Re: ShopTalk: Outlook Express problem plus Messenger ads

[tflan]

I agree. Terminology becomes trivialized pretty quickly. No doubt you were in USN during the Pueblo crisis - I'm confident you're older'n me ;-) I was at the time working at Collins Radio as an Industrial Engineer. We built the electronics on board the Pueblo; the KG-22 signal generator, and the NTDS (Navy Tactical Deployment System.)  There wasn't an engineer at Collins who was worried that the Koreans had captured the equipment. We never could make it work, and we built it. Howinell could the Koreans make it work? They never did. The saddest part of that fiasco was that CDR Bucher was villified.   TFlan   ----- Original Message ----- From: Al Taylor To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 11:32 AM Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Outlook Express problem plus Messenger ads Hey Bud, I know that software can crash and burn hardware.  We had it in our electronics in some of our aircraft in the Navy. But of course, my puter isn't a government weapon.  The term crash, as in crash my hard drive, is probably misused. It could destroy all or part of the data, rendering the entire computer useless, but that wouldn't physically damage the hardware.  A crash by any other name is still in the mind of the user. ;-) Al