From: "Glenn Ervin" <GlennErvin@cableone.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: An official slightly off topic anouncement
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 11:45:05 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <054701c76272$ac776c90$b100a8c0@AveratecLaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070309173922.GH32172@taylor.homelinux.net>
Lorenzo Taylor wrote:
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> I beg to differ on the issue of XP rarely crashing. Back when I ran
> XP it would die at least 3 times a week. And with XP you don't get a
> BSOD. It just reboots for no apparent reason before you ever know
> there's anything wrong. So you can forget coming out of the blue
> screen, saving your work and rebooting. It just doesn't happen. And
> yes I did have all the latest antivirus and antispyware stuff and boy
> did it hog system resources. Not to mention the fact that JAWS
> brought what was at that time a fairly high-end system to a slow
> crawl after only a few hours of use. Yeah, I saw the propaganda on
> TV about XP being more stable than 95/98/me, but I guess stability is
> relative, since 3 to 5 crashes a week is technically more stable than
> 2 to 3 crashes a day.
>
> Lorenzo
I guess it's how one uses it, as I have rarely experienced crashes with XP.
It may also have to do with the system it's on, and how often one runs
scans.
Glenn
> - --
> I've always found anomalies to be very relaxing. It's a curse.
> - --Jadzia Dax: Star Trek Deep Space Nine (The Assignment)
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