2008/6/11 Harold Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > That's why I said "rightly or wrongly". Many companies simply will not use > an unuspported version of anything. Of course security is an issue but many > companies will have firewalls and anti-virus software for that. But they > still won't continue with an unsupported OS. Logic doean't really enter into > it. It's **policy**. For a good study of company policy, see > http://www.mwls.co.uk/anecdotes/5monkeys.htm
I _do_ read the dailywtf :) >> Which gadgets and peripherals, specifically? I'd like to write to the >> manufacturers and request support. > > > Well, for example, an HP Scanjet 3770 with ReadIris Pro 9 OCR software that > scans into MS Word's .doc format and then invokes MS Word so you can > view/edit the result. Under Linux, how would I use it to scan into an > OpenOffice document and invoke OOo, for example? Feel free to propose a > different solution using the same hardware, free software and the same > ease-of-use. Oh, and the whole thing is started by pressing a button on the > scanner; in other words that button generates an interrupt of some sort that > some piece of software recognises. Is the OCR performed in the scanner or by software on the computer? In any case, I'll write to HP and ask them first hand. > Or a Linksys WPC54G PCMCIA wireless network card? Have you written to Linksys? I'll write to them, and I suggest that you do the same. The more letters they get, the more serious they will take Linux. > I grant that these *may* be possible. I'll bet they are not simple. > Stripping down a car engine is not a lot harder than learning the relevant > command line switches for "make" or "cc". I rebuilt competition engines for six years. I got the hang of it very quickly, a knack you might say, but not many people do. Competition engines especially, but also street engines, take a bit of an art to build properly. Especially things like boring the cylinder and lapping the valves. Not everyone has the touch. "make" I have done by copy-paste from whatever webpage had what I needed. > And a goodly part of the problem is the uncertainty. Every time one buys a > gadget one has to scour the net looking for drivers which may not exist > "yet", installation instructions, support when it doesn't work and on and > on. With Windows, if the gadget doesn't work one takes it back to the shop > and complains. This is true. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
