From: William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Brin-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Windo$e Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 17:11:57 +0100
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/25/technology/25SOFT.html
" Mr. Gates acknowledged today that the company's error reporting service indicated that 5 percent of all Windows-based computers now crash more than twice each day."
Honestly, I suspect this is more ID10T errors than anything else. My home computer running WinXP has crashed perhaps four times in the last 7-8 months, and I believe they were hardware related and not the operating system. Win2K was also totally crash free for the year and a half I used it.
By the way M$oft OS's do not have the patent on crashing. For over a month, I had a recurring problem with OSX where it would freeze on my G4 each time I tried to empty the trash. Nothing helped. Diskwarrior, TechTools, Norton Utilities, etc., etc., all pronounced my computer fine and dandy but didn't fix the problem. Called Apple tech support. No help. (Big surprise there... they're totally incompetent.)
Spoke to a friend techie who said it was a fairly common problem. I had to download a program that would allow me to view hidden folders in OS9, boot into Classic, find the OSX trash folder, throw it away and empty the trash in OS9, then reboot in OSX. In all, about 5 minutes of work.
This problem has spontaneously recurred twice since I fixed it that first time.
Jon
Le Blog: http://zarq.livejournal.com
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