Case

Tuesday May 17, 2005 - 10:53AM EDT

I got my new 1GB mp3 player. The AA battery it uses weighs more than they unit itself. For some odd reason I never got paid last week. I contacted the staffing company and they are investigating. They really don't need to give me a reason to be an ass right now. I'll wait and see what is going on. Especially since I feel like I am wasting my time here now. There are a few thing I could be working on. I ordered the 15-inch Powerbook G4. They said it will be here by the 25th hopefully sooner than that. Yesterday wasn't very productive I had to run around and do a bunch of things and it wasted so much time I didn't even go to the gym. My new mp3 player holds about 16hrs of music and the battery lasts twice as long as my previous mp3 player. Maybe I should start going to the gym early in the morning. Yeah that probably will be best. I'll do that tomorrow. Holy fuck I am bored. Listening to mp3 player though so it's not as bad as yesterday. I've always hated the case sensitivity of UNIX systems. I think it is just a ridiculous nusance that you don't need to deal with for any reason. Why in the fuck did they put that shit in there. As if you need to differentiate between Xfree and xfree. It is just freaking annoying and there is absolutely no advantage to it. That is something that in my opinion Windows did right, not have freaking case sensitivity in file names or their programming languages. Do those Unix fuckballs really need exponentialy more names for things. Just come up with a different word there are plent of them. Any Unix fuckers who think case sensitivity is some advantge go throw yourself under a bus and save me the trouble. Also did Java really need to be case sensitive, that shit can be a huge debugging headache. Damn fuckers. Someone agrees with me. Also the other thing I also hate about Unix is no ability to distinguish between file and directory without special highlighting. I like the windows method of files have a .XXX extension to denote it is a file and what type and directories having no etensions (although now they can have a . in them). I am not sure if Mac OSX does the same thing. That is one reason Linux doesn't compare to Windows or Mac OS on the desktop. Dumb-ass usuability issues like that. Someone please build a Linux distro that takes care of this, please. Linux has potential as a desktop OS it is just that the people who create distros aren't concerned with top notch usability on the order of Windows or Mac OSX. I'd do it my damn self if I knew C. Take Debian for istance. It has over 8000 packages, most of which the average user will not ever touch. Create a base set of packages that integrate into a nice GUI. Screw that command line bullshit, it is slow as balls and confusing. Red Hat tries this, but they fail miserably and can't measure up to Windows or Mac OSX. Linux is command line first, gui second. Windows and Mac OSX are gui first, command line second. Make Linux like that and you have a true desktop OS competitor not the pretender it is now.More people agree with my case sensitivity gripe. I just hope Microsft's new OS Longhorn is good and relegates Linux to the crap heap, if only for the reason of case-sensitivity. Someone please make Linux file system case insensitive.