[FARC] Vista's Other Shoe

Sat Oct 18 21:21:04 EDT 2008

I'm still waiting for my pre-beta Windows 7, which I actually
understand will be version 6.1.  Windows 2000 is version 5, XP is 5.1,
and Vista is 6.

Windows XP mainstream support is scheduled to end: 4/14/2009

Extended support is scheduled to end: 4/8/2014

Extended support basically means just security patches.

Microsoft's lifecycle, while important for some reasons, is less
important for most individual users as the hardware & software
community.  Even after most support ended for Windows 98, folks hung
on to it, until new computers, peripherals, and software stopped
supporting it.  That support doesn't really have a hard date.

73 de Joseph Durnal NE3R

On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 3:11 PM, K3SKE Dan Szymanski
<k3ske at edurostream.com> wrote:
> It will be a lot more than just the other shoe dropping.
>
> For those of you that may not follow the what Microsoft announces, XP will
> be supported for at least six more months (do to large corporate and Federal
> Government users demands). Vista as you now know it will quietly die and be
> replaced with Windows 7!
> Have any of you had a mouse die under the kitchen sink in the area between
> the sub flooring and the lowest shelf where you store your kitchen cleaning
> gear? Well assume the mouse is Vista dying quietly and the rest is
> reality...
>
> And here all the time you thought that it could not possibly get any worse
> between the economy, health care, jobs and what is left of your
> 201K (formally 401K) retirement.
>
> Dan
> K3SKE
> Frederick Cty
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Kirk Talbott
> To: FARC
> Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2008 16:56
> Subject: [FARC] Vista's Other Shoe
> While the initial results of installing a new Rigblaster driver for Windows
> Vista to run PSK31 were positive, the "other shoe" of Windows Vista did drop
> and squirrelly activity did ensue.
>
> Number 1;  the WinPSK software I use has configuration settings
> for adjusting the computer soundcard receive and transmit volume levels.
> When selecting these settings nothing happens, I had no control of these
> settings.  I did have control when using WinPSK on Windows XP.
>
> Number 2; when starting the WinPSK program after a computer shutdown I did
> not have receive audio and had to exit and restart the WinPSK program in
> order to get it back.  I had to do this after every reboot of the computer,
> having to start WinPSK twice in order to get it to work.
>
> Number 3; my soundcard, Realtek Audio, has a feature whereby every time I
> connect or disconnect a cable or device to the soundcard you get a message
> "a device has been connected" or "a device has been disconnected."
> Ordinarily this isn't a problem and is normal for the Realtek Audio
> soundcard manager software but after every transmission in WinPSK I would
> get this message, lose receive audio in WinPSK, and have to restart WinPSK
> again.
>
> Number 4; the Realtek Audio soundcard controls for controlling recording and
> playback audio volume levels had no effect on receive audio in WinPSK.  I
> had to control receive audio in WinPSK with the radio's volume control.
>
> Number 5; Rigblaster instructions for connecting the receive and transmit
> audio to a computer suggest using the LINE IN and LINE OUT jacks of the
> soundcard for a desktop computer and using the MIC IN and HEADPHONE jacks
> for a laptop computer.  I have no LINE OUT jack on my soundcard so I used
> the SPEAKERS jack. This did not work.  Next, I used the MIC IN and HEADPHONE
> jacks on my desktop computer as if I were a laptop and this worked but
> resulted in problems 1,2,3, and 4.
>
> It is clear that while the Rigblaster's new driver for Windows Vista
> probably works, the WinPSK software and other programs on the Rigblaster's
> software library CD will not.  So, that's enough problems for me to
> disconnect the Rigblaster and put it away.  I tried.  Additionally the
> WinPSK program that I used does not have an uninstaller.  If I want to get
> this program off of my machine I have to go in and set a restore point in
> the operating system, backup the system registry, then go into the registry
> and edit out the entry for WinPSK, and then manually delete all the program
> folders.  What a kluge and especially since I knew better than to try and
> experiment with it on Windows Vista in the first place.   The Rigblaster and
> software library CD are headed for the sledgehammer.
>
> 73
> KB3ONM
> Kirk
>
>
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