> What is the point of having a super machine that you don't fine tune? It > is part of the fun IMO. Like building your own hotrod or working for the > ferrari formula 1 team in your own house.
But I don't want to build a hotrod. I paid big bucks for it and now I want to drive it :-). No car is fun if you have to spend more time fixing it than driving it (needless to say it's expensive)... Kidding aside, I have no problem with "tweaking" of my computer, being a part of this board is the certain proof of that (otherwise I would choose to "think different," or should I say think like Steve J. or like Billy G.?). The problem is that I am a composer as much as a computer geek and programmer (and that I choose not to think like Steve or Billy), and sometimes I feel like I am spending too much time on "tinkering" with the computer, rather than using it for my own creative purposes (which is why I bought it in the first place). In another words, I feel like it gets more use out of me, than I out of it. I guess it feels like a bad relationship out of which you simply can not get out of... yet I am desperately looking for a break in the pattern :-)... But things have been getting better (and maybe it's the progress that makes me feel so impatient)... On the other hand, if the super machine already came finely tuned, maybe I could spend more time making new apps and composing, rather than figuring out why am I getting craploads (<--this being an official value expression equal to "more than a shell-screen-worth" :-) of "unresolved symbols" in my newly compiled Alsa driver ;-) j/k Ico (the man who is in his "funny mood" tonight)
