[gui-talk] Computers, maintaining them etc.

albert griffith albertpgriffith at hotmail.com
Mon Jan 15 18:43:35 CST 2007 

512 megs of memory should be more than sufficient for scanning but I noticed 
greater stability in my system after upgrading to 1 gig of ram to get ready 
for Vista.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dane Trethowan" <danetrethowan at iprimus.com.au>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 7:17 PM
Subject: [gui-talk] Computers, maintaining them etc.


| absolutely right on that. Now whilst I don't claim to be an absolute
| expert on computers, I know enough to tend to the machines I have,
| that is I know that they need to be maintained, unecessary
| applications deleted where appropriate, the registry cleaned every
| now and then etc. I had my last Windows system on this machine for 2
| years before re-installing Windows just a couple of weeks ago so to
| my way of thinking, having a Windows installation on a computer for 2
| years without requiring a full re-install isn't bad going.
| Yep, I don't deny that I probably need more memory as I only have 512Mb.
|
| On 16/01/2007, at 11:05 AM, David Andrews wrote:
|
| With scanning, memory is also important -- the more the better.
| Also, you mentioned your machine was 3 years old.  After 3 years,
| particularly if you add and delete applications, a machine can become
| unstable, and in need of a rebuild.  Do you have crashes in other
| applications, or just K1000.?
|
| The K1000 has a good user list serv, and they are very responsive to
| user suggestions.  The software is constantly improved, and it is
| also tested as thoroughly as anything in access technology.  No
| software is perfect, but I think they will work with you to resolve
| problems, especially if you take a positive approach, not starting
| out by saying it is a piece of junk.
|
| David Andrews
|
| At 04:09 PM 1/15/2007, you wrote:
| > Well I would regard a 2.8GHZ CPU as being whilst not the most
| > powerful CPU on the planet certainly more powerful than a 400MHZ CPU
| > and certainly powerful enough to run K1000 I would have thought.
| >
| > On 16/01/2007, at 4:17 AM, Joel Deutsch wrote:
| >
| > Hi,
| > The point isn't which operating system is on your system; just
| > running Win
| > XP is no guarantee that you have a particularly powerful CPU or a
| > lot of
| > RAM. It's these things that you'd want to know in response to
| > someone's
| > asking if your computer is a capable one in some rgard.
| > operationg hat
| > ----- Original Message -----
| > From: "Dane Trethowan" <danetrethowan at iprimus.com.au>
| > To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
| > Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 7:29 AM
| > Subject: Re: [gui-talk] For those who use Kurzweil 1000,you've sure
| > got a
| > few things to complain about.
| >
| >
| > I certainly think I do yes, the machine is 3 years old and runs XP
| > but to be fair, I'll take a look at version 11 and see if it runs
| > better.
| >
| > On 15/01/2007, at 10:37 PM, albert griffith wrote:
| >
| > I can say I've had no serious stability problems.  When I have, there
| > has
| > always been a fix.  Do you have a machine which lack the processor
| > strength
| > and/or memory to run today's programs?
| > ----- Original Message -----
| > From: "Dane Trethowan" <danetrethowan at iprimus.com.au>
| > To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
| > Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 3:12 AM
| > Subject: Re: [gui-talk] For those who use Kurzweil 1000,you've sure
| > got a
| > few things to complain about.
| >
| >
| > |I disagree with you there, the stability issue is one that any
| > | company deserves a damn good bashing over, imagine the fury if
| > | Microsoft released a version of Office that crashed unpredictably.
| > | Now contrary to other opinion expressed on this list, I have never
| > | thrown a a tantrem when K1000 has crashed etc, actually I've cracked
| > | up laughing because such a shoddy product would (had I been testing
| > | it) never have gotten out of the building let alone shipped around
| > | the world.
| > | Anyway, I'll pay the upgrade cost for K100 v11 and see if its any
| > | better, I've been using K100 for more than 6 years now and my main
| > | reason for writing my findings was to see if anyone else had the
| > | stability issues I've experienced.
| > |
| > | On 15/01/2007, at 1:10 PM, Les Kriegler wrote:
| > |
| > | Why don't you frame any of your comments in a positive manner?
| > | Personally,
| > | while it would be nice to have that feature, I don't have a problem
| > | re-loading seetins I wish to use for specific tasks.  Hardly worth
| > | bashing a
| > | company over.
| > |
| > | -----Original Message-----
| > | From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-
| > | bounces at nfbnet.org] On
| > | Behalf Of Steve Jacobson
| > | Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 8:00 PM
| > | To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
| > | Subject: Re: [gui-talk] For those who use Kurzweil 1000,you've sure
| > | got a
| > | few things to complain about.
| > |
| > | I could be wrong about this, but I don't think that most OCR
| > packages
| > | save
| > | document specific parameters when the document itself is saved.
| > This
| > | might
| > | be a good feature, but I'm not sure that I buy the statement that
| > the
| > | developers should be ashamed of themselves.  That sounds a bit
| > harsh,
| > | unless
| > | I'm missing something here.
| > |
| > | On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:49:01 +1100, Dane Trethowan wrote:
| > |
| > | > Ok, I've been using this product for a while and quite frankly the
| > | > developers of this software ought to be absolutely
| > | ashamed of themselves. I'll relate what I've found and I sincerely
| > | hope I'm
| > | wrong with allot of my findings and I hope I can be corrected but if
| > | I can't
| > | then a few black marks ought to be thrown Kurzweil's way.
| > | > Now, this is the worst stuff up in software I've ever seen in my
| > | > lifetime. Those of you who use recognition and scanning
| > | applications would be aware that you have to tweek the setings of
| > the
| > | application depending on what sort of scanning or recognition work
| > | you're
| > | doing, an example of which is the different settings required for
| > say
| > | colour
| > | brochures and a paperback book, both types of print and paper are
| > | different
| > | so using different scanning and recognition settings for each can
| > give a
| > | more accurate result. Kurzweil has a function that allows
| > | optimization of
| > | settings for different jobs, once the settings have been optimized
| > | for say
| > | the pages in a book, they can be saved so far so good.
| > | > So you're scanning your book happily, 100 pages scanned and
| > another
| > | > 300
| > | > to go and you decide to call it quits for a
| > | while and have a snack, you naturally save your document so you
| > don't
| > | lose
| > | your valuable work. Having had your fill you return to the scanning
| > | task at
| > | hand, launching Kurzweil and re-opening your document but where
| > have all
| > | your optimized settings gone for your book that Kurzweil created for
| > | you?
| > | Well they're saved in the filename you gave them, well they will be
| > | if you
| > | saved them but wouldn't it have been allot easier if the folks at
| > | Kurzweil
| > | had actually saved your settings along with the document? I tell
| > you,
| > | I've
| > | heard of some illogical programming in my time but this one takes
| > the
| > | cake.
| > | > And my final absolute irritation with this product? Well it would
| > help
| > | > if I had a chrystal ball in front of me that could tell
| > | me when Kurzweil is about to spit the dumby and either crash my
| > computer
| > | completely or just decide to stop working, an "auto-save" function
| > | would be
| > | very nice here don't you think <smile>.
| > | > Dane Trethowan
| > | > Phone: +613 9747 3975
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| > |
| > |
| > |
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