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Re: How much safer is Ubuntu than windows?

Sinister Midget <phydeaux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On 2006-07-31, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> posted something concerning:
>> __/ [ Hadron Quark ] on Monday 31 July 2006 13:27 \__
>>
>>> sloblocks <sloblocks@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>> 
>>>> Roy Schestowitz has brought this to us :
>>>>> __/ [ Kier ] on Monday 31 July 2006 09:26 \__
>>>>>
>>>>>> <Snip />
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ..other than that it's fine.
>>>>>> At least if it crashed, the wholke OS doesn't go with it. And you
>>>>>> don't
>>>>>> have to use firefox, there are plenty of others.
>>>>
>>>> It doesn't exactly take the whole OS down, but it often stops Firefox
>>>> from reloading again until X is restarted (which is as much of a pain
>>>> as a reboot; just quicker). It also stops whatever media player you
>>>> have embedded into it from working - generally /that/ requires a
>>>> reboot.
>>> 
>>> Is there no way around this? Sometimes amarok stops playing & I have to
>>> reboot to get my sound back. A real pain.
>>
>> Try restarrting the sound server (e.g. arts)
>>
>> killall HUP artsd && artsd
>
> slobrains isn't interested in fixes. Otherwise s/h/it would have found
> multiple ways to kill/restart processes, restart services, etc.

I just did. Thanks Roy.

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