[A83] Re: Problems with Virtual TI [OT]
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[A83] Re: Problems with Virtual TI [OT]
> Van: David Phillips <david@acz.org>
>
> Yeah, NT has always been stable. People go from 98 or ME to XP and
> ooohh, it's stable! When in reality, it's worse than NT or Win2k.
The fun (?) is that you can 'teach' Windows9x to be stable. I know somebody
who lets his PC always on to run Seti@Home. And that machine is now very
stable. Okay, it's a P266 with >200MB RAM so it's a little bit unusual
config for Win95, and it's connected to the companies network (updates,
etc.). And he didn't upgrade to Outlook, only uses the PC for Word, Excel
and SAP (that's the worst of these 3). But anyways, not crashing within one
week is pretty impressive for Windows.
> You have have a
> Linux machine lock up so that you can't use the keyboard, but you can
> almost always SSH in and kill the offending process. There is the magic
> sysreq key, and I believe is similiar to what you are talking about.
sysreq key? You mean anything physical, something on your keyboard (like
the famous Ctrl-Alt-Del)? Or something in software (like an environment
variable)? Okay, I know, I've worked to much with the
Windows-registry(-keys) around.
[..some later..]
Oh hey, I see the thing, it's on the same button as Print Screen...
Probably need to use it with Ctrl and/or Alt before it.
> > Just like NT4 (I think). Linux hasn't got this ability, but it should
> > be 'easy' to make a kernel hack that gives you a nice prompt which
> > asks what processes to kill. Kinda like redundant maybe, since you
> > can just open another console... Might be nice if it had a graphical
> > interface.
Henk Poley <><
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