Re: XP is great

learning@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> In <425d3971$0$73732$edfadb0f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, on 04/13/05
> at 05:23 PM, "Frithiof Andreas Jensen"
> <frithiof.jensen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>>Like I care - as if people who perpetually whinge and whine, all the
>>while still putting up with whatever they whine about are known to pay
>>attention; hell, they are not even listening to themselves fer
>>ricekakes.
>
>
> If you don't care, why did you let me get under your skin, and get you to
> drop down to my level? That was the plan, and you did good.
>


For all intents and purposes, you just admitted to Trolling.

...

Look, I have no idea what planet you came from, but I know A LOT about
XP/2k/98/95/3.11, and I'm NOT holding up M$'s products. I said I do not like the
fact that there is only one mainstream OS, but since there is no viable
alternative, I am forced to use it. You can say that you hate Windows, but if
your boss hands you a .PPT document and asks you to tweak the last frame, are
you going to politely explain to him how you can't, because you don't believe in
Windows?

If you can make my hardware, Proteus VSM, MASM32, and Sony Vegas Video run on
any flavor of Linux, then I might consider the [daunting] task of switching. But
as of right now, XP has been the greatest M$ OS I've seen yet. I think more than
half of the problems all you guys say are the OS's fault, are actually
hardware/configuration issues. When I say configuration, I'm not implying that
you must leave all the XP settings at the defaults - my system has had most of
the XP tweaks disabled to increase speed. But it has been meticuously tweaked
also, right down to obscure registry tweaks like the "offload LAN handling to
NIC processor" setting and the TCP parameters optimized for cable (yielding a
21% performance increase over standard MTU/RWIN.) I also use Norton WinDoctor, a
few registry and system optimizers, I defrag at least every 6 months or so, and
daily I sync all drives to an external HDD as backup. (FolderClone is a great
app for this.)

When I built my current box, I built the whole thing around a SolTek mainboard
- one of the best board manufacturers in existance IMHO. I really did my
homework; since I built a '486 system once from a cheap board and a fresh
install of windows 98 would not even run. That hardware was junk! It is possible
to build a worthless computer on which any OS will give you grief, just as it is
possible to build a great computer which will run fine. Even pre-built computers
are not immune to flaky hardware - does anyone remember the old Packard Bells?
Many a service tech has a story there, undoubtedly.

There are many factors that influence OS stability and performance, aside from
the actual hardware itself. Bus/memory/video timings are critical, also
temperature and even vibration play a role. For instance, when I overclock my
video ram and cpu, if I turn up either clock just 2MHz, I'll start getting
random lockups. I spent probably 15 hours testing various BIOS combinations
along with hardware and software diagnostics to achive the highest stability and
performance possible with my hardware. Yep, a whole day was sacrificed to
optimize the PC - before any apps were installed on it. It may seem pointless,
but just look at the end result. This level of thoroughness likely stems from
being a PC Technician supervisor for 5 years, but realistically all the details
on how to tune any new system can be found at a place like Tom's Hardware. You
just have to do it (when the system is built) so you don't find out about these
problems later.

That said, those who don't like XP's "stability" could always switch to CP/M...
or QNX for that matter.

p.s. I only recall seeing one processor exception error -ever- in Linux.
.

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