Re: what's a callback?

From: David (david.nospam_at_westcontrol.removethis.com)
Date: 12/27/04 

Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 09:52:07 +0100

On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 21:28:22 +0100, Frank Bemelman wrote:

>
> Grandma *is* more important. Complaining about a 20x boot time is nonsense.
> How many times do you boot? I turn on my computer each morning, get a
> coffee,
> turn on the radio and see what's in my inbox.
>
> Windows takes a lot of time to boot, because it checks a lot of things
> during
> the boot. Depending on what you installed on top of it, it may take a while
> longer. In a network, it takes another extra amount of time, getting a new
> IP address perhaps, making connections to other PC's that were part of the
> game the day before. Yes, that takes a bit of time.
>
> As a result, you can swap hardware, or put your entire drive in a new
> PC and it will work. Windows will discard old drivers for hardware that
> has dissapeared and try to find new drivers for the new hardware. That
> is incredibly impressive.

And how often does Grandma change the hardware in her computer? I don't
know about you, but I *know* when I make physical changes to my computer,
and would be quite happy to tell it that it needs to re-scan the hardware
 (USB and the like are obviously a different matter).

Last time I changed network cards on a Red Hat pc, I was informed on
boot-up that the network card had changed, and would I like to transfer
the old card's settings to the new card? Worked perfectly, even though
the cards were from different manufacturers. Last time I did the same
thing with windows (w2k), I was informed I had new hardware and the system
could look for suitable drivers. Of course, I couldn't download them
because the PC wasn't online, as the network card had no drivers. Thus I
had to figure out exactly what the new card was - this involved reading
chip types and other info and doing web searches (why can't manufacturers
put their name and the card type on the board?), followed by a download of
around 2.5 MB for a network driver ! This, of course, is too big for a
floppy and thus involved split zip files (or I could have burned a CD...).
 Once I'd finally got the drivers installed and working, I then had to
 manually re-configure the new card with my old (static) settings.

What was that you were saying about how impressive windows hardware
detection is?

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