[gui-talk] Computers, maintaining them etc.

Mon Jan 15 19:00:12 CST 2007

Right, well i'm not in any hurry to upgrade to VISTA myself, I  
personally feel that Apple's OS Lepard is more to my liking and I'm  
using the Macbook I have more and more these days, yep I can scan  
with it using Read Iris Pro which is fully accessible but that's down  
another topic pipeline and its not Kurzweil <smile>.
One of the next things I'm going to do is to purchase Paralels to  
allow me to use windows XP alongside Tiger, Lepard or whatever Mac  
operating system I'm running at the same time, unlike Bootcamp,  
paralels will allow you to switch between your operating systems on  
the fly.

On 16/01/2007, at 11:43 AM, albert griffith wrote:

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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