Miscellaneous Musings

Vista ExperiencesIt was truly amazing to see my Gateway 817GM running the Beta2 Vista OS from Micr$oft lock up so tight that the only cure was to pull the power plug from behind the computer. All I was doing was trying to change the channel on my Hauppauge 150MCE running Micro$oft's Media Center. Vista is supposed to give us this great TV experience. It was a great experience!!! This is the first complete computer lockup for me in the last five years. Usually when a crash would happen Ctrl-Alt-Delete would solve the problem; or the tast manager could be used to end the task. Not this time!! It is beta software BUT the TV part should be more stable than to completely lock up the computer.

Downloading and installing "Sage TV" solved the lock up problem. However the time shown on the TV Guide by Sage is 4 hours too fast. Will have to see what is causing that. All the other parts of Sage seem to work just fine. They do NOT claim that Sage will work on Vista. It is supposed to be installed on Windows XP, however, it installed without complaint and seems to run just fine.