Posts by Richard Day2 posts • joined Friday 19th October 2007 00:03 GMT
1. Write your code properly
2. Test your code properly
The first is easy, the second is hard. Microsloth seem to have a problem doing either with any success. They've been the biggest offenders in buffer overrun problems to such an extent that you can use the term 'buffer overrun' in conversations without getting blank looks for normos.
So it's a bit fucking rich for them to tell us not to use it 'cos it's unsafe. Unsafe in their hands maybe, not in mine.
Bill cos ... well it's just all his fault, innit?
Come on guys, you're being a bit hard on PC World. I bought a new laptop from them a few weeks ago and it runs like a dream: boots in 90 seconds, never crashes, runs cool and is really responsive.
Runs Ubuntu, of course. The one time I tried to boot into Vista it spent five minutes 'calculating the performance' of my PC and then crashed. Never ran it since.
Not the laptop's, or indeed PC World's fault...
