I have to cancel out of yet another discovery of my modem each time I boot up windows. After installing the same modem with the same drivers from the same CDROM on the same serial port, Windoze still insists that it has just made a new discovery. 

Matt

----- Original Message -----
From: Nix <nix@esperi.demon.co.uk>
To: gllug@linux.co.uk
Sent: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 21:17:47 +0100 (GMT+01:00)
Subject: Re: [Gllug] Whinge

> On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, will@hellacool.co.uk stipulated:
> > From: "David Damerell" <damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
> >> >and it *is* easier to add new hardware on windows especially for
> >> >novice users
> >>
> >> This is demonstrably false. I am not a novice Windows user and I live
> >> with a professional Windows admin; yet my recent hardware change has
> >> not been adequately resolved after four hours work and may yet require
> >> reinstallation of the OS.
> > 
> > I don't see how it is demonstrably false.  When I have plugged kit into a
> > windows machine it has generally worked, a lot of the time without actually
> > having to install drivers.
> 
> I've had cases with Windows telling me that it has found three `Unknown
> Devices', and could I insert the driver disk for the `Unknown
> Device'. Even though it could have determined at least what *class* of
> device this is (so I'd have known whether to insert a graphics card,
> network card, or PIIX bridge driver disk, or something entirely else),
> it didn't bother; or if it did, it didn't tell me, and there was no way
> to coerce it to.
> 
> You can't call *that* good UI design.
> 
> -- 
> `It's all about bossing computers around. Users have to say "please".
> Programmers get to say "do what I want NOW or the hard disk gets it".' -- Richard Heathfield on the nature of programming
> 
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