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irunat2am
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Nov 18, 2007, 04:05 PM
 
As i walked by one of the IT guys workstations yesterday, I laughed outloud as I noticed a blue screen of death in all its glory. It was the highlight of my day.

That will be all! Away with you!
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Nov 18, 2007, 04:42 PM
 
Awwwww, wish you could've posted a pic.
     
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Nov 18, 2007, 10:42 PM
 
hmm.. could it be intentional?
     
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Nov 19, 2007, 04:13 AM
 
all you need to make people laugh out loud and post a helf assed thread on the internet is a measly blue screen
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MacosNerd
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Nov 19, 2007, 05:27 AM
 
And OSX never gets Kernel Panics
     
sdilley14
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Nov 19, 2007, 05:30 AM
 
I've been using OSX for two years on several different machines and I've never once had a kernel panic. I've had freezes that required a manual reboot maybe 2-3 times.
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Nov 19, 2007, 06:01 AM
 
I've gotten kernel panics a few times. Not nearly as much as I did in the 90s with either OS.

Having said that, my GFs XP box never blue screens or panics.
     
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Nov 19, 2007, 06:44 AM
 
Maybe it was a screen saver?
     
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Nov 19, 2007, 07:18 AM
 
maybe he was just running a test
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Nov 19, 2007, 07:25 AM
 
Of the emergency broadcast system. This is only a test.


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MacosNerd
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Nov 19, 2007, 08:31 AM
 
Originally Posted by sdilley14 View Post
I've been using OSX for two years on several different machines and I've never once had a kernel panic. I've had freezes that required a manual reboot maybe 2-3 times.
I've been using OSX since 10.0 days and I've gotten a number of them on a number of various macs.

Don't get me wrong, Its a very stable OS, but to snicker because windows BSOD is a little childish. Mostly because on occasion OSX has KP'd People in glass houses type of thing

I'm sys admin and I manage a fairly large number of computers (macs and PCs and workstations) and to be honest, I've found windows XP, and windows server 2003 to be very stable
     
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Nov 19, 2007, 08:58 AM
 
I've found that Windows XP and Vista rarely lock up. OTOH, they do require reboots several times a week; my MBP only needs to be rebooted about once a month.
     
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Nov 19, 2007, 09:01 AM
 
Yeah XP is stable. But does need restarted more often than my OS X box does. Or it starts running really slow. Why is that?
     
MacosNerd
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Nov 19, 2007, 09:23 AM
 
Originally Posted by Kevin View Post
Yeah XP is stable. But does need restarted more often than my OS X box does. Or it starts running really slow. Why is that?
No argument there. I was uninstalling a text editor (ultraedit) and I had to reboot the workstation - why? Absolutely ridiculous

I've found that XP and 2k are really susceptible to memory leaks. While that's not an OS issue, it seems to bring on instabilities that I've not witnessed in OSX. I had a auditing service in memory on one work station consume 85% of VM and the only way to ensure the system didn't crash was reboot.

All in all, I like OSX its a superior OS, but it has its issues just like winblows

I've tried and disliked vista. Now that's a hog and I'm glad my company isn't moving towards that for a very long time, though I'm curious of windows server 2008. I'd like to see how that is when it goes gold
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Nov 19, 2007, 09:24 AM
 
AFAIK it still has the memory leaks. the reboots recover that. i do a reboot once a week to restore "The Snappy"
     
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Nov 19, 2007, 09:39 AM
 
Originally Posted by residentEvil View Post
AFAIK it still has the memory leaks. the reboots recover that. i do a reboot once a week to restore "The Snappy"
Speaking of OS X, or Windows?

I found 10.6 to have very little leaks.
     
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Nov 19, 2007, 09:47 AM
 
Originally Posted by Kevin View Post
Speaking of OS X, or Windows?

I found 10.6 to have very little leaks.
sorry; XP...the answer to your original question as to why you have to reboot Windows so much. it is because of the memory leaks.

and how do you have your hands on 10.6?
     
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Nov 19, 2007, 10:17 AM
 
my IT people like us to shut down our XP machines when we leave work for the day. Saves some on power (it makes a difference when you're running thousands of machines) and, they say, reduces the chances of their being hacked (12 hours not on the net, in the event the firewall is breached or an individual machine is infected and tries to wreak havoc on the LAN while the IT people are off duty.
     
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Nov 19, 2007, 11:00 AM
 
I was always told that a computer consumes MORE power starting up than it does running all day long. Not so sure how much truth there is to it.
     
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Nov 19, 2007, 11:08 AM
 
I don't know why it would. The maximum power draw is fixed, and 45 seconds of booting is comparable to only a couple minutes of sustained use.
     
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Nov 19, 2007, 11:31 AM
 
I'm no Windows-Lover but the only time I have problems at work with my XP machine is running Avid and I call that the white screen of death. It happens with I'm running Express DV and try to minimize it.

Mac OS X is way more smother multitasking then Windows. Try checking mail when Photoshop is rendering something, etc..
     
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Nov 19, 2007, 11:35 AM
 
no kidding. I move between Leopard and XP pro regularly, and am always amazed at how crappy XP multitasks, and generally how well Leopard does.
     
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Nov 19, 2007, 11:40 AM
 
My memory leaks some times.

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Nov 19, 2007, 12:02 PM
 
Originally Posted by RAILhead View Post
My memory leaks some times.


With me, it isn't the memory which leaks...
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turtle777
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Nov 19, 2007, 12:04 PM
 
Originally Posted by sdilley14 View Post
I've been using OSX for two years on several different machines and I've never once had a kernel panic. I've had freezes that required a manual reboot maybe 2-3 times.
Good for you.
I get a kernal panic everytime I reboot my computer.

Must be some third party extension crap that I can't figure out.

But still, it shouldn't have that bad of an effect.

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