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: > -----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 > > Email has been scanned for viruses by Altman Technologies' email management service - www.altman.co.uk/emailsystems Email has been scanned for viruses by Altman Technologies' email management service - www.altman.co.uk/emailsystems
