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#!/bin/bash
while [ 1 ]
do
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done
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July 22nd, 2005 at 6:10 pm
I fail to see your point. Any operating system can crash from a buggy driver. This is not a quality unique to Windows.
Troubleshooting a kernel panic under Linux is no less confusing thatn troubleshooting a BSOD under Windows.
August 4th, 2005 at 7:11 am
“Any operating system can crash from a buggy driver.”
True microkernels should not crash, but that’s irrelevant. Solaris and Linux are monolithic kernels. Linux, and probably Solaris and others others do, however, have the ability to gracefully recover from less critical errors, called “kernel oopses” in Linux lingo. Kernel oopses sometimes just kill the process(es) in question, but your system remains stable.
November 12th, 2007 at 11:11 pm
Well, here\’s another spin. I have just spent hundreds of hours trying to diagnose why my Windows XP Pro based computer keeps crashing. Tonight, I hopefully found the reason. It appears that I never installed the WGA plugin for Firefox. I never knew it existed. Since about July 24 when a Windows update was released, KB938828, my computer has gone through continual meltdowns. I have done repair installs 20 or 30 times. I did a complete reinstall, but every time I allowed all of the critical updates to load, I suddenly had complete lockups. This was especially true with my modem and voice/fax drivers. Well tonight, I decided to read the information related to every update. Bingo! This update was released July 24. I had to perform a complete reinstall on July 25. So, I set up a restore point and downloaded the update directly from Micorsoft. All of a sudden it pops up and tells me I have to install a WGA plugin for Firefox. I did so, installed the update, and the system now appears stable. If I could afford the time, then I would test it more. However, this is looking like a real Microsoft controlling everything issue. I would change to Linux in a heartbeat if I didn\’t require Windows for my accounting and scheduling.
This is starting to look like the situations years ago when WordPerfect and other competing programs began crashing ad nauseum until an antitrust suit was filed and Microsoft suddenly came out with a library upgrade that eliminated the problems, and when programs began crashing left and right with Windows 98 SE when XP wasn\’t selling to their expectations. Are my problems due to the fact that Vista has some real problems and many are upgrading to XP to have their computers function? Right now, I wish I could send Bill a bill. I paid for a functional operating system. No matter what their license says, it should be just that.
July 27th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
The reason that people “bash” Windows so much, is because of it’s lack of standardization. Aside from it crashing all of the time for silly reasons, it is also a poorly planned system.
Even in Windows 7, they suggest that they’ve made it more user-friendly - but different applications that ship WITH THE OS have completely different interfaces? How is that user friendly?
For instance, open Windows Explorer in Windows 7 by pressing . You’ll notice that the menu bar is gone. Press alt, and it magically appears. How is completely hiding menus from anyone who doesn’t know about some esoteric keyboard command good graphical user interface design? Oh, that’s right. It’s not.
People who bash about Windows are usually people that have realized the benefits of using a good operating system, and have since been forced into using it. Believe me, it’s worth complaining about.
With as much development power they’ve got, I don’t see how they’ve got such poor software. It’s that simple.
The only thing more confusing that that - is how users can actually get in a position where defending Windows seems logical. Way to go on that one.
July 27th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
First, you state:
“First only does Windows known to crash for installing bad drivers or incompatible software but also due to problems entirely of their own like memory leaking or resource conflict between their own approved software.”
You follow this with:
“It is the responsibility of the Operating System to be robust enough to gracefully recover from such errors.”
Is that not a contradictory set of phrases, or is it common sense what the problem is when your screen goes pure blue and says there’s an error at address 0×0F0FF039E?