DVCS (was Re: Moving to D)

[Walter Bright]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> My failure list from most to least would be this:
> 
> 1. power supply / printer
> 2. optical drive / floppies (the disks, not the drives)
> 3. hard drive
> 4. monitor / mouse / fan
> 
> Never really had probems with anything else as far as I can remember. I had 
> a few 3dfx cards back in the day and never had the slightest bit of trouble 
> with any of them.
> 
> I used to go through a ton of power supplies until I finally stopped buying 
> the cheap ones. Printers kept giving me constant trouble, but the fairly 
> modern HP I have now seems to work ok (although the OEM software/driver is 
> complete and utter shit, but then OEM software usually is.)

My printer problems ended (mostly) when I finally spent the bux and got a laser 
printer. The (mostly) bit is because neither Windows nor Ubuntu support an HP 
2300 printer. Sigh.