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Microsoft Code at Fault for Half of all Windows Crashes
Flamester writes "In a ZDNet Australia story, Microsoft is claiming that half of all MS Windows crashes are the fault of third party code, not their own. That is, according to Dr. Watson.
The article also goes into the 'rigor in which MS tests their products before release'. "
$topic. I'm outta points.. Always when I see something worth modding.
Rumsfeld accepts talk show host career Sept. 2003 140.00 +0.78
Canada declared as part of the
axis of evil Sept. 2004 101.34 +3.45
Bush seeks asylum in France
Sept. 2005: 110.23 -1.24
bin Laden found in Cheney's
bunker Dec. 2006 99.45 +2.38
Cheney found in bin Laden's 105.60 +1.10
bunker August 2004
Was wondering about your SIG, but think it must be a troll for supernerds.
Stupid sexy Flanders.
rescue program (formerly unknown as the oil for babies effort).
that right, using va lairIE's infactdead PostBlock(tm) devise, plus pretending the only thing that really matters is monIE, is not helpful. it's ok though, the program can/will succeed with, or without you. makes no difference to us.
mynuts won: annoying to the perpetrators/profiteers of evile?
you can pretend all you want. our advise is to be as far away from the walking dead contingent as possible, when the big flash occurs. you wouldn't want to get any of that evile on you.
as to the free unlimited energy plan, as the lights come up, more&more folks will stop being misled into sucking up more&more of the infant killing barrolls of crudeness, & learn that it's more than ok to use newclear power generated by natural (hydro, solar, etc...)methods. of course more information about not wasting anything/behaving less frivolously is bound to show up, here&there.
cyphering how many babies it costs for a barroll of crudeness, we've decided to cut back, a lot, on wasteful things like giving monIE to felons, to help them destroy the planet/population.
no matter. the #1 task is planet/population rescue. the lights are coming up. we're in crisis mode. you can help.
the unlimited power (such as has never been seen before) is freely available to all, with the possible exception of the aforementioned walking dead.
consult with/trust in yOUR creator. more breathing. vote with yOUR wallet. seek others of non-aggressive intentions/behaviours. that's the spirit, moving you.
pay no heed/monIE to the greed/fear based walking dead.
each harmed innocent carries with it a bad toll. it will be repaid by you/us. the Godless felons will not be available to make reparations.
pay attention. that's definitely affordable, plus you might develop skills which could prevent you from being misled any further by phonIE ?pr? ?firm? generated misinformation.
good work so far. there's still much to be done. see you there. tell 'em robbIE.
the rest of the wwworld is laughing/crying at/for US in sympathy/disgust, as we fall/jump into the daze of the georgewellian corepirate nazi life0cide, whilst criticizing their ip gangsters, which are also members of the walking dead.
I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
Again, back in NT 3.51 days graphics drivers were kept in seperate memory spaces, in ring3, but that was dropped due to piss poor performance.
Ah, so this explains the piss poor performance in general of X11 on Linux. It's kept on the outside because it's such shaky code that it would jeapordize the rest of the OS.
Trouble is, patches were available to fix those vulnerabilities for months. It's not just the software at fault here, folks. If lazy, half-ass, point-and-click "admins" (using the term very loosely here) don't bother to keep their systems up to date sh*t happens! Problem with a gui-only environment is that it gives the false sense of "administration is easy" and allows glorified power users who don't know their @$$ from a hole in the ground to get jobs as administrators! I'll get off the soap box now.
Funny how the monitor has a brightness knob, but the users don't get any smarter. >:-)
Idiot.