Thanks, SP4
On Friday night I decided to install iTunes for Windows and see what all the hoopla is about. iTunes cried bloody murder that I was not running the latest Windows 2000 and demanded SP4 to be installed right away. Okay, I thought, no problem. Click Start / Windows Update… / SP4, wait, reboot, login.
Result: my internet connection is slower than what I had in 1992 with the 2400 baud modem. What the hell? After a bit of searching it is apparent that SP4 exhibits some “issues” on certain machines. I de- and re-installed the network adapter driver, rebooted a couple of times to be sure, but I might just as well have tried to move the moon with the power of my mind, for all the good it did. Next step is messing with MTU settings, I guess.
Any hints?
20/10/2003 at 9:20 pm Permalink
Install Linux?
20/10/2003 at 9:30 pm Permalink
On my desktop machine? Not until I can play videos, process photos, run Reason or Sonic, and do other multimedia stuff in general with the same relative ease I do it in Windows.
21/10/2003 at 12:27 am Permalink
Trying recompiling your kernel.
21/10/2003 at 9:14 am Permalink
Get a mac. You know you want to, Andrei! Come on over to our side…
21/10/2003 at 2:58 pm Permalink
Have you tried using Wine to run Reason? Just curious.
For sample editing on Linux, Rezound is pretty cool.
As for playing videos – mplayer works fine for me. Processing photos? gphoto2 supports 400 cameras.
http://www.gphoto.org/
C’mon Andrei – come over to the penguin! We’ll help you kick your Windoze habit.
21/10/2003 at 5:03 pm Permalink
Annoyances.org has a thread on this topic. See http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win2000/t1062494572. Apparently there is a fix, though, I didn’t wade through the forums to locate what it was.
22/10/2003 at 12:56 pm Permalink
Oh, I don’t really need to be convinced of the goodness of penguin. I use it on my laptop daily. But I don’t want to mess with a multitude of mplayer command options just to make subtitles in another language appear on the screen. And by ‘processing photos’ I meant Photoshop-like processing, touch-up work, etc. Yes, Gimp is there, but Gimp hardly has the depth and polish of a professional tool like Photoshop.