Windows Vista & fieldwork

[s.t. bischoff]

Daryn, others,

Has anybody been working with Ubuntu, or other free Linux systems? If so
what is your experience?

Shannon

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Daryn McKenny <daryn at arwarbukarl.com.au>
wrote:

> 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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> -----Original Message-----
> 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<http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/%7Epgut001/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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