Re: quicktime - dibeng.dll

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Mitchell Spector (spec@vax2.concordia.ca) wrote:

: >: I'm not able to run quicktime vr on my pc (win95).
: >: The message is a "general protection fault in dibeng.dll at 0003:000046c9
: >:>
: >Well the best advice I could give would be to ditch that brand X thing and
: >get some good ol' Apple hardware.

:     Yep, good advice indeed, if basic problem solving is a scary
: concept and you feel proud about being totally helpless if/when
: your computer misbehaves.

There are guru types and utterly clueless types using every platform there
is. As far as misbehaving goes, one windows using guy I know is always 
complaining about having stuff blow out his windoes directory and having to
reinstall windows. I installed Mac OS 7.6 on my Quadra in Feb '97 and I've
since updated to 7.6.1. That's all I've hever had to do.

:     When you consider very few Macintosh owners are knowledgable
: about how their systems work or what it is doing (or even care
: in the first place), favor buying pre-packaged systems with every
: part inside choosen for them; And then need programs to hand-hold
: them through the most _trivial_ of tasks, don't think you Apple
: would be more truthful saying "Don't Think" rather than the
: current "Think Different" motto? :-)

Well Apple users typically don't know as much about how stuff works, sure.
The system was designed that way, and it's a selling point. Consider what
another windows using buddy went through to get a CD recorder to work: first,
he had to put in a SCSI card, and get an expert to move the jumpers around
to resolve IRQ conflicts so that his modem would work. He couldn't use the
SCSI card which came with his scanner since it wouldn't work on the CD's card
and the CD wouldn't work on it. So he has a SCSI card for each device. Next
he discovers that his internal CD won't work as a source device for copying
audio discs because it doesn't support some digital audio thingamabob. It
won't work to copy data CDs either since it's not a SCSI device. So he has to
copy discs to an image file using the CD-R then write them to a disc from 
there, all of which happens at double speed so an hour per disc. I just got
my CD-RW in the mail today and connected it and an external CD300 to my old
Quadra 700. It can copy CDs from the 300 to the RW, and supports audio copying.
It can do it directly from disc to disc, so no image is needed. Plus it seems
to do some SCSI manager 4.3 style async stuff since the RW's write light never
goes out until the copy is done. My windows using buddy wishes he had a Mac.

As far as the "buying pre-packaged systems with every part inside choosen 
for them" goes, just check out the Apple store ordering page and you'll see
that you can pick and choose what to put in your new Mac quite well.
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