Forget the Drivers
September 5th 2007 19:02
Since we’ve been in England we’ve been making great use of Skype to call our family and friends at home - and even to talk to family that are here. My brother-in-law bought a webcam to use with Skype and had an awful lot of trouble installing it. Finally his son managed to get it to work by downloading a driver that wasn’t included with the original machine!
Drivers can be an absolute pain. It’s okay if you have a disk with all the guff on it, and can just slot it in, but when you get something that should just work and it won’t it takes considerable trial and error to get it functioning.
On the plus side, we bought a flash drive today, a 4 gig one, because the smaller pen drive we brought with us from NZ was running out of room - all these photos we’re taking. This flash drive slotted into the computer and was up and running in seconds. It’s a Kingston USB2.0 DataTraveler, for anyone who’s interested.
Equally, when my brother-in-law rang tonight, we were able to watch him on his webcam talking to us. Suddenly the young eleven-year-old in the house came into the room with her webcam and suggested we try it. It plugged in and worked in a matter of seconds.
That’s my kind of machine.
Drivers can be an absolute pain. It’s okay if you have a disk with all the guff on it, and can just slot it in, but when you get something that should just work and it won’t it takes considerable trial and error to get it functioning.
On the plus side, we bought a flash drive today, a 4 gig one, because the smaller pen drive we brought with us from NZ was running out of room - all these photos we’re taking. This flash drive slotted into the computer and was up and running in seconds. It’s a Kingston USB2.0 DataTraveler, for anyone who’s interested.
Equally, when my brother-in-law rang tonight, we were able to watch him on his webcam talking to us. Suddenly the young eleven-year-old in the house came into the room with her webcam and suggested we try it. It plugged in and worked in a matter of seconds.
That’s my kind of machine.
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