🚀 go-pugleaf

> Go look in your dictionary. The fact that you're habituated to them
> doesn't remove them from the technobabble category.
>
I'm used, ok habituated, to interpreting meanings according to the 
context of their use. Anyone who took semantics as literally as you do 
here would have an upside down view of the other tv channel for 
starters:-)

> So, which VxD do I need to delete and replace? Whatever a VxD is.
>
You don't. Whatever goes haywire does so in RAM, and can be reloaded in 
its correct form from ROM, along with everything else, with a 30 second 
re-boot. If it happened every 10 minutes it would indeed be a nuisance, 
but to me at least, it doesn't.

> So you are doing the work the system and applications should do for
> you? I thought even Microsoft programs had got the idea of autosave by
> now.
They do, even Wordperfect 3 for Dos did that about 10 years ago. But I 
prefer to choose for myself when to save. I don't always like the 
changes I make to a file and often revert to saved.

> Assuming it was big eneough to get past the power supply and any
> precautions, cause the machine to reboot. What do you expect, fire in
> the hold?
ISTR receiving dire warnings about hard resets in Linux from an 
extremely helpful and knowledgable chap who once tried to teach me Linux 
by email. Not so?

> If you're in that kind of area I'd have expected it would pay to buy a
> UPS or switch to a laptop (and hence get the advantage of a battery)
> How much time to you lose and what is your time worth?
The blips are about a second in duration and I get 2 or 3 a month. They 
cost me a minute or two each time, not enough to justify the cost of a 
UPS. It's easy enough to hit Ctrl+S every few minutes.
Stuart Grant