Thanks, Shannon and Mark, for the information. I was being intentionally silly about sound card, but then I saw on Pricewatch. Will stick to the trusty old Soundblaster internal. Have a spare, just in case, from a clearance. Hope my next motherboard supports USB2. Have been looking at Fireware cards, but suspect an IRQ is required.
Will have to look at USB more closely for printer. My old one is beginning to make nasty noises rather than print. Notice a Xerox P8 laser for $140 on Pricewatch. The Xerox site says it has both parallel and USB connections. I've been running my inkjet as black and white for months anyway, so the laser looks attractive. Noticed I was replacing the color cartridge every 5 or 6 months to print one or two color pages per cartridge. Found that I could set the printer to do black and white only and it would ignore the color cartridge being out. Of course one can do so print job by print job, but the startup still wastes color ink. My wife's laptop has an inkjet printer with color, available in the event I needed color some day. I'm looking to the future setup in the house, where I plan a Linux box acting as Internet and print server. Has anyone had experience with the economy Xerox lasers? I further agree that the Clickers leadership tends to cheerleading for Microsoft. Could be the Club does get freebies partly, but also most work in Microsoft only shops. Did some part time teaching for a school now going under. Tried to sell them on letting me set up a curriculum in Computer Science that started with the student getting a used computer dedicated to study and installing and configuring Linux as a first course. The rest of the program would use that machine, later on networking it to some other system. Planned on sending the student a distro and a CD with text and instructions. Upper management had decided the place would be Microsoft only for the internal network and computers. I called it the virus farm. Choppy At 01:00 AM 1/3/02 -0600, Shannon wrote: >On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 21:41, Mark Orr wrote: > > On Wed, 02 Jan 2002 19:44:41 -0600 > > Chopin Cusachs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Also wonder how well parallel port backup drives would > > > work via printer adapter through USB hub. How would > > > the speed compare with the present parallel port? > > > > It wouldnt be much of an upgrade. With the proper ECP/EPP > > cable, a modern parallel port will do 3-5Mb/sec. USB has > > a theorhetical throughput of 12Mbps, but in practice it's > > much less than that. (usually 4-8Mb/sec). > > > >USB2 which is prevalent now is around 100Mbps. ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
