David,
I do not claim to be "computer literate" enough, or knowlegable enough
of computers to be able to determine what part of the system, software
or hardware is at fault. What I can tell you is that in my experience
with my own computers at home, they lock up and will not respond to any
keyboard or mouse input from time to time for now apparent reason. The
computers that I use at work are much more reliable, and they are part
of a network that is maintained by people whose job it is to keep the
network working.
If my home computer was an airplane, I would not go up in it. If the
computer at work was an airplane, I might go up in it, if the network
administrator came along, and even then I would have a parachute
strapped on before takeoff.
Ken
David W LeJeune, Sr wrote:
The 'curious toy' you refer to powers 95% of all US Businesses computing
needs. A secretary running Word, or an accountant running an accounting
program under windows rarely has system crashes, primarily because they are
using a 'stable' piece of software. As a software developer who started in
1961 programming in Autocoder, I can tell you it's rarely the operating
system that causes program crashes. We have gotten smarter in protecting
the journeyman programmer from himself, but he still manages to screw up
periodically. Don't get me wrong, I prefer Linux/Unix to Windows, and early
windows had some serious problems. The MAC OS, until the most recent
version, was even worse. But businesses that spend lots more money than
I'll every have continue to buy Windows based systems. They vote with their
pocket books.
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Brown" <ken.d.brown@verizon.net>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] "Remember, it's a computer."
I have never had that level of success with any version of windows on
any machine. The most reliable system I have used is whatever it is that
is running at the office. We have a systems administrator that keeps it
going. Perhaps if I was a "computer guru" or wanted to become one, I
could get windows on my home machine to be equally reliable. I think the
point is that most people would like a system to be reliable right from
the start. In other words the default settings should result in a system
that does not periodically crash for no apparent reason. I have not
found that to be the case with windows. Therefore I consider computers
running windows to be curious toys rather than serious tools. I will not
own a radio that depends on windows to use it. ...Yes it is only a
hobby, and it could be argued that my radios are just toys too.
Nevertheless I want my radio to be more reliable than I have experienced
window to be.
Ken N6KB
Joe Malloy wrote:
They'll get this worked out.Since 1996, it's only
gone down a few of times and then only because
the UPS ran out of juice before the power company
got things going again. It's never failed as a result
of software/hardware problems.
Neither has any copy of Windows NT 3.5, NT4.0 and XP that I've been
running -- either on the home network (5 machines) or as a member of my
college. (Heck, even Windows with DOS ran very reliably for me!) It's
the
power company that keeps me from having uptimes greater than 150
days...but
it's up at least between power failures crunching numbers for the
Seti@home
project.
This is how mature
equipment should behave. Mr. Gates? Mr. Gates?
are you awake?
Bob? Bob? Are *you* awake? :)
73,
Joe, W2RBA
P.S. I don't like Billy Boy one bit (!) nor the company he owns and I've
been investigating Linux for an eventual transition (if only it had the
support that is there for Windows!).
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