When we plot the number of computers that crash beyond or nearly beyond repair against the age of these computers, we find a bipolar distribution, two high peaks in the early period and the old period.In between there is a small average number. In addition, the peek in the early period is the highest, which is due to the fact that people on average upgrade their systems every two hours, excuse me, that''s what they''d want, but I mean6 months, and few people (all but old fools or people without money) let their computer grow old. One could protest and say that these systems are sold second hand to other people, and perhaps it grows old there, but for statistical comparison and limitation of the variables, we will choose to exclude those computers ONCE they are sold (because transportation may have killed some subprocessor or almost). Furthermore, computers from people that continue to hit their computers whenever they lose a game or naturally get annoyed from one of Microsofts products or also not taken into account. Besides these problems however, there''s the small thing of UPGRADES. What should be done about computers that consist of VERY OLD parts and VERY NEW parts. We should consider then WHAT caused the crash. If a new card crashed the computer then it will be grouped with the young-computers-crashing. If it was an old card that fucked the computer, the group of the old-and-wise-but-slow-and-lame-computers will be upped. Most of the time we will see on the other hand, that these computers go to heaven (unless they run an OS from Microsoft, then Satan welcomes them!) because of the malfunctioning motherboard. Which is usually not upgrades before all other gadgets have been upgraded. What can we learn from this all? We should pray a newly bought computer lives through the difficult period of 5 months at which time the chance that it crashes diminishes. We should pray that after two years we have enough money to go through the first fase again. Due to the higher number of crashes in the early stage of computer-live, we should pray harder during that period, maybe sacrifice an AT, 386, 486 or two to the Intel or AMD gods, (by throwing them through their windows or by letting them eat every single part of it). Mr.Mouse
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''t is true!

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Yes, but this is a somewhat weak correlation, since I know people who''ve had the same computer for three years and it''s only crashed twice, and other''s whose computers have done nothing but crash since they got them.

On my previous job, I was known for crashing the machine!
Probably because of the many pointers I like to use? Maybe because I just can''t code...who knows...

- Mr. Crash it 10000 times a day (also from the Netherlands...is this a coincedence?...!)

You should also consider that the older your computer gets, the more outdated the hardware. The closer you get to trying to run something on what''s listed as the "minimum system requirements", the more likely you are to have problems. On the flipside, unless you have a system of what everyone considers "normal" components, brand new hardware can cause problems (the problem with my new Stealth III''s drivers being incompatible with my AMD K6-2 450 CPU comes to mind)

-fel