tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7526470724880886986.post4275739907403786350..comments2024-03-10T04:17:48.560-05:00Comments on Diana natters on... about machine knitting: Current Project - Don't bother reading if computers aren't interesting to youDiana L. Sullivan, CPAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11003928332594661070noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7526470724880886986.post-66101287937430586792013-12-29T10:35:34.879-06:002013-12-29T10:35:34.879-06:00My little Sony laptop sits on the kitchen table al...My little Sony laptop sits on the kitchen table almost all the time. John and I both use it. It's just handy. For the past few weeks, I carried it to work everyday my volunteer worked so she could have a machine to use.<br /><br />In the knitting room, I have an older computer that runs DAK 7. I need to purchase DAK 8 but haven't done it yet. My DAK 7 only runs with the CD in the computer. Over the years, I've had several versions, which I have installed and uninstalled when I had to redo computers. I lost "lives" in the process, and at points got annoyed with the reseller. Best not to get into those nuisance discussions here, though; it's the only product that does so many things with so many machines, and I couldn't give it up. The copy protection misery is unpleasant, but I can sympathize now that I have my own hassles with people wanting to violate my copyrights. People just don't get it; some copyright decency is all that stands between knitting teachers and designers being able to go on in the business and having to give up due to financial strain.<br /><br />I purchased a fabulous Acer i7 for the knitting room for editing video. Video is just terribly hard to edit without a really whiz-bang computer. I would never attempt it on the laptop. The fast computer has many, many GBs of memory and I put an SSD in it, and it's fabulous for editing video; it's essentially built for demanding gamers, but I don't play them myself.. I could not have gotten 12 videos done last year without it. It had Win 8, but that was scrambled right out of the box and would barely run, so rather than return it, I put Win 7 on it since I was installing an SSD anyway.. Diana L. Sullivan, CPAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11003928332594661070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7526470724880886986.post-39387051314527933392013-12-29T08:49:33.644-06:002013-12-29T08:49:33.644-06:00Sounds fantastic! Once all of your updates are up-...Sounds fantastic! Once all of your updates are up-to-date, that SSD drive should make your computer boot instantaneously! I'm a bit jealous! I would love an SSD! For the holidays I got a new motherboard, CPU and memory (I still don't think it's enough memory, though) for my ancient desktop, the life of which we keep trying to prolong. In addition to knitting I'm also a gamer of sorts (yes, even at the ripe old age of 49 and a woman, to boot), hence the need for much, much more memory and a faster CPU. I bought a game a few months ago, and my computer couldn't run it. My graphics card was so old that new drivers weren't available, anymore. The new motherboard has an integrated graphics card, and I'm not too sure about that, either. Usually integrated chipsets aren't as good as stand-alone cards, but we'll have to see. I'm not looking forward to the process of backing up all of my software, then reinstalling it again, but it will be nice to have a vanilla install of Windows.<br /><br />As for DAK, I had to uninstall and reinstall numerous times while Matthew Bragg got it working for Windows 8 (that's on my laptop and new smartphone--also a holiday gift--my desktop is still Windows 7). The issues were exactly the copy protection they have on DAK. It was incompatible with Windows 8, and was a third-party problem. He didn't say anything about needing new "lives". I must have uninstalled/reinstalled at a minimum 10 times. I just had to do it again two weeks ago because when I tried to start it up, I got a run-time error and it wouldn't start. I think a file got corrupted with the Windows updates that don't want to work correctly on my laptop. I have DAK 8 installed on both my laptop and my desktop. There may be a limit to the number of devices on which you can have it installed, though, and that could be what they mean by "lose a life".HeidiGrrrlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12595820890850400758noreply@blogger.com