Post by John WardHi Roger,
Wow, great to see you back more often, and firing on all cylinders,
mate - you sure know your stuff.
Hi John,
Sorry about the slow come back.
Thanks for that comment although it's probably not shared by all <:-))
Post by John WardSeparately, and seriously, I'm guessing that MANY of us are glad to see
you back, and, if you don't mind me asking, you back to 100% now, mate?
Don't mind at all. I keep very few secrets except to maybe protect the
guilty from my past life<LOL> Or to keep from having to sleep with one
eye open.
Oh... I still have a slight limp and it feels like the Novocain shot
is wearing off the outside of my left foot, but I can stand on one leg
for almost a minute (either leg) which Joyce says she was never able
to do. <:-)) I'll always have to take my meds, but none of them are
disqualifying and I'm putting together my files to try for my flight
medical next month. I'm sure I can pass the tests. Thing is the old
Deb has set so long it'll probably need a major. As it's almost to
TBO that is not unlikely. With the economy the way it is it would
probably be cheaper to purchase one of the new, light sport planes and
fly it compared to one that burns 14.5 gallons an hour of $5 plus
gas.. OTOH I don't think there will ever be a substitute for the old
Deb unless I get the G-III finished.
What I need is some help and motivation to get the G-III in the air.
OTOH it too uses 100LL and burns 15 to 16 gallons per hour. Of course
it's doing it at near 300 MPH and it's aerobatic.
Post by John WardBusiness sure seems to be going well, which is great to see...
Wages don't vary much when you are on retirement and Social Security.
OTOH they don't pay nearly enough to allow me to live in the style to
which I'd like to become accustomed. At this point I'm not about to
sell any investments and take losses.
Post by John WardPersonally, for the general consumer, I still reckon Windows 7 64-bit is
going to be the go for the general consumer, once as many bugs as possible
have been ironed out before its commercially released. Since it covers all
my peripherals, and other hardware, already, I love it.
As you've seen, (I think), I have both the 32 and 64 bit Beta versions
and just downloaded Windows 7 build 7048 to try out. I'm still
reserving judgment on Win 7. I think it has a bit steeper learning
curve at the start compared to vista and a much steeper one compared
to XP, BUT it does have a number of things going for it. The first is
it's notably more compact than Vista. It does about everything Vista
does and appears to use fewer resources. (IOW less bloat code) I can't
get Open Office to install on it, but I'd assume the final RC and
final version RTM will find versions of OO that will install. When it
comes to paying several hundred dollars for MS office or getting Open
Office for free there is no problem making a choice. Were I to
purchase a copy of Win 7 I'd go for the top end, just like Vista
Ultimate.
I haven't seem many bugs in Win 7, but it does still suffer from DRM
like Vista. I think both, unlike XP 64 have most drivers available.
Unfortunately I have several pieces of Legacy equipment (photo and
film scanners) that do not have Vista or Win 7 drivers available. Nor
can I seem to get Realtec audio out onto the USB connections.
I think in it's final form Win 7 *should* be a bit faster than vista
as it uses fewer resources, but that's only slightly better than a
SWAG.
Post by John WardIf you, or anybody else, wants my legitimately purchased copy of Vista
Ultimate 64-bit, just let me know (I assume its legal just to give it away
to somebody, and I'm not running it on any PC myself...??).
You have first option, and I won't post it to anybody else until I hear
whether or not you want it, considering all your multiple machines...
IF you are serous about getting rid of it and it hasn't been installed
on any machines...guess that doesn't matter if it's a retail copy" I'd
be glad to put it to use. OTOH due to some of my antique equipment I
still have to keep some "OLD" machines around capable of running DOS
in the normal mode <sigh> I had a call tonight about working on a CNC
Mill that uses a DOS control program. Said program failed and his
backups are on 5 1/4" floppies so you know how old it is. Who knows
if they are good or not. I may have to resurrect one of the old
machines just to try out the software. OTOH depending on what language
they were written in I may have to rewrite the original program in
either Visual Basic, C++, or ...heaven forbid...Basic with all the old
peek and poke statements. <sigh>
Worse, it could be in some obscure language...it did come from
Germany.
One thing I've noted, MS is coming out with a new OS at the worst
possible time, right at the bottom of a world wide recession that has
only been outdone by the "Great Depression". If they think they had
problems getting industry off XP for Vista (80% of industrial
corporations are still using XP Pro) Just wait until they try to get
them to purchase licenses for Win 7 when they are just happy to still
be afloat.
Take care John,
Post by John WardRegards,
John Ward
Post by Roger (K8RI)Post by BillW50Much as I like FSX which is the only reason I still use windows...
Really? I use 3 different Linux distros and see nothing but second rate
drivers and applications. Where do they hide the first rate stuff at?
You are only using one front line distro and Ubuntu is meant as a
simple to install for the end user. The others I have never heard of.
For business apps and photo editing I don't need a lot of fancy
peripherals. I run open office. My systems are networked and unlike
XP or Vista, installing the latest distros of Fedora will send it to
the Internet where it sets up the NICs with the latest drivers.
OTOH I do have some older but expensive film scanners. No drivers for
Windows Vista and even more unlikely for Win 7.
The only thing I run where I really need a good driver that is not
available on FEDORA is FSX, but FSX doesn't run directly on FEDORA
anyway. I haven't found a driver for the 3870X2, 1 gig video card,
but then again, I don't need it without FSX.
However if serious about using the computer, then go with a supported
version of LINUX such as Red Hat, which aint free and comes with
direct support. I believe Susie LINUX is also a pay for and direct
support OS.
Not all LINUX is free.