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The best product of Microsoft is Windows XP. Although sometimes is crushes, it is the most stable of all windows out there (until Windows 7). What happened to Microsoft? Bill Gates retired. Although it is the face of the company, Bill Gates is a techie guy and as all techie guy it cares for the detail. That's why Windows XP, Visual Studio 98/2003/2005, VirtualPC (first version) and a lot other great products are developed (either created or perfected) by Microsoft. Then techie lead retired and business guys got the lead. Result was Windows Vista. Techie guys do care about the product, business guys do care for the company (and money). So the product itself, the contact with OEM and other details become meaningless.
Now Apple do the same mistake. Steve Jobs although having a trade talent is a techie guy. It do cares for the product and created or perfected great products like iPhone, iPod, TrueType fonts, etc. Now Apple is collapsing under the care of the company itself and the money. Instead caring for the product, Apple is trying to bind the already won market to itself.
On the other hand Google is so techie company that goes for what every techie wants: experimenting. Experimenting products never "just works", they are experiments, they are meant to challenge the tester to find the mistakes. But the problem is simple users do not want to experiment, they want something that "just works".
So under-techie is bad, over-techie is also bad (unless you have billions of dollars to spent like Google).
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Plamen Dragiyski wrote: it is the most stable of all windows out there (until Windows 7).
So you mean that Windows 7 is the most stable?
Personally I've found Win7 way, way better than XP both in terms of stability and security (obviously). Looking forward to Windows 9.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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In WinXP a lot of OEM production drivers have kernel level bugs leading to exception in kernel-space, handled by WinXP double-fault handler producing the blue-screen-of-dead. The statistics shows that for Win7 the OEM technology got better. It seems Win7 was the last Windows, which received kernel-code attention. The Win8 seems to add only user-space features (however in closed-source like Windows only win-programmers and reverse-engineers knows).
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I have always viewed it with a get what you paid for attitude. If you want the best hardware buy Apple gear. If you care more about getting the best software you buy MS "gear".
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Chris Maunder wrote: Apple software...was always reasonably robust...
My first 'real' computer was a Powermac 6100 running OS 7.5.x. Hardly robust! My first 'real' computer manual was 'Sad Macs, Bombs, and Other Disasters' to try to make sense of all the crashes! Then I got my first Windows machine and never looked back. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I dealt with the same problem, at length, while upgrading from my iPhone5 to my iPhone6+.
If your iTunes library is on a network location, then you are dealing with a "known" issue, at least, there are a couple of long threads on the Apple forums about it that helped me get past it (there are also multiple stories of the uselessness of Apple support).
The solution for older devices is to downgrade iTunes, since this bug was apparently introduced in the latest version.
For those of us with new devices, that require the latest version of iTunes (they refuse to sync with older versions), the only solution is to copy the apps folder from your network iTunes library location to a local hard drive. Then you have to remove all apps from within iTunes and re-add them from the local folder (though you may also have to tweak your settings to keep iTunes from just re-copying them back to their network location). Even then, the sync may fail for specific apps (I had 2), requiring you to delete those apps from the device to get the sync to finish.
Just don't ask how much time I wasted figuring this out... and no, I won't provide my opinion Apple's software, since I don't think this forum software will allow me to use that sort of language!
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Yeah - I do have my iTunes media on a network drive, and I cannot believe how poor the network support is. Do they understand multithreading? Network timeouts?
The thing that absolutely kills me, though, is that if iTunes, for any reason, can't find your network drive then it defaults to using your local drive for the iTunes folder without telling you and without trying to reestablish the connection. Suddenly some files are on your local machine, the rest are on the network, and iTunes thinks that half your library is now missing.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Yet my iPhone, in the last few weeks, has become like the Android device I had
I don't think its fair to compare hardware based on how buggy the software is. My Android phone has been far more stable softwarewise than either my wife or daughter's iPhone. The hardware, not so much (my Motorola hardware is not aging well).
You really have to chalk your problems up to the new don't-test-release-often culture that pervades all phone software. In other words, congratulations, you've just become an Apple alpha tester.. they just knew you wanted to participate
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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patbob wrote: I don't think its fair to compare hardware based on how buggy the software is.
Hardware is nothing without the software, and it's understood that when we talk about the reliability of a machine we usually talk about hardware and software combined.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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We used to be an Apple shop here: Macbook pros mostly.
Lately we've been finding that their over-priced hardware is rather unreliable so we've moved on to Lenovo.
Don't have much experience of their software recently, but certainly they are slipping in the quality department.
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Taken from a long time Linux user who got desperate with OSX, Apple also has the logging functionality, however it is deeply buried. If you open up a terminal and type sudo dmesg, you get a full dump of system status, and what crashed. Furthermore, you have event log where software drops its guts to in the Apple system settings, or if you want to be Unixy about things, try in the command line to see what you have in /var/log , or even better, tail /var/log/system.log , which was still the default logging place for Tiger, when I last used a Mac.
There are a number of reasons why an install might fail, as other mentioned, bad cable, funky port, maybe bad block in your iphone, etc. If you have issues, it is recommended to open a terminal and tail -f the log to see why, while the happen.
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You would think it would have been a lot easier to walk out the front door to the pub while she slept.
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This is what I call patience. It reminds me a film I can't find the english name (with Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins).
Edit: is it possibly "Shawshank redemption" ?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Shawshank Redemption. Yeah, now that you mention it. Definitely does. I wonder if he wandered the front yard spreading soil
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Shawshank Redemption.
I found a pic of the DVD-Front in google  But thanks for the quick answer 
Kent Sharkey wrote: I wonder if he wandered the front yard spreading soil
He got out at women toilette. I prefer not to ask about what he had to go through 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
modified 29-Sep-14 15:54pm.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I wonder if he wandered the front yard spreading soil
No; he dug another hole and put the soil down there.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Quote: OK, which one of you lot did this?
Nagy or M.Martin, need you ask.
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Oh come on, Nagy wouldn't build a tunnel.
A pipeline on the other hand...
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Quote: reportedly spent 15 years digging a tunnel
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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15 years? Definitely not Nagy then, he'd have found a better solution.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Is that one of those questions like "how many people work here?"?
'Cause the answer's probably the same -- "About half of us".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Linky say FAKE 
However, I once lived two doors away from a pub and one evening it took me nearly an hour to get home. 
In my defence, it was on the side of a rather steep hill and it had snowed. On exiting the hostility, I slid down the hill [fun an all] and every time I got up the hill again, I'd slide back down.
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Um, I think you're remembering the video game you played after you got home rat-arsed.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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In my final year at university (Leicester D'oh Monfort) I lived next door to a pub, in a ground floor flat.
The pub toilets were downstairs.
It was quicker to go home for a piss.
The landlord was a Derby fan (as am I0, lived in Nottingham with a wife that he hated, and had a flat above the pub.
Much after hours drinking took place.
When I first went to university (Lancaster) I lived on campus, and became entirely nocturnal for a few months. I'd get up in the evening, pad through the corridors and covered walkways to the college bar in my dressing gown and slippers, get a couple of pints to take back to my room whilst I get ready for a night out.
This is the reason a second university was required as the first didn't want me back after the first year.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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