Specs:
Vostro 1400, Intel Core 2 Duo T5270, 1.4GHz, 800Mhz, 2M L2 Cache

2GB, DDR2, 667MHz 2 DIMM
128MB nVidia GeForce 8400M GS Graphics Card
160G 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive
Genuine Windows Vista Home Basic

thanks!

YAY, I am going to run out and buy a copy RIGHT NOW!!!…

oh, wait…

Just thought I’d let you know that I posted something about the least technical bit (at least electronically speaking) in this post, about Ball passing along Osterman’s observation on “why we’re so bothered by glitches.”

I’d had the same thought, along visual rather than auditory lines, and this became the perfect prod to write it up. Linked to you and this post, of course:
http://rosswriting.blogspot.com/2007_11_01_archive.html

…but as you’ll see, I agree with Damon, the last commenter, and went with a tiger over the bear — much scarier, I thought, thus bringing the point home with more punch.

I do some music, too, which we refer to as “world trance fusion,” and did a CD of mostly drums, bells and percussion but with a half-dozen tracks based on or augmented with Performer and a Korg X5, & now on iTunes. (Ah, yes, all too familiar with the glitches; but usually worked it out by trimming the number of simultaneous notes.)
http://rosswriting.com/warblehead

…although I got here looking for something else. Nothing like the Web for serendipity, hm?

I think the real problem is flawed design in the Vista code. The article links a second article about the “discovery” of problems with “Multimedia Class Scheduler Service (MMCSS), a feature new to Windows Vista”. How many more “discoveries” are waiting to be made?