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Friday, March 17, 2000

Stupid NT Tricks -- 9:39 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

I found a way to crash Windows NT (other than just booting it up)! Yesterday, I took some stuff over to EZ-Net on a ZIP disk. The disk had the standard ZIP formatting and the information had been copied over from Linux using the vfat filesystem. When Crawl tried to read the ZIP, Win NT ate itself, everything crashed, and he had to reboot. As a newbie Linux user, all I can say is, "Bwhahahaha!"

The Master comments: This is why Microsoft shouldn't be so friggin attached to moving every bloody application into the OS kernel. You realize that NT 3.51 would have laughed at that crash and killed the app? No reboot. That's insane. A newer version of an OS should be MORE stable, not less. Did saving 5% of CPU cycles for moving API "x" into the kernel really benefit NT 4? I don't think so.

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