And i thought the heading implied an improvement in running time of applications which were slowing down due to driver bottlenecks(i.e speed traps for drivers)
It's your reputation, not ours. My best anecdotal evidence was something that crossed an internal corporate email group where I wrote something like "Microsoft Windows XP is the most stable O/S they've ever released because it only crashes 1 or 2 times a week." and among the responses I got back were "I wish it were that few...".
In my opinion, it doesn't really matter where the blame actually lies (perhaps it does lie on enterprise crapware that the Microsoft Windows users are forced to use, but whatever). It's the fact that the platform does crash and people are conditioned to it. The last supposedly all intranet web meeting I had to attend at work, was delayed due to software issues on Microsoft Windows XP. Money was lost while a bunch of highly paid engineers were looking at a blank screen. Says a lot about True Cost of Ownership too...
In the meantime, my desktop machine (running RHEL) has only ever been rebooted on power failure or moving the equipment since it was deployed.
I havent seen a single bsod in xp or vista since last 4 years which is time when i first started using xp. they were frequent in win98 though.
its a different matter that i havent seen any linux crashes either in the same time, but i must add that applications crash more frequently on linux than on windows. quanta, gedit etc just crash suddenly and *boom* all my unsaved work is gone -- no recovery whatsoever.
another thing i hate about linux desktop apps is that they dont save the preferences from operations performed last time. eg - i have to browse the entire path once again starting from the app's default directory even on accessing the same file a second time using the file browser launched from within the app.
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And i thought the heading implied an improvement in running time of applications which were slowing down due to driver bottlenecks(i.e speed traps for drivers)
It mutated and acquired super-spider powers.
* Crashes - Yeah, comeback with real proof.
It's your reputation, not ours. My best anecdotal evidence was something that crossed an internal corporate email group where I wrote something like "Microsoft Windows XP is the most stable O/S they've ever released because it only crashes 1 or 2 times a week." and among the responses I got back were "I wish it were that few ...".
In my opinion, it doesn't really matter where the blame actually lies (perhaps it does lie on enterprise crapware that the Microsoft Windows users are forced to use, but whatever). It's the fact that the platform does crash and people are conditioned to it. The last supposedly all intranet web meeting I had to attend at work, was delayed due to software issues on Microsoft Windows XP. Money was lost while a bunch of highly paid engineers were looking at a blank screen. Says a lot about True Cost of Ownership too...
In the meantime, my desktop machine (running RHEL) has only ever been rebooted on power failure or moving the equipment since it was deployed.
I havent seen a single bsod in xp or vista since last 4 years which is time when i first started using xp. they were frequent in win98 though. its a different matter that i havent seen any linux crashes either in the same time, but i must add that applications crash more frequently on linux than on windows. quanta, gedit etc just crash suddenly and *boom* all my unsaved work is gone -- no recovery whatsoever. another thing i hate about linux desktop apps is that they dont save the preferences from operations performed last time. eg - i have to browse the entire path once again starting from the app's default directory even on accessing the same file a second time using the file browser launched from within the app.
how was he able to monitor activities without interfering in the thief's activities