On 10/9/2011 14:00, Jim Henderson wrote:
> The point was that Andy said that binary blob data could be stored in the
> registry and not a Linux configuration file.

Oh. I thought that was more "you *could* do it that way, but it would be a 
stupid way to do it" sort of comment. OK.

> So it's still bad behaviour because of poor design.  Design that
> Microsoft could have some say in, given that they do still hold the
> largest market share.  But instead they certify drivers for hardware that
> suffers from poor design.

They'd probably get their ass sued off if they wouldn't certify drivers just 
because it required resetting the hardware to read its state.

>> Machines have had BSOD since long before MS-Dos was around. :-)
> Sure, but I don't think it was called that.

Sure, and they weren't blue. (Actually, I still giggle that I had a 
co-worker who had installed and uninstalled so much experimental crap on his 
machine that he got a yellow-on-grey-screen-of-death every time he logged out.)

> Well, in the end, I don't really care either, but it bugs me to see the
> same old myths recycled about Linux....just as it seems to bug you to see
> the same old myths recycled about Windows. ;)

Yep, pretty much. Both of taken major strides recently.  Linux more than 
Windows, I think.

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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