Sources for 8b TTL keyboards (Keytronics)

[Jim Brain]

Angel Martin Alganza wrote:
> That is simply and absolutely ridiculous.  Having such a powerful
> beast with so many absurd restrictions to get it to somehow work is
> outrageous.  Such powerful boxes are to do intensive calculations on
> servers running real operating systems, or to just do gaming using the
> aberrant wannabe operating system.  Working (reliably and comfortably,
> as Tony and many of us want) and Windowing are not compatible. :-)
>   
I'll back Alex up here.  I use Windows and it holds my "life" on it.  By 
that, I mean I have everything I need on the unit, and I use it for 
work, for hobby, for correspondence, etc.  It gets put into hibernation 
mode many times a day, switches from 1 to 2 monitor setups, etc.  It is 
rock stable.

I don't have quite the laundry list that Alex notes.  I install updates, 
I run apps from untrusted sources in a VM first, I did disable some 
unneeded things (MSN, for example) long ago, but I don't use Task 
Manager for anything, and I use it just like most folks.  It's a hard 
worked, and a very dear laptop.  I do use Firefox and THunderbird, so as 
to avoid many of the virus trigger points (Firefox/Thunderbird give me a 
better view of where the hyperlinks are really taking me when I click on 
them.

I program AVRs, view all my reference documentation, do my board 
schematics and layouts, compile my source code, edit my code, correspond 
with folks, edit my documentation, watch movies, comvert movies for my 
media player, etc.

It's such a useful part of my toolbox, I won't go many places without 
it.  As I type this, it's sitting on my JottoDesk in the truck hooked 
into Verizon Internet via a cellular air card bouncing around while we 
drive through lower MI back from Toronto.

I don't know if "pleasure" is the right word, but I find it's a nice 
tool that allows me to concentrate on other things.  I don't "manage" it 
all that often, but I do take care of it.

I'd do the same things with my Linux box, so it's less the OS and more 
the setup and diligence.  I will agree that Windows gives one more 
options to undermine the stability of the OS, but it cna be a stable and 
useful OS.

Mind you, I'm talking about XP.  If we're discussing Vista, I'll back 
Angel and Tony up.  I have it here, but it does not appear to allow 
folks to concentrate on other things.