Constructive critisism; room for improvement:
nodata
fedora at nodata.co.uk
Sat Jul 30 12:33:42 UTC 2005
On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 12:00 +0200, Andy Pieters wrote:
> HI all
>
> I am a huge fan of Linux and Fedora in particular. I just bought another low
> budget pc with windows xp on so I could test how my software (php/xml) looks
> on internet explorer. Again it filled me with joy that I switched to Linux
> almost a year ago, for that windows box BSODed on me within the first fifteen
> minutes! (actually while trying to uninstall AOL) (BSOD=Blue Screen of Death
> = Kernel Error)
No-one on this list won't know what a BSOD is.
>
> Still, one thing that windows handles well are bad cd's. When a cd fails, the
> whole os doesn't come crashing down. I was just ripping the cd Europe
> 1982-1992 on my Linux box and listening to my collection with amaroK.
> Suddenly the system got in an endless loop. The 5 seconds of music in the
> play buffer were repeated over and over again. I ejected the cd but that
> didn't save the system. I tried also to ssh in but that wasn't possible
> either. It didn't respond to pusing the poweroff button and the only
> solution was forced power off.
>
> With kind regards
>
>
> Andy
I've never heard of this cd. Is it new? Is it copy protected?
>From a terminal windows, run this while ripping the cd:
tail -f /var/log/messages
See any errors?
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