descend from Puritans who found such celebrations offensive, c) live in a place where icicles will likely not be seen until the next ice age.

My wife wants to find a newspaper that lists areas with excessive lighting displays so we can spend an evening gawking at other people's energy overconsumption. No amount of hinting has gotten her to realize that I find this activity as appealing as a jalepeno enema.

Which reminds me...I should make chili tonight.

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The kids love that though by georgeha (3.00 / 0) #1 Tue Dec 16, 2003 at 05:17:17 AM EST

We did the cruise for lights thing Saturday night, one street was even selling donuts and hot chocolate for charity.

I have a CD player. by Canthros (3.00 / 0) #2 Tue Dec 16, 2003 at 05:21:41 AM EST

Using Winamp 5 at home, though.

Incidentally, is FreeAmp still around? I used it briefly four years or so back, and found it frustrating to use at the time. So I used XMMS instead, which wasn't exciting and creatively different from Winamp, but worked and didn't require use of advanced logic processes to to figure out its interface.

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Freeamp by ucblockhead (3.00 / 0) #4 Tue Dec 16, 2003 at 05:28:18 AM EST

It got renamed, and I forgot what the new name is.

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Zinf by komet (3.00 / 0) #6 Tue Dec 16, 2003 at 05:30:22 AM EST

zinf is the new name. No, I don't know what it means either.

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<ni> komet: You are functionally illiterate as regards trashy erotica.
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: Zinf Is Not Funny [n/t] by Rogerborg (5.00 / 1) #19 Tue Dec 16, 2003 at 07:38:21 AM EST

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Metus amatores matrum compescit, non clementia.
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Skipped a version there didn't they? by MisterQueue (3.00 / 0) #3 Tue Dec 16, 2003 at 05:26:18 AM EST

Anyway, I hope it's better than 3...

where better = not making me want to shove skewers in my eyes.

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"...so perhaps I was just fatter and in control of nothing." -ucblockhead

Yeah by ucblockhead (3.00 / 0) #5 Tue Dec 16, 2003 at 05:28:45 AM EST

Goofy...supposedly "Winamp 2 + Winamp 3 = Winamp 5"

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: Okay, that's quite possibly by MisterQueue (3.00 / 0) #8 Tue Dec 16, 2003 at 05:37:19 AM EST

the absolute dumbest marketing idea I've ever heard.
Far be it from me to be a pedant, but if you're going to have some form of numerical naming convention for tracking of releases, then it would make sense to go in the most orderly of fashions instead of operating in this "Highest = Best!" ideal. Otherwise they might as well call it Winamp2004 or WinampXP and it would make no difference... ooh... wait...

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"...so perhaps I was just fatter and in control of nothing." -ucblockhead
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Heh.. by Bob Abooey (3.00 / 0) #7 Tue Dec 16, 2003 at 05:34:46 AM EST

They're marketing blurb says, it's number one bullet point, by the bye:

* Snazzy new look!

Oddly enough, it looks much like XMMS has looked for years now.

* Most things actually work!

I'll give em points for having a sense of humour though...

Warmest regards,
--Radon Bob

UPDATE by Bob Abooey (3.00 / 0) #9 Tue Dec 16, 2003 at 05:37:36 AM EST

Heh.. Okay... This skin is pretty innovative. Probably not real user friendly or functional, but I like the idea behind it all.

Warmest regards,
--Radon Bob

sorry to hear about your impending demise! (nt) by jacob (3.00 / 0) #10 Tue Dec 16, 2003 at 05:44:01 AM EST

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There's reasons to vote for Bush... by superdiva (5.33 / 3) #11 Tue Dec 16, 2003 at 05:47:49 AM EST

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The only thing in my trunk is 1200 watts of bass, bass, bass. Booty-shaking, ground pounding bass. - Blixco

Where is that picture from? by komet (6.00 / 1) #13 Tue Dec 16, 2003 at 05:58:35 AM EST

Do you have a link to a news article or whatever?

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I don't know. by superdiva (6.00 / 1) #14 Tue Dec 16, 2003 at 06:05:25 AM EST

A blogger on another site had it in her sig.

But here's a whole page of patriotic gems if someone here at HuSi hasn't posted them already.

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The only thing in my trunk is 1200 watts of bass, bass, bass. Booty-shaking, ground pounding bass. - Blixco
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: There's a church-sign generator. by Canthros (6.00 / 1) #17 Tue Dec 16, 2003 at 06:39:34 AM EST

I don't remember exactly where I stumbled across it, though.
Google knew where to find it, though.
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Solving the wrong problem... by Metatone (3.00 / 0) #12 Tue Dec 16, 2003 at 05:53:02 AM EST

in order to get credit and/or distract from blame is one of the oldest types of management in the book... Seems to occur all around when I am inspired to notice it...

Write-in Vote: by ti dave (3.00 / 0) #15 Tue Dec 16, 2003 at 06:31:15 AM EST

Sonique 2

I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do.
The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. --W.S. Burroughs

Oops by ucblockhead (3.00 / 0) #16 Tue Dec 16, 2003 at 06:34:56 AM EST

I knew I forgot one.

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: Not really. by ti dave (3.00 / 0) #18 Tue Dec 16, 2003 at 07:01:07 AM EST

It's been in the Alpha phase for about 3 years now.
I've given up hope.
I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do.
The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. --W.S. Burroughs
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Write In by GRiNGO (3.00 / 0) #20 Tue Dec 16, 2003 at 07:52:11 AM EST

Clarion head unit and CD changer. Dont really listen to music at home.

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: Neither do I by ucblockhead (3.00 / 0) #21 Tue Dec 16, 2003 at 08:16:02 AM EST

I use Winamp at work, though.
I work in the same office as the Sony Audio CD group. You can bet they have damn good equipment to listen to at work. Sadly, they rarely share.

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