Journal FortKnox's Journal: MS Crashes vs Slashdot Crashes 30
For a group of people that complain about Windows crashing, I must say I am humored by irony of the slashdot downtimes. Sure, it'll be blamed on bandwidth, or mySQL, but regardless of excuses, it was down.
Honestly, my server (SuSE 7.2) and Slashdot have been down more often than my XP machine. Take it as you'd like. I just find it funny.
Honestly, my server (SuSE 7.2) and Slashdot have been down more often than my XP machine. Take it as you'd like. I just find it funny.
Agreed. [no textt below] (Score:1)
What?? (Score:2)
It's funny when you confront a zealot hot on the Jihad trail with things like these - I mean, the only thing left is a problem between the keyboard and chair, and they seldom want to go there =)
Horns of a dilemma (Score:2)
Don't know. Don't know.
Should I be principled or effective?
Re:Horns of a dilemma (Score:2)
Re:Horns of a dilemma (Score:2)
I had it dual boot originally. Then wanted to go all Linux.
Then went Win98 (games, video like I said.)
Now I'm thinking about XP...
Probably XP.
Got an old box that needs a drive and I might set it up as a Linuxserver. (Not that this is a pressing issue right now.)
Re:Horns of a dilemma (Score:2)
No one OS is good for *everything*.
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Re:Horns of a dilemma (Score:2)
The right tool for the job, I say =)
Re:Horns of a dilemma (Score:2)
True, but I'm just not doing any 'serving' at this point.
But then, I guess I should bone up on my IIS...
Just planning at this point. Probably will dual boot XP and Mandrake.
Yup (Score:1)
On an unrelated note . . . (Score:2)
Next step, reinstall after figuring out how a previous Redhat install attempt (top suspect) has messed up the BIOS recognition of 3 processors, then actually turining this thing i
Re:On an unrelated note . . . (Score:1)
I thought FreeBSD would be better, but I don't know how to see if it found both. I thought top would report it, but alas no second CPU.
Windows 2000 is happly using both, calculating a seti@home packet in about 4 hours and a 15 minutes.
Any idea what I do wrong with Linux/FreeBSD?
Oh, and
Re:On an unrelated note . . . (Score:2)
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I got these servers on eBay for $99 each plus shipping. One is a Proliant 5000R and the other is an 850R. Saw some motherboards there too, so just search for them.
Re:On an unrelated note . . . (Score:1)
eBay doesn't work well if you're in Europe. Most of this stuff only ships to the US :-((
Re:On an unrelated note . . . (Score:2)
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Didn't try Solaris x86. Gotta pay for that one, right? I'm low on cash for the moment.
Re:On an unrelated note . . . (Score:1)
You should be able to get the X86 CD disc images off Sun's website or at least some UNIX archive.
Rhetoric (Score:2)
people stuck in mindset... (Score:2, Insightful)
My Win2K box has never crashed, and the only time i've ever had to shut it down are when I'm not gonna be home for a few days, like the trip to Richmond a few weeks back and tomorrow when I fly to Boston. Same goes for my Linux box!
But before I was using Win2k, Win98 required reboots every few days, as the clock would lose time and run co
Re:people stuck in mindset... (Score:1)
Linux just shrugged and booted up....
I do realise that 9x systems were crap. I haven't used them in 4 years, and I don't even consider installing them on any of my machines.
Re:people stuck in mindset... (Score:1)
One situation does not an absolute rule create...
Re:people stuck in mindset... (Score:1)
I have had my Win2K box crash 5 or 6 times a day.
Hell there are a number of applications I can run which are guarnteed to crash it almost every time I run them.
On the flip side it IS a ton more stable then Windows9x. Unpatched Win2K sucks though, just moving my mouse around too fast for too long a period of time BSODs it. . .
Actualy, that occasionaly STILL causes a hard lock. *sigh*
Re:people stuck in mindset... (Score:2)
in 2.5 years of using Win2k and then WinXP my system (used atleast 8 hours a day, 5 days a week) only crashed once
It crashed - i clocked it back down to normal and it never ever crashed again. No lockup, no reboot.
Maybe you've got buggy hardware? Ever considered this? I always carefully select my hardware.
Thats it!!! (Score:1)
I am going to unfriend you for spewing such UNTRUTH's - Good bye foul, foul untruth spewer!!
Because you aren't 733+ (Score:1)
Yes. (Score:3, Interesting)
And, so ye all know, Linux _can_ be quite unstable. So can WinXP, of course, but I am the king of getting any and every computer to crash, regardless of OS.
Which is, of course, why I'm still very much amazed with Mac OS X. Been 6 months and still no crashes; I got WinXP to bluescreen a few times within the first month (I told you I'm the king of getting computers to crash).