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

[Joseph Gray]

I don't remember the particulars, but not too long ago I read that someone 
figured out how to load unsigned drivers on Vista. You'll have to Google for 
it, as I don't remember where the details were posted. It is technically an 
unauthorized "hack", but it's your PC, so you can do what you think best.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Didier Juges" <didier at cox.net>
To: "'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement'" 
<time-nuts at febo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 7:05 PM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] M$-Vi$ta-compliant PC RTC clock card?


>
>
>> -----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
>
>
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