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Aidan Karley
In article <MPG.212e7021a6ad86ec98a5a7@news.individual.net>, Conor
wrote:
> > Your main
> > bugbear seems to be with networking, especially wifi.
>
> Wifi is very important for many people.
>
And extremely dangerous for most of the people who want to use
it (viz : anyone who handles any data of any sensitivity AND who isn't
a networking guru ; also it's completely unusable in any environments
that even intermittently *require* radio *silence*).
Regardless of the state of any OS's support for WiFi, relying on
WiFi support as an argument about the quality of a particular OS is no
better than relying on the state of the OS's support for encryption of
illegal pornography : it's not something that's appropriate for most
people.
--
Aidan Karley
Aberdeen, Scotland
Written at Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:16 +0100, but posted later.
Using VA 5.51 build 315 under Windows 2000 build 2195.
wrote:
> > Your main
> > bugbear seems to be with networking, especially wifi.
>
> Wifi is very important for many people.
>
And extremely dangerous for most of the people who want to use
it (viz : anyone who handles any data of any sensitivity AND who isn't
a networking guru ; also it's completely unusable in any environments
that even intermittently *require* radio *silence*).
Regardless of the state of any OS's support for WiFi, relying on
WiFi support as an argument about the quality of a particular OS is no
better than relying on the state of the OS's support for encryption of
illegal pornography : it's not something that's appropriate for most
people.
--
Aidan Karley
Aberdeen, Scotland
Written at Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:16 +0100, but posted later.
Using VA 5.51 build 315 under Windows 2000 build 2195.