On Fri, 05 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> What are you, a M$ plant? This is the wrong place to be espousing the
> value of M$ OS's! Besides, not everybody runs NT anyway. 95/98 DOES
> crash a lot. 2000 probably will too.
I'm a W98 user along with Mdk 6.0. I happen to agree with Sam's
remarks. Last week I expoused on how most people blame the OS
first, instead of last, and that is their biggest impediment to
solving their computer problems. I got the feeling that my opinion
wasn't well received. <shrug> I'll say it again tho, you'll be
best served lookin for what the USER is doing wrong as your first
step.
I ran W2.x, W3.x, several beta versions of W95, and of W98. I'll
still say, even considering W95 (specially the beta's), the most
common computer problems are a symptom of the interface between the
keyboard, mouse, and chair, ie., user caused. Next comes poorly
written, buggy applications, next comes hardware, then the OS might
be misconfigured (including bios), or be the source of the problem.
The only item there that maybe sometimes should be considered
first, is hardware. If you have a 'ready made' (Dell, Gateway,
etc.) and you made _any changes_ to the way it was shipped to you
(including OS upgrades/changes). These computers are put together
using spec'd, limited, and sometimes substandard components,
particularly the motherboard and bios. O/c'd hardware should often
rise to the top of the list also. But aren't both items above
'user caused' ?
I have another opinion, LU's are doin harm to the cause, when
they try to boost Linux by putting down Windows. Wouldn't it be
better to claim that while Windows is a very good OS, you believe
Linux is better?
. Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sam Gentile [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 12:00 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Cc: Sam Gentile
> Subject: RE: [newbie] MS releases new Windows and NT Keyboard (humor)
>
>
> I know this a joke but know what you are talking about before you speak -
> Windows 2000 is extremely stable and does not require reboots. I have been
> running it for almost 6 months now as my primary system including using huge
> server applications like SQL Server 7.0, and other things like Visual Studio
> 6.0, Borland's JBuilder and IT HAS NOT CRASHED ONCE. NO REBOOTS. The NT Team
> did an analysis of all situations in which re-boots are required in NT 4.0
> and came up with 78 situations. All but three have been eliminated. Change
> TCP parameters? No reboots. So I would caution you to have experience with
> what you speak of or you just spreading around crap and FUD and that is
> un-professional.
>
> Sam Gentile
> Principal Software Engineer� & Viridien Team Leader
> toysmart.com
> 170 High Street
> Waltham, MA 02454
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeanette Russo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 10:23 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] MS releases new Windows and NT Keyboard (humor)
