Really ... on a 2007 laptop ... hmmm. I agree with your suggestion and an all points bulletin has gone out to all my acquaintances.

What's really sad is that where I work, there is a storage closet with 10 or 15 old surplus obsolete unused laptops, some with serial ports. I asked the lady office manager if I could borrow 1 for an evening. "No, not unless its for company business" she replied, like any good clueless manager. I'm not in the habit of lying, so I informed her it was not for company buisiness. "Then no", she snapped like the smug fool that she is. Some Friday, I'll slip home with 1 of them and do the firmware deed in stealth in spite of her idiotic stance.