>-----Original Message-----
>From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] 
>On Behalf Of Robert L Cochran
>Sent: 18 October 2004 04:35
>To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
>Subject: Re: [EE] What is the best way to make a Li battery 
>last longer ?
>
>At home my wife is using her laptop this way and she loves it, 
>but since 
>she sticks to Microsoft applications she gets all the crashes, poor 
>software support, and unreasonable expense that comes with those, and 
>usually does not have her needs met. She is moving slowly but surely 
>towards Linux.
>
>Bob

May be a good idea to do the usual checks for spyware, browser hijacking
etc. which are far an away the most common causes of crashes.  I have been
running both Windows 2000 and Windows XP at home and I simply cannot
remember when I last had a crash that actually lost me work, and I don't
think I've ever had a blue screen on those systems.  OTOH in my experiments
with Linux I managed to lock up my PC on a regular basis, and never actually
got much done as I spent most of my time trying to learn new tools.

As always horses for courses, and how you use a product has a great bearing
on it's reliability.

Mike

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