From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from s1.cableone.net ([24.116.0.227]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HPj9g-000860-00 for ; Fri, 09 Mar 2007 12:45:24 -0500 Received: from AveratecLaptop (unverified [72.24.183.77]) by S1.cableone.net (CableOne SMTP Service S1) with ESMTP id 98425846 for ; Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:45:06 -0700 Message-ID: <054701c76272$ac776c90$b100a8c0@AveratecLaptop> From: "Glenn Ervin" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <20070309171155.GJ4176@rednote.net><053e01c7626f$52648600$b100a8c0@AveratecLaptop> <20070309173922.GH32172@taylor.homelinux.net> Subject: Re: An official slightly off topic anouncement Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 11:45:05 -0600 Organization: Home MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 X-IP-stats: Incoming Last 0, First 2, in=8, out=0, spam=0 X-External-IP: 72.24.183.77 X-Abuse-Info: Send abuse complaints to abuse@cableone.net X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: Glenn Ervin , "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 17:45:24 -0000 Lorenzo Taylor wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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) > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFF8ZvKG9IpekrhBfIRAsWWAKC6YdKUFiEK3UqvCb2EZCN75OsiXQCgqqO1 > imI8e0FyXWoydqo/BCTNEj0= > =KLD+ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup