24 Jun
2007
24 Jun
'07
11:05 a.m.
Patrick Finnegan wrote:
On Sunday 24 June 2007 03:32, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
I *rarely* login as root. I learned that lesson the hard way.
And yes, I've crashed a system while testing kernel code, but I've
managed to crash Windows as a non-privileged user on many, many occasions.
Peace... Sridhar
M H Stein wrote:
Writing your own kernel driver (or using bad 3rd party ones), or doing
stupid things as root can do it pretty well too. If your system crashes daily or even weekly,
I'd recommend that you
find a qualified computer professional to fix it for you...
If you write *any*
code at all on Windows, you can expect to crash
the OS fairly regularly. I've written *Java* code that ran *in the
VM* that crashed the OS. And don't tell me not to write buggy code,
everyone has a bug or two in their initial revision.
I've never crashed a UNIXy OS with anything short of a hardware
problem.