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In The Works: Windows For Supercomputers
Robert Accettura writes "According to ZDNet, Microsoft may be feeling threatened by Linux gaining ground in the High Performance Computing (HPC) arena. As a result, they have formed a HPC group to bring windows to these systems. It makes a mention of how clustered computing may be a target. I guess the only thing better than crashing 1 computer at a time is crashing an entire room full at once."
Oh my god, you did read the post I was replying to didn't you? Which stated that if you have problems with windows becoming unstable that the only solution is to reinstall?
How does your response fit in to this at all?
Your laptop can't run UT2004 reliably under windows for whatever reason, so fucking what. That has absolutely NOTHING to do with the discussion here.
Now, to address your point, offtopic as it is, I'm running XP on an R40 as well: It's not a gaming machine and you damned well know that. NOBODY out there would EVER suggest it to be such. (Yes, of course it can play games, but that's not what it's designed for) It's IBM's mid-range business application laptop...not even approaching their high end laptops, let alone a current desktop machine with suitable specs to run UT2004 and the like.
And, yes, I damned well WILL tell you it's not the OS' fault: IT'S NOT THE OS' FAULT.
Why?
a) "misbehaved driver", written by whom? Could it be maybe ATI, or IBM? It's not bloody likely that it is a driver that MS wrote.
b) Unsuitable hardware, which I already addressed above.
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Ah, ok, because you don't know what the problem really is the only solution is to reinstall.
So what do you do when linux has issues?
Tell me please, how should I fix my unstable debian installation that won't stop crashing and after 18 months of very careful use and maintenance is now virtually unusably slow?
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