Re: XP is great


"Mark Jones" <abuse@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Do6dnU3-G8SPacbfRVn-hw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> What the hell are you guys doing to corrupt your WinXP installs? I've
heard bad
> reports about the SP2, but other than that XP is more stable and robust
than 2K.

They are "Customizing It" - the root of all Evil!

The OS'es and Apps (Linux & Windows) allude to being user-customizable by
giving free acces to many, many options; However, any combination of
applications, OS, patches, and options is a new configuration that one
should really Test and Verify.

This is Impossible to do before the sun becomes a lump of coal, so only the
Default can be assumed to have been tried by enough people to hit most bugs.

Having being bitten many times by a few characters different in some obscure
config file, We now blow a lot of time here on nitting with versioning and
change control for *everything* for systems integrated into embedded
Linux'en so that they do not fail in the field (<joke except boxes in Hawaii
and the one in Rio /joke> ;-).


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