Are we having fun yet JEAN?


Oct 17 10:41 04, JEAN PARROT wrote to PAUL WESTELL:

 PW>> I am running wireless -g with my lan, and hope to have a third box 
 PW>> running soon.

 JP>         I got you beat here, I already have three systems on WL.

Just give me time and I will catch up.

 JP>         You will not see me going to L***x. Not enough time left to
 JP>  learn. And others say that some USB devices do not run on L***x.
 JP>  Specifically scanners. Count me out. I guess for WP and WWW, L***x 
 JP> is
 JP>  useable but that would be all.

Each has advantages and weaknesses. For me, part of the appeal 
that linux has is the learning. It can be extremely frustrating 
however without a guru close at hand.

Yes USB can be flakey at times, but that is true of windows as 
well. I think most problems stem from BIOS/chipset 
incompatabilities. In my own experience the offender was the 
VIA chipset. Disabling the onboard services and adding a 
USB/Firewire card with an ALI chipset solved that problem. 

The windows box also has some problems with USB, but because 
microsoft has earnestly removed any useful hardware 
configurability I must live with it. Linux running on the same 
hardware has no problem at all.

 JP>         Yeeks 1 I just recently garbaged some 200 W P/S. You would 
 JP> have
 JP>         been welcomed to any of three.

Shipping would probably have been prohibitive anyway, but I was 
thinking smaller. Thank you very much anyway. Something will 
turn up, I'm in no rush.

 JP>         Yes. This very morn, my XP Pro kept reseting itself. I was 
 JP> able
 JP>  to get into Restore before it reset.

Come over to the dark side Jean ;)


It could be worse ...
Paul

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