To: | tentec@contesting.com |
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Subject: | [TenTec] Re: TenTec Digest, Vol 18, Issue 61 |
From: | Bill Tippett <btippett@alum.mit.edu> |
Reply-to: | tentec@contesting.com |
Date: | Tue, 22 Jun 2004 09:29:20 -0400 |
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W4BQF wrote: >This is similar to statistics, which as you know, can be configured to produce any results you want! If you have daily IE crashes with WinXP, in all probability you have a problem with some other software that you have on your PC. I am not an IT expert, but I have four home made PC's and one purchased PC, all of which run WinXP Pro. Since installing WinXP Pro on these machines I have not had a single operating system crash and two of the PC's had XP installed when XP was first released. XP itself does NOT crash (requiring a full reboot), but IE locks up, all open IE windows close and then I must reopen IE from the desktop. This is a minor annoyance but is more bothersome to me than Orion crashes which happen much less frequently (almost 5 months without one now). It seems to me that IE under XP must be the MOST common application and I'm surprised this problem continues several years after XP's release. >However the more obvious comparison you did not make is that each of the 119 times you updated WinXP, how many times did it create another problem with the operating system. With the Orion it certainly seems that each time there is an update, something is certainly fixed, but something else certainly goes wrong. To me, this says Ten Tec's beta test program is a complete failure. There is no way I can know about XP updates creating other problems. Since there are were 119 updates, it would not surprise me at all if some XP updates created problems elsewhere, or at best were incomplete solutions. As AA6E observed, the vast majority of XP updates seem to be security issues. I'm no IT expert, but security seems like a VERY obvious problem which should be thoroughly tested before releasing any new OS (maybe equivalent to Orion's OS having on-the-air crashes). After all, crashes and reboots are a problem that just waste the user's time, but security is an issue that could have far more serious consequences (financial, identity theft, etc). I agree that Orion's Beta test program could be better since some of us may be using Orion in ways that may be more benign than you are. Why not volunteer to be a Beta tester? I'm quite sure Gary would be happy to have you. 73, Bill W4ZV _______________________________________________ TenTec mailing list TenTec@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec |
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