On July 25, 2004 07:25 am, Andrew Graupe wrote: > >Microsoft 2-step: shrug-reboot. The point is that this shouldn't happen as > >often as it does. Ignoring it only allows them to continue releasing beta > >quality SW and charging multple $100's for it. > > Just because these things shouldn't happen doesn't mean they don't > happen. Frankly, I don't think rebooting is too much of a hassle if it > doesn't happen every two minutes. I have had two BSOD in the past > month, and nothing before that since about 2002. Perhaps I'm lucky? >
"ignoring it only allows them to continue releasing beta quality SW and charging multple $100's for it." The only time linux ever locked up on me was because of a hardware failure. The only time linux ever refused to boot was because I mis-configured it. This with uptimes of months vs. hours. Ive had windows lock up on me overnight because apparently the screen saver was a bit too much for a 2GHz/512MB RAM under windows. I also know of it locking up when a game was left paused while my buddy ate supper. It was a fully patched relatively new XP install. It would be funny if it wasn't so pathetically sad. Im not saying linux is good because windows sucks. Im saying linux is good and windows does suck, regardless of comparison. However, comparing the two is night and day. Windows has been reduced to a gaming OS. Once linux gets a big enough market and more companies start releasing linux binaries, MS is in deep as for your fstab overwrite [in a different mail, same thread], etc-update asks you what to do with anything other than _very_ trivial changes. If it overwrote your fstab, it was probably your fault :) that's not meant as a put-down, Ive just come to realize with linux that when something goes wrong with software marked 'stable' its probably PEBCAK. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
