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Originally Posted by Dave W
Hi,
I'm sure that I have the latest version of ebook library and the reader firmware. Both the reader and library appear to be working okay. Although, I occasionally get a failure of the library when I first try to use it. It's one of those windows messages that say the application has encountered a serious error and must close. When I restart it, it recognizes the reader and behaves okay.
Does anyone have any suggestions before I contact Sony? I'm not a big fan of the Vista operating system and can't wait to upgrade to Windows 7. I'm hoping that will be a better OS. I'm really suspicious of ebook libray as it interfaces with Vista. Anyone have similar experiences?
Dave W.
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Hi,
You may be interested to hear of my little tale. I have a few computers. My desktop runs freebsd which is a unix variant. My laptop USED to use vista (it came with the machine), it now used ubuntu_9.10 (if you don't know, this is a linux variant which is also a unix variant). It's a toshiba A300 satellite pro.
I had similar issues to you under vista (do not disconnect) which were resolved either by rebooting the machine, rebooting the reader, or ignoring completely. I also had issues where the sony stuff would autoload on plugin (I didn't want it to do this as i was using calibre). But if you're using vista, typically you'll shrug it off with "well, it's vista". There are lots of little issues like this. Broken wi-fi drivers,USB not starting or shutting down properly, broken access rights management, slow on a fast machine, 32bit, stuff like that.
The final straw for me happened when vista got hit by a trojan which, although various AV software can identify, none can remove at the time of writing. So i grabbed an iso of ubuntu from another machine, shut down the infected one and booted to the iso and grabbed all the stuff i wanted to keep, put onto a removable non-windows disk, installed ubuntu to the machine, installed amongst other things, calibre.
A well maintained unix machine is nowhere near as vulnerable to trojans as the equivalent windows machine, mostly down to how file ownership works. Ubuntu is very easy to keep up-to-date, calibre and usb mounting/dismounting work great, too.
The sony software is gone, and there are no more 'do not disconnect' messages, and I'm running in 64bit
