[brluglist] windows sucks

[Shannon Roddy]

I am using intel in this particular machine.

Shannon

On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 14:30, Boyd Davezac wrote:
> Not sure if this makes a difference, but I have never had an Intel chip 
> always AMD and one Cyrix (when their chips were good). But I have been 
> complaining about Windows crashing on my machine to everyone and it has come 
> to my attention that a lot of people don't have these problems. Those people 
> that don't always have an intel chip.  Just yesterday I watched a friend of 
> mine's Win98 crash horribly about 5 times in an hour. He is the self 
> proclaimed Blue Screen King.  However, he, like me has an AMD chip. So I am 
> wondering if I can take a pole to see if people whose machines often crash 
> have an AMD chip?
> 
> Boyd
> 
> P.S. I found that ocasionally Linux locks up on my machine when playing 
> Unreal Tournament. But I think this is due to poor ventilation on my chip 
> which is a whole other argument about heatsink/fan engineers that design 
> their fan to sit right where the motherboard power supply goes. AARRRGH! 
> DON'T BUY COMPUSA HEATSINKS.
> 
> 
> >From: Shannon Roddy <sroddy at ligo-la.caltech.edu>
> >On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 16:42, Grant Belgard wrote:
> > > Today we had a slide show presentation at Baton Rouge
> > > High with pictures of students throughout the year.
> > > The laptop was running Powerpoint (obviously on
> > > Windows) and it crashed halfway through.  It took so
> > > long to reboot that we didn't have enough time to see
> > > any more.  The mob of about 1,200 was ready to have
> > > Bill Gates' head.  I have a feeling that the "Windows"
> > > bar on that chart is going to jump over a few more
> > > places to the right this evening...
> > >
> > >
> > > Grant
> >
> >My windows experience for the day has been installing win 2000 server on
> >a fresh, clean machine and going to the windows update, installing the
> >service pack & critical updates, then rebooting the machine.  It would
> >not boot after that!  It hangs at some point - and no matter how long I
> >let it sit there, it will not finish booting!  The *&$*#&$^&@^@!@
> >machine is two hours old - and winblows has already died!!!!!
> >
> >Shannon
> >
> 
> 
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