Re: OT: Computer Advice

In an earlier post, Mean_Chlorine postulated:
> Thusly Konrad Gaertner <kgaertner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Spake Unto All:
>
>>> Any version of WinXP is stable. It's nothing like Win9x. If you get
>>> crashes in WinXP it's because of either faulty hardware or buggy
>>> drivers.
>>
>>In my experience, my parents' XP machine crashes 6-9 times for every
>>time my 98SE machine does. Their crashes seem to be a conflict
>>between Office 2000 and AoL, while mine are likely internet related.
>
> No, applications _can not_ crash XP, because it's got full memory
> protection - applications can not overwrite the system in memory like
> they could with Win9x's partial memory protection.
>
> Any actual system crash in XP is a result of faulty hardware or buggy
> drivers, period.
> Unfortunately both poor hardware and buggy drivers are thirteen to the
> dozen.
> Prediction 4: The US will attack a small & defenceless third world country in
> 2012 or 2013. Probably in Africa.
> A country *may* be attacked in 2009, but only if polls show democrats will win
> the election, and it will if so not be small and defenceless. Iran?


We have been through this before : of course apps CAN crash XP : by
invoking a non secure device driver interface which causes the DD to
crash the system.

You can argue the toss all aou loike but in effect, the App has
initiated the crash : the end result is the same - BSOD.


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"Well it proves one thing Mr. Hooper. It proves that you wealthy college boys
don't have the education enough to admit when you're wrong.
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