October 14 - 250,000 hits!

[Tate]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Good job on the fivers, and great job on the quarter million hits (251,150 at my last count).[/colorost_uid0]

[Kira]

[color=#000000ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0="PointyHairedJedi"]And yet another one falls into the trap. They should just call it 'The OS of DOOM!'.

Let us hold a moment of silence for all those countless victims of XP.[/quoteost_uid0]
Hey, I'm no fan of endorsing Bill Gates' gold-plated mansion, but I've been running Windows XP on my laptop for well over a year and a half and I can count on one hand the number of times my computer has frozen badly enough to need a restart -- usually thanks to some stupid program malfunctioning. Â "Blue Screen of Death" is only in my vocabulary as it refers to other people's crappier computers. Â I'd like to support open source OS's, but a good friend of mine who runs Linux has so many problems that she's constantly on the phone with her computer science boyfriend to kill a process or figure out why something won't run... so I'm not really inclined in that direction.

Oh, and I also enjoyed the fivers. I see them so far in advance that it usually seems weird to comment on them when they finally get published. [/colorost_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Well, at the moment two of the computers in the house run XP. I think the most annoying symptom is probably the spontaneous re-starting. All I can say is, you are very lucky indeed Kira.[/colorost_uid0]

[NAHTMMM]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]You sure they aren't just hibernating or something, PHJ?[/colorost_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Things that hibernate usually wake up once you've hit them with a haddock a few times.[/colorost_uid0]

[Kira]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]One of the early symptoms of that evil Blaster Worm (and possibly its equally evil colleagues) can be random shutting down; most computers go down fast but one of my friends had it for two weeks before it really started to do damage. Â If you haven't got the security patch, you might want to install it and run a virus scan for the msblast.exe file.[/colorost_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Well, my laptop doen't use XP (I don't think it could take it, frankly), but I'll pass it on anyway.[/colorost_uid0]

[Celeste]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]That was a nasty virus, my friend had it. But i'm with Kira on XP. I love it. I just disable most of the fancy features it has and it's a great little OS. (Of course I lived with ME for nearly a year, and compaired to that OS, XP is god himself)[/colorost_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]The last remains of HellSPAWN are a few components and the OS, a copy of Win98 so prone to errors that I wonder it it's not neurotic or rabid. [/colorost_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Windows is bad. Microsoft is bad. Bill Gates is very, [iost_uid0]very[/iost_uid0] bad.

It makes me wonder - what would the world be like today if Gates had never started tinkering with computers in his garage when he was a kid?[/colorost_uid0]

[Kira]

[color=#000000ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0="PointyHairedJedi"]Windows is bad. Microsoft is bad. Bill Gates is very, [iost_uid0]very[/iost_uid0] bad.

It makes me wonder - what would the world be like today if Gates had never started tinkering with computers in his garage when he was a kid?[/quoteost_uid0]
The world might be full of Macs... which is arguably worse. [/colorost_uid0]