1. RE: How do you.....
> - I seem to recall only one actual XP "crash"
I love xpHome. It costs about $100 in the USA if you buy it as an
upgrade, with a new computer, or with an internal hardware upgrade to an
old computer. I spent much more than that on books trying to learn to
use linux.
The only time I need to reboot is when I'm losing at freecell and don't
want to lose the winning streak.
2. RE: How do you.....
- Posted by rforno at tutopia.com
Jun 02, 2003
Karl:
What is DRM?
TIA
----- Original Message -----
From: <kbochert at copper.net>
Subject: Re: How do you.....
>
> On 1 Jun 2003 at 19:30, gertie at visionsix.com wrote:
>
> >
> > On 1 Jun 2003, at 18:06, Robert Craig wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > gertie at visionsix.com wrote:
> > > > Define "rarely"? What is the longest uptime before a crash? What's
the
> > > > shortest?
> > >
> > > In 12 months of using XP every day, usually for several hours:
> >
> > "for several hours" ? So it's not left on 24-7 then, and given time to
nuke
> > itself?
> >
> > > - I seem to recall only one actual XP "crash"
> > > - I rebooted a couple of times because it was
> > > acting a bit strange (some cosmetic problem developed
> > > with the way some windows were shown).
> > > - I rebooted a few times when trying to restore my Internet
> > > connection, but I can't say that was XP's fault, the DSL
> > > just seemed to go down for a while.
> > > - It crashed twice during electrical storms, but that's hardly
> > > XP's fault.
> > >
> > > In contrast, my previous Win98, later WinME, machine crashed
> > > an average of twice a day. It may have been partly due
> > > to flaky hardware (though Linux on that same
> > > machine rarely crashed - maybe an average of once per 200 hours).
> >
> > 200 hours isn't much time either, only 8 days. I stay up 2 weeks before
> > rebooting just to save settings, but have gone 22 days, which is
supposed to
> > be impossible on win95.
> >
> > Kat
> >
>
> Some interesting links:
>
>
http://216.239.57.100/search?q=cache:cxniQQrwbnIJ:www.eu.microsoft.com/franc
e
>
/logicieloriginal/activation/docs/ManagingDownloadTechnologies.doc+xp+drm&hl
=e
> n&ie=UTF-8
> whew! try Phone home to save some fingertips.
>
> http://cryptome.org/ms-drm-os.htm DRM patent
>
> http://www.infoworld.com/article/02/02/08/020211opfoster_1.html EULA
>
>
> 1) Office, Outlook etc produce DRM content by default (and later only)
> 2) Patents prevent Linux from implementing DRM.
> 3) New hardware will refuse to boot non-DRM OS's.
>
> It will take a while, but Linux is doomed 
> Fortunately I'm retiring soon, so its not my problem.
>
> Karl Bochert
>
>
>
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