Re: Subject: Re: Linux sucks?

From: Les Mikesell (les_at_futuresource.com)
Date: 02/15/05

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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:09:08 -0600

    On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 15:15, Tor Harald Thorland wrote:
    > >
    > > Instead, XP users hit this when they add hardware and the 'automatic
    > > detection' goes to work. Good examples are the 3Com cards that have
    > > you put a CD in *before* installing the hardware so that the hardware
    > > detection can be tweaked or disabled. This wreaks havoc on a reinstall
    > > because you end up physically pulling hardware out of the box and
    > > trying to put it back in the right order in order to avoid the plug
    > > and play from killing the install. On Linux, the cards just work.
    > >
    > A little funny issue from me too,,,
    > Did a webupdate from microsoft on a computer running XP Home yesterday,
    > and it did a "upgrade" on a mouse driver (from the microsoft site)
    > The update needed a restart, and when I pressed the OK button the PC
    > went to the "blue screen". When I rebooted it, it went fine until the XP
    > logo showed up, then the computer restarted by it self. And restarted
    > and restarted.
    > I tryed the "last working setup" from the "rescue screen".... And it
    > didn't work either
    > In the end I had to reinstall!!

    Another fun one is to try to install any flavor of windows on a
    box with no floppy and the latest Adaptec scsi controller (i.e.
    a typical rack-mount server). Windows will let you add drivers
    during the install, but the only place you can load them is
    from a floppy. 

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  Les Mikesell
   les@futuresource.com
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