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

From: J.C. Wren <jcwren_at_jcwren.com>
Date: Sun Jul 6 13:51:00 2003

        Don't give me that crap. I've been using personal computers since CP/M 2.2,
and whel you may have been doing it longer, I think that's damn well long
enough for me to recognize trends.

        Yes, "normal" people have Windows problems now and again also. MY experience
shows that people who have the most problem are those that seem to be already
biased against Windows/MS, and are looking for problems.

        You don't like my theory, too bad. To quote yourself: "YOU ARE AN ASS."

        --John


On Sunday 06 July 2003 13:17 pm, Fred Cisin wrote:
> 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.
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