2 Dec
2005
2 Dec
'05
3:41 p.m.
On Fri, December 2, 2005 12:47 pm, Cini, Richard said:
On my PC at home, although I have "legacy" ports on my Shuttle XPC, I
don't
use them. I have a USB scanner and color printer. The laser printer is
attached to the network though a Netgear print server. The DV_cam connects
through FireWire and I use a card reader for the Memory Sticks from my
Sony camera.
Same here apart from the firewire stuff since I don't have anything that
uses it.
I personally have not had a problem with USB but maybe
I'm not looking
hard
enough :-)
I love USB - as a field engineer who has to deal with misbehaving PCs on a
far too regular basis* I find my USB key with SLAX Linux installed sorts
out an awful lot of the virus stroke worm problems we get in, also with
Alpha VMS 8.x I get true USB support on Alphas...rah! For PCs that won't
boot USB I've got a SLAX CD to boot which sets up a RAM disk like all the
other bootable distros but allows me to add modules from the USB key on an
ad-hoc basis.
*I should point out my speciality is VAX/Alpha but I have to know the M$
stuff too :o|
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