Part of my business is building custom machines for audio playback and show control automation. I do it all with OEM XP installations and currently have no plans to move to Vista. Almost all of the audio cards that I use are still not playing well with Vista, and I just finally got some of specials I/O cards off of the ISA bus a few years ago.
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NoiseDesign - Sep 01, 2007 8:08:01 pm PDT #2569 of 25496
Our wings are not tired
Typo Boy - Sep 01, 2007 8:23:49 pm PDT #2570 of 25496
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Yeah, I should have known. Some of your stuff above seemed to imply you were considering Vista, but I obviously misread it. Sorry.
NoiseDesign - Sep 01, 2007 8:26:07 pm PDT #2571 of 25496
Our wings are not tired
No worries. My questions were actually based on the fact that I've been avoiding it like the plague so I know very little about Vista.
What I really need to do is take one of my PC's and install Vista on it specifically so that I can start to experiment with it and find out the particular things that it breaks for me.
Gris - Sep 01, 2007 8:48:29 pm PDT #2572 of 25496
Hey. New board.
The very idea of Vista hurts me. But then, the very idea of XP hurts me, and I understand that it has evolved into a pretty good, stable, secure OS. But I definitely remember the days when super-geeks like me were saying "XP sucks, stick with Windows 2000 if you must."
All that said, the last version of Windows I ran on a computer owned by me was Windows '98 SE. Clearly, my Windows knowledge is a bit out of date.
Theodosia - Sep 02, 2007 2:02:07 am PDT #2573 of 25496
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
You've convinced me to go with XP, whatever solution I end up with. I'm thinking going cheap, with a reconditioned Windows machine that I can soup up with as much memory (seriously, 4 GB) as I can.
omnis_audis - Sep 02, 2007 10:58:19 am PDT #2574 of 25496
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
o hey, for those of you who want a 2nd cheap iPod (or a 1st one) The Woot of the day is the 4th gen 20GB iPod (looks like the short lived HP version). Only $99+ $5 shipping. [link]
omnis_audis - Sep 02, 2007 8:44:56 pm PDT #2575 of 25496
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
I'm downloading Parallels. It changed enough since the beta stuff I played with. Plus they bribed me with $10 iTunes gift card, so how could I refuse?
omnis_audis - Sep 02, 2007 10:16:37 pm PDT #2576 of 25496
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
wow, sorry for the running riot of posts today. Y'all must be doing things more than loafing and avoiding work.
Anyhow, the question for the awesome hive mind. Is there a way to take a playlist from an iPod, that was created on the iPod, and export it/copy it/move it back into iTunes? I created some cool lists at work, and now want them saved at home. Eventually hope to actually sync rather than just manual, but I don't want to loose these awesome playlists... or have to recreate them either (BIG playlists).
Laga - Sep 02, 2007 10:20:06 pm PDT #2577 of 25496
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I have no clue about ipods but I am loafing and avoiding work.
Theodosia - Sep 03, 2007 2:03:06 am PDT #2578 of 25496
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I await the answer, omnis.