> In a message of 27-Aug-99 Chris Wiles wrote:
>
> >> All crashes are failures in programming.
>
> > All? Everyone of them? Nice to see you are so logical Don. Not.
>
> Why? Isn't he right? All crashes are indeed failures in programming.
> Naturally the crash of one application might not be due to failures in the
> programming of the given application in an OS like AmigaOS, it might of
> course be the cause of failures in programming of the actual OS or other
> concurrent applications, but in the end it is still failures in
> programming.
>
Doh !I can't believe it. You're superstitious :). Stop propelling rumours !
Most of the crashes are in fact caused by COSMIC RADIATIONS!
In fact our rams are not well protected against cosmic
radiations, and it causes memory errors that can lead to enforcer hits,
memory leak,... up to the total crash of the machine.
Of course some manufacturers can sell you rams that are far better isolated
, I think IBM sells such items. But it's so expensive, that the minor nuisance
of having a heavily cosmic irradiated computer crashing now and then (often
on a given program, physics is made of coincidences) is usually not felt that
important by for example windows users..
The problem is some programs (mine amongst others ) make the computer
particularily sensitive to cosmic radiations. But it's a coincidence in
most cases.
What I usually suggest to do in case of softwares that seem to misbehave,
is to try to make it work making a hundred or two tries at different periods
of the year and, if possible in different places of the globe, to make sure
it's a bug.
Phil.
(feels better after that)
____________________________________________________________
Voyager Mailing List - Info & Archive: http://www.vapor.com/
For Listserver Help: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "HELP"
To Unsubscribe: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "UNSUBSCRIBE"
