On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 17:09, you wrote: > Hehehe, well, I wish it were that cut and dry. Hence > the reason I use both. Unlike the adds, I can't do everything > I need to do on one machine. I use one for music, surfing, > and graphics. The PC for Trading stocks, programming > Pic processors and programming math apps. I've been > using both and programming on both since I was 10 years > old. I am now 32. They both crash about the same. They > are both about the same speed although my G4 has dual > 867's, the PC has 1.5ghz single. They both are made > from cheap parts from Asia, and yet they both do what > I need them to do. I would however love do to a poll with > users of both machines. I am sure we would find very > liberal people mostly using Mac. But I've been wrong before. > > We can debate this over normal email if you like however. > I'm always up for some good nerd talk = ) I'm sure the list > would appreciate it as well. > > Tad
Well all I can say is that I have a PC built from economical Asian parts, & it never crashes. Occasionally it gets turned off (maybe once in 3 months) due to Lightning (as I am in the country) but otherwise it never needs resetting. Very occasionally a program will crash, but this never requires resetting the system. Even installing software never requires a reset. The reason I get this reliability is that I run NO Microsoft (or similar Co) software. Yes, I run Linux, & have done so for over 2 years. Do I miss all those commercial programs? Not any more. I have found public licenced S/w to replace all that I ever used on my previous commercial O/s. I also run NO antivirus program. (not needed as there are a minimal number of Linux viruses around (Yes, this may change later, but it is true at present.) For the curious I run Mandrake distribution on my Workstation, currently 8.2, but shortly 9.0 . I run Debian on a local server as a file store, and a great program/system on my firewall (an old Pentium 150, 24M, 200M hdd) called IPCop. IPCop is recommended as a firewall - it takes about 20 minutes to set up on an old Klunker, then is managed with a browser off the slave machine. regards Doug (Don't get me started on Linux - I think the system is great, well worth the learning curve.) ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Home Selling? Try Us! http://us.click.yahoo.com/QrPZMC/iTmEAA/jd3IAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/