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An anonymous reader writes "WindowsForDevices has published a big article showcasing seventy-three consumer devices that were on display in Microsoft's device expo at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Each device runs Windows CE, Windows Mobile (Pocket PC, Smartphone, etc.), or Windows XP Embedded. A photo and brief description are provided for each. Some cool stuff!"
I heard it was Dean Koontz. And he was run over by a dog.
Intervideo is the company that makes WinDVD, InterVideo Home Theater, and a bunch of others. The story is at New Scientist. Basically it is an "InstantOn" PC with LinDVD (which is developed by InterVideo) that fits on a read-only memory chip. Linux handles TV, DVD, CD, MP3, radio. The twist to this product is that it also has a bootable MS Windows XP OS so you can run any of the MS Windows app that you still want/need.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land,
it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. -James Madison
Hey Troll, you can disable the auto-restart if it is a recurring problem. Whether it restarts or not it still does a core dump and you can access it if you actually know what to look for.
Give me my cookie, and a few other dozen for the rest of my firm. It freezes, crashes, and just plain is horrible. Not sure if its so much the OS as it is the apps on it, but before I switched everyone over to Mozilla, their computers were easily crashing once a week. Now the only thing I really see problems with is PCAnywhere. But many apps will crash XP, i.e. ZoneAlarm is known for that as well as some versions of one of the big two Anti-Virus companies. Also, there was a glitch in the first service pack that caused many servers(including mine) to make the STORE.exe in Windows 2000 server use all of the ram in the system and completely freeze the server, it happened as often as every 3 days, but sometimes you could get 14 days straight with it. I had to write a script that will restart the Information Store and flush the ram daily to keep my server uptime over two weeks. I don't mind though, its really great for convincing the higher ups into switching everything over two Linux. In Decemeber I did a two week testrun with two employees and Liux as a desktop, the results were great. I suspect that 2004 is the year of Linux for my company.
Regards,
Steve
P.S. Yea I know that the server isn't XP, but its a MS operating system and they've had similar problems with XP. I don't use XP(yes I'm a linux zealot), but have more then enough exposure and experience with it through work to know that you are full of it. A skilled user can keep it running for 88 days, but in the scheme of things most users aren't skilled.Also 88 days is nice, but I've had Linux up for years now on some computers.