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Wednesday, 11 June 2003
Put another hamster on the wheel!

Brought Theseus, my computer, to work with me today so I could reinstall XP and a lot of my software without having to stay up half the night to do it.

Lesson #1: An office ISDN line is not the thing to be downloading software on. Fortunately, I snagged all of yesterday's list through the cablemodem before I left for work, but there were still a few things I needed — Creative and kX drivers for my sound cards being the most essential. kX drivers and utilities for SBLive #2: 3.4MB. Creative drivers and utilities for SBLive #1: 23.4MB. If I didn't need to have a genuine Creative driver installed so I can use the Vienna SoundFont editor, I'd go with kX all the way.

Lesson #2: Boss gets unhappy when he can't check his stock quotes every five minutes because someone's hogging the ISDN line.

While obtaining the Creative drivers, I stumbled upon their Prodikeys computer-and-music keyboard. It's an intriguing product, but their Web site sucks. They claim it has "touch-sensitive" keys, but don't say whether that's velocity sensitivity or pressure sensitivity. They don't say if the keys are weighted, whether they're full-sized... Hopefully they'll send me some more complete technical specifications.

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