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re: Will the end of XP support, end the code nuisance ?
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 5:14 pm
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Posted by gewg_ (4444 messages posted)


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Alan wrote:
|I don't know if a USB port broadband modem
|would just take off like that in 98 without some kind of driver.
|
Not a chance--even simple mass storage devices need a separate driver with 9x.

|I suspect linux would.
|
http://google.com/search?q="The.best.hardware.support.of.ANY.OS"

|Just to be on the safe side .... are there any sites that have special drivers ?
|
I wouldn't hand over my cash in a store
nor reveal a credit card number to an online vendor
*UNTIL* I had a disk in my hot little hand
containing the device driver for the device being pushed
AND HAD VERIFIED THAT IT WAS FOR *MY* OS.

Booting to a Linux CD in the store and seeing the device working there
would be the Gold Standard for a Linux user.[1]

|Murphy hides under my bed.
|
...and Sturgeon is in the closet.
http://google.com/search?q="Ninety.percent.of.everything.is.crap"


[1] Assumes the "Buy More" store has been assimilated by The Borg
and won't install Linux on anything.
(Does anybody else like the show "Chuck"?)




Written in response to:
re: Will the end of XP support, end the code nuisance ? (Alan: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 3:18 pm)

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*re: Will the end of XP support, end the code nuisance ? (Alan: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 5:20 pm)

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-Will the end of XP support, end the code nuisance ? (Alan: Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 1:56 pm)
-re: Will the end of XP support, end the code nuisance ? (Steve: Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 2:50 pm)
*re: Will the end of XP support, end the code nuisance ? (Alan: Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 3:13 pm)
-re: Will the end of XP support, end the code nuisance ? (Steve: Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 3:06 pm)
-re: Will the end of XP support, end the code nuisance ? (Alan: Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 3:18 pm)
-re: Will the end of XP support, end the code nuisance ? (Steve: Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 3:30 pm)
-re: Will the end of XP support, end the code nuisance ? (Alan: Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 3:41 pm)
-re: Will the end of XP support, end the code nuisance ? (Steve: Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 3:56 pm)
-re: Will the end of XP support, end the code nuisance ? (Alan: Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 4:28 pm)
*re: Will the end of XP support, end the code nuisance ? (gewg_: Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 5:16 pm)
-re: Will the end of XP support, end the code nuisance ? (Alan: Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 5:00 pm)
-re: Will the end of XP support, end the code nuisance ? (Steve: Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 6:33 pm)
*re: Will the end of XP support, end the code nuisance ? (Alan: Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 7:12 pm)
-re: Will the end of XP support, end the code nuisance ? (gewg_: Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 5:14 pm)
*re: Will the end of XP support, end the code nuisance ? (Alan: Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 5:20 pm)
-re: Will the end of XP support, end the code nuisance ? (gewg_: Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 3:36 pm)
-re: Will the end of XP support, end the code nuisance ? (Alan: Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 3:55 pm)
-re: Will the end of XP support, end the code nuisance ? (Arminius: Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 5:16 pm)
-re: Will the end of XP support, end the code nuisance ? (Arminius: Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 5:19 pm)
-re: Will the end of XP support, end the code nuisance ? (gewg_: Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 5:25 pm)
-re: Will the end of XP support, end the code nuisance ? (Arminius: Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 6:20 pm)
*re: Will the end of XP support, end the code nuisance ? (gewg_: Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 6:41 pm)
-Another alternative? (was:...XP...) (gewg_: Thu, Sep 17, 2009, 10:02 am)
-re: Another alternative? (was:...XP...) (Arminius: Thu, Sep 17, 2009, 9:22 pm)
*re: Another alternative? (was:...XP...) (gewg_: Thu, Sep 17, 2009, 10:40 pm)
-re: Another alternative? (was:...XP...) (Arminius: Sat, Sep 26, 2009, 8:53 pm)
-re: Another alternative? (was:...XP...) (gewg_: Sun, Sep 27, 2009, 2:05 pm)
-re: Another alternative? (was:...XP...) (Arminius: Sun, Sep 27, 2009, 5:00 pm)
*re: Another alternative? (was:...XP...) (gewg_: Sun, Sep 27, 2009, 11:38 pm)
-re: Will the end of XP support, end the code nuisance ? (Alan: Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 5:03 pm)
-An OS that doesn't require activation (was:...XP...) (gewg_: Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 6:46 pm)
*re: An OS that doesn't require activation (was:...XP...) (Alan: Wed, Sep 16, 2009, 7:27 pm)
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