Re: PC based lighting... Re. Diagnosis of Dead Desk


David McCall wrote:
> I'm not using any of them, but I know a little about computers, and I
> have downloaded a couple things. To some extent, the "dongle" goes with
> the software. That is where they make their money. I have not tried
> any, but I did play with their software (The stuff you can download for
> free). None of them require anything special for the computer.

I think that the basic trouble is that PCs running under Windows, are
not terribly reliable. Most of the time, they are fine, but this isn't
good enough for lighting control. Two examples. At boot-up, the machine
on which I am writing this puts up an error message about 'Fast Find',
which I never consciously use. This requires a re-boot. The second is
that it cannot reliably remember my preferred format for Word
documents.

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