Re: Simple Video Edtitng Software ?

"Gene E. Bloch" <spamfree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:mn.327d7d88e2f8853e.1980@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 8/06/2008, Smarty posted this:
"David Ruether" <d_ruether@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:g7cc05$opj$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

"Smarty" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:mj7mk.335$xv.246@xxxxxxxxxxx

XP with Office 2003 and service packs is substantially better than Vista with Office 2007 in essentially all respects, and I dearly wish I had the stability and ease of use they provided. This quadcore Dell will NOT allow XP to install and Dell explicitly disowns any responsibility for running it with XP...

Good to know, before buying it or recommending it...:-(

...so I am living in Vista hell until Microsoft figures out a way to make it work reliably.

At least on a Dell dual core, with the latest updates, Vista appears to
run well on a friend's computer.

The first 17 months have apparently not been enough time for them to figure out what is needed and how to fix it, incredible as that may sound.

Maybe they finally have...?

My "Teacher and Student" version of Office 2003 had used up all of its allowed installations, and I stupidly ordered Office 2007 never thinking it could be such a huge step backward. I now find that buying Office 2003 has essentially tripled in price since I bought it 5 years ago, presumably because the only remaining unsold copies are being purchased by users who are willing to pay a huge premium to avoid the bugs and learning / re-learning curve of 2007. I actually wound up buying a $30 "add-in" which replaces 2007 menus/ribbon with the older 2003 menus, and this has been a real improvement. I still do wonder why Microsoft never offered an emulation of their older version menus as a user-selected option rather than force all users to embrace a profoundly different and far more complex user interface. The costs to corporate users in wasted time and re-learning has to be staggering.

Yes. We were lucky to find a sealed copy of Office 2000 at a used
computer store, for $1. The same day, I found an SB sound card that
*did* work with my MIDI keyboard, unlike my expensive previous
card, and it was also a "whopping" $1.

Parallels with Tiger and XP is the last configuration I ran on my MacPro, and it was quite solid as was XP under Bootcamp. I would not suggest a Vista switch under any circumstances until Microsoft gets to at least Service Pack 2, possibly 3, and I can't imagine any good reason why I would want to switch the OS given how well Parallels unifies the two environments of OSX and Windows. Having both the Dock and Taskbar show up together and mixing both worlds is still a bit of magic I am very impressed with.

Smarty

XP was very solid for me until I ran into the problems with HDV and
Vegas, since solved with the new .dll file for Vegas.
--DR



David,

The absolute height of irony just occurred.....

I typed a lengthy reply to you itemizing a list of 10 reasons I hate Vista, specifically relating my continuing set of bugs and issues, and hit the "Send" button on my newsreader, Windows Mail.

The program froze, the send never happened, and the Windows Task manager announced that the program needed to be closed.

Although I was pissed at wasting 5 or 10 minutes of typing time, I had to laugh out loud. This operating system even knows when it is being criticized, and prevents such messages...............

I won't try to repeat the same lengthy reply again, but I will summarize by saying that Vista now at Service Pack 1 is well behind XP in all respects, and Microsoft should be ashamed of this product.

Smarty

Well, now I'm afraid to reply to this, on the off-chance I might sound critical of MS :-)

I just yesterday had occasion to run my (slightly aged) Windows XP laptop. I hadn't used it in a couple of months, so I let it upgrade to SP3. It took only 90 minutes.

Example: It took ten minutes for the "Preparing for download" progress bar to reach 100%, but it still went on "preparing" for four more minutes before the download actually started. Download took only two minutes, followed by 10 minutes of "Verifying Download". Then we went back to "Preparing for download" again. There's more, but you get the picture...

I have no idea - none at all - what "preparing for download" can possibly mean and why it should take so long.

I used to like Windows more than I now do :-)

...And this is still XP.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Gino) letters617blochg3251
(replace the numbers by "at" and "dotcom")



No doubt that people like you and me who have used Macs as well as Windows know and understand that the Windows environment has far too many delays, inconveniences, user 'insults', and bugs. Some of us even hoped / imagined that Vista was going to be a really fresh re-thinking of how to make a truly excellent operating system, and borrow from Apple's clear strategic advantage in keeping the updates and a lot of other things simple and straight-forward. No doubt some of my personal disappointment comes from this comparison, as well as seeing how very badly they have botched this opportunity.

Your XP experience is much the same as mine, and 'preparing for download' is just another way of saying "go get a cup of coffee" or a 6 pack, cause this is gonna' take a while.....

A couple of my other PCs are running a video server and distribution system here in the house (called Sage TV) and I delight in the fact that all of the automatic updates, virus software, and other BS has been disabled since these machines are not exposed to the Internet. It is remarkable how fast and reliable they are, and they literally run for months without an issue or reboot using XP Home with the latest Service Pack. It's a shame that an external device / software shell cannot be implemented which reliably and inexpensively isolates the operating system entirely, leaving one box to do all the IP filtering, virus detection, spyware elimination, firewalls, etc., and segregates the OS from all of this frequent updating and attendant problems.

Smarty

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