From: "Marin David Condic" <mcondic.auntie.spam@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Advantage of XML based GUI? (was Re: Ada-inspired OS/Language)
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 07:56:59 -0400
Date: 2002-09-16T11:57:24+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <am4gv4$21g$1@slb2.atl.mindspring.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: slrnaob4ja.o7.randhol+abuse@kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no
Well, software installation and driver installatin are two different things.
Ultimately, you really don't want to have the end user install drivers at
all. A user should be able to plug the device into the computer and it
should just work - no more complicated than installing a new lamp in your
livingroom. The problem with that is that you either a) have to have some
kind of common interface(s) specified so that the OS can talk to any device
of a specific class via an existing driver or b) have the new hardware
somehow load up the driver to the OS when it is plugged in. In either case,
you're talking about support from the hardware that may not exist in the
environment of interest. If you could get all the hardware guys to agree on
a standard and get the industry to say "Going forward, it shall be thus..."
the end user would have a lot easier time with it, but that's been
notoriously hard to achieve.
MDC
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Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> wrote in message
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> *Detected mouse movement! Please stand by while rebooting to update
> changes.*
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> Installing software on Windows is a pain in the neck and extremely time
> consuming compared to Linux. Besides with Linux you learn something.
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2002-08-20 14:10 Ada-inspired OS/Language Ryan
2002-08-20 14:34 ` Jim Rogers
2002-08-20 14:59 ` Darren New
2002-08-20 17:57 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-08-29 22:24 ` Nick Roberts
2002-08-30 13:33 ` Marin D. Condic
2002-08-31 3:38 ` Nick Roberts
2002-08-31 13:54 ` Marin David Condic
2002-09-04 16:47 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2002-09-04 17:24 ` Darren New
2002-09-05 3:16 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-05 8:41 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-09-12 2:17 ` Rod Haper
2002-09-06 17:31 ` Richard Riehle
2002-09-07 0:23 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-07 13:43 ` Marin David Condic
2002-09-07 15:18 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-08 22:14 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-09-09 10:27 ` Advantage of XML based GUI? (was Re: Ada-inspired OS/Language) Preben Randhol
2002-09-09 14:27 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-09-09 14:02 ` Marin David Condic
2002-09-09 14:43 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-09 21:58 ` Ryan Tarpine
2002-09-11 16:40 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-09-12 10:01 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-09-12 16:43 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-09-12 18:54 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-09-12 21:22 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-09-13 12:15 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-09-10 5:21 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-09-10 5:21 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-09-10 12:31 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-10 13:16 ` Marin David Condic
2002-09-15 19:49 ` Christopher Browne
2002-09-10 22:32 ` achrist
2002-09-11 4:45 ` Christopher Browne
2002-09-11 5:59 ` achrist
2002-09-12 14:55 ` Christopher Browne
2002-09-11 2:28 ` Ted Dennison
2002-09-11 13:54 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-09-11 14:06 ` Programmer Dude
2002-09-11 19:48 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-12 8:02 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-12 14:27 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-09-18 17:49 ` Andrew Berg
2002-09-18 23:13 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-09-12 16:12 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-12 16:45 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-12 17:03 ` David C. Hoos
2002-09-13 7:57 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-13 19:55 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-14 12:59 ` Marin David Condic
2002-09-16 5:20 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-09-16 8:16 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-16 11:47 ` Marin David Condic
2002-09-16 12:08 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-17 12:04 ` Marin David Condic
2002-09-12 18:57 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-09-13 8:01 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-13 12:23 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-09-13 15:32 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-13 1:53 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-13 8:24 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-13 19:55 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-14 15:42 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-09-14 16:19 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-09-15 3:31 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-15 5:50 ` Mark Biggar
2002-09-15 8:38 ` achrist
2002-09-15 21:54 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-16 15:26 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-09-17 2:36 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-17 4:07 ` Larry Kilgallen
[not found] ` <jHHM$fQsCilo@eisneOrganization: LJK Software <bNwUY4VpTlxs@eisner.encompasserve.org>
2002-09-17 22:05 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-12 17:23 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-09-13 0:45 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-09-13 8:10 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-13 17:44 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-09-13 1:53 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-13 3:02 ` Robert A Duff
2002-09-13 10:50 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2002-09-13 17:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-09-13 19:55 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-12 20:36 ` chris.danx
2002-09-13 1:53 ` Nick Roberts
2002-09-13 12:14 ` Marin David Condic
2002-09-13 15:29 ` Robert A Duff
2002-09-13 17:02 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-09-14 12:49 ` Marin David Condic
2002-09-16 8:14 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-16 11:56 ` Marin David Condic [this message]
2002-09-13 17:27 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-09-16 7:55 ` Mats Karlssohn
2002-09-13 15:34 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-09-09 10:00 ` Ada-inspired OS/Language Peter Hermann
2002-08-30 23:56 ` Samuel Tardieu
[not found] <000201c25b4d$2a9eba10$789a0844@robertqgx6k4x9>
2002-09-14 6:17 ` Advantage of XML based GUI? (was Re: Ada-inspired OS/Language) Robert C. Leif
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