Thursday, January 16, 2003
This is where I get all geeky and start ranting about file management software, so if that's not your thing, you may as well move on.Some of you may know that I'm a big fan of the Amiga computer, a wonderful machine that could've dominated the world of home computing and not left us all stuck with this windoze rubbish. Sadly, mismanagment by one Medhi Ali, a man with his head even further up his own arse than Bill Gates led the company to bankrupcy followed by ill fated buyout after ill fated buyout. Anyway... I'm getting further and further from the point here, so let me get back on track.
The Amiga had this program called Directory Opus, a file magaement utility so versatile you could basicly ignore the whole operating system and use it exclusively. It could read, view and edit pretty much any file you cared to mention, archive and unarchive in pretty much every format going, and copy or move stuff all all around your system without having to open a single window, and that's before we even start talking about its ftp capabilities.
So... a wonderful program, and as far as I was aware, destined to remain little more than a novelty on the Amiga emulator I sometimes run on this laptop. But wait... there's more.
I was in town this morning, and wanting something to read while munching my MacD's 1/4 pounder with cheese, I wandered into the local WH Smiths newsagent and perused the 5 billion or so pc magazines. You know how it goes, you pick them up, one after the other... boring... boring... boring... holy cow! What's this?!!! Staring back at me off the cover of PC Answers (or it would've been if it had eyes) was a cover disk featuring none other than a shiny new and extremely free copy of Directory Opus 6 for windoze. Oh happy day.
So I've been sat here for the last 1/2 hour playing with it, and trying to make it work in the same way my old copy of version 4 did. It's different, that being progress for you, but oh my, I love it.
Oh yeah... there was a copy of Paint Shop Pro 5 on the disk too... but that's boring. Who'd want to hear about that? ;-)
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