So, this Windows 7 beta expires August 1, 2009. I, like many, was curious what would happen then, so I changed the date to Sunday, August 2, 2009 on my Win7 virtual machine. The first time I tried it, I got some error screen alerting me that my license had expired (or something to that effect) shortly after resetting the date to 8/2/09. There was a red “X” to close the window, and a “cancel”…
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…
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…
Went back down to Chris Fisher’s studio in Coxsackie on Sunday, this time to track drums with John Brodeur for the last two songs for this album. I always enjoyed John’s songwriting and singing with his various bands (The Suggestions, Maggie Mayday, Hector On Stilts, Five Alpha Beatdown, etc.), but then I found out he plays drums too, and quite well at that! Somehow with his playing in about 900 bands, he was up for…
