i hate computers

[lillstrumpa]

Ok, I have a danish crap computer called Amitech or something. Its more or less brand new, but it cant cope with xp so it crashes 1-20 times a day. I learned to live with that...

Anyway... I have been working on a paper for school, extremely boring and due in 4 days. So what happend this morning? Computer crashed again. For the first time ever does it refuse to boot up again. Groan. After lots of various attempts to boot it and then various attempts to rescue whats on it, I get this verdict: Its dead. Gone, wasted. Ok, lots of stuff lost. I can live with most of it being gone, though it sure hurts to have all school notes lost. Argh, the paper. Its gone and I was almost done with it. 23 pages gone. Argh, argh, argh. I throw a tantrum. When I calm down, my fiance asks me why not ask the teacher for a copy of what I mailed her 2 days ago. Ok, I phone her. Now guess what... She has deleted it. She always deletes her mail after she replies back. To save space on the harddrive. Groan.

Conclusion: I am sticking to my old win 95 box, a really cute Leojet. Windows will be history though, Linux here I come!

/Lill - unhappy

[Yavathol]

I am quite convinced that, among viruses, the most widely distributed is

WINDOWS

[Snafu]

Actually, I thought AOL ranked high up there too!

/Snafu

[sUiko-den]

you dont like M$ i suggest you do convert to Apple instead. Less crashes... no actually there's no things called crash in the Apple world

[Snafu]

In the old days we used to tease macs by trying to print and access disk at same time and it would crash horribly. Lill can prolly still access his files from the hard drive of the old computer.

/Snafu

[lillstrumpa]

Not sure how I could access... No computer pro here. I had a small partition saved on the danish crap for installing linux whenever I would get the thumb out. I installed xp on it yesterday evening and I couldnt reach the broken partition from there.

As for macs.... I got an small and old mac screen to rest my feet on under my desk.

[Kherec]

Perhaps this should be in the "things you are ashamed of" section Poogus made ... but I'm actually pleased with Windows XP.

On my old computer (a PII, 350MHz with 254MB SDRAM and a crappy 2D card) any other windows version crashed daily, but XP actually sat around and enabled me to actually keep the computer running for a few days.

However windows is highly subjectable to 'not so perfect' settings, if you keep a too high resolution you can crash daily (while it works just fine up until the crash), generic drivers can work just fine too but still cause crashes at any given time.

In short, if you don't have the right drivers (for all things), but drivers that 'work', it's just a temporary fix because it'll crash sooner or later even though it seems to work just fine. But if you have the right drivers and all, it will be very stable, even on old computers.

That's my experience of Windows anyways.

[Qwer]

For me, Win2k is the stable one.
Tried XP on my computer at my ex-job but it was too slow, and it just wasn't working well, was experiencing all kind of problems with it.
I've seen win2k crashing, but pretty rarely. On the machines I've used, it never crashed. Or, at least, not totally. Saw it to hang, but only a few times.

[Dain]

lill, you can still get your data back.

either you go with the HDD to someone who knows what to do or ... well you just need another comp and a data recovery program (getdataback for example) and you can find a crack for it at www.crack.am (if you don't buy one).

all the above if you haven't write anything on that HDD. if you did ... well you can still try.

[lillstrumpa]

Thanks for the tip, Dain! Though I think the possibility is even slimmer now. I am installing Linux for the 4th time in just a few days now. Lots of fiddeling and testing with stuff, thats I am reinstalling so much. Though now I think I will be satisfied for a while.

And the only thing that really hurt when the hd crashed was that the paper is totally gone. It was excruciating writing it. I have decided to let it be for a while and do it next semester, I will get student money anyway.