This IS the Avid L2: [Avid-L2] Re: My PC spazzed out big time?

Yeah I should have seen it coming when I was typing out punch cards and flipping front panel switches on the DEC 11/10 smart terminals in programming classes for Fortran back in the late 70's at Berkeley. These computer devices have on purpose, TO MESS WITH JOHN MOORE!!! I'll never forget my first infinite loop on the batch system IBM 30-30 double precision number cruncher that took up most of the floor of the building. I think the issues I run into are the kind of things a staff engineer would resolve or not let happen at all but many production companies have ad hoc editing setups that have never seen a day of maintenance and weren't even set up properly in the first place. Not to mention some of the kludged systems I see from rental houses. I find it insulting to have an Avid rental bay that comes with a standard, not Avid symboled, keyboard. Sure we all kinda no the buttons but why make people think about the keyboard? I'm sure somewhere in the past I really pissed off both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates because there must be some magic break point traps or easter eggs reserved for whenever I log onto any of their gear. ;-) I think a lot of my current buggy issues are because they are still on SNDX 6.0.1. I can't really upgrade this system without the normal staff editor being here, that would be wrong. I'd like to call the maintenance department but oh wait, what maintenance department? ;-(

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, namyrb wrote:
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> It seems like you just have bad luck with anything that has to do with
> computers...
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> But my Avid 6 experience was just terrible until 6.0.3 was released. Been
> running 6.0.3 on 10.7.5 & W7 Pro SP1 pretty solidly for a while now. I
> haven't crashed on W7 in months. Maybe try upgrading.
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> As far as the super glitch goes, it sounds like a virus. Even if you're
> not connected to the internet, it's still possible for them to find their
> way in there. If it's not that then call HP.
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> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:51 PM, John Moore wrote:
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> > So par for the wonderful world of freelance I never get shown all the
> > gotchas in a particular bay until I sit down. Today back on a PC HP Z800
> > Windows 7 Professional Avid SNDX V 6.0.1.1 IIRC. I don't know why they
> > aren't on a later build but that's not my call. First the wacom intuos 4
> > was acting a little strange in symphony and the cursor would go from the
> > normal pointer arrow to the double arrows you get when moving the side of a
> > bin vertically or horizontally. It would act like a cursor just had the
> > look of the double arrows and then for some reason it would go back to
> > normal cursor. Curious but then the cursor started twitching with the
> > cursor bouncing up and down rapidly like a ghosting image. Grabbing the
> > mouse didn't help then it would stop. This happened a few times on and off
> > in symphony and photoshop. So I quit the programs and then watched the
> > cursor in twitch mode act like a pacman game on the desktop. It didn't eat
> > anything
> > but it started bouncing around and drawing out rectangles and moving icons
> > all over the desktop. Finally I grabbed an AE because I knew no one would
> > believe me and just chalk it up to the new guy who doesn't no doo doo.
> > After a reboot the system calmed down. The other issue I had was when I
> > went to make a new title from the pull down menu the title tool is all
> > white. If I turn the V button off the screen is black. I tried to select
> > all and delete but it didn't seem to work. The system did properly
> > recreate existing titles and let me open them and type over them but no way
> > to start a title from scratch. I'll try to investigate further tomorrow.
> > Is this a known bug I just didn't register because it hadn't happened to me
> > in my predominantly Mac land of Avid? If I didn't know better I'd say the
> > system was whacked on Crack and felt like Breaking Bad at my expense.
> >
> > John Moore
> >
> > Barking Trout Productions
> >
> > Studio City, CA
> >
> > bigfish@...
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