On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Carol Stein wrote: > Wow... I can't believe you trusted something MS said in *1998*. Didn't > you learn from *everyone* else's experience with MS, over the previous > -- what, 15 years?? Some people are slow learners, but most people are not yet that long in the industry. I made the consistent observation that people tend to disbelieve the long list of immoral business practices Redmond has been engaging in. When they realized they have been fooled, interestingly enough they blamed the messenger that brought the bad news -- me. Nowadays, I just let people use whatever they're using, and we're both much happier that way. Once I get an employer not using Redmond systems my peace of mind will be complete. > You're in a good minority -- NASA, for example, still uses 486 *chips*! Hot semiconductors are short-lived. > One of the problems of the MS tweaking is that major new software all > tends, increasingly, to be written by MS (which, alone, can be sure it > won't be obsoleted by the next OS change). I refuse to give up my > excellent, working, mostly interoperable software. I am very worried > about how I am going to port my software to the wearable PC I've been > awaiting since June 1998, since it (software) probably won't install > or run properly under XP, or whatever other OS's are offered with the > machine. Long ago I solved that problem by going open source. It is rather trivial to port from an application tarball, especially if you avoid the cutting edge. Stability is greatly preferrable over change for change's sake. > Can anyone tell me how impossible it will be to take a wearable (such > as OQO or Antelope's model), strip out the existing OS, and replace it > with, say, NT? Will I have serious driver issues for absolutely I personally would avoid Redmond OSses on your wearable. Especially, unsupported Redmond OSses on bleeding edge hardware (NT and USB? Uck). I realize you got hooked already, but the longer you take to go into detox, the worse it will get. > everything in the machine? In fact, my workhorse b&w laser printer is > the old HP LJ4, which only has a parallel port (but my media costs are > only about 3 cents/page, for as long as I can continue to find > cartridges on eBay). Will I have to buy a new printer, since these > machines (and their extensions/cradles) probably won't have a parallel > port? I better solution would be a wearable with a standard FastEthernet port. Or IEEE 1394, 802.11b or 802.11a. Then you just dock into your home network, or wherever your're roaming. -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/expander/false domain
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