Windows Vista & fieldwork

[Daryn McKenny]

Hi Phil,

I think after reading that article you would actually have sore eyes and a boggling mind.

Anyway my simplified experiences with Vista are as such:

-All of my computers/laptops are setup to dual boot between Vista and XP Pro SP2.
-XP is initially loaded with what I call "the language toolkit software", what the toolkit comprises of can be viewed here http://www.arwarbukarl.net.au/blog/?page_id=32 
-So while I test each product on Vista I at least know that I have XP on hand to use that program if there is a problem.
-I, like many, always have the latest version of each product loaded on Vista and XP.
-With my experiences I am now booting into XP less and less and can't remember the last time I did a task in XP.
-Over the last 12 months I have been working with community people around Australia who have been fortunate enough to take advantage of the low price of laptops and desktops and of course these all come with Vista installed.
- So as we are also software developers, it is to our benefit that our product works with Vista.

The only major problem that we seem to have with Vista is slower data transfer speeds over LAN and USB, these problems seem to be tied up with certain new algorithms that Vista uses when preparing data to transfer.  I have been recently investigating this and have concluded that I may try some 3rd party Explorers so as I bypass the Vista window explorer.

Overall I do find Vista a much better OS to use than XP.

Also, if you have not for profit status you can obtain Microsoft Software at next to nothing prices through there Donation programs.

For those people that don’t know me this is all from the perspective of an Aboriginal person doing language work.

The main products that we use are Miromaa, Lexique Pro, Audacity and the Office 2007 suite of programs.

Regards
 
Daryn 
 
Arwarbukarl Cultural Resource Association Inc.

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From: Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] On Behalf Of phil cash cash
Sent: Friday, 28 March 2008 6:16 AM
To: ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: [ILAT] Windows Vista & fieldwork

Greetings,

Slow news week, so here is a question.  Windows Vista has been around for
sometime now.  So I am curious if we have Vista users and if it is good for
fieldwork and, by extension, general language documentation/revitalization?

fyi...

A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html

I am sure there are other reviews but this one caught my eye.

l8ter,

Phil
UofA
(Mac/Windows XP user)
 

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