SJS wrote:
I have six UPSes at home. All of them have failed at one time or another. Batteries are consumable items, and who goes around replacing a UPS battery at home once a year "just in case"?
I have three, and all the batteries in mine are 8 years old. ouch! They all need to be replaced, but that's like a $400-$500 problem.
My linux box at work had a period where OOo would regularly lock up the system. An upgrade has fixed that, but it was one of those rather annoying and disturbing problems -- how can an _application_ screw with my machine so badly so as to require a 120-bounce?
OOo used to "discover" a *lot* of bugs in the X server. I ran into this problem a few years back as well. Usually it would just lock up X and you could kill it off, but on certain graphics chipsets it would actually take down the machine. I remember trying to hunt down the problem so I could fix it, but I lacked the time to actually fix it properly. That, and the problem was difficult to trigger when I wanted it to.
There's a separation failure in there somewhere.
Kind of. OOo talks to the X server, which up until recently talked *directly to the hardware*. Nowadays, X goes through the kernel more than directly, but there are still some things that go direct; for instance, GL drivers usually require direct access to the hardware.
Fun, innit? -kelsey -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
