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They told me that hole was a speaker! I got so ripped off!!
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quote:Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: Uh, I presume you know what "Plug-n-Play" means, right?
Plug-n-Play: Connect a USB device to the computer, and have it instantly available for use.
I do know what "plug-n-play" is. You don't, but I don't expect anything more from someone who uses a "rolleyes" emoticon with such blatant disregard for the social lubrication of our civilisation.
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Sorry, I was a little heavy on the sarcasm there. No offense intended...
My argument, however, remains -- getting mad is about when the Plug-n-Play system fails to work as it should. Your last post seemed to suggest you didn't see (or accept) the connection between the two. That's all.
Now would be a bad time for that enormous "rolleyes" smiley from a while back, I assume...
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I always thought that Plug-n'-Pray was more appropriate anyway. So, I've had plenty of bad experiences on Macs as well as PCs with this.
By way of example, my Ricoh (I know!) digital camera does not/will not ever have an OSX driver. Just like that. Na, it's old. Get a new camera. OK, I'll get a Canon, they're cuter! Assheads... And but so then, my Canon LCD scanner which I like very much is only accessible by OSX applications while Classic is not running (but it's accessible by Classic Apps. Which was clever until I got Photoshop 7.0.)
On the other hand adding the second monitor was literally as easy as opening the case, plugging in the video card and hooking up the monitor. Like the first thing it did after startup was to ask me where I wanted to position the new desktop. Brilliant! The variety of digital video cameras I've used on a few projects have all plugged and played quite nicely with FCP3. Also the multiformat Memory Card reader I picked up (for US$20!) in lieu of buying a new digital camera has worked perfectly and without incident without any drivers or whatever.
And, and, and... I was curious about using Samba to access my PCs without using Dave, and too right it was easy. You just use "Connect to server..." in the finder menu. Fucking easy, that was.
Which is to say that I like plugging things in and just having them work and this has generally been a less common experience with my PC systems. Like it being generally preferential that you simply insert the proper cords between the peripheral and the machine and they sort out who is who and how over plugging the thing in and then nothing happening and then going back and trying to figure out what you did wrong, and like going to the website for the drivers, but the manual has the wrong URL and so you have to go poking around or maybe visit drivers.com or some bullshit and eventually you get something that seems like it ought to work and now you've spent like maybe a half-an-hour or so traking this thing down and it may not even work. (i.e. I still can't convince that Win2K box (for which I've lost the password, admittedly my fault) that I want to install Win 98SE over it. Even with the boot disks and DOS commands and advice everyone here was nice enough to turn me onto. The fdisk question looms in the air precisely the way a thundercloud wouldn't.)
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quote:Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: My argument, however, remains -- getting mad is about when the Plug-n-Play system fails to work as it should. Your last post seemed to suggest you didn't see (or accept) the connection between the two. That's all.
No. I got the joke. I simply thought it was shit.
I am also occasionally short-tempered, but some people like that, apparently. And Lee does occasionally miss people.
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I've never actually used Slackware Linux, so I don't know about the comparison, but I like the fact that my logo is J.R. "Bob" Dobbs.
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After going through the instructions on the site provided by Cartmaniac, I have now spoken to the guy I bought my PC from and he says that I need a network card in both - BUGGER!
Thanks for the advice everyone!
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Wow, Networking, Mac-hyperevangelism/Mac-baiting, David Foster Wallace, which-OS-are-you? and now Church of the Subgenius. Could this thread get any more relevant?
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