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xi_hyperon · Jun 9, 2005, 04:51 AM

Article: Crash an PC with XP sp2, using a simple html.

Thought I'd share this (it's in German). I tried it on my old compaq box here, and it seems to work. After about 10 or so seconds, it completely shut down. Imagine creating a google ad with this.

Link · Jun 9, 2005, 04:53 AM

Now if only we could get a ton of websites to have that hack in it

Big Mac · Jun 9, 2005, 05:12 AM

I thought this was truly a thread about making friends with PC people. We can make friends with our PC-using acquaintances much more easily now: All we have to tell them is that soon we too will be using Intel-based PCs. </rimshot>

Goldfinger · Jun 9, 2005, 05:22 AM

Incredible. Really Incredible.

theolein · Jun 9, 2005, 05:38 AM

It's not incredible, it's normal. Windows has some pretty strange bugs in it, especially since this bug doesn't affect the latest Firefox or Opera versions, but does affect the older ones and IE.

That said, for a bit of sobriety: Check out software update for Apple's latest round of bug patches in Panther and Tiger.

:XI: · Jun 9, 2005, 07:12 AM

Originally Posted by Link

Now if only we could get a ton of websites to have that hack in it

So that it gets fixed.

Really, putting that in a webpage with the intention of crashing any Windows XP computers is just childish.

:XI: · Jun 9, 2005, 07:12 AM

Originally Posted by Big Mac

I thought this was truly a thread about making friends with PC people. We can make friends with our PC-using acquaintances much more easily now: All we have to tell them is that soon we too will be using Intel-based PCs. </rimshot>

I already use a PC. It's an Apple Macintosh personal computer.

xi_hyperon · Jun 9, 2005, 09:03 AM

I see some of us are still cranky from this week's announcement.

JoshuaZ · Jun 9, 2005, 11:55 AM

Originally Posted by :XI:

I already use a PC. It's an Apple Macintosh personal computer.

Zing! How darn tootin correct of you. One of my biggest beefs. In close second are people who still call things IBM compatible.

xi_hyperon · Jun 10, 2005, 03:39 AM

Originally Posted by theolein

Windows has some pretty strange bugs in it, especially since this bug doesn't affect the latest Firefox or Opera versions, but does affect the older ones and IE.

I don't know about Opera, but it does in fact affect the latest version of Firefox. We tested it on a colleague yesterday (it was voluntary).

:XI: · Jun 10, 2005, 03:48 AM

Originally Posted by xi_hyperon

I see some of us are still cranky from this week's announcement.

Me? I'm always cranky.

xi_hyperon · Jun 10, 2005, 03:50 AM

Originally Posted by :XI:

Me? I'm always cranky.

Nah, I was poking fun at someone else here, whom I respect greatly, even though he's become seduced by the dark side.

ghporter · Jun 10, 2005, 08:50 AM

I look at this as yet another proof that much of (if not all of) what we think of as the downside of Windows computing is because of problems in the OS, not the hardware. I am looking forward to seeing OS X run rings around Windows on similarly equipped (actually comparing Apples to apples, so to speak!) computers.

Building the current Windows OS around their HTML rendering engine made Microsoft's codebase a bit smaller, but as a tradeoff they got the fact that you can crash the computer by just exceeding the boundaries of the rendering engine. Spaghetti code has obviously caused Windows indigestion!

theolein · Jun 10, 2005, 12:53 PM

Originally Posted by xi_hyperon

Nah, I was poking fun at someone else here, whom I respect greatly, even though he's become seduced by the dark side.

Crankily yours,
Theo