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BabbleGrabble · Joined: 21 Nov 2007 Posts: 589 Location: San Francisco

Elvis, thanks for all the xtra tips, man. I thought you were kidding around the whole time. I hope I can return the favor soon.
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Silas Scarborough · Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 1178 Location: Rhode Island

Zak's right. Fewer packet delivery retries over cable vs over air so inevitably faster / more reliable performance.
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elvisduffy · Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Posts: 191

Hey Babble, worry not about the tips. I'm most concerned about annoying folks. The wired connection seem to have fixed it.

But,,,,,,, I still get stone frozen crashes. But, hey, that's progress.
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Silas Scarborough · Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 1178 Location: Rhode Island

Woot Elvis!

I'm really wondering about how VMware would do on a MacBook Pro. If anyone has responded to that, I apologize. I'm just so blown away by the stability of Windows and SL on the Mac that'd it be worth the seventy or eighty bucks for VMware Fusion to put the problem away and get back to the jams.

I don't think it's unrealistic as Nicecast needs some juice but not all that much. Depending on what you're using for audio, you could be sucking up quite a bit. I'll guess GarageBand as I get one hell of a kick out using it for live. Any dynamic changes GB or whatever is making to the track can cost you huge cycles and that's anywhere from simply panning from side to side or hitting it, especially, with an effects processor like Guitar Rig. If you're doing anything like that then you might well into compute problems.

Within SL, you could, for the sake of a gig, minimize cycles by disabling particles and generally dumbing down your SL graphics. The more client-side processing SL is doing, the more likely the computer ends up going down a wormhole when it runs out of cycles. You know Macs, it won't crash, but it won't be very much fun to use at all.

One other huge perk from VMware Fusion is that I'm pretty sure it can capture a snapshot of the virtual system image and save it for close to instant Windows start-ups without being invasive to OS X at all. That's some pretty smart code but it'd be positively brilliant if it can capture a snapshot with applications running. Damn hackers are sissyboys next to people who can write code like that. I've been writing code for a long time and I'm definitely impressed.

Wise guys may be thinking, what's the big deal when you can disable the Windows process, write the memory it owns to disk and *whizzo* you've got an instant-loading OS. Mebbe so. Mebbe so.

(I'm figuring this isn't altogether a hijack but Elvis has his bug fixed so might as well run with other potentials for a bit.)
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elvisduffy · Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Posts: 191

I've started reading about VMware on their site. If that's the solution it'll have to do. Not too excited about the Windows thing as I've never used it at all. Somehow that sounds like it's gonna cost $ to buy software for Windows, which I don't really want to have to learn.

But, there's been many things I've had to do in the name of progress and stability.

fwiw I'm sending a full mix into an MBox into Nicecast. SL runs on the same computer. Not running any other audio app like Garageband on that machine.

Yep, Norris, untill today all my shows have been wireless. I didn't lose the Nicecast signal with the wire, but I did have a total screen freeze up. I found info about Macbooks having that problem but my vid card wasn't the same as the supposed offenders.

It's a bit of a hijack from the multiple posts, but it's still Mac related.

Cool

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