In article <47a8a92a$1@news.povray.org>, voi### [at] devnull says...
> Mike Raiford wrote:
> 
> > Sure, flash drives work easily enough, but any other piece of hardware
 
> > usually requires you follow a specific sequence before you even plug th
e 
> > device in. Otherwise, Windows (not sure how this works on other 
> > platforms) will do magically bad things, such as install a persistent
 
> > incorrect driver that takes several steps and a few sacrificed chickens
 
> > to remove.
> 
> Clearly I don't have enough USB gear - I haven't had that problem. 
> (Although something similar happened with a SCSI tape drive. But then, 
> it's a SCSI tape drive...)
> 
> Not that anybody cares, but I have an outboard USB sound card, USB MIDI
 
> interface, USB printer and a USB mouse. The mouse keeps not working... 
> everything else works flawlessly.
> 
Its mostly low end, 'cheapy', stuff in my experience. Like the 
inexpensive camera which a) didn't support **any** method to read its 
memory as a HD, under *any* OS, and b) would suffer a massive memory 
wipe if you *didn't* first install the drivers for it. Frankly, I wasn't 
real impressed with the HDSD reader I got free with the 4GB card... 
Stupid thing *acts* like its running through like USB v0.01 alpha or 
something.. It doesn't read anything, including non-SD at a normal speed 
and when trying to transfer large files (you know, anything bigger than 
about 100MB...) it actually crashes. Most stuff works fine. Most stuff 
designed by companies that have a clue work more or less OK without 
extra drivers, but the drivers are needed for more than just reading the 
internal memory. Then there are things like the v262 Motorola phone, 
which their driver/transfer software didn't support out of the box, 
needed two major patches to work, can't be accessed as a HD at all, and 
tended to frell the XP machine you installed the driver on for *all* 
phones, if something went wrong with XP SP2 and the driver, who didn't 
like each other much.

Yeah, most stuff works OK, once you do the disc switch shuffle, but some 
stuff.... Nothing short of an act of the FSM will get working acceptably 
(or maybe a sacrificed chicken).

-- 
void main () {

    if version = "Vista" {
      call slow_by_half();
      call DRM_everything();
    }
    call functional_code();
  }
  else
    call crash_windows();
}

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