Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 22:38:50 09/13/02
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On September 13, 2002 at 17:16:10, Eugene Nalimov wrote:
>On September 13, 2002 at 11:27:43, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>> [ ... deleted ...]
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>>The OS is inherently lousy.
>>
>>An buggy application can corrupt the OS and crash every other running
>>application.
>
>Not true for NT/2000/XP. In the past 4 years I suffered 3 crashes ("blue
>screens") of 2000/XP. One was due to the antivirus. It set itself as part of the
>OS kernel to be able to monitor all the disk I/O, and contains some bugs (MS
>customers support knew about that problem, and notified antivirus manufacturer).
>Two other problems were due to the bad video drivers written by the hardware
>manufacturer.
>
>Windows 9x is another story, of course. Here MS made the decision that
>compatibiliy with old software and hardware was more important than reliability.
>You don't have to like that decision but at least you should understand why it
>was done...
>
>There are two more reasons why you can see Windows crashes: bad hardware and
>overclocking. Windows stresses hardware much more than Linux as it uses more
>resources due to GUI and lot of services are turned on by default (because, as
>you know, average user is not able to find out exactly what service he needs).
>90% of overclockers has problems with their systems, but they don't know that,
>because problems would happen only if the system is stressed enough. For
>example, at some moment Andrew Kadatch wrote a program that stresses *some*
>areas of CPU and usually causes overclocked CPU to work inconsistently. He gave
>it to several overclockers, and usual reaction was "your stupid program says
>that my system is bad, but that is wrong -- I can work on it without any
>problems".
>
>Thanks,
>Eugene
Thanks for your reasonable reaction to my message. I was expecting something
tougher. :)
I'm glad that your system works fine.
However after 15 years of repeated lies, illegal practices and buggy software
coming from Microsoft, I think it's just a matter of time before people get
educated enough, stand up and switch to a real OS.
Christophe
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