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[rat156]

Originally Posted by tlgerdes

For every 1 that knows what he is doing, there are 500 who don't. Sorry you've become a casualty.

To Which Andy J wrote...

Originally Posted by AndrewJ

Thats why Macs exist

So, judging by the numbers of PCs Vs Macs out in the big wide world, the Macs are for the 1 out of 500.

C'mon Andrew just buy a Mac, that way when it frustrates you, it's got the handle...

Cheers
Stuart

[AndrewJ]

Gday Stu

Thought that would get a rise

So, judging by the numbers of PCs Vs Macs out in the big wide world, the Macs are for the 1 out of 500.

Are you implying by this you know what you are doing????.
If so, how about knocking me up a compliant registered driver
that works in 64bit W7.

C'mon Andrew just buy a Mac

I'd still be dead in the water for what i want
( and probably couldnt even turn it on. )
Nup. I have 5 spare Sata ports in the box.
I'll just make up a new XP disk and boot into it as reqd.
Much simpler and cheaper.

Andrew

[rat156]

Originally Posted by AndrewJ

Are you implying by this you know what you are doing????.
If so, how about knocking me up a compliant registered driver
that works in 64bit W7.

Of course I know what I'm doing, I bought a mac...

Actually I bought several.

Only one has handles.

I only work on non-compliances, so no go for the driver, oh, and it's the wrong OS.

Cheers
Stuart

[Astro_Bot]

Originally Posted by AndrewJ

Nup. I have 5 spare Sata ports in the box.
I'll just make up a new XP disk and boot into it as reqd.
Much simpler and cheaper.

Or, cheaper again, download and burn a Linux distro with disk/partition tools, boot it, shrink your W7 partition, install XP in the free space, and install a Linux-friendly bootloader like Grub to manage the multi-boot. I've done it many times - works beautifully*.


* Though there is a very small likelihood that you will competely scramble your harddribe and lose all your data. Backup recommended beforehand.

[AndrewJ]

Gday Astrobot

Or, cheaper again, download and burn a Linux distro with disk/partition tools, boot it, shrink your W7 partition, install XP in the free space, and install a Linux-friendly bootloader like Grub to manage the multi-boot.

I already have XP and a HDD, just need to get a Sata cable
and plug it in, so ill pass on learning Linuxy type stuff.
Gotta stick to my Luddite ways, or Stu might faint.

Andrew

[tlgerdes (Trevor)]

Originally Posted by AndrewJ

Gday Trevor

That should be my choice. Sure make it difficult to do and require specific steps, but make it possible.

Andrew

Look at it from the commercial side, if we allowed you to crash your computer by allowing you to poke a hole in the memory space of the background scheduler (hypervisor), then everyone would complain that our software was flaky. Even if we say don't do it as it will cause problems, then you get malware writers that target those attributes just to cause havoc, again we look bad.

The 500 to 1 statement should actually be amended, for every 1 that knows what he is doing there are 500 who think they know what they are doing.

You can always write your own x86 hypervisor, god knows everyone including Microsoft and the Linux community think they can.

[AndrewJ]

Gday Trevor

Look at it from the commercial side, if we allowed you to crash your computer by allowing you to poke a hole in the memory space of the background scheduler (hypervisor), then everyone would complain that our software was flaky.

What, you mean they dont complain currently
And again, i specifically mentioned access to the LPT port
from "within" my program. Ie if my program owns the thread and the port
why cant i directly read/write to the port.
I'm not after access to the core processes variable space
( as thats reserved for the virus writers )

You can always write your own x86 hypervisor, god knows everyone including Microsoft and the Linux community think they can

Not me, i dont even know what a hypervisor is.
And its not as if those who wrote and maintain windozereally know what they are doing, based on the number of patches i currently get
I fully understand its not simple, but the bit i want, i could do in XP and i would like to do it in W7.
Anyway, this is getting circular,
Nanny state one, us zip

Andrew

[tlgerdes (Trevor)]

Might be better to take this offline and PM me or start a new thread.

[Steffen]

Can everybody please stop ripping into Microsoft? The sub-standard software issued by this company has kept a good two thirds of the IT industry, in Australia too, in bread and butter. If it wasn't for cleaning up after dysfunctional software a good part of the IT services industry would be in recession.

So be careful what you're hating on.

No sane person person would use Microsoft products at home, of course…

Cheers
Steffen.

[AndrewJ]

Gday Trevor

Might be better to take this offline

No point.
I doubt you would have any sway with MS and W7 is probably redundant as far as they are concerned.
I cant do what i want in this case with W7, so as mentioned earlier, i will just go back to XP when i need to.
No dramas and no OS nannies to bother with.

Andrew

[Starless (Brian)]

Originally Posted by Steffen

Can everybody please stop ripping into Microsoft? The sub-standard software issued by this company has kept a good two thirds of the IT industry, in Australia too, in bread and butter. If it wasn't for cleaning up after dysfunctional software a good part of the IT services industry would be in recession.

So be careful what you're hating on.

No sane person person would use Microsoft products at home, of course…

Cheers
Steffen.

I know just what you mean, rectifying the constant train wrecks that
the bug ridden bloatware, that MS charges people for the privelage of
beta testing, causes kept me employed for fifteen years.

It's not just the rubbish they peddle I hate it's the utterly unethical
business practises the company employs that really gets me angry.

[AstralTraveller (David)]

Originally Posted by Starless

I know just what you mean, rectifying the constant train wrecks that
the bug ridden bloatware, that MS charges people for the privelage of
beta testing, causes kept me employed for fifteen years.

It's not just the rubbish they peddle I hate it's the utterly unethical
business practises the company employs that really gets me angry.

Come on now. We all know it was those carpy OS/2 servers you insisted on running that gave you all the grief.

If you had just listened to that expert in sales (the one who couldn't work out the size of an email attachment) and run pure M$ you'd never have had a problem.

.....

Watch out -- incoming.

[Starless (Brian)]

Originally Posted by AstralTraveller

Come on now. We all know it was those carpy OS/2 servers you insisted on running that gave you all the grief.

If you had just listened to that expert in sales (the one who couldn't work out the size of an email attachment) and run pure M$ you'd never have had a problem.

.....

Watch out -- incoming.

:rofl ::rof l::ro fl::r ofl:

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

I have used Sony Vegas for most of my movies, not really all that difficult if you plan what you want and can handle making many different Video Tracks with Audio tracks... Making use of Event Velocities help in speeding up or slowing down footage to taste... Takes a while to learn but the end result is pretty good... Have you tried After Effects also? apparently you can do lapses with this also...

All else fails print off all the images and make a flip book hehehe... jokes of course

Good luck with it Paul, I know it's a pain to find one piece of software that works... that is where being a smarty Program developer would be handy...