On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 22:50 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 08 Feb 2005, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > it's hardly used by anyone. > > > > I wonder why. By comparison, USB is a piece of shit. > > More expensive, What's more expensive? > one often gets a machine with a firewire host > adapter that just is not supported, So it's just dumb luck that a generic firewire card bought at CompUSA (a big chain, has stores all over the country) works per- fectly in Linux? > and there is USB2 which is > good enough and nearly always supported. USB2 is much slower than firewire, and if a slow device is plugged into a high-speed hub or daisy chain, the whole thing slows down. That is dumb-arse design, and people who are smart enough to use Linux shouldn't be that stupid. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "Bad artists always admire each other's work." Oscar Wilde
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