Practically everyone I know with any investment in Apple products and iTunes uses it all the time. Home network sharing of iTunes libraries is great with a family, and its fundamental to much of the AppleTV functionality.
In any case, the poster has problems with iTunes because of NOD32 - it is on Apple's list of software known to have an issue with iTunes. Some people have success by adding exceptions for iTunes.
iTunes replaces quite a few standard Windows services. Until a few versions ago there was a DNS resolver service, but I think it has been built into the client now. Yeah, iTunes does its own DNS lookups for some reason.
Presumably you mean mDNSResponder.exe - ie multicast DNS / bonjour which is used to discover other iTunes libraries on your network.
I'd hope a 320mbit stream would sound *incredible* - maybe not 230 times the quality of CD such a bitrate could offer, but enough to put even the analogue audiophile purists in their place!
Likewise, and in many cases the new guy is right. Of course, in some cases the new guy doesn't know anything, but there are many bad coders out there earning craploads as contractors.
I bitch about Windows 8, but its actually pretty good (I run it in a VM on OSX 10.8, and run Windows 7 at work). I have been using Start8 and Classic Shell (not sure which I prefer) but the default start screen is ok once you get used to it. My gripe is that the many things, such as the default PDF reader, are Metro apps which are confusing to get back to the desktop from; a big problem if you want to deploy it to "users". I'm sure they'll get used to it though.
3.51 was great; sure, you had to deal with a load of applications not working properly (or at all) but it exposed a lot of the ones that were not written properly in the first place!
IMO the failure isnt the cost; it is that the integration has not been thought through.
When I open a PDF on Windows 8, from the desktop (for the first time), I do NOT expect to be transported into MetroLand, from which I cannot fathom how to get back to the desktop.
Touch interfaces are great. Supporting touch interfaces is a great idea. Windows 8 deployment of the idea is awful, however - the interface should augment an existing one not try and replace it.
NT existed before 1995. ME existed after 2000. XP at launch was fine, especially for home users. Vista was shit. Aside from the nightmare software and driver issues, this was mainly because most of the machines sold as Vista capable in the early days were barely capable of running any GUI based OS, let alone one that Microsoft said could take over your life and leave you to trip out while the computer walked your dog whilst doing your ironing and helping you visit every website that doesn't use Javascript. 7 is quite nice. 8 is fine once you deal with the metro crap. In fact, 8 is incredible value for money - you can hop off the XP train for almost no money and get process isolation! woot!
Note: I've excluded the 9x train - as far as I'm concerned Windows was fine once NT 3.51 was released (at about the same time as Windows 95). NT4 just added the Windows 95 style GUI to an already stable platform for me (but then again, I was buying hardware that was stable with Redshit and Slackware at that point).
Caveat: I run a FreeBSD / OSX / ESXi house, with Windows and various Linux distros in VMs. I work on whatever my clients use (at the moment Centos6 and Windows7 but spent significant time using SPARC and HPUX platforms)
Windows 98 was awful. It wasn't until Second Edition it became more sane, but it still paled behind what NT had become (I ran NT4 exclusively for my Windows usage by 1997 as I didn't see the point in anything else - it had OpenGL support and ran the games I played, and had good enough DirectX support to get low latency audio). After jumping to that level of stability, 9x/ME seemed ridiculous concepts.
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So given the choice of a car coming towards you and a cyclist in your direction you'd crash into the cyclist?
Perhaps you missed it, but clearly $3,300 isn't enough - http://slashdot.org/story/13/10/17/2337204/british-nhs-may-soon-no-longer-offer-free-care. Partly because much of the NHS is already stealth privatised no doubt though.
Citing the Daily Mail? Really?
You mean like this ? http://www.bmw.com/com/en/insights/technology/technology_guide/articles/head_up_display.html
Practically everyone I know with any investment in Apple products and iTunes uses it all the time. Home network sharing of iTunes libraries is great with a family, and its fundamental to much of the AppleTV functionality.
Yep - and NOD32 is even on Apple's list of software that has issues with iTunes...
In any case, the poster has problems with iTunes because of NOD32 - it is on Apple's list of software known to have an issue with iTunes. Some people have success by adding exceptions for iTunes.
iTunes replaces quite a few standard Windows services. Until a few versions ago there was a DNS resolver service, but I think it has been built into the client now. Yeah, iTunes does its own DNS lookups for some reason.
Presumably you mean mDNSResponder.exe - ie multicast DNS / bonjour which is used to discover other iTunes libraries on your network.
Why is this modded down?
No.
Regardless, this is fucking annoying now. Noon passed. Enough already.
Traditionally, you only have until noon to play an April fool prank. After that, the prankster is the fool.
Not least because noon passed in every timezone some hours ago.
I'd hope a 320mbit stream would sound *incredible* - maybe not 230 times the quality of CD such a bitrate could offer, but enough to put even the analogue audiophile purists in their place!
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Likewise, and in many cases the new guy is right. Of course, in some cases the new guy doesn't know anything, but there are many bad coders out there earning craploads as contractors.
Or daily rate. And yes, some contractors do work beyond the contracted hours if they get more out of the project than just the money...
I bitch about Windows 8, but its actually pretty good (I run it in a VM on OSX 10.8, and run Windows 7 at work). I have been using Start8 and Classic Shell (not sure which I prefer) but the default start screen is ok once you get used to it. My gripe is that the many things, such as the default PDF reader, are Metro apps which are confusing to get back to the desktop from; a big problem if you want to deploy it to "users". I'm sure they'll get used to it though.
In effect they are. Try running Windows 2000 on modern hardware (and XP isn't far off).
3.51 was great; sure, you had to deal with a load of applications not working properly (or at all) but it exposed a lot of the ones that were not written properly in the first place!
IMO the failure isnt the cost; it is that the integration has not been thought through.
When I open a PDF on Windows 8, from the desktop (for the first time), I do NOT expect to be transported into MetroLand, from which I cannot fathom how to get back to the desktop.
Touch interfaces are great. Supporting touch interfaces is a great idea. Windows 8 deployment of the idea is awful, however - the interface should augment an existing one not try and replace it.
There was NT 3.1. It was pretty good - it let you work out which Win16 applications did bad things and which did not.
Bad pattern.
NT existed before 1995.
ME existed after 2000.
XP at launch was fine, especially for home users.
Vista was shit. Aside from the nightmare software and driver issues, this was mainly because most of the machines sold as Vista capable in the early days were barely capable of running any GUI based OS, let alone one that Microsoft said could take over your life and leave you to trip out while the computer walked your dog whilst doing your ironing and helping you visit every website that doesn't use Javascript.
7 is quite nice.
8 is fine once you deal with the metro crap. In fact, 8 is incredible value for money - you can hop off the XP train for almost no money and get process isolation! woot!
Note: I've excluded the 9x train - as far as I'm concerned Windows was fine once NT 3.51 was released (at about the same time as Windows 95). NT4 just added the Windows 95 style GUI to an already stable platform for me (but then again, I was buying hardware that was stable with Redshit and Slackware at that point).
Caveat: I run a FreeBSD / OSX / ESXi house, with Windows and various Linux distros in VMs. I work on whatever my clients use (at the moment Centos6 and Windows7 but spent significant time using SPARC and HPUX platforms)
Windows 98 was awful. It wasn't until Second Edition it became more sane, but it still paled behind what NT had become (I ran NT4 exclusively for my Windows usage by 1997 as I didn't see the point in anything else - it had OpenGL support and ran the games I played, and had good enough DirectX support to get low latency audio). After jumping to that level of stability, 9x/ME seemed ridiculous concepts.