Dropping a b*ll*ck
28 June 2004, 05:30 PM
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Dropping a b*ll*ck
Dammit, bought myself a nice new shiny laptop (Athlon64 for running FreeBSD and frigging about with XP 64-bit) and only realised today that it's missing something I use very regularly: a serial port. Nuts.
Ah well, it is nice and fast, though
Ah well, it is nice and fast, though
28 June 2004, 05:35 PM
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are the 64bit windows xp released now then?
been waiting to get it for my new pc at home, want to see the damage it will cost, and weigh that up with what the pc will be used for - **** and games really :P and the occasional bit of wp
been waiting to get it for my new pc at home, want to see the damage it will cost, and weigh that up with what the pc will be used for - **** and games really :P and the occasional bit of wp
28 June 2004, 05:39 PM
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Same thing happened to me when I bought my laptop, think I rushed into it a bit didn't look into it enough. Saw it in the shop looked well cool, 2.6GHz P4 512MbDDR 2xUSB firewire. Wasn't till a couple of weeks later when I was thinking about buying a wireless router and a card for the laptop I then realised...... Knackers no PCMCIA slot
28 June 2004, 05:57 PM
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XP 64 not out yet, but you can register with MS for a beta copy that's time limited to 360 days and you *may* be able to get upgrades (their words). I'm registered with them as a system builder but thats easy enough to do, you could also register with MSDN to get access to it
28 June 2004, 06:24 PM
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Dell Latitude D600 = No PS2 ports, only USB. 
So if you want to run the laptop via a KVM (I do this a lot), you have to buy the port replicator. Thankfully, work cocked it up, so they paid for the replicator.
Cheers
Ian
So if you want to run the laptop via a KVM (I do this a lot), you have to buy the port replicator. Thankfully, work cocked it up, so they paid for the replicator.
Cheers
Ian
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Originally Posted by ajm
Its becoming the norm not to have a 9 pin serial port. Just had to buy a load of USB to RS232 adapters for people using early series Blackberry's! 
29 June 2004, 05:21 PM
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Lack of serial port is right pain in the ****.
Our telephone engineers must have a hardware serial port - 99.9% of the PBX programming software they use hate USB <> Serial widgets, so a proper port is essential.
Wanting a serial port doesn't have cut your choice of models down - none of the Acer business range have them at all.
Our telephone engineers must have a hardware serial port - 99.9% of the PBX programming software they use hate USB <> Serial widgets, so a proper port is essential.
Wanting a serial port doesn't have cut your choice of models down - none of the Acer business range have them at all.
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