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piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: BobTheHob ---@muzzy: you know your lying if you try and tell someone windows is secure, just because someone posts something doesnt mean you have to respond with something pro-microsft that you make up.
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This gonna sound dumb, but I'll say it anyhow:

If you were at a fuckbsd website, and they had forums where Windows users bragged about how stable their systems were and how shit and crap BSD was, what would you do?
Muzzy is convinced that his system is stable, and he loves Windows. He has no reason not to (well I can think of some... eg, he's funding an evil monopaly, but that doesn't bother him, 'cause their OS is great, to him).
Now, if you were at that fuckbsd site, you would be a coward if you didn't argue with the bsd haters, wouldn't you?
Muzzy is brave.

PS: I'm not saying that I agree with muzzy or anything, btw.

muzzy:
You would be coward if you chose not to argue because you were afraid of something. However, it's not like my ego is going to be crushed by teenagers who know less about my OS of choice than I do, and sometimes even less about their OS of choice than I do. :)

piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: muzzy ---You would be coward if you chose not to argue because you were afraid of something. However, it's not like my ego is going to be crushed by teenagers who know less about my OS of choice than I do, and sometimes even less about their OS of choice than I do. :)
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haha, I wouldn't be too sure about that ;)

Simon:
Eh. My opinions of MS are far from taken from others. I've had many problems with Windows that really couldn't have been caused by me. Things breaking when using word, BSOD'd when trying to web browse. I remember being driven insane by the Blaster worm. Also, I've done quite a bit of reading on the MS anti-trust case to back up my opinions of the company itself. And as I said before, while I don't claim to be at the same level of Tech-Savy as the rest of the users, I can generally understand what the security flaws and such are, and if I don't, I read up on it and see if I can understand it. It's called "learning".

muzzy:
So, you might be running on broken hardware, or just using bad (development version?) drivers for things. Also, you don't regularly patch your system, you likely don't use the automatic updater. I'd say there's plenty of evidence that a lot of your problems are caused by yourself.

If you have extra time, please verify that basic components of your system are good. Get Memtest86 and write it on a floppy, then run it for few hours (overnight would be great idea). After you're done with that, download Prime95 and run it in torture test mode for several hours. Again, overnight would be good. If both tests run fine for several hours, you can have more confidence that your core system is ok. However, without ever having tested such thing, you can't tell. If the system regularly BSODs, memtest and prime95 are the first two things I do... well, unless the STOP error itself makes sense. You know, the bluescreens actually tell you things about what went wrong, and the STOP error codes can sometimes immediately reveal what's broken. I haven't had a single crash EVER with windows core component being to blame. (OK, there was one case with NT4.0, but it wouldn't have happened if there hadn't been linux on the system, too. It was an issue with the partition table)

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