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[scrtr84]

Do you have to reinstall the Arbitron weeklies program often? I have it barf and require a re-install every few weeks. It also does not like Vista 64 too much, and my use of a lot of RAM and an SSD occasionally makes the Postgres index get ahead of the program itself.

Sounds like a computer issue, to me.

 

[Huff]

Do you have to reinstall the Arbitron weeklies program often? I have it barf and require a re-install every few weeks. It also does not like Vista 64 too much, and my use of a lot of RAM and an SSD occasionally makes the Postgres index get ahead of the program itself.

I haven't had any issues requiring re-installation, but I'm still on XP. To be fair, both Weeklies and Analysis Tool are much faster than they were even six months ago, but once you've started changing demos and dayparts in XTrends with just a pull-down instead of having to re-run an entire report, going back to the Weeklies software feels sluggish at best!

 

[davideduardo]

Do you have to reinstall the Arbitron weeklies program often? I have it barf and require a re-install every few weeks. It also does not like Vista 64 too much, and my use of a lot of RAM and an SSD occasionally makes the Postgres index get ahead of the program itself.

Sounds like a computer issue, to me.

Yeah, the computer is faster than the program. Had the same issue with XTrends PPM, but worked several hours with the Cornerstone folks and Brad came up with a fix rather quickly. It looks like the dual proccesors going on the 64 bit OS, coupled with 8 gig fast memory and an Intel SSD are a configuration Arbitron just did not anticipate.

 

[scrtr84]

Do you have to reinstall the Arbitron weeklies program often? I have it barf and require a re-install every few weeks. It also does not like Vista 64 too much, and my use of a lot of RAM and an SSD occasionally makes the Postgres index get ahead of the program itself.

Sounds like a computer issue, to me.

Yeah, the computer is faster than the program. Had the same issue with XTrends PPM, but worked several hours with the Cornerstone folks and Brad came up with a fix rather quickly. It looks like the dual proccesors going on the 64 bit OS, coupled with 8 gig fast memory and an Intel SSD are a configuration Arbitron just did not anticipate.

Shame on them. ;D

 

[davideduardo]

It looks like the dual proccesors going on the 64 bit OS, coupled with 8 gig fast memory and an Intel SSD are a configuration Arbitron just did not anticipate.

Shame on them. ;D

Arbitron has never been very good at providing useful and well designed user software. Arbitrends either crashed often or couldn't make connections, and its method of selecting markets and surveys was not good.

Maximiser, with its nag screens dating to 286 computers ("This is going to take a long time...#) and half a dozen clicks just to exit the program, plus un-sizable windows and a klunky interface was another example.

The PPM stuff is horribly slow, and the use of Postgres SQL instead of the Microsoft SQL is dumb... the Postgres uses system resources all the time, not just when the programs are loaded and they don't close when the application closes. While getting better on speed, the whole convoluted downloading and data installation process is klunky and hard for many people.

Fortunately, there is X-Trends.

 

[returnofbongo]

Hey, geeks. Take it outside. ;D