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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: Kintaro on 13 August 2008, 23:09

Title: Windows crashes the olympics!
Post by: Kintaro on 13 August 2008, 23:09
It's been long enough since we've had a classic BSOD.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/13/olympics_blue_screen_death/ (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/13/olympics_blue_screen_death/)

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Title: Re: Windows crashes the olympics!
Post by: SiMuLaCrUm on 14 August 2008, 04:11
LOL Best BSOD ever
Title: Re: Windows crashes the olympics!
Post by: Kintaro on 14 August 2008, 06:07
If they used Vista they would be red, which would be in China's spirit wouldn't it?
Title: Re: Windows crashes the olympics!
Post by: SiMuLaCrUm on 15 August 2008, 04:33
True it would be.
Title: Re: Windows crashes the olympics!
Post by: Kintaro on 15 August 2008, 07:30
Thing is from personal experience: Vista never crashes.
Title: Re: Windows crashes the olympics!
Post by: 7031 on 16 August 2008, 13:09
Thing is from personal experience: Vista never crashes.
Are you fucking high?

Not that Vista is as buggy as people may think, but I've had my fair share of BSoDs. Heck, a lot more than I had with XP. The only reason I keep it is because I'm too lazy to hunt down XP drivers for my hardware.
Title: Re: Windows crashes the olympics!
Post by: Kintaro on 16 August 2008, 16:23
Thing is from personal experience: Vista never crashes.
Are you fucking high?

Not that Vista is as buggy as people may think, but I've had my fair share of BSoDs. Heck, a lot more than I had with XP. The only reason I keep it is because I'm too lazy to hunt down XP drivers for my hardware.

I'm using Vista and it is fine. Learn to use your computer properly, and XP hardly crashes.
Title: Re: Windows crashes the olympics!
Post by: worker201 on 16 August 2008, 23:27
Learn to use your computer properly, and XP hardly crashes.
I'm sure you wouldn't mind elaborating on that.  It's a pretty bold statement that requires a bit of clarification.
Title: Re: Windows crashes the olympics!
Post by: SiMuLaCrUm on 17 August 2008, 00:25
Actually, he is somewhat right. If you maintain the system it will run rather smooth. With XP at least. I don't know about Vista.
Title: Re: Windows crashes the olympics!
Post by: Lord C on 17 August 2008, 01:28
Lol, that image is a classic.

As for Windows and crashing - as long as you format / reinstall once every month or so, I agree Windows can run smoothly.
Title: Re: Windows crashes the olympics!
Post by: Kintaro on 17 August 2008, 04:44
You people really need some computer skills if you need to reinstall that often.
Title: Re: Windows crashes the olympics!
Post by: worker201 on 17 August 2008, 06:46
Again, be specific - what skills are "they" lacking?  And when I say "they", I mean the large number of Windows users, in home, business, and education settings, who experience Windows component crashes, Windows system crashes, and/or general program crashes due to faulty system calls on a fairly regular basis (10+ times per year).
Title: Re: Windows crashes the olympics!
Post by: Kintaro on 17 August 2008, 09:02
Again, be specific - what skills are "they" lacking?  And when I say "they", I mean the large number of Windows users, in home, business, and education settings, who experience Windows component crashes, Windows system crashes, and/or general program crashes due to faulty system calls on a fairly regular basis (10+ times per year).

I'm not sure, but I assume: knowledge of maintenance, and knowledge of shitty software. If Linux supported installing most third party software it would have the exact same problem after you download all the shit from Download.com
Title: Re: Windows crashes the olympics!
Post by: worker201 on 17 August 2008, 10:20
Oh, master, please tell me which software is shitty, and which software is good, and how to tell the difference between them with a level of consistency that will have a positive effect on my overall uptime.
Title: Re: Windows crashes the olympics!
Post by: Kintaro on 17 August 2008, 10:24
If it says "FREE" its probably shitty.
Title: Re: Windows crashes the olympics!
Post by: worker201 on 17 August 2008, 10:34
Oh.  Guess I should uninstall Firefox, Thunderbird, and AVG.

Do you know of any Windows-based text editors that have the capability of showing line numbers that aren't free?  I don't want to accidentally download a perfectly good shitty one!
Title: Re: Windows crashes the olympics!
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 17 August 2008, 11:39
If it says "FREE" its probably shitty.
Would that be free as in FOSS or beer?
Title: Re: Windows crashes the olympics!
Post by: Kintaro on 17 August 2008, 11:44
Oh.  Guess I should uninstall Firefox, Thunderbird, and AVG.

Do you know of any Windows-based text editors that have the capability of showing line numbers that aren't free?  I don't want to accidentally download a perfectly good shitty one!


Heard of vim and emacs for Windows?
Title: Re: Windows crashes the olympics!
Post by: worker201 on 17 August 2008, 11:46
No.  I bet most other people haven't either.

How much do those cost?
Title: Re: Windows crashes the olympics!
Post by: Kintaro on 17 August 2008, 14:01
TextPad if you want to buy something.
Title: Re: Windows crashes the olympics!
Post by: SiMuLaCrUm on 17 August 2008, 15:42
Again, be specific - what skills are "they" lacking?  And when I say "they", I mean the large number of Windows users, in home, business, and education settings, who experience Windows component crashes, Windows system crashes, and/or general program crashes due to faulty system calls on a fairly regular basis (10+ times per year).

Those tend to be software problems, and do not crash the entire system. Usually just the kind where the program closes and Windows asks if you want to submit an error report (which can be turned off)
Title: Re: Windows crashes the olympics!
Post by: Kintaro on 17 August 2008, 16:33
If it says "FREE" its probably shitty.
Would that be free as in FOSS or beer?

Beer, I was talking about Download.com and all that shit. I don't consider anything free about Open Source, its no special freedom to me, its just open source.
Title: Re: Windows crashes the olympics!
Post by: Kintaro on 17 August 2008, 16:34
Again, be specific - what skills are "they" lacking?  And when I say "they", I mean the large number of Windows users, in home, business, and education settings, who experience Windows component crashes, Windows system crashes, and/or general program crashes due to faulty system calls on a fairly regular basis (10+ times per year).

Those tend to be software problems, and do not crash the entire system. Usually just the kind where the program closes and Windows asks if you want to submit an error report (which can be turned off)

Those are pretty common. Get this: on FC9 VLC manages to hang the entire system message bus, and to restart it means killing my entire session. Fucking wonderful.
Title: Re: Windows crashes the olympics!
Post by: rocketrevenge on 26 August 2008, 14:39
LOLO feDORKA core...  <3
Title: Re: Windows crashes the olympics!
Post by: Kintaro on 26 August 2008, 18:56
LOLO feDORKA core...&nbsp; <3

I am not a dork.

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Title: Re: Windows crashes the olympics!
Post by: SiMuLaCrUm on 27 August 2008, 04:27
Doesn't look like one to me. Just a random guy.
Title: Re: Windows crashes the olympics!
Post by: Kintaro on 28 August 2008, 10:09
XD IM JUS TOTALLY RAAANDOM.
Title: Re: Windows crashes the olympics!
Post by: ubergeek on 11 September 2008, 18:29
I'm using Vista and it is fine. Learn to use your computer properly, and XP hardly crashes.
In other words, use a system that PROFESSES to be multitasking to only run one app at a time and reboot before starting the next one. 

That is the ONLY way to ensure that M$ CRAP does not crash since it still does not know how to clean up other programs' memory leaks properly!
Title: Re: Windows crashes the olympics!
Post by: Kintaro on 12 September 2008, 11:07
I've rarely seen memory leaks in Windows in the last two or so years.
Title: Re: Windows crashes the olympics!
Post by: Calum on 12 September 2008, 14:49
Quote from: Kintaro
Beer, I was talking about Download.com and all that shit.
you really are talking shit. 
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I don't consider anything free about Open Source, its no special freedom to me, its just open source.
you don't seem to consider much. you know, for years i really did think you had some point to your existence, but i'm beginning to think you're just a more sophisticated version of fishcorn, where you actually don't value other people at all, choosing to view life as one sordid series of opportunities for childish pisstakes.
Title: Re: Windows crashes the olympics!
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 12 September 2008, 20:17
i'm beginning to think you're just a more sophisticated version of fishcorn,
Wtf? Fishcorn is Cuntardo's sockpuppet.

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where you actually don't value other people at all, choosing to view life as one sordid series of opportunities for childish pisstakes.
That's Cuntardo for you.
Title: Re: Windows crashes the olympics!
Post by: Kintaro on 12 September 2008, 23:07
I have to support Open Source or I am subhuman? Strange view there.