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]]> By: Paul Wormer http://www.edbott.com/weblog/2007/08/how-i-manage-device-drivers/comment-page-1/#comment-157220 Paul Wormer Sat, 11 Aug 2007 12:46:59 +0000 http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=1760#comment-157220 Off topic. Ed, you might find this mildly interesting. The Dutch consumers organization opened a site where Vista users can record their complaints: http://www2.consumentenbond.nl/acties/7351392/?ticket=nietlid They did this because new PCs are sold in The Netherlands with Vista installed (no choice offered) and apparently non-experienced users meet lots of problems, because "Vista has not been developed fully yet" (according to this organization). Paul. (Dutch reader of your Web log). Off topic. Ed, you might find this mildly interesting. The Dutch consumers organization opened a site where Vista users can record their complaints:
http://www2.consumentenbond.nl/acties/7351392/?ticket=nietlid
They did this because new PCs are sold in The Netherlands with Vista installed (no choice offered) and apparently non-experienced users meet lots of problems, because “Vista has not been developed fully yet” (according to this organization). Paul. (Dutch reader of your Web log).

]]> By: David Moisan http://www.edbott.com/weblog/2007/08/how-i-manage-device-drivers/comment-page-1/#comment-157192 David Moisan Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:01:21 +0000 http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=1760#comment-157192 Oftentimes, I have to make a folder like that even before I have a physical system! I recently bought a new server motherboard for my home SBS machine. Once I decided on the make and model, the fun began and I collected drivers! I burned these to a mini CD labelled with the name of my new motherboard. Only problem I had was when the manufacturer of the RAID controller on the motherboard sold its chipset and drivers to another company and I had a good time finding the new vendor to get the drivers from. As a result, I almost never use the driver CD in the box if I can get the drivers on the website beforehand. Only when I can't find the drivers or setup utilities online do I open the box for the CD. One problem I run into that's very irritating: Many driver packages from Dell and other big vendors don't have descriptive filenames; one driver for video might be labeled "EN16577.EXE". The "next" driver "EN16578.EXE" is usually something completely different. In neither case do you actually know what either file is for. There's no metadata standard to make sense of it. Worst case, you have to run the program to find out what it does. That's cute. Not. Oftentimes, I have to make a folder like that even before I have a physical system! I recently bought a new server motherboard for my home SBS machine. Once I decided on the make and model, the fun began and I collected drivers!

I burned these to a mini CD labelled with the name of my new motherboard. Only problem I had was when the manufacturer of the RAID controller on the motherboard sold its chipset and drivers to another company and I had a good time finding the new vendor to get the drivers from.

As a result, I almost never use the driver CD in the box if I can get the drivers on the website beforehand. Only when I can’t find the drivers or setup utilities online do I open the box for the CD.

One problem I run into that’s very irritating: Many driver packages from Dell and other big vendors don’t have descriptive filenames; one driver for video might be labeled “EN16577.EXE”. The “next” driver “EN16578.EXE” is usually something completely different. In neither case do you actually know what either file is for. There’s no metadata standard to make sense of it.

Worst case, you have to run the program to find out what it does. That’s cute. Not.

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