On 31 August 2012 23:00, geneb <geneb at deltasoft.com> wrote:
Even worse - in 17 years of using Windows, I've never had a problem that
wasn't self-inflicted. Not. One. Problem.
Wow. What, you've /never/ had a BSOD or anything? Not one?
OK, I will freely admit, they're /very/ rare these days, but even XP
threw 'em occasionally. I have seen Vista and Win7 throw blueys, but
it is a noteworthy occurrence now.
I've also had random Really Weird Sh*t like, for instance, installing
SP3 on a clean, stable, working XP machine, and it deleted absolutely
all the user's files. Left the home directory there, but empty except
for the default templates, samples etc. Removed /all/ their settings -
wallpaper, the lot.
I've never even heard of that one before.
All his data was backed up, 3 copies, but his backup mechanism was
flawed and didn't include his email in Outlook. :?(
Then again, in the 20+ years of using Unix &
Unix-like systems, the same
thing holds true. :)
I've seen kernel panics on Linux, but only a /looooooong/ time ago -
Red Hat 4.2 on SPARC, I think. I've seen the kernel "oops" recently,
but it kept running & there was no data loss.
I've seen Mac OS X kernel panic lots of times, from 10.0 to 10.5. (I
don't have any MacIntel kit so I can't run anything later.)
I've seen my iPhone (3GS, iOS 5.1.1) freeze and spontaneously reboot.
So, yeah, Unix isn't immune, either.
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