RE: but will it run windows?

From: Christopher Spence <cspence_at_FuelSpot.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 09:54:40 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.0036F5D6.20010817100833@fatcity.com>

I
agree, the OS should not crash.
But most of the time I
have seen that in the 5 years I did NT adminstration it was driver related or patch.
I have seen times where linux and solaris have had kernel panics, which is basically the same thing.
"Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that way when you criticize them, you are a mile a way and have their shoes."
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-----Original Message-----From: Adams, Matthew (GEA, 088130) [mailto:MATT.ADAMS_at_APPL.GE.COM] Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 1:48 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: but will it run windows? I gotta disagree with you on one particular point here.

When an application gets a error and OS crashes, it IS the OS fault. The OS should be written in such a way that when an application error occurs, the OS doesn't have to be rebooted. I believe it IS the OSes fault.

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 > -----Original Message----- >
 From: Christopher Spence [<A href="mailto:cspence_at_FuelSpot.com">mailto:cspence_at_FuelSpot.com]
 > Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 1:35 PM <FONT
 size=2>> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: RE: but will it run windows? >
 > > No I did not say
 that. > > What I am saying, is most people install 100 programs, one of > them acts like > crap and they blame it on the OS. > > Because there is 5 million people programming for Win32 and probably 2
 > million of them suck, that is not at all the OS's
 fault. > > The problem (in my opinion) stems from there is too many > people coding for > the os and too many hardware manufactors putting out code and > hardware. It > is almost impossible to guarentee compatability, much less > competent code.
 > > There api is fairly open,
 it is almost completely published. > Although it is not open source or anything of that nature. >
 > "Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile
 in their > shoes, that way > when you criticize them, you are a mile a way and have their shoes." > > Christopher R. Spence > Oracle DBA > Phone: (978) 322-5744 > Fax: (707) 885-2275 > > Fuelspot > 73 Princeton Street > North, Chelmsford 01863 >
 > > <FONT
 size=2>> > -----Original Message-----
 > Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 12:33 PM <FONT
 size=2>> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > So you're saying, unless you run only M$ products it still > sucks. They need > to tighten up and open up the API's. Then windows would be great. > > --Scott >
 > > Christopher Spence
 wrote: > > > > I am much a unix person over M$, but the simple fact is > Win32 serves > > many purposes. And it crashing all the time is a fairy > tail that unix > > people like to tell. Yeah, it isn't as stable as unix, and most of > > the problems are related to software and drivers which have
 > nothing to > > do
 with the OS. > > >
 > Christopher R. Spence > > Oracle DBA
 > > > <FONT
 size=2>> > -----Original Message----- > > Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 11:27 AM > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > >
 > > > -----Original Message-----
 > > > From: Christopher Spence [<A
 href="mailto:cspence_at_FuelSpot.com">mailto:cspence_at_FuelSpot.com]
 > > > Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 10:51 AM
 > > > To: Multiple recipients of list
 ORACLE-L > > > Subject: RE: but will it run windows? > > > >
 > > I hate windows and all it stands for, but I can't stand
 > when people > >
 > say it crashes all the time and completely useless. <FONT
 size=2>> > > > OK, I stand corrected. Windows crashes just half of the > time and if it
 > > wasn't for Windows, I'd have to explain how
 to actually use > a computer > > to a far too big lot of ignorant people. It is also a marvelous, > > although somewhat overpriced alternative for the Sony's PS2. > > Hopefully, the statement above will mitigate your feelings > toward us, > > the poor Unix geeks that use unix to provide for our > everyday's bread
 > > and Dom Perignon. <FONT
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