Inexpensive digital microscope

I did, too, except that XP has far better support for multiple displays. In Win2K the drivers have to do all the heavy lifting. It's transparent in XP. I have to buy a new laptop and it looks like I'll be forced into Win7 but at least there is an XP mode available.

I prefer Win2K to XP, and XP to 7 (curves and all..).

..which may be different enough to genuine XP to hose you. Seven (of nine) is far softer..

On a sunny day (Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:31:51 -0700) it happened Joerg wrote in :

I burned my Xp disk because it was so 'good'. :-)

Jan , you could have done something else with the HD, see:

Jure Z.

On a sunny day (Sat, 22 Sep 2012 07:02:50 -0700) it happened "Jure Newsgroups" wrote in :

Thats is neat. I have a blue colored DVD+R disk glued to the front of a PC. Some Verbatim blurays are nice gold color, I have one that failed against the wall as decoration.

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Rip out the low-res camera and cobble up an adapter for your fave off the shelf USB camera's guts (so you don't have to use the Intel's kiddy interface), toss the special filament lamps and install your favorite brand of white LEDs, saw the foot off the base and substitute a decapitated illuminated lamp stand, snug up the focusing gears to get rid of the backlash, and it's a pretty good USB microscope.

I've got two of them.

Mark L. Fergerson

Perhaps but there is no choice.

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I don't even know if I still have it.

Sounds like the result is a product that you can market and sell..

I'm waiting to get that Atlas Lathe repaired, so I can make what I want from scratch.

Or use VMware and install XP.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Buy *another* license?

Clean campers, very kool.

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While 7 is not very toxic (not to say it is an any measure nearly as tolerable as XP) 8 is nearly as toxic as vista. Viva *nix.

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What? Are you saying they messed up Win 8 and it becoame worse again? What's it doing that makes it worse than XP in your opinion?

I am thinking of getting another system some day because I may need some more horsepower for heavy SPICE stuff. Maybe I should rush that decision before they obsolete Win 7.

I heard there is a theory, something about alternate releases of windows being the really bad ones :)

Never used it, but I gather it is ideal if you want your desktop experience to resemble a smartphone. So if you have a touchscreen, and don't use a keyboard or mouse, go for it!

I got a quickie Win8 demo at work, you have the choice of a win7-appearing desktop or a smartphone-appearing screen with big buttons and lots of touching :-). Oh, saelig has a nice-looking usb microscope. Haven't used it, says made by Cosview, 2.0 MP, choice of 640x480, 1280x960, 1600x1200, zooms from 5-200x, object distance 0-300 mm, stills and video, $60, see

Joerg writes:

I heard there is a theory, something about alternate releases of windows being the really bad ones :)

Never used it, but I gather it is ideal if you want your desktop experience to resemble a smartphone. So if you have a touchscreen, and don't use a keyboard or mouse, go for it!

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Well 7 has way more stupid glitz and shenanigans than XP and it is harder to turn off. Moreover admin controls are more borked in 7. It looks = like i may have to regedit one install to get it to see Internet.

Now for 8 they decided to have a common user interface across all screen sizes, from 320 by 240 all the way to 2560 by 1440 and want everything to be gesture based (tablet think). Plus another two tons of glitz to get = in the way of productivity.

Hopefully 8 will be as big a disaster for them as Vista. But a lot of the Vista problems was about device drivers, and i see no reason for that to return.

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