[Info-vax] Maybe a bit OT, maybe not.. in any case an interesting article

[David Froble]

Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <AIudnRxTUetRcC_SnZ2dnUVZ_hqdnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
>> I think you must be doing something wrong.  My Windows box is turned on 
>> 24x7.  I'm running Windows XP Service Pack Three.  It's been up for 
>> years.  The only times I've had to reboot have been when a power outrage
>> lasts long enough for my UPS to run down.
> 
>    I think you must be patently lucky.  I'm running WXP SP3.  It has
>    to reboot for patches at least once a month.  It freezes up.  I get
>    a couple BSOD a year.
> 

I'm running some Windows 2000, and some Windows XP.  It would all be 2000, if I could get 
away with it.  Some people insist on writing software that will not run on older versions 
of windoz ...

I rarely re-boot, and I never turn on automatic updates.  No freeking way is someone going 
to change the way my systems work without my knowing about it and approving.  I'm the same 
way with VMS.  I don't patch until I know what the patch does, and I feel it's pertinent 
to me.

So yeah, windoz works the same today as it did yesterday.  There sometimes are problems. 
Nothing is perfect.

I cannot remember the last BSOD.


Yesterday Diablo III came out.  I'm still more than a little bit hot.

Won't run on Windows 2000
Won't run on Windows XP with less than SP3
I think I'm going to need to be buying some better video cards

I won't even be playing the game, I just have to support the PCs in the family

When the requirements become Vista and Win7, the games will be going back for a refund