Actually, the BSOD is completely configurable from the my computer screen. As is the level of dumped output for further analysis, between no dump, small dump, or large memory dump. I've had windows XP instances going on for weeks at a time, running various assistive technologies, compilers, IDE's, web browsers such as FireFox, IE, and Opera, and more. I've also heard and experienced similar situations via friends and family members, as well as colleagues. In fact, I have seen windows server 2003 instances go on for months at a time, and the only reason they were rebooted was because the system administrator felt it necessary, or had a UPS misconfigured when the power went out. Admittedly, windows XP is a user OS, and unlike server 2003, might not get you months and months of uptimes, but there again, I have had similar situations. Let's not go too far down the Linux is more stable path when it comes to graphical desktops, user activities, and third party apps, as I have had just as many kernel panics, dumps, and red screens of death as blue screens. Earlier versions of windows were quite atrocious, which really explains the attitude of a lot of grizzled Linux veterans, although it is always amusing to me to see grizzled Linux folks talk about Windows, and then to realize all of the experiences, numbers, and instances they are quoting are from sometimes a decade old, if not at least five years ago. Anyways, to each his own, yes? Personally, I believe using the right tool for the job. Take care, Sina -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Lorenzo Taylor Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 12:39 PM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: An official slightly off topic anouncement -----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'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
