[rescue] Another Reason Windows Sucks

[ssandau at bath.tmac.com]

I would *run* from Windows X-PeePee as fast as possible. My limited
experience suggests it's the ultimate in
I'm-smarter-than-you-are-and-I'm-out-to-prove-it software, and follows
in the eat-up-all-the-system-resources Windows tradition. And don't get
me started on sound cards...

I'd go back to win2k if you have to have windows. Even then you have to
deal with a fsked-up network configuration and "My Network Places." I
really hate using software written for 5-year-old users. At least in
windows terms it is relatively stable.

(Personally, my one Windoze box at home has 95, and my
need-it-to-sign-in-and-out Windows box at work is NT.)


Eric Dittman wrote:
> 
> When I upgraded my Inspiron 8000 to a Latitude C810 my WinXP
> everything seemed to be okay for a couple of days, then so
> may problems came up that I was forced to do a fresh install,
> whict still didn't help.  I finally ran the diagnostics and
> found out that a sector on the hard disk was bad.
> 
> A special format with options to lock out bad sectors was
> required.
> 
> Why the hell didn't a complete format map out bad sectors,
> and why doesn't WinXP have any kind of error checking on
> reads and writes?
> 
> Why?  Because it sucks, that's why.
> 
> If I didn't have to have Windows loaded on the laptop I'd
> load something else.
> --
> Eric Dittman
> dittman at dittman.net
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Steve Sandau, IS Technician
ssandau at bath.tmac.com
TMA Bath Maine