Why keep suffering?

[LoadWB]

downix wrote:

The junk is on the OEM disk.  I have a Dell OEM, the install it gives includes such things as Dell remote diagnostic software.

You sure that's not still on the hard drive?  At this point I've done hundreds (literally *sigh*) of Dell OEM reloads and have never seen the Dell Diagnostic software installed from the CD.  At least, not as of SP1a; I haven't reinstalled Dell OEM prior to that release.

[yetihw]

Jeff wrote:
. Perhaps someday when it is so old that no one cares anymore we will finally be able to try it out:-)

Jeff

You couldn't be more correct about using the old hardware and os4 will only see light of day after its worthless.

[downix]

LoadWB wrote:

downix wrote:

The junk is on the OEM disk.  I have a Dell OEM, the install it gives includes such things as Dell remote diagnostic software.

You sure that's not still on the hard drive?  At this point I've done hundreds (literally *sigh*) of Dell OEM reloads and have never seen the Dell Diagnostic software installed from the CD.  At least, not as of SP1a; I haven't reinstalled Dell OEM prior to that release.

New HD in this case.

[Piru]

@Waccoon

My XP machine boots in 18 seconds, with Apache and MySQL in the background. It does take a whopping 5 seconds to shut down, though.

Mine takes about 2 seconds to do both (except that I don't really power the system down, just suspend it).

More here: S3 Standby Done Right

[LoadWB]

downix wrote:

LoadWB wrote:

downix wrote:

The junk is on the OEM disk.  I have a Dell OEM, the install it gives includes such things as Dell remote diagnostic software.

You sure that's not still on the hard drive?  At this point I've done hundreds (literally *sigh*) of Dell OEM reloads and have never seen the Dell Diagnostic software installed from the CD.  At least, not as of SP1a; I haven't reinstalled Dell OEM prior to that release.

New HD in this case.

Dunno what to tell you then, m8.  I've never seen this on any of my installs.

I do the install, download and install drivers (drivers ONLY, no applications,) install Windows Updates (all 280MB of them after a new SP2 load :-() and voila.

[jj]

The junk is on the OEM disk. I have a Dell OEM, the install it gives includes such things as Dell remote diagnostic software.

Every dell laptop I have had has had a seperate OEM xp disk and a disk with all their crap on it.  I infact used a dell XP SP2 disk yesterday to take vista off my laptop , completlty plain xp install and boots in seconds

[Munchkin]

Now, web browsing does make things a little more difficult. I'm pretty sure that my bank's on-line system won't work with Amiga, but I've never tried  Might need a PC for that.

I haven't tried for a few years but the last time I tried with my bank, should be about 3 years ago, it worked quite well as long as I set Voyager to spoof as IE.

My bank still uses the same security system so it might still work, depens on how much they've updated it.

Not that I need it but it could be fun to try.

I'm sure I could do it on my Nokia N70 as well.

[amiga92570]

Why keep Suffering? I don't know, I guess I like it! :-D

[Roger]

 :-o  :-o  :-o Just great!

[Tomas]

The way I understand it is that this is because compressed tunes sell rather better than uncompressed ones. It is not a problem of the medium; it is a problem of targetted marketing. Since LPs are manufactured in such small numbers nowadays, you can afford a gray beard who still knows how to make a recording which sounds good, and not just a recording the suits think sounds good. But this is all a bit off topic.

Yes, you are completely correct about it not being a limitation of the cd format. Most cds that were made in the early days of the cd format was infact not compressed like this.

I wish they could just implement a button on all amps/recievers, so that people can choose themself if they want loud and flat sound instead of full dynamic range.

But the result is still the same... The majority of commercial music produced today, just simply sound better in the LP format in most cases.

[Damion]

@amiga92570

Wow dude, you've got some seriously sweet hardware there. Those A3000 towers rock! :drool:

[RW222]

Tomas wrote:

I wish they could just implement a button on all amps/recievers, so that people can choose themself if they want loud and flat sound instead of full dynamic range.

Yeah actually, I want such a button for opposite reasons, end up with too much dynamic range on DVDs for instance, so I have to turn the volume way up to hear what's happening in the quiet scenes, over the top of my mother in law rattling pans in the kitchen, or the cats crashing around, or neighbours mowing the lawn or whatever else, then all of a sudden there's an action scene and I'm blowing the windows and my eardrums out.

I'd appreciate dynamic range if I had a nice padded cell 1000ft underground in the middle of nowhere.

I guess CDs are made for people listening with headphones in noisy environments where you need a fairly constant volume level.

[Tomas]

RW222 wrote:

Tomas wrote:

I wish they could just implement a button on all amps/recievers, so that people can choose themself if they want loud and flat sound instead of full dynamic range.

Yeah actually, I want such a button for opposite reasons, end up with too much dynamic range on DVDs for instance, so I have to turn the volume way up to hear what's happening in the quiet scenes, over the top of my mother in law rattling pans in the kitchen, or the cats crashing around, or neighbours mowing the lawn or whatever else, then all of a sudden there's an action scene and I'm blowing the windows and my eardrums out.

I'd appreciate dynamic range if I had a nice padded cell 1000ft underground in the middle of nowhere.

I guess CDs are made for people listening with headphones in noisy environments where you need a fairly constant volume level.

Yes, it could definitely be useful in some situations.. It is for example not always a good idea to watch a dvd with full dynamic range in late evening/night unless one lives at home. Though some dvd players do already have this option.