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NorthernMonkeyGirl

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Posted: Tue Apr 08, 14 4:49 pm Post subject:
All security fixes and patches are ending now

Nick

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Posted: Tue Apr 08, 14 4:57 pm Post subject:
Aye, but studio stuff probably doesn't require net access. As Chris says, might be easier to live with it off line than compromise on functionality. But, that might not be the only reason.

tahir

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Posted: Tue Apr 08, 14 5:02 pm Post subject:
I ran win2k way past it's hotfix deadline, no issues

Nick

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Posted: Tue Apr 08, 14 5:23 pm Post subject:
Yes, but you make pants. Dpack is dpack, and GCHQ are all over him like a cheap Bangkok lady boy. He needs to be below the radar.

tahir

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Posted: Tue Apr 08, 14 5:31 pm Post subject:

Nick wrote:

Dpack is dpack, and GCHQ are all over him like a cheap Bangkok lady boy. He needs to be below the radar.

Not thinking

chez

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Posted: Tue Apr 08, 14 6:01 pm Post subject:
An expensive Bangkok ladyboy, surely? I've started using Wine as a windows 8 emulator for one or two things. There's a wine repository (is that right? Do I mean depository?) That you can check your software package against, to see how likely it is to work.

dpack

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Posted: Tue Apr 08, 14 8:14 pm Post subject:

part of the reson is the amp n speakers work very well with the sound card and i like tunes when im on line .
the hd lappy sound is carp and only stereo

the other reason is that ive got lots of ace studio quality software that isnt post xp compatable so unless i spent a fortune on plug ins for cubase etc etc etc a new pooter wont do that sort of stuff.

if i was bothered by gchq i would use a carrier pigeon with a pgp encrypted memory card

oldish chris

Joined: 14 Jun 2006
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Posted: Tue Apr 08, 14 9:39 pm Post subject:

Trying to understand your requirements.

1) Creative stuff that will only work on an XP system - I've done a bit of rummaging, probably won't run on Linux using wine. There are Linux alternatives, but I'm guessing you'd have a massive learning curve and the software may not be as good as your present stuff.

2) Going on-line and listening to music simultaneously. XP (as far as I can make out) always was risky, and scare mongers are saying that it is about to become more risky. Linux, on the other hand is a lot less risky. If dual booting, Linux can read from the XP disk partition, and you can use VLC media player. You can check hardware compatibility by running Linux from the DVD, without altering anything on your hard drive.

BTW, I use a pair of half decent headphones to get OK sound quality on my lappy.

dpack

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Posted: Tue Apr 08, 14 9:43 pm Post subject:
cans are ok but the 5.1 sound with front/back/middle and base is awesome at a safe volume (and i have the amp/speakers)

arvo

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Posted: Tue Apr 08, 14 10:12 pm Post subject:
Sounds like a great set-up dpack. You can run a demo version of ubuntu of a disk or a memory stick. That way you don't have to (ever) install it and you can give it a spin and see if you like it and see if wine runs what you need it to.

oldish chris

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Posted: Wed Apr 16, 14 5:38 pm Post subject:
Might be useful: https://www.zdnet.com/how-to-run-xp-on-linux-mint-with-oracle-virtualbox-7000028401/

dpack

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Posted: Wed Apr 16, 14 5:51 pm Post subject:
thanks that might well work for platinum which is the one that is really xp specific the tunes while on here thing can work on linux ooh er time to play with a new os

oldish chris

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Posted: Wed Apr 16, 14 5:57 pm Post subject:

dpack wrote:

ooh er time to play with a new os

you have my sympathy. I can get quite stressed trying to learn, for the umpteenth time, how to operate a computer.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Location: yes

Posted: Wed Apr 16, 14 6:06 pm Post subject:

since 1975 ive been trying to learn how to get these things to behave

binary is horrid ,hex was better ,c++ was ok and still useful, the bbc basic years were nice ,ms dos is still useful for sorting nasty modern malware,win 98 sp2 was as robust as a robust thing and easy to mend ,xp i was sort of used to ,vista pah tis too fat and hard to sort messiness ,i recon linux will be fun

no dought i will be begging help within minutes of trying to load it up

at least the stack has twin drives so i can play before conversion

and parts are well cheap for that sort of kit when i cook the cpu again

oldish chris

Joined: 14 Jun 2006
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Posted: Thu Apr 17, 14 5:37 am Post subject:

dpack wrote:

,i recon linux will be fun

I have been confronted with the fact that I can be somewhat evangelical about Linux on more thn one occasion. Nevertheless, I do have some reservations. I have noticed that the people most comfortable with Linux are contrarians, eccentric, anarchistic non-conformists with a definite geeky streak. Are you sure its for you?

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