Vista? Hello or goodbye?

[Peter Korsten]

Op 14-5-2011 10:35, Jay Vaughan schreef:

>> It's just
>> that most people prefer the perceived (mind that word, 'perceived')
>> safety of Windows or Mac OS.
>
> .. on a Personal Computing level, yes, but on a Corporate computing level .. hah hah!  Forget it - Windows is sandboxed in its VM's hosted on Linux boxes for a very, very good reason, and it has a lot to do with that 'S' word .. ;)

That's what we're doing at work. At least, all our systems are Intel or 
AMD based, virtual machines. What the host OS is I don't know, but I can 
ask.

The preference is to run things on Solaris, then Linux, and if 
everything else fails, Windows. Siebel, for example, we'll have to run 
on Windows, because they only support Solaris on SPARC chips. In 2011... 
and after having bought Sun.

> Yes, thats a wonderful thing, isn't it .. I have most of my synths mounted low these days, for the same reason ..

My son is tall like his daddy, and already eight years old, so no need 
to mount them low. :)

He was playing again a bit today, although he's more interested in 
figuring out sounds (presets) and what happens when you twist a knob or 
press a button, then actually playing something resembling a melody. 
Just to be sure, I reminded him that he could play with them whenever he 
wanted.

>> Software? I could ask him if he's interested, but I think he won't have
>> the patience for it.
>
> Maybe he'd see the Power meter and understand the relationship, though ..

Good point. He's got one of those meters himself, after all.

He's at cookery class now, something his daddy never went to. :)

- Peter