[bookport] bookport] Re: TO LOCK OR NOT TO LOCK, THAT IS THE QUESTION
- From: <jcaldwell@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 11:13:34 -0500
I have to agree with David on this, if the reset key combination had a delay
on it, it might be a better idea than changing the key combination,
especially from the technical assistance perspective. I don't know about
the A P H Tech folks, but over the years I've personally encountered
situations when helping people with a variety of different devices, that if
you change a simple recovery method from operating system to operating
system, in a situation where a owner you might be trying to help doesn't
know anything about Operating systems, and if a device like a bookport
ceases to speak and you can't find out what version of an operating system
is on it, if the reset commands are different from OS to OS, you may not
know which reset command to even try, which could get sort of chancy if one
or the other combination might make the situation even worse. Some people
I've helped over the years don't even know what Operating System means.
I even once saw back in the late 1980's, a person do a reset of a
Micro-Computer device only to have it revert to a previous operating
system, which meant he had to reload the OS from a mass storage tape drive.
I myself have had some odd resets on the Bookport, and maybe one or 2 might
have been caused by a strap for a camera bag I use might have hit the 2 and
B at the same time, if a delay was used that may not have happened.
Jim Caldwell
From: "David Bennett" <
david382@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bookport] Re: TO LOCK OR NOT TO LOCK, THAT IS THE QUESTION
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 08:17:28 -0600
Here's another idea, and the one I'd favor. Leave the key combination the
same, but increase the delay time to maybe a couple of seconds. That way,
the keys would have to be held down much longer than would be afforded by an
accident. I, too have experienced a surprise reset on at least a couple of
occasions.
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