More (problems) on Windows 7

So, my first experiences with Win7 beta were really good.  Someone at Microsoft even replied to my blog about that, which is sort of geekily gratifying at some level.  But today I tried installing it on an older PC with my brother, on his HP 715n (1.8ghz P4 with 1.25gb of ram and a Radeon All-In-Wonder 64mb video card), and had less success. It seemed to install and run mostly ok, but I could not…

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Windows 7 (I like it so far!)

So, curiosity got the best of me and I grabbed the Windows 7 beta soon after it was publicly released.  After planning on installing it on an old PC (500mhz celeron, 256mb ram), and finding that it just plain wouldn’t install without at least 512mb RAM, I hatched a plan involving my laptop (a gateway 7422gx – 2.2ghz single core 64bit athlon, 1gb ram).  When I got it about 4 years ago, I upgraded the…

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Zero KB

For a couple weeks now at least, my iPhone has been reporting “Zero KB” free space.  At first I thought I’d just filled the sucker up, but then after removing a few unused apps, some old Strong Bad Email podcasts, and a few albums, and still seeing “Zero KB”, I realized something was amiss.  For a moment after deleting each of those things, I did see some free space return, but then after changing “tabs”…

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Got bass done on Without You last night, after much frustration with Pro Tools.  To start out, I went to grab the bass track from my demo session, as I’ve been doing, to import it into the new session as a guide to play along with so I would know how I wanted the part to go. I’d changed the tempo from the demos to the final versions in most of the other songs, but…

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