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I just wondered since the diversity of configurations I run is limited, and
I don't have any lockups at home - I did see the machine we use for
CLUE-Cert study group lock up - I ran glade, I believe, and the machine
locked up hard. I don't know the versions of OS/X/Gnome it was running; Jef
would probably know.

One aggravation I do have with my current config is that it takes multiple
tries to get X to run - something in KDE doesn't start up. I think it
actually may be because FreeBSD needs to load a module(s) that KDE uses - and it
doesn't load it fast enough for KDE? Dunno. In any case, it's one of the
reasons I don't restart much. And I don't leave X because I like the quick
access to my apps

One aggravation I do have with my current config is that it takes multiple
tries to get X to run - something in KDE doesn't start up. I think it
actually may be because FreeBSD loads a module that KDE uses - and it
doesn't load it fast enough for KDE? Dunno. In any case, it's one of the
reasons I don't restart much. And I don't leave X because I like the quick
access to my apps.

> > BTW - the latest little quirk I've noticed in the W2K machine I've
> > "inherited" from the last guy - Photoshop 5.5 will, during certain
> > operations, just reboot the machine!!! 
> 
> I remember a time long past where such things were due to "triple faults" -
> ocassions where the CPU got three instructions in a row it didn't know what
> to do with and couldn't recover.  Such events were beyond the scope of the
> OS.  Double faults usually just caused OS panics.  I don't know if modern
> CPUs still do this, however.

The other, much more common, irritation with W2K: Explorer.exe will crash,
leaving you with no taskbar...you can still run, but sort of "crippled".
There was a point I can remember where this happened at least daily.  The
box I have at work will restart explorer.exe a little while after a crash
- maybe a newer service pack? 

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