[time-nuts] M$-Vi$ta-compliant PC RTC clock card?

[Didier Juges]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com 
> [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On Behalf Of James Maynard
> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 7:03 PM
> To: time-nuts at febo.com
> Cc: support at beaglesoft.com; rick at cnssys.com
> Subject: [time-nuts] M$-Vi$ta-compliant PC RTC clock card?
> 
>...
> (I know that some on this list will say, "You nitwit, you 
> should be another OS than M$ Vista." Such replies will not be 
> helpful to me.)
> 
> James Maynard, K7KK
> Salem, Oregon, USA

It is not unusual, with Windows or any other OS, that new versions do not
support ALL the old hardware right out of the chute. If you do not get an
immediate solution to your problem from somebody who has already solved this
problem for you, you may have to either 1) become an MS Vista expert
yourself, find or develop a fix for the problem then write about it for the
masses or if you do not have and do not wish to develop the expertise
yourself, 2) fold back to something you know works until someone else
develops a solution, which may require you to buy new hardware.

It is also possible that some older software or hardware will NEVER work
with Vista because of choices Microsoft made in developing the new platform.
An example is some video/TV tuner cards such as the popular Wonder series by
ATI. These will never be supported under Vista simply because the new driver
model precludes supporting the different features of the card like the XP
driver model did. The cards can be made to work under Vista, but some
features that ATI consider essential to the product line are not supported
(such as running the driver as a service), therefore they will stop making
those cards. It sounds crazy that cards that were still being made when
Vista came out would not be supported, but such is life in the techno world.

Personally, I am in no hurry to switch to Vista. After being squarely in the
M$ bashing camp for a while (I still run Linux on a number of machines, at
home and at work), I am quite satisfied with XP as a desktop (restrictively)
as long as I have a Linux box or two within telnet/ssh distance to do the
heavy lifting :-) 

Didier KO4BB