Comments on: M Reclus says “Merci” https://habitablezone.com/2012/08/09/m-reclus-says-merci/ Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:15:13 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: alcaray https://habitablezone.com/2012/08/09/m-reclus-says-merci/#comment-17337 alcaray Sun, 12 Aug 2012 21:23:41 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=19821#comment-17337 ...as with everything else in the world, home computers are accumulating moving parts like an SOB. The same thing is happening to them as is happening to what's under the hood of your car. More on the software side than hardware, I mean. There are a lot more pieces to maintain the current release of (and the releases come out at an increasing pace). And there are a lot more pieces where something might go wrong on the right release. And each piece just gets bigger and bigger. More lines of code. …as with everything else in the world, home computers are accumulating moving parts like an SOB. The same thing is happening to them as is happening to what’s under the hood of your car. More on the software side than hardware, I mean. There are a lot more pieces to maintain the current release of (and the releases come out at an increasing pace). And there are a lot more pieces where something might go wrong on the right release. And each piece just gets bigger and bigger. More lines of code.

]]> By: alcaray https://habitablezone.com/2012/08/09/m-reclus-says-merci/#comment-17247 alcaray Fri, 10 Aug 2012 08:11:22 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=19821#comment-17247 ...that sounds like the problem? http://forums.support.roxio.com/ …that sounds like the problem?

http://forums.support.roxio.com/

]]> By: FrankC https://habitablezone.com/2012/08/09/m-reclus-says-merci/#comment-17246 FrankC Fri, 10 Aug 2012 07:28:54 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=19821#comment-17246 You can usually solve the resources problem by telling Roxio not to run in the task bar. This option should be in settings, or tools. If there is still a problem you can use msconfig, via start/run to stop it from running on start-up. This will not affect the program. You just start it when you wish to use it. Too many programs want to run in the background for auto updates and auto start when the program suspects you want to burn a disk. You can usually solve the resources problem by telling Roxio not to run in the task bar. This option should be in settings, or tools.

If there is still a problem you can use msconfig, via start/run to stop it from running on start-up. This will not affect the program. You just start it when you wish to use it.

Too many programs want to run in the background for auto updates and auto start when the program suspects you want to burn a disk.

]]> By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2012/08/09/m-reclus-says-merci/#comment-17222 ER Thu, 09 Aug 2012 17:24:46 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=19821#comment-17222 When I was programming mainframes and minis, we wrote the applications software, it was the utilities, drivers, etc that were managed by pencil-necked geeks that toiled down in the basement. So if writing to a printer (or in my case) sending pen commands to a flatbed plotter via a 9" tape, suddenly stopped working, you picked up the phone and got to yell at someone to fix it. Nowadays, you have to buy your applications, install them yourself, you have no way of knowing if they are doing what they are supposed to do, and debug the utilities, peripherals and interfaces yourself when they don't talk to each other. I miss the pencil-necked geeks. We used to call them "systems programmers" and we were "applications programmers." When I was programming mainframes and minis, we wrote the applications software, it was the utilities, drivers, etc that were managed by pencil-necked geeks that toiled down in the basement. So if writing to a printer (or in my case) sending pen commands to a flatbed plotter via a 9″ tape, suddenly stopped working, you picked up the phone and got to yell at someone to fix it.

Nowadays, you have to buy your applications, install them yourself, you have no way of knowing if they are doing what they are supposed to do, and debug the utilities, peripherals and interfaces yourself when they don’t talk to each other.

I miss the pencil-necked geeks. We used to call them “systems programmers” and we were “applications programmers.”

]]> By: TB https://habitablezone.com/2012/08/09/m-reclus-says-merci/#comment-17221 TB Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:50:00 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=19821#comment-17221 <p>I will say this: This stuff is a lot easier than when I started out with computers.</p> Nowadays, with Microsoft, almost everything I install has a driver already built into the operating system. True "plug and play." I will say this: This stuff is a lot easier than when I started out with computers.

Nowadays, with Microsoft, almost everything I install has a driver already built into the operating system. True “plug and play.”

]]> By: TB https://habitablezone.com/2012/08/09/m-reclus-says-merci/#comment-17220 TB Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:47:38 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=19821#comment-17220 <p>Very good point.</p> It doesn't happen often, but I have run across issues with updates and I have had to reinstall older ones. Most of my driver software is in exe files on my hard drive, and I do save the old ones. Very good point.

It doesn’t happen often, but I have run across issues with updates and I have had to reinstall older ones. Most of my driver software is in exe files on my hard drive, and I do save the old ones.

]]> By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2012/08/09/m-reclus-says-merci/#comment-17219 ER Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:26:19 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=19821#comment-17219 I misspoke in my post above. M Recluse had actually downloaded the latest software and drivers, including Roxio. She will use her original disk version next time and see if the new, improved version is the cause of the problem. Moral: keep everything up to date, but don't throw anything away. I misspoke in my post above. M Recluse had actually downloaded the latest software and drivers, including Roxio. She will use her original disk version next time and see if the new, improved version is the cause of the problem.

Moral: keep everything up to date, but don’t throw anything away.

]]> By: TB https://habitablezone.com/2012/08/09/m-reclus-says-merci/#comment-17213 TB Thu, 09 Aug 2012 15:37:40 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=19821#comment-17213 <p>Again, always go online to get the latest software and drivers.</p> I have rarely gotten software on a product disk that was actually the latest update. Again, always go online to get the latest software and drivers.

I have rarely gotten software on a product disk that was actually the latest update.

]]> By: podrock https://habitablezone.com/2012/08/09/m-reclus-says-merci/#comment-17211 podrock Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:24:29 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=19821#comment-17211 Glad to hear it. (n/t) Glad to hear it. (n/t)

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