On May 28, 2008, at 12:58 PM, Yersinia wrote:
Um wait -- DRIVER SOFTWARE has a SHELF LIFE?! You mean drivers are
like
milk, say, which spoils around the time it reaches the expiration
date?!
:-O I've never heard of any such thing -- hey CE listers, have any
of YOU
heard of this before? Crashes from wrong or buggy drivers, yes, but
"on
the shelf too long?" Bea, if THAT'S what they told you was the
reason for
your crash -- until someone in here tells me different, I think you
were
dealing with "techies" who didn't know what they were talking about.
I assume by "on the shelf too long" what they meant was, the drivers
it shipped with worked ok with whatever OS revision was out at the
time, but not so well with the latest revision when the drivers were
actually installed.
But to me, more than having a "shelf life", I've never seen printer
drivers do the kind of damage that Bea reports as happened. And even
assuming the driver screwed up the OS, and screwed up both OS X and
OS 9, it still should have had no effect on Emailer at all. So I
think across the board, Bea was just dealing with a bunch of people
that didn't know what they were doing, and were just giving her
whatever easy lines they could.
-chris
<www.mythtech.net>
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