On 27 Jul 2005 at 22:01, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > At 09:17 PM 7/27/05 -0400, David W. Fenton wrote: > >You really need to upgrade to a decent version of Windows, Dennis. > >I'd suggest Windows 2000 as the only likely candidate. Alternatively, > >Windows Server 2003 is the next good version of Windows, and I hear > >that many people run it as a workstation OS. It's something I'd > >consider only if I knew how to reconfigure it to have a workstation > >profile (in terms of default system services and the like). > > I just don't have the budget. I have five machines in the family, all > hand-built from sales and rebate components, all networked, with much > of the software incompatible with later versions of Windows -- > including critical sound software modules in which I do > electroacoustic building blocks for compositions. I'm saving for a > laptop (my current one is a Pentium 100) on which I'll install Finale, > Sonar, Audition, AudioMulch, and a few other critical applications, > and hope that it will network well so I can run applications on other > machines via WinVNC. > > But I try to make my living as a composer/engraver/editor, and > upgrading these machines represents a goodly chunk of my income. > That's why I have to depend on Win98 support as long as possible.
Well, the cost of a Windows upgrade is going to be less than $200. To me, the instability and increasing incompatibility issues would not be worth that. Win2K really is a fabulous version of Windows. Win2K3 Server would cost more, of course, and would probably be overkill as a workstation OS, but it sure is a really nice version of Windows. It's also the most secure by default of any Windows version ever released (it shipped only *after* MS suddenly got religion on security a few years back). If you were a performing musician, you'd probably spend a lot more money on your instruments than on your car, but you certainly wouldn't want to end up in a situation where you missed gigs because your car broke down. At some point, you've got to spend the money on infrastructure -- there's no getting 'round that fact. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
