Re: QL Stick.. >It's a Windows problem and there's nothing you can do about it - as far as >I know - it seems to get confused when you move it between different PC's >and it just can't cope anymore.
I'd argue that comment. I think its more to do with the quality and manufacture of your stick. The disgo brand (I work from 'em, so am probably biased!) are guaranteed to work on any USB enabled environment - I have used mine on linux, Apple Mac, and win 95,98,Me,XP home and Pro, 2000, NT4, and various server editions and SBS's all within minutes of each other with no problems - at consumer shows - and our returns rate is 0.02%, and most of these are user errors rather than hardware errors. >Mind you, isn't that the point of a 'stick' anyway ? Of course it is. Pointless having a portable device if only one machine can use it!! The idea is you can access files on any machine with a USB port. The quality of the USB sticks out there are very varied. Cost cutting in this market is huge, so quality suffers as the illusion is they all do the same job, so there is no difference. Talking to our resellers, the acer and fujitsu ones are cronically bad for failing totally, not saving data properly, or not working on certain systems. Those manufactured by M-Systems (ie. Using their chipsets) are brilliant. Disgo is one of these, and also bUSBi in the UK. There are a few issues around the Disgo caps coming off, (now solved on the new models) but I've only ever seen one that doesn't work. On another note we've just launched the X-Key - a disgo with 256-bit data encryption, and a safe environment application. You can use one of these in an internet café, drag and drop stuff onto the café machines desktop, using the PC as you would at home, and when you pull out the xkey, it automatically deletes all traces that you were ever there. Amazing product, but not cheap - about 5 times the price of an ordinary disgo. We also do USB keys with fingerprint recognition on them. <END PLUG> :-) Cheers, Darren. _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm