<kicks away soap box>
Windows is possibly stable if you manage to have 1Gb of RAM...what about
the mere mortals among you that only have 128 or 256...
I'm constanly having to reboot my machine as it gives the ol' two finger
salute or BSOD!
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<steps on the soap box>
And that is why 30 million people run windows.
Yup, windows is completely useless. Get rid of it. It crashes every 1
second.
I am no microsoft fan, but I have my laptop which I reboot once/3 months. I
close it, which puts it in standby and I take it home, it automatically awks
my wireless network and on the internet when I walk in the door, go to work
and it is back on our lan. Got a win2k machine at home running, oracle, as
well as many other things, which I use to play games as well. I haven't
rebooted it in 2 months, that was because I had to downgrade ie6 beta back
to 5.5
Again, I would love to see anyone touch the performance of my $3,500
computer with ANY unix box. After you spent about $60,000+ let me know how
it works.
Config: (Raid 0 4x18Gb LVD Cheetah, 128Mb writeback, 2x1.5GHz amd, 1Gb ram,
gforce 3).
I hate windows and all it stands for, but I can't stand when people say it
crashes all the time and completely useless.
Ebay is bigger than most people's database on this list, guess what, they
use micrsoft for everything now. Nothing on their page takes more than 1
second response time. Hmm, wonder how they manage to keep no down time with
it crashing every 1 second.
This window crashes all the time and is completely useless routine does get
a little tiresome. Yes, it does not scale as well as unix, and harder to
script and do other things, and is AS stable, but it is pretty solid granted
you have the right drivers and a competent admin. Yeah, windows takes more
resources, but when you can buy 512Mb for $50 for intel, that point is moot.
On unix that would cost you $500 - $2000.
Most of the crashes related to windows have NOTHING to do with windows, it
is usually add-on software or drivers. How can microsoft control that? You
want all software and drivers to go through microsoft? That would be a
hoot.
Yeah, I would rather be running Solaris or Linux on my laptop and on my
machine at home, but neither one would it be suitable. So I run Win2000,
and frankly I have very few problems. Then again, I am not using a 386SX16
trying to load Office Xp and Windows 2000 Advanced Server.
<gets off the soap box>
"Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that way
when you criticize them, you are a mile a way and have their shoes."
Christopher R. Spence
Oracle DBA
Phone: (978) 322-5744
Fax: (707) 885-2275
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Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 10:16 AM
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Obviously not, it would take a single computer that powerful just to make
Windows run in a meaningful way.
Dick Goulet
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