Windoze crash (was Re: Well, I was at Fry's in CA...)

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Sun Jul 6 12:22:00 2003

On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, J.C. Wren wrote:
> My experience is that the people who have problems with Windows are the
> people who *want* to have problems with Windows. I have several Win2K boxen
> here whose only reason for being rebooted every few months is robbing
> harddrives or CD drives. I also have Linux boxen here, one that currently
> has an uptime of 187 days. No major record, but it got a new 60GB HD back
> then.
> I use Windows pretty hard, with a fairly constant set of software (mapping,
> CAD software, IE, ProComm, CD ripping, a few other things), and I don't get
> BSODs or crashes.
> Perhaps this person should switch an an OS more suited to their expectations.
> Like pencil and paper.

Congratulations.
YOU haven't had a problem, so you deny that any such problems exist.

To quote one of our other readers, "YOU ARE AN ASS."


> On Sunday 06 July 2003 10:52 am, Philip Pemberton wrote:
> > In message <20030701084856.Q32495_at_newshell.lmi.net>
> >
> > Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com> wrote:
> > > "I've been using Windoze for almost twenty minutes, and it hasn't ever
> > > 'blue-screened'"
> >
> > So? I've been using RISC OS and Linux all day and neither of them have
> > BSODded, died horribly or crashed.
> > And ISTR my ISP has a Solaris server that's been up 24/7 for over six
> > months...
> >
> > Later.
Received on Sun Jul 06 2003 - 12:22:00 BST