After takin' a swig o' grog, Homer belched out
this bit o' wisdom:
> Verily I say unto thee, that Jerry McBride spake thusly:
>> DFS wrote:
>
>>> Me myself? I have
>>>
>>> * 4+ years of no crashes or lockups with my WinServer box at home
>>> * 3+ years of no crashes or lockups with my WinXP box at <employer>
>>
>> ... but rebooted each and every time a patch or software change is
>> made... How long between reboots... 2 hours?
>
> Moreover he must be lying about never having crashes, unless his systems
> are not fully patched, since AFAIK XPSP3 caused nearly everyone else's
> XP systems to crash, by all accounts.
DFS runs Win 2003 Server as his desktop, though.
> But then if you prune Windows down to the minimalist extremes that DooFy
> does (judging by various screenshots he's posted here), then it's quite
> possible he has reasonably stable (if barely useful) systems.
>
> ...but 100% crash-free?
>
> I call "bullshit".
>
> And DooFy has the nerve to harp on about (some?) people claiming "Linux
> is perfect". What a hypocrite.
Well, with regular patching and reboots, you could claim Win 2003 to be
"crash-free". <grin>
--
Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.
-- St. Augustine
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