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Because they "just work", as opposed to those USB KB/Mice combos which will/will not work, depending on brand, type and whatnot. And then, they use two USB ports, which are rare by design.
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You obviously have never had to make a null modem adapter at 2:30 a.m. at a customer site because the fracking morons told you the wrong set of signals that they used for flow control.
RS-232 was a PITA. May it rot in its grave.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I believe the MS hardware spec of the year 2000 said that the COM ports should be removed and replaced with USB ports. It has taken 7 years to implement that...
John
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They don't have my permission to do that. I thought they were all about backward-compatibility.
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Good point. Serial ports started to get hard to find on laptops (as are parallel ports) some time ago.
When you work with embedded devices, serial ports are almost a required item. There are a lot of devices in the field that communicate via 232 or 485. In addition, a lot of inexpensive tools (e.g. Atmel's in-circuit programmer) require a serial port.
USB/RS232 adapters can be squirrely (especially if using a laptop with power management enabled).
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When I buy a new comp I look for company that installs the least amount of garbage. All I want is the hardware and an OS, nothing else; I have a hard enough time keeping junk off my PC.
I have no idea what's going on...
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ummoops wrote: least amount of garbage
Or you are trying to tell it very diplomatically? About a good per centage of the disk is just gobbled up by junk games, sh*t antivirus and other things, which just needs to be cleaned at the earliest before our customization for our system's good performance.
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least amount of garbage
- You are trying to tell it very diplomatically?
Well said. Some companies don't install any crap; just the OS and the minimal drivers to run the hardware.
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I tend to agree. The last thing I need is a bunch of advertising popping up every time I start it up. I already have an ISP etc… and do not want most of this garbage preinstalled. If I need any of that stuff, I know where to find it.
INTP
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."Edsger Dijkstra
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That's why I ask my dealer to just give me the plain OS CD. I'll set up everything from scratch by myself - no worries about preinstalled junk. I hate getting those recovery CD's, you can't even use when you have a problem that requires reinstalling/fixing a single part of the installation.
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Pater wrote: That's why I ask my dealer to just give me the plain OS CD
I usually get that or the lowest OS option and nuke the hard drive when I get it, installing my own stuff my way.
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Yep, wipe the drive first thing.
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It would be nice if MS would only provide an OS not a bunch of stuff I will never want or use.
djj
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Its very frustrating getting this crap as a business customer as then I have to spend hours of my time removing it.
John
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As a business user set up an image of your base configuration - every 12-18 months and burn it on.
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For every survey I see more or less some "CListCtrl" in the custom written choices, WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?
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A while back I asked the same question in a survey.
It seems it's an old story here in CP:
"Once upon a time, some one became a member and logged in to the CodeProject.com seeking an article about CListCtrl. He/She managed to search the web site, found a box on first page, put CListCtrl in it and hit Enter. Poor guy didn't notice the box is 'Other' option of the survey. That became a famous joke and after that some (funny)guys tried to keep that event alive. That's why we see CListCtrl every week, To remember it and have fun every week. "
// "Life is very short and is very fragile also." Yanni while (I'm_alive) { cout<<"I love programming."; }
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I'll join them
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guess you've never ordered a computer from dell eh?
there's been a CListCtrl customization option with dells for a while... I always get my super mega ultra 1337 h4x0R computers with CListCtrl's. makes a better gaming rig!
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that is because if CListCtrl does not work on the new desktop then it is pretty much useless.
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My room gets unpleasently hot during the summer, the last thing I need is a space heater
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ed welch wrote: My room gets unpleasently hot during the summer, the last thing I need is a space heater
Doesn't it sound paradoxical?
When it is hot, you are expecting for more heat?
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: the last thing I need is a space heater
thats L A S T
as in, of all the things he needs, that would be the last on the list.
or, more to the point, not the kind of thing he wants
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Heat Dissipation is not really what you need (at least in the context of your post). All that means is that the PC is good at transferring heats from the components to the rest of the universe.
Whether this dissipation is good or bad, for a given wattage, you'll reach a steady-state whereby the heat it generates being on is the heat lost to its surrounding (your room).
What you need are lower wattage components (except, perhaps, the power supply). Perhaps a more eco-friendly system. Look at power requirements of the system (particularly the CPU & hard drive). The lower they are, the less your mouse-controlled space heater will fry your frontal lobe.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
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Current days where geographic move owing to work conditions is more, there is also an increasing sale towards LapTops. And with laptops, I think, a few of the factors mentioned either would disappear or the line of demarcation amongst them would become more thinner.
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