You Lost Me at Crash, Microsoft
Today was the last straw. While setting up a network printer, (so that my laptop could print via wi-fi), Windows Vista's print spooler crashed. It never used to crash. Now it crashes...Every time. I put the error message into google and out came thousands of forums posts. People everywhere were complaining about Vista not working with their printers. Printers?! This isn't some arcane function people use irregularly. After 2 hours of trying everything and rebooting several times, I realized this was just a big 'ol vista bug.
On my desk, I have Windows running on one screen and an iMac sitting to the right of it. The iMac is usually off.
After almost pulling my hair out, I calmly put down the laptop, walked over to my desk, and switched my Mac to my primary computer. I'm now in the process of dumping all my personal files onto the Mac as I slowly phase out my Windows computer.
The hours I've dumped into repairing Windows has finally gotten to me. My introduction to Vista was a 5 hour install time that blue-screened twice and asked for my valid Vista CD-Key 10 times. I don't need that kind of stuff anymore.
Goodbye Windows.
About me
I'm an artist and software developer.
Currently, I'm the CEO of a company I co-founded called, stickybits
Prior to stickybits, I co-founded betaworks, where I created chartbeat, a real-time analytics service and firef.ly, a chat service.
You can view my artwork at billychasen.com
Creations
Tweets
- RT @mashable: Reggie Bush Uses Foursquare and Stickybits for Football Scavenger Hunt - http://mash.to/2BqOF
- I declare @peretti to be the first pop tweetist. Carefully crafted tweets low on substance, but high on entertainment
- Definition of lazy: Netflix envelopes across the room, so I opened my netflix queue to see what's at home
- RT @seth: awesome! reggie bush using stickybits to give away an autographed football http://www.stickybits.com/redzones
- View from my hotel in Baltimore. Who needs tickets? http://twitpic.com/2lco45
October 12th, 2007 - 19:42
Welcome to the mac family, life is so much easier in our club.
November 27th, 2007 - 17:21
Some software normalizes songs so they all are the same volume. (You could do thsi to get the effect you wanted, its really fast and easy.) But, it seems that THIS option actually adjusts the audio continuously throughout the song so playback is always at the same level. If you were listening to something that should have volume changes (dramatic, soundtrack, orchestral, etc), then it will get rid of the flow of song volume. Think about Peter and the Wolf; it goes from very quiet to very loud and thats one of the best parts. You would lose that.
Hope this helps!