Lorenzo Taylor wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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 guess it's how one uses it, as I have rarely experienced crashes with XP. It may also have to do with the system it's on, and how often one runs scans. Glenn > - -- > I've always found anomalies to be very relaxing. It's a curse. > - --Jadzia Dax: Star Trek Deep Space Nine (The Assignment) > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFF8ZvKG9IpekrhBfIRAsWWAKC6YdKUFiEK3UqvCb2EZCN75OsiXQCgqqO1 > imI8e0FyXWoydqo/BCTNEj0= > =KLD+ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
