Much damage?

[MassiveProng]

Someone else needs to be hired to take over for you. Anyone in your
position should know that doing such a thing could be catastrophic.

I think that you ALL have forgotten the very basic tenants of
computer science, and computer system and OS design.

In the REAL world of computing, we have things like "core dumps" and
power supplies that specifically keep a certain rail "up" long enough
to commit such a dump.

Do you mean that PCs don't do this?

Actually, it is an OS level consideration as I know there are PC
power supplies made that do have this lingering rail voltage
contingency built into them.

I also know that Windows machines have been tolerant of it since the
NT days. Hard drive technology has come along well too, and now, they
no longer spray errant bits all over the drive as the head retracts
upon a power outage.

So... again I ask... Where's the beef?

And why are all your skulls so thick these days? Is it rap music? I
think so. Bwuahahahahah!

You should have listened in class, boys.

 

[MassiveProng]

Are you telling us that Windows cannot handle a power outage????!!!

NO!

Where did you go to school, boy?

Though me pressing my reset switch right now would not save any
current activity or system states, it certainly shouldn't cause any
problem.

Even the rare instance that a hard drive write was taking place at
the time should be relatively safe these days, given that drive makers
prevent stray bits from spraying all over your drive as the head
retracts, as it once did.

So... Where's the beef?

Buncha wussies don't even have the balls to reply! Bwuahahahaha!

 

[Tim Slattery]

Where do you guys get the idea that a good OS should not be able to
handle this common occurrence?

The NTFS file system seems (in my experience) to handle this
circumstance very well. The few times I've had it happen, the computer
simply started on the next boot as though nothing had happened. Of
course, anything in RAM at the time of the power failure was lost, but
the disks were just fine.

The FAT32 file system *never* worked that well. If the power failed,
the next boot would involve a disk scan, which could take a long time.

 

[George]

It must be a young puppy because if it only looked at what it typed it would
stop!!!

MassiveProng please take thought into this statement, "I must remember that
no matter where I go, there I am, so I better learn how to get along with
myself!

Did somebody take your bottle away from you? If you are anything in real
life like you are portraying yourself here in this newsgroup, I pray you
live in a hole somewhere by yourself!

 

[MassiveProng]

It must be a ..

Yet another top posting Usenet retard!

To be ignored. Yes, retard... YOU!

 

[MassiveProng]

The FAT32 file system *never* worked that well. If the power failed,
the next boot would involve a disk scan, which could take a long time.

Due to the way windows writes OKIE DOKIE files when properly shut
down. If it doesn't find said files at startup, it scans drives.

The only damage that MIGHT occur (file wise, not physical) is if it
was in a write operation at the power down moment, and then usually
only affects the few "open files" that the OS keeps "open". The most
recent jobs (files) usually do fine if the user wasn't some pedantic
"up for months at a time" dolt that changed his system state 50 times
since his last boot without saving a machine state on occasion.

Still, a good system SHOULD be 100% tolerant of such events. It is
just silly for those guys to think it not so.

 

[Noncompliant]

Sir or madam: I do not follow the newgroups on a minute by minute basis.
Rather, once a day around this time. Thus your perceived tardiness in my
reply.

I can only report my observations, not yours or someone else's regarding
XP's recovery to a prior session XP lock-up, not a power outage. Of which,
you neglected to leave from my original reply. You may have missed it. Go
back and read more carefully.

Top posting or bottom-most posting, or interjecting responses in a reply by
line by line is accepted in this newsgroup. At least from my own
observations.

Thank you for your inputs. Have a nice day.

 

[George]

and I did it just for you dang I did it again.....this time for myself!
hahahahaha

 

[MassiveProng]

Still, a good system SHOULD be 100% tolerant of such events. It is
just silly for those guys to think it not so.

I notice how all the dopes that claimed damage did not come back
into the thread.

Maybe some of them actually remembered their schooling. Doubtful.