[Gllug] Linux on Desktop

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Wed Feb 7 23:31:38 UTC 2007


On 7 Feb 2007, t. clarke said:

> Re:  semantics
>
> Surely, computers 'crash'  and programs 'die' (horribly) ???

I'd also say that computers can `die', generally from a hardware failure
following which they aren't going to be getting up again as the same
machine. e.g. I had a machine die when I static-shocked its motherboard.

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