Posted on 12-Feb-2001 19:38 GMT by Christian Kemp | 64 comments View flat View list |
Things have been pretty slow behind the scenes at ANN. I still worked most of January 2001 and the past two weeks of February, so my free time was limited. My PC seems to be working okay now, but my dialup has been very unreliable and painfully slow (how many errors are normal in W2k's dialup status window? So far I have 143 for less than 200k transferred...). The DSL line is supposedly being installed "in a few weeks". Sounds oddly familiar. I finally found an Amiga sponsor again, so that my phone costs are almost covered. Thanks also to the individuals who offered donations - sorry I didn't get back to you - but I'm always reluctant to accept individual donations for a number of reasons I won't go into since space is limited. :) To wrap up this MOTD, I'm trying once more to find one or more reliable contributors to do a bit of moderation and article posting. Please apply via email.
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MOTD 12/Feb/2001 : Comment 53 of 64 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Hassan Sultan on 15-Feb-2001 23:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 52 (Colin Wilson): Well, this guy has perhaps written all this stuff for submarines, but I REALLY doubt that Win2k has this behaviour, Win2k is a "mainstream" OS, and if it really had this problem(corrupting data, which is probably the worst thing an OS can do), the news would be on the front page of every computer related newspaper/magazine/website. Win2k is out since one year and millions of people use it(1 million sold + all the pirates), this kind of horrible behaviour would have been already noticed by many companies.
I would really like to know what were their tests, the results and the conditions, because this seems pretty doubtful to me.
Also, posting this stuff on a linux mailing list seems pretty original to me, you don't tell linux fans "don't install Win2k" because you know that they will not do it anyway. If these tests were really serious, he would have sent this information to windows mailing-lists or newspapers, not a linux mailing list where people are notoriously anti-MS. |
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