At 10:34 PM 7/27/05 -0400, David W. Fenton wrote: >Well, the cost of a Windows upgrade is going to be less than $200. To >me, the instability and increasing incompatibility issues would not >be worth that.
Five machines. That's a lot of upgrades. And because I'm my own in-house tech support, they all have to be identical operating systems in order for me to stay sane. Once it's time to move up, it's gonna happen for all of them. Right now the priority is a laptop for my October concert tour, and I'll have to ignore the differences and figure out the compatibility a few months later. Maybe then it will mean saving those pennies again for an OS upgrade instead of the next versions of my sound software. Not a pretty thought. >Win2K3 Server would cost more, of course, and would probably be >overkill as a workstation OS, but it sure is a really nice version of >Windows. It's also the most secure by default of any Windows version >ever released That's not an issue for me. My system is double-firewalled and doesn't even show up on the public network unless I initiate a connection, and I run all maintenance of my Unix server at Pair Networks via SSH. >If you were a performing musician, you'd probably spend a lot more >money on your instruments than on your car, but you certainly >wouldn't want to end up in a situation where you missed gigs because >your car broke down. The car analogy is what breaks down. :) The only thing that's 'broken' is the software writers who keep going with the Mac/rosoft marketing flows and dropping support for adequately functioning systems or writing the software poorly for them (such as allowing the FinWin2K5 memory leak because apparently Win2K/XP clean the mess up for them). (In any case, my instruments are my voice and my ears.) >At some point, you've got to spend the money on >infrastructure -- there's no getting 'round that fact. Someone *else's* infrastructure. I haven't worn this one out! Geez, I was doing self-modifying intelligent interactive sound installations on five interconnected cheap-ass Tandy Color Computers in the mid-1980s (scary pix here: http://maltedmedia.com/people/bathory/bocca/). >From that perspective, even Windows 3 was underexploited by software authors. Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
