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One Year Later, "Dead" XP Still Going Strong
snydeq writes "Microsoft pulled the plug on Windows XP a year ago today, no longer selling new copies in most venues. Yet according to a report from InfoWorld, various downgrade paths to XP are keeping the operating system very much alive, particularly among businesses. In fact, despite Microsoft trumpeting Vista as the most successful version of Windows ever sold, more than half of business PCs have subsequently downgraded Vista-based machines to XP, according to data provided by community-based performance-monitoring network of PCs. Microsoft recently planned to further limit the ability to downgrade to XP now that Windows 7 is in the pipeline, but backlash against the licensing scheme prompted the company to change course, extending downgrade rights on new PCs from April 2010 to April 2011."
Down with XP!
Exactly. I hand a CD with dosbox and blaubox to many friends of my daughter that are interested in a "boomin' stereo". you can build a subwoofer in 1 hour that will kick the crap out of any store bought one.
The old Blaubox for subwoofer design will not run under XP ro Vista without really annoying problems. DosBox does it nice.
And yes, that old dos program kicks the crud out of the new subwoofer design software apps out there. I have a even older bandpass box design program that can make a 6" woofer kick the living crud out of most people's dual 12" setups. It's how I won several trophies and many SPL dragraces back in the day. I was able to model in software a couple of Bose secret designs, they do scale up very well. think of the acousa-wave radio but in a van size with a pair of 15" driving it.
no I will not share it with you. My secret, I'll choose who to release the program and sourcecode to.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.