[N3WBI3]

To be fair, whenever a box goes down (windows or Linux) the first thing I do is ask what were you doing... its a normal diagnostic question. The answer is always 'nothing' and alas 99/100 times they were doing smoething that crashed the box.

How many linux people do you work with, and do you think thats right to apply it to people here on FR. BTW just for full disclosure, I am RHCE certified on RHEL3.

I suspect that you are percieving it differently, I joke a good deal about windws (boxes I have to restart at least once a month) with the other Unix guys around here but it is just joking..

[usgator]

but it is just joking

Obviously, so was I.

first thing I do is ask what were you doing

Yep. Unless it's MS then it's just assumed that it's because MS, as we ALL know, sucks.

How many linux people do you work with

Right now, none. That was a small project I did for a few months doing Perl and PHP. I'm back to C# again.

do you think thats right to apply it to people here on FR

Of course not. But come one, we ALL do it. During the election I supported GWB and of course, my liberal friends all felt that it was because I was a hateful, war mongering nazi who wants to take everyone's right away and nuke the whole planet. It would never occur to them that I just could not fathom the thought of Kerry being president.

90% of the time we, AND YOU GUYS, just say this to ruffle feathers. It's fun yet I never take it personally.

[dalight]

In my experience with various linuxes, box crashing vs. application dying, assuming you have a stable install, comes 9 out of 10 times from some hardware issue. I mean you can run it up against the wall, out of memory or hard drive space, but normally you can back out of these without a freeze.

Of course, this is a definite.. it all depends sort of thing. I very rarely look at users first for this sort of event, except for perhaps, how did they tickle the box to make it hiccup.