Does anyone know if this set will run on Vista OS without a patch? Website suggests Winblows 95 , 98, 2000. I have a new machine and would like to know if it will work with XP pro or Vista. Any help appreciated !!
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Does anyone know if this set will run on Vista OS without a patch? Website suggests Winblows 95 , 98, 2000. I have a new machine and would like to know if it will work with XP pro or Vista. Any help appreciated !!
Hi
Just got mine yesterday and installed LD2000 on both my XP and Vista laptops. There was an initial problem with a rogue .DLL file, but Hayden sent me another file and it works absolutely fine on both machines now.
Cheers
Jem
Would or could you send me a copy of that file/ May not work with my card though......Hayden ? Any comments?
If you want to run on VISTA, we have a "patch" that consists of new versions of a few EXE files, and a new QM2000 driver. It would be best to use the whole "patch" instead of just the DLL.
Our next update will be 100% VISTA compatible.
If you want the "patch", please use the Contact form on our web site to contact me (or use an existing email address you may already have).
Best regards,
William Benner
http://candlepowerforums.com/vb/images/smilies/eeew.gif Vista... http://candlepowerforums.com/vb/images/smilies/barf.gif I'm dreading when I will finally have to upgrade. My BETA experience lasted about 45 minutes. http://www.technfun.com/smilies/compcrash.gif
I'm with you on that score, Aaron. I'll stick with XP SP2, thank you very much. I was running Win98 up until a couple years *after* XP came out. (Actually, I was running 98 lite, which is a utility that would allow you to run a stripped down version of Win98 and still let you use the Win95 explorer shell, which was actually more stable since it lacked all the active desktop crap.) I finally upgraded - more for security reasons than anything else. Things change slowly on my systems. (I find that things break less often that way.)
I figure I've got several more years of life left in Win XP. I see no need to upgrade to Vista.
Adam
Adam..
Hear Hear on that one who wants to be the guinea pig for a multi millionaire ??
Cheers
Ray
Well put, Ray. I think it sucks that everyone that buys a pre-service pack 1 edition of a Microsoft operating system is essentially enlisted as a beta tester.
The thing that really bugs me is that there is no compelling reason to upgrade from WinXP in the first place. Aside from the Aero Shell eye candy and the lame ass "Cancel or Allow" substitute for real security, I don't see what Vista has to offer the average user. So, yeah, I think I'll be sticking with XP for quite a while.
Adam
Same here, it installed without any problems, but when I started installing some other applications I got a BSOD. So, I give it a few years, especially since XP is a very stable OS now.Quote:
David
i dont chat os's much but i was like buffo. I have waited much longer than most to move to the next platform. loved win95- then stripped down 98-
finally i have been stable for quite a while with a custom stripped xp pro platform- The issue now is I am in need of a few new laptops but I dont want anything to do with vista, which everything is now bundled with- time to hit ebay-
I can get you deals on used IBM thinkpads. They come with XP and a short warranty.Quote:
The issue now is I am in need of a few new laptops but I dont want anything to do with vista, which everything is now bundled with- time to hit ebay-
Is this what "thread hijacking" means???:confused:
your not trying to bait me into some kind of trade- are you dz?
Ha! No, not trying to bait you into a trade. My days of using gas tubes is long over. Heck even my last remaining 60X head stopped working at SELEM. If I let it sit for about a month it will work great again...Quote:
Originally Posted by clandestiny
well then, what was with the big soapbox speech in the other thread about my hording activities- followed by a plea to give back to the community and putting a lexel in your hands? hmmmm? hows that 10 watt blue dpss comming?
:eek: DAMN!!! Since we are hijacking... and you're actively watching this thread... Are you available to meet me tomorrow so I can drop this amp of your off. :D
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Originally Posted by clandestiny
Just yankin your chains. Though I think that beam quality from gas tubes are still better than solid state, I just don't miss the utilities required for them. I also don't miss the sound of a coherent i-90 passbank blowing! :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by clandestiny
allwhich-
yes , late afternoon or so when you get out of work- call me to be sure
dz- lol
time for bed
i still use the 90's - they make that big thunk sound after cathode warmup
prior to lighting the tube-
I'm actually off tomorrow. King Pango is supposed to look at my scanners and I have to pay a ticket in Apopka. So I's be in da big city tomorrow... :D I'll give you a call.
Um...
What meds have you been on this evening... :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by clandestiny
i'm suprised the waste water engineer hasn't chimed in tonight-
must be an old 65 chevy stuck down in one of the water returns
what was this thread originally about anyway?
The 90 is a nice laser. The two times the passbank blew on me when starting it, it sounded like a shotgun and a mini mushroom cloud coming out of the back of it.... Not a pretty sight...Quote:
Originally Posted by clandestiny
LMAO it is even better when that happens in front of the promoter backstage before showtime-
I think he's trying to catch up to you and steve-o with regards to the number of posts!Quote:
Originally Posted by allthatwhichis
Beats me... FB3, maybe?? :pQuote:
what was this thread originally about anyway?
ROFL! I'm stuck in a hotel room with a broken tv and nothing better to do...:rolleyes:Quote:
i'm suprised the waste water engineer hasn't chimed in tonight-
must be an old 65 chevy stuck down in one of the water returns
Here here
the few quick looks at Vista I have have not made me wanna throw my current pc away. Im running win2k on my main pc & XP pro on my laser pc - I've only just warmed to XP as though it does some really cool stuff its still as fucking ugly as sin - unless you turn off all the clown settings - and has lots of usual anoying microsoft traits. When are we gonna get useful things added like being able to print a file list from a directory or there is that mega feature that has been in every version of windows that stops a multiple file copy part way through as there is one file it cant copy. Instead of asking do you want to rewind the whole copy or continue without this one file it just stops so you dont know whats copied and whats not! Bet it took a whole lotta seattle brain to work that out for us. Instead every task takes more clicks and when we wanna look for a file we get a useless no point on this earth fucking dog to help us. Please. Make it look for files quicker or easier dont give me a dog to annoy the tits off me.
Now with Vista we get 2 clocks on the screen and more fancy multimedia enhanced bollox that will just make your staff waste more of your time than do the job they are paid for. I dont care what the interface looks like, I want a computer that does what I want it to do with some sort of speed that hints at the incredible processing power we have. Plus I hate that - as Adam pointed out - 'lame ass "Cancel or Allow" substitute for real security' which just means that you have to ask its fucking permission before you do anything.
At least with XP you knew which to buy - home or pro. Now we have super mega vista premium, super mega multivista, super mega multivista ultimate with extra bells and fucking whistles!
must remember to take my pill and buy a Mac.
Rob
I hated Vista too...
Installed it on the PC and found most of my usual and favourite apps wouldn't work, constant disk thrashing, then it kept slowing down for no reason, then the most annoying paranoid "Are you sure..??" messages everytime I did anything remotely system related. Not much more luck when I tried it on the Dell lappy either.
I know I could get most apps updated/working and wait for the smaller manufacturers to release updated drivers. Then if I spent hours playing and tweaking could probably simplify the interface and turn off some of the additional "security" and stop indexing (or whatever the fek it felt it had to do in my time) and I would end up with, well something very, well... like Windows XP Pro SP2 with IE7...
No Vista, not for me, not just yet :rolleyes:
well well....I also had vista installed. But no more!
That was pain in my ass.
But I did get the LD2000 to work in vista, but sometimes it hangs :(
Back to Windows XP Pro with all updates ;)
OK I didn't get another new machine for the DAC because of Vista OS. We have a almost unused 2.6Ghz machine with 1 Gig of memory and XP Pro w/SP2. I guess that will run it with no worry. I wanted to save up for a high power lasers anyway. You can't get any P/C without 100G hard drive and almost all processing is dual core now. If there were no problems using Win 98SE , it should perform great in XP. I have all 6 floppies of Win 3.1 here somewhere......usefull for loading low level formatted drives.
Nah... No trucks stuck in the sewer. But I was running the dewatering press most of the night. I was on-line about 2 hours before your guys started your marathon, but didn't get a chance to check back later in the night so I missed it. I'm back at work again tonight, but no promises.Quote:
Originally Posted by clandestiny
Adam
They say ... You get used to the smell
Is that true??? j/k of course
Hi Chuck;
Yeah, it's absolutely true. The smell is every bit as rank as you could possibly imagine, and yes, you really *do* get used to the smell - no matter how bad it is.
I've smelled things that would make a maggot gag, and yet, 15 minutes later I'm working in the stench like it's no problem.
The human nose is amazing. (Good thing too!)
Adam
the worst smell i ever encountered was when i worked at a cemetery and flooded/sunken graves had to be excavated.
i was fortunate not to have to work directly on this task,but just driving down the road the dirt hauling trailers had dripped a thin track of water on in passage(hours earlier)made me gag.
the stock wisdom when doing this task was, "don't plug you nose unless you want that taste in your mouth a long time."
definitely the worst smell i've ever encountered.
Wow! Ok - you win. You've smelled something worse than I have.
Yuck - dead bodies. I don't even want to go there.
Adam
a dubious victory.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffo
Hmmmm, Vista OS/patch to the smell of dead bodies... Maybe we do need a moderator or two around here... :rolleyes:
Eh - threads drift... It's a fact of life. Would you rather have a moderator in here that killed those off-topic posts? I wouldn't...
Adam
mmm, seepage. >:)
Ahh, spec'd just give one of us a badge and a clue stick to moderate... >:) and we'd go off on tangents like this... :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffo
i wasn't off topic.
i was just alluding to the fact that, VISTA STINKS!!!(like dead bodies.)
yeah,that's the ticket.
now if you'll excuse me i have to get back to my beautiful wife,morgan fairchild.
whom i have slept with.
Wes: Priceless! ;)
and I agree - Windows Vista stinks. (Actually, you can remove "Vista" from that sentence and it would still be true...) :D
Adam
Is that why I have seen it stated as winblows?
LOL I hadn't opened this thread until now because I don't have the QM2000 or whatever this thread is about... but something just told me I should open it. I wish I didn't. haah.
Did you all try the beta or something?
Vista is (pretty much) flawless for me.....
(I don’t have any pango software on here, but the pango guys seem to say its 100% compatible)
If you haven’t tried it since beta, give it a go!
I have been running Vista since RTM in November or whenever. Works fine for me.
But for the couple of extra (IMHO unnecessary) features that Vista offers over XP SP2 +IE7 it needed to install and work well and straight out of the box, and it didn't for me - on 2 machines. It 'twas the full monty from my action pack subscription too, not beta.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aidan
I also hate the idea that M$ are pushing towards digitally signed hardware and software to further line (their already very well lined) pockets...
Not a fan as you can probably tell :D
If that's billg, shouldn't that be "Billionaire?" =\Quote:
Hear Hear on that one who wants to be the guinea pig for a multi millionaire ??
Adam, I got a pretty smelly job too.. I'm stuck in the back of a factory as a repair technician because my A.S.S. degree ( associate of scientific something) couldnt get me into the front cubicle/office part of the plant with all the engineers..
..not that they got it alot better off tho.. but at 77K a year I could buy a hell of alot of blue lasers :D