The smell of newly purchased stuff... So, there I was, Hauppauge WinTV board in hand, Mandrake 10 installed and ready to rock! Little did I expect that it would come to this. But first things first.
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>Finally, as a resounding example of my statement above that under windows reinstallation seems to be the norm, my windows sysadmin wanted to reinstall the entire software on the backup server because he could not trace the fault!!!! Such a ghastly event is unheard of in UNIX/Linux circles.
Thats pretty much right, when something goes wrong in Windows, there is almost no way to fix it without reinstalling.
>Finally, as a resounding example of my statement above that under windows reinstallation seems to be the norm, my windows sysadmin wanted to reinstall the entire software on the backup server because he could not trace the fault!!!! Such a ghastly event is unheard of in UNIX/Linux circles.
Thats pretty much right, when something goes wrong in Windows, there is almost no way to fix it without reinstalling.