Re: OT: Yet Another Unhappy Customer for Vista

Jan Panteltje wrote:

On a sunny day (Tue, 05 Jun 2007 21:22:56 GMT) it happened Joerg
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Then why do manuals and people (including some here) advise against turning the power off without shutting down?



A running OS (and some software) has data in buffers in RAM,
it uses 'caching', and if you simply plonk the power switch
that data is not yet written to disk (non-volatile memory) and you loose any or
all of what you are doing (caches can be quite big these days).


t'is why we can set "auto-save" on propoerly designed application SW. So you lose 5 mins of work, if that. I can live with that.

sync
sync
sync
(for the very old Unix fans).

Vart Dader


:-)

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Regards, Joerg

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