William Sommerwerck wrote:
Take for example an epson 1680 scanner, or tons of other devices.
Moving it will require a reinstallation of the driver, and you can't
just point Windows at the location of the drivers, which are already
there. Printers are notorious for this bull****, too.

No wonder you're farbissen.

I've never seen this with USB. USB is keyed to the device's description --
not to a specific port.

wrong.

the port a device is on is somehow a big deal. Why? I can't explain why
people do stupid things, but they do.

Intelligent technical people developed stuff like ethernet, where you can
move everything around and it works.

dumbasses made USB, where that's not the case, and you end up with stuff
like CDs with WARNINGS IN CAPS!!! DANGER INSTALL DRIVERS BEFORE PLUGGING
IN DEVICE.

I've never seen that warning on a parallel port, serial port, starlan
adapter port, arcnet adapter port, tokenring port, FDDI port, ethernet
port, SCSI port, Fibre Channel port, or anything, ever period.

USB = total ****.