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  • Windows 10 Creators Update Is Sucking Wind

    billroper Aug 03, 2017 22:48

    I got some help from tech support at Universal Audio, although eventually I just gave up, uninstalled the UA drivers, reinstalled the UA drivers, found that didn't help, repaired the UA drivers, found that didn't help, uninstalled the UA drivers, reinstalled the UA drivers, and finally I was able to load UA plugins inside of Cubase. Gack ( Read more... )

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  • Me Vs. Windows and Cubase

    billroper Aug 02, 2017 21:45

    This seems an inherently unfair match up. There's only one of me and there are thousands of people working to make things not work when you get an OS upgrade ( Read more... )

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  • Me vs. The Compiler

    billroper Mar 30, 2017 23:49

    I figured out the source of yesterday's problem.

    I had put in a forward definition for a class in a header file so that I could declare a pointer to an object of that type inside the class that was defined in the header file. Like this:

    class AnotherClass;

    class ThisClass
    {
    ...
    AnotherClass* anotherClassInstance;
    };

    When I destroy ( Read more... )

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  • Obviously, I Should Have Made a Backup

    billroper Jan 31, 2016 22:05

    Foolishly, I trusted Microsoft's assurances that the girls' computer and apps were Windows 10 compatible. Foolishly, I believed that things could be rolled back the same day that I'd run the Windows 10 upgrade ( Read more... )

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  • Microsoft Lies, I Shouldn't Be Surprised

    billroper Jan 30, 2016 21:28

    So since Microsoft claimed that Windows 10 was compatible with the newer of the bedroom computers and the apps installed there, I figured I'd go ahead and run the upgrade from Windows 7. It looked like everything ran fine ( Read more... )

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  • George Washington's Computer vs. Windows 10

    billroper Jan 17, 2016 23:20

    A bit less than eight years ago when I was building George Washington's Computer (so named, because I have replaced everything on it except the motherboard, CPU, and RAM), I made a mistake. I decided that I would install 32-bit Windows Vista Ultimate instead of the 64-bit version. Despite the fact that I've upgraded from Vista to Windows 7 and ( Read more... )

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  • Another Splendid Windows 10 Experience

    billroper Dec 15, 2015 10:07

    So after my enforced Windows 10 update from last night, I attempted to log in this morning ( Read more... )

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  • The Annoyance of Windows 10

    billroper Dec 14, 2015 23:15

    Ever since I installed Windows 10 Professional on George Washington's Computer, it has become decidedly less stable. The video drivers are crap and reset themselves frequently with no real pattern. Sometimes, the machine just crashes and reboots itself, probably due to the same crappy video driverz ( Read more... )

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  • Windows 10 Woes

    billroper Nov 25, 2015 23:48

    George Washington's computer is not reacting well to the upgrade to Windows 10. It has developed an annoying habit of restarting the display driver and/or rebooting the system. Apparently, the NVidia drivers for 32-bit Windows 10 are buggy as all get out ( Read more... )

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