Thanks Rocker.

My system is a vista 64 win 7 to a Bose L1 through their version of 'mixer'. I hear weird stuff, as I said to the audiologist some stuff she was playing to me was a puff of air, and she said it was a tone.

I know little about the whole thing. I did write some crazy serious software for a local company who made a box in which you tested hearing aids and shipped them all over the world. But it was a Unix system that you put in the order and it faxed overnight confirmation, then when your product reached stage 1 sub assembly they got fax 2, then when it was at 1/2 done another fax went out, and when finished again, and when tested again another one, and when shipped again. All customer service. I did the inventory software, the picking program, the tracking faxing stuff, and they were a great company, paid the day you did the work, and treated me great. About 20 people worked there, and they were so impressed with the computers they bought and the programs. Never complained. I might have quit firefighting and done the computer thing full time, but I had too good a pension and too much potential so I kept on the 2 jobs thing until my Doc told me I was too old to work that many hours.

I found out the other day that 3 companies are still using thousands of lines of code I wrote, one told me that their stuff is still running on my stuff I did in 85. I should have asked for an annual royalty!

I remember one of the markets for the hearing aid tester was Australia and they had 200 units there. The testimonial I read about the customer service via the faxes was the reason they bought 10 more, and I got a $500 unasked for bonus for the letter. But it was the owners, the staff and the employees who told me this was a good idea, but too hard to do and still run the place, so the automation was, in the end, a lot of fun.

I remain of the opinion that the sky is the limit with a Linux Unix system, you have so much creative control.

Oh well, off to bed!

John Conley
Musica est vita