[CS-FSLUG] Why I've NEVER LIKED nor will use Asus!!

[N. Thompson]

On July 23, 2004 05:32 am, Brian Derr wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 09:20:04PM -0600, N. Thompson wrote:
> > If something were high quality simply because of where it came from then
> > explain MS Windows ;-) .
>
> Well, I was refering to our prowess at manufacturing.  We used to be a
> world leader in manufacturing.  Now we import everything from just about
> everywhere.  Software manufacturing, unfortunately, is just a "get rich
> quick" scheme here in America I think.  Why else is most of the
> proprietary software developed here so junky and prone to bugs?  Because
> they don't care about the customer and just want their dollars.

One of the reasons why open source software is good is because it cannot be 
forcefully outsourced to India ;-) .

I have an interesting question though, if money is going overseas to pay the 
workers making so called Canadian and American products then eventually there 
would be little work and much fewer consumers (with money) in Canada and the 
US in which case the economy would be bad off. So what is keeping  the 
unemployment rate from jumping and the economy from dropping.

> > BTW. For those Windows defenders among us I don't really hate the
> > product, just the fud that Microsoft spews out about Linux when some
> > distributions are far better then any proprietary OS I've ever tried. To
> > be honest I also dislike how Windows tends to spontaneously stop working
> > but maybe that only happens to some people.
>
> Yes, sometimes when I boot into Windows to play games it'll
> spontaneously hard reboot.  No idea what is causing; _very_ aggrevating.
>
> Brian

In Windows XP on my computer the panel crashes a lot (looks very similar to an 
explorer crash in Windows 98) and my display often messes up so I have to try 
to reboot the computer using keyboard hotkeys without the display (which has 
a very low success rate sometimes). I suspect there is a memory leak in 
Windows XP or one of the applications since I get a lot of program crashes 
where the computer complains about not being able to write to some address in 
the memory, normally I would suspect my ram but I know its good because I ran 
memtest86 overnight once and that ran through the ram over 70 times without 
turning up a single problem.