An official slightly off topic anouncement

[Chris Norman]

To be honest, my laptop has been running (under windows) for about a
fortnight now, and it's not crashed at all, but then I never touch it,
it's just playing Gary Moore 24/7 LOL.

Take care.

On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 12:39 -0500, Lorenzo Taylor wrote:
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> I beg to differ on the issue of XP rarely crashing.  Back when I ran XP
> it would die at least 3 times a week.  And with XP you don't get a BSOD.
> It just reboots for no apparent reason before you ever know there's
> anything wrong.  So you can forget coming out of the blue screen, saving
> your work and rebooting.  It just doesn't happen.  And yes I did have
> all the latest antivirus and antispyware stuff and boy did it hog system
> resources.  Not to mention the fact that JAWS brought what was at that
> time a fairly high-end system to a slow crawl after only a few hours of
> use.  Yeah, I saw the propaganda on TV about XP being more stable than
> 95/98/me, but I guess stability is relative, since 3 to 5 crashes a week
> is technically more stable than 2 to 3 crashes a day.
> 
> Lorenzo
> - -- 
> I've always found anomalies to be very relaxing. It's a curse.
> - --Jadzia Dax: Star Trek Deep Space Nine (The Assignment)
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