At 04:03 PM 1/12/00 +1300, Juha Saarinen wrote:
>%-> How timely. I came into work early this morning to work on a
>%-> web project.
>%-> Instead, I spent a lot of the morning wrestling with my Windows 98
>%-> workstation which is in the habit of grinding to a crawl after
>%-> it has had
>%-> astronomically long uptimes (i.e., > 24 hours).
>
>I'm curious about this... my Win98 installation is quite old by now (coming
>up to two years, unless I'm mistaken) and has had gazillion bits and pieces
>of software installed. Despite this, it'll stay up for months on end, and
>usually only dies when I run something like a badly-behaved DirectX game
Well everyone tells me that Windows isn't to blame... but how am I
supposed to find the culprit without the equivalent of system tools like
'ps'? I don't even know what goes wrong when it starts to flail. And what
am I supposed to do when it's something I need to run like Eudora or this
crappy DOS app that creates reports? I have had a lot of trouble with IE 5
and I think there's an update... I'd rather just run IE 4 but I installed
Office 2000 and it seems to insist on upgrading IE as well. No flames if
you're a Netscape user, fine browser but I need to run a copy of IE too.
Anyway, I'm getting what I deserve for using Windows. IMHO, the
Windows-Linux "app gap" doesn't seem quite such a compelling reason to
choose Windows when you consider the unstability that many people face.
>Linux doesn't crash ever. Well, sometimes KDE freezes the machine to the
>point that I have to do a cold reboot, but that's really rare.
Amen.
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