Bryan Parkoff wrote:
"Paul Schlyter" <pausch@saaf.se> wrote in message news:f753a3$aju$1@merope.saaf.se...In article <00nli.108297$1i1.40973@pd7urf3no>, The Wizard of Oz <wizard@emeraldcity.gov> wrote:Anecdotally, I've had Microsoft Word (Office) crash and corrupt all the hard drives in a system (twice - losing a months worth of work in the process).Well, I suppose you got what you deserved, because when this happened, you had committed two cardinal "sins": 1. When that MS-Word crashed and did all that damage to your stuff, you were logged on to an account with administrator's right. If you instead had been logged on to an account with more limited user's access rights, that could never have happened. Only the folders to which you had write privileges could have been damaged by that fialing MS-Word, but never the entire hard disks.I can tell that it is rare to overwrite or corrupt hard drive using limited access account on Windows NT and Linux.
Haven't had that level of grief since I switched to Linux and took Windows off the net. From that point the only installations I've done were either on other machines or major updates which would break when the regular update method was used.
Hardware failure can occur to bypass low level to overwrite sector by sector when there is nothing the security with restriction access can stop it.
Back then that was indeed the case. What was a surprise was it managed to take out ALL the hard drives in a computer.
Write smaller code to develop software instead of larger code may be very stable.
With smaller code it is easier to find bugs. Another reason to run an Apple// emulator.
Bryan Parkoff
Later Mike