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midnightowl1
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 Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 7:09 am Post subject: Midnight Owl Website May Fly Again. |
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I emailed my service provider yesterday and asked about putting Midnight Owl Video back up with just text reviews. He didn't get back to me but Gene the Photographer (Yep, I'm hanging out with him again. More on that either later tonight or tomorrow) called him and he said he'd get back to me. Gene knows him better than I do. I wasn't sure considering when Playboy threatened legal action against Go Daddy, Go Daddy then threatened him.
If things look weird around here in the coming weeks that's why. I'll try to make sure the forum keeps going with no interruptions.
I'm jumping back into this thing. I guess I really need to thank Yoda (I think) for keeping this forum alive. I figured the forum would just die on the vine after a few months if the website wasn't around but Yoda (ROTY for those not sure who I'm talking about) kept posting and kept interest up in the forum. Also thanks to Bobby Z (again I think) for asking a couple of questions about Midnight Owl Productions and Amazon links that lit a fire under me and allowed me to rant and get things off my chest. |
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midnightowl1
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| Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 7:43 pm Post subject: Re: Midnight Owl Website May Fly Again. |
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There's a couple of reasons why nothing has happened yet. First my Vista computer crapped out yet again and I'm using a laptop borrowed from work (they know I have it). Short term I think I'll pull out one of the XP computers and reformat the hard drive. Since I haven't used any of those in years there can't be anything too critical on them. Next I'm going to wait until I hear more about Windows 7. I'm not going to make the same mistake I made with Vista. Buying a computer with that operating system when it was brand new is one of the great regrets of my life. I wouldn't be surprised is, years from now, historians blame Vista for the recession we're just now coming out of.
Second I still haven't heard from the service provider. I think I'll sign up with another service provider and change the name slightly from Midnightowlvideo to midnightowl______ (something else). In order to switch midnightowlvideo.com over I'd need help from him so this route seems less complicated. |
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What is it with you and computers? 
Personally, I would advise against buying anything that has "Windows" or "Microsoft" written on it. It's a truly awful operating system, and a truly incompetent software company who know way, way more about litigation & marketing than they do about programming.
I set up Windows 7 on my father's new computer a month ago. It seemed OK. It still annoyed me in certain ways, but it booted a damn sight faster than any other crash-box (although still not as fast as a real O/S). Other people are saying Windows 7 is the best etc.
HOWEVER
This is Windows we're talking about. Right now you're oohhing and aahhing over how fast it is. 6 months from now you're thinking, hmm, seems a bit slow, and a year from now you'll be tearing your hair out in frustration. It's been like that on every version of Windows to date, and I don't expect Windows 7 to be any different. All of which will leave you nicely primed for when Microsoft announce that it turns out Windows 7 could've been better and they release Windows 8 which is actually way, way better.
If you're happy with XP, you might want to stick with it. They're not going to drop support for it right away.
I wouldn't blame Vista for the recession, although I might be tempted to blame Microsoft, whose products do not deserve anything like the market share they command.
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midnightowl1
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Hey GailFan,
This time I was really careful too. I wasn't going to any websites that might be dangerous or anything like that. As a matter of fact all the computer was doing was playing streaming audio from a sports talk station from San Francisco (KNBR). I leave the audio on all night (it helps me sleep in some odd way) and then about 2 a.m. in the morning I heard some syllable repeated about 10 times and then the sound went dead. I knew that wasn't good but I went back to sleep and waited to check it later in the morning. The computer had crashed and wouldn't come back to life.
If you go one the internet and look up Jana Cat I had her for a student many years ago. One time I went looking for websites she was on and visited one of those and that one caused a passed computer to crash. This time I wasn't doing anything like that. As a matter of fact it may have been over 48 hours since I had touched the computer.
The problem with Apple computers is that they frustrate the hell out of me when I'm using them. I can't find stuff on them. When looking for a program I can't find I keep getting fooled into clicking on that "Finder" thing in the tool bar only to relearn that it doesn't help you find anything. When using a new software program for the first time I can figure out so much more in a short period of time on a Windows based computer than on a MacIntosh. I do have to use Apple computers at work so they are not totally foreign to me but having been raised on Windows I just feel a lot more comfortable in that universe.
I've been reading reviews for Windows 7 and what's so funny is how much is discussed about how Microsoft has to make a comeback from the disaster that Vista was. I bought this computer when Vista was brand new and I had no idea Microsoft would put out a product that bad. XP was a really good operating system and that's the one I'll probably start using at home again until Windows 7 proves itself over time. |
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GailFan
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It's just a matter of getting used to a different way of doing things. The "Finder" not being being a Find tool is no more idiotic than a "Start" button that shuts your computer down (another problem I have with Windows - the very fact that you can't flip the power switch to turn it off indicates that the operating system isn't stable).
Microsoft puts out plenty of products that are bad, they just figure no-one will notice, and they're right, because too many people haven't tried alternatives.
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midnightowl1
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| GailFan wrote: | It's just a matter of getting used to a different way of doing things. The "Finder" not being being a Find tool is no more idiotic than a "Start" button that shuts your computer down (another problem I have with Windows - the very fact that you can't flip the power switch to turn it off indicates that the operating system isn't stable).
Microsoft puts out plenty of products that are bad, they just figure no-one will notice, and they're right, because too many people haven't tried alternatives. |
Hey GailFan, I just assumed that the "Start" button leading to the "Shut Down" window just meant you were starting to shut down. Actually early on I found that strange as well.
The real reason I'm wedded to PCs over Mac is because 96% of my computer time over my life has been spent on PCs and the few times I have had to use Macs I felt like a fish out of water and things I could figure out quickly on a PC took much, much longer on a Mac. And another issue, when something goes wrong in the PC world I know a lot of people I can call on to fix things and make them all right. When I had to use Mac laptops in one of the labs I taught I would go to some of the people in the department who swore by the Mac when the Macs weren't doing what they were suppose to, and those people were almost never able to help. As a matter of fact it was the lead technician in the department, who prefered PCs, you usually got the Macs working like they were suppose to.
It all comes down the the fact that 20 years ago, when I was a graduate student, I got tired of spending late nights on campus working in the computer lab. I had one class called computational physics that had me in the lab up until 2 or 3 in the morning. You could not have anything to eat or drink in there. I don't think you were even allowed to sneeze in there. At least half the class had their own computer and could do their work at home. That's when I decided to use my meager earnings from teaching classes as a graduated assistant to buy my own computer. When I checked the prices I saw that Apple had pretty much priced me out of their market so it had to be a PC. This was back when the 486 microprocessor was the best you could get. Because Apple owned the rights to the motherboard architecture and no outside vendor could copy it Apple could set the prices artificially high. IBM didn't exercise their rights to their architecture so any mom and pop outfit could produce motherboards based on it and that led to compitition and much lower prices. At the time almost everyone would have said Apples were better computers but not that much better to justify the cost difference. |
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