Thread on SD.net crashes my system

salm · Post by **salm** » 2004-10-15 09:23am

when attemt to open the thread "Sociology - How scientific is a social science?" in SLAM my system immediately crashes.

i´ve tried it several times after rebooting even with different methods (normal click, right click -> open in new tab, middle mouse click) but every time i try to open it my computer just hangs.
no bluescreen, no error message it simply quits doing anything. the curser doesn´t react. even if i smack it with a ctrl, alt, del i get no reation just like a little spoilt brat it sits there ignoring me completely.

all the other threads work perfectly fine. what kind of evil is implemented in that thread?

Executor32 · Post by **Executor32** » 2004-10-15 10:01am

It's because you touch yourself at night.

Seriously, though, I have no problems viewing either page of the thread. I'm using Firefox 0.8.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2004-10-15 10:10am

i´m using mozilla 1.6
weirderweise it works when i use MS IE to open it.

Xon · Post by **Xon** » 2004-10-15 10:17am

salm wrote:i´m using mozilla 1.6
weirderweise it works when i use MS IE to open it.

What OS are you running?

If its Win2k onwards, its probably shitty graphics drivers or some other drivers.

If its Windows 95/98/ME, its cause you are using a crap OS.

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2004-10-15 11:16am

I keep crashing on FireFox too. I'm not sure what thread it is (generally I open SD.net and middle click on everything I want to see to open a bazillion tabs, then start going through them).

salm · Post by **salm** » 2004-10-15 11:18am

ggs wrote:
salm wrote:i´m using mozilla 1.6
weirderweise it works when i use MS IE to open it.
What OS are you running?

If its Win2k onwards, its probably shitty graphics drivers or some other drivers.

If its Windows 95/98/ME, its cause you are using a crap OS.

i´m running win98. i just bought XP though, so i´ll be updating soon. i´ll check if it still happens with XP

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2004-10-15 02:30pm

NM my problems, my whole PC was screwed up. IE crashed on launch, FireFox crashed a minute or two after launch, DivX crashed on launch, WMP kept locking up, etc, etc. A restart fixed it.

Xon · Post by **Xon** » 2004-10-15 04:13pm

salm wrote:i´m running win98. i just bought XP though, so i´ll be updating soon. i´ll check if it still happens with XP

Remember, dont do an update install. Backup your existsing documents, and then format the drive through the Windows XP installer.

Upgrading major OS revisions in place (Putting WinXP onto Win98 for example) is never a good idea. This applies to drastically different linux/unix flavours as well.

Sokartawi · Post by **Sokartawi** » 2004-10-15 09:12pm

ggs wrote:If its Windows 95/98/ME, its cause you are using a crap OS.

STFU, like Bloatdows XP is a decent operating system, eating away RAM and CPU power for nothing. Windows 98 is solid enough to keep my webserver up and running for almost a year now, and the only time I had to restart the machine is because of a powerloss. The fact that the government pays me to have an 8 GB database hosted on it should say enough. (Although it also sais that they just hand out contracts to the lowest bidder without properly checking who they're dealing with, meh, their problem, getting 10 Euros a month should cover the powercosts of that thing as it only eats 50 KWh) Of course they don't know it runs on windows 98, but two weeks ago they delivered some update disks I had to put on there and said they regularly checked on the performance and uptime of my server and were quite satisfied

ggs wrote:Upgrading major OS revisions in place (Putting WinXP onto Win98 for example) is never a good idea. This applies to drastically different linux/unix flavours as well.

While in theory I would agree with you, my brother has installed XP over a windows 98 install that was practically falling apart thanks to his incompetence, didn't even get new drivers, didn't patch XP, and that machine is running stable and as smooth (as XP can get that is) for over 2 years now.

Xon · Post by **Xon** » 2004-10-16 01:15am

Sokartawi wrote: STFU, like Bloatdows XP is a decent operating system, eating away RAM and CPU power for nothing.

Sorry to break it to you, but windows 9x line is a technologically inferior OS line compared to the WinNT line.

The biggest improvement you can make is turning theming off and setting various graphics options off.

Windows 98 is solid enough to keep my webserver up and running for almost a year now, and the only time I had to restart the machine is because of a powerloss. The fact that the government pays me to have an 8 GB database hosted on it should say enough.

Well I'm not trusting your government. The Win9x line has got to be one of the worse OSs to out on a server.

While in theory I would agree with you, my brother has installed XP over a windows 98 install that was practically falling apart thanks to his incompetence, didn't even get new drivers, didn't patch XP, and that machine is running stable and as smooth (as XP can get that is) for over 2 years now.

The upgrade process can not, due to technical limitations of the installer, insure all the various drivers are updated properly.

And drivers generally do not like the OS changing on them. Its pure luck that nothing imploded.