[Gllug] Whinge

[David Irvine]

Matthew Bunter wrote:

>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. 
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>Matt
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Heh win98 has just found yet another new canon bjc printer agghh!

That feature of windows is something that linux does very well with out.  

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>----- Original Message -----
>From: Nix <nix at esperi.demon.co.uk>
>To: gllug at linux.co.uk
>Sent: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 21:17:47 +0100 (GMT+01:00)
>Subject: Re: [Gllug] Whinge
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>>On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, will at hellacool.co.uk stipulated:
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>>>From: "David Damerell" <damerell at 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.
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>>You can't call *that* good UI design.
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>>-- 
>>`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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