The Crow says "Hello!"
I'm back in the country. Detachment was a lot more fun than I expected. It's just unfortunate that beer is astronomically expensive in Switzerland. And generally not very good. But fortunately I was able to make it to the Great British Beer Festival so all is well. And we may have occasionally snuck across the French border to buy affordably-priced alcohol to smuggle back to the hotel.

I also bought a plastic crow while I was out there. Also managed to get my hands on Emily Loizeau's new album (Pays Sauvage) and it's bloody fantastic.

How are the rest of you? Despite occasional access to b3ta whilst out there, I've missed most of what's been going on.

For those who would like a less positive and/or more technical vibe to this thread: why is my computer struggling? Is it really asking too much to run Winamp and Firefox simultaneously? Admittedly said computer is a bit old (~6 years) but has either Winamp or Firefox really become that bloated? Is there a good alternative music player out there which won't gobble up all my memory?
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 10 Aug 2009, 10:09, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Foobar!
Music playing at it's most basic :)

www.foobar2000.org/

Technically though you can make all sorts of edits to the programme to customise it to whatever layout and design you want. Very cool!

Good to hear you're enjoying your Swiss stay.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Mon 10 Aug 2009, 10:14, Reply)

Ooh, ta!
That seems to have solved the problem. I could get used to this foobar thingy - if nothing else, it doesn't have the lengthy startup time that Winamp seems to insist on these days
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 10 Aug 2009, 14:24, Reply)

It isn't WinAmp that is the problem
Firefox is notoriously memory hungry, try opera or chrome instead.
(bill, Mon 10 Aug 2009, 12:10, Reply)