I've been thinking alot about how computers could be better at handling events that make them crash and after a bit of a search found this research some guys are doing at washington uni.

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/mikesw/nooks/

Its already available to linux users and claims to prevent upto 90% of crashes by using a 'Middle ware' that acts as an intelligent go-between from the device drivers to the kernel,( which causes something like 85% of crashes). I dont have linux so cant vouch from experience but if you do have a go with it please post a result to let us know if it works.

One word... Unix.

Hmmm sounds like the HAL in a NT type system HAL is short for Hardware Abstraction Layer. Basicaly it does the exact thing you are talking about it protects the kernel from drivers and programs from the kernel. Works realy well I might add too I havent had a crash on any of the machines on my network since I upgraded to WinXP. As for using it on Linux and Unix dont they already have something like that ? I thought Unix was built that way from the ground up ? (anyway im sure Linux runs alot faster then XP but XP is easyer to use)

i never knew that about unix, so this nooks program looks to be the linux/windows equivalent. as for XP not crashing i think its fine if you dont tinker with it too much but i change something in my PC nearly every day (mostly software) and while I dont get the BSOD often I get my fair share of random reboots and lock ups. Thats why I keep a nice clean version of XP on my other drive for my cock-ups

Heheheheh I have around 60GB of installed software.... I use a good uninstall program called Your Uninstaller its alot better then windows when it comes to uninstalling stuff also I installed Ashampoo last night to clean out my registry and what not (havent rebooted in a few weeks but probably tonight I will just so I can see what all this registry "optimization" did) hmm another way to avoid crashes is to never ever use beta anything lol (I do run beta shareaza though) and its been running for like a week with out a hitch I think some virus scanners couse alot of crashes and some firewalls too ! Zone Alarm used to give me ten thousand fits it wouldnt crash my system but it would use like 80% of my system resorces the latest version works great though and has no problems.

nope i just don`t trust **** like that
and i don`t think i ever will

Why not? Its kinda of a stupid thing to say

i think what the research is doing is not one of those 'wonder programs! does amazing things! ' like other progs out there. this is more deeper and changes the way computers work at a basic level.

I wonder when Windows will have this...

It's hard to imagine Windows with 90% less crashes... Keh... It's hard enough to imagine Windows with 10% less crashes...

If you realy know what your doing and have some good hardware Windows XP almost never crashes I say almost becouse never is a long time... lol anyway the 9X used to crash like ummm at least once a day for lots of people although I keept my 98SE box running for a week at a time playing games downloading and surfing the net.... Crashes are coused alot by the user followed by bad drivers and then bad hardware a cheap piece of hardware will bring a system down faster then anything else and no matter what OS your running if your hardware sucks then its going to crash... no software can prevent that !