How "Crufted" is your system?

Post by **PeteTheHair** » Wed Apr 09, 2003 9:48 am

I saw this a while ago, but came across it again today, and decided it was probably worth posting for those of you who haven't had the joy yet...

http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/%7Esue/475/cruft.html

So... where's your system?

eclipse · Post by **eclipse** » Wed Apr 09, 2003 10:17 am

my comp is at the "lived-in" stage, I believe, and the installation is only 7 weeks old

uatec · Post by **uatec** » Wed Apr 09, 2003 1:06 pm

my PC is at cruft force 4, middle aged; but the college work stations are at 10, putrefaction... They are painful to use.

dogmeat · Post by **dogmeat** » Wed Apr 09, 2003 4:23 pm

Cruft Force 9. Putrefaction. Description: Can only see the 32-GB D:\ partition — the one which has all the source code on it — at every third boot. Directory count in C:\ up to 93, partly because some [one/thing] has put a complete (but non-working) installation of the Eudora e-mail client in the root.

Worryingly close to mine. Except it's not Eudora on mine, it's just full of artefacts from abandoned NT/XP installs...
Reformat? Never!

Post by **mid_gen** » Wed Apr 09, 2003 7:12 pm

Cruft Force 2

God bless Alienware and 1Gb RAM

\o/

My laptop's only frozen twice since I got it, and both times it was misbehaving games =/

Azekeal · Post by **Azekeal** » Thu Apr 10, 2003 2:38 pm

Mine' s at cruft force 7:Wounded, except the login is relativly painless. It is the 6 Operating Systems on my 12

partitions (from 3 drives).

My computer's saving grace is lack of folders on root folders on partitions - every 2/3 months I have to spring clean - meaning I get everything categorised and sub-categorised. Uatec will vouch that my C:\ has never more than 3 folders in it.

shrek · Post by **shrek** » Thu Apr 10, 2003 5:38 pm

At the moment I would say my PC is at Cruft Force 2, seeing as I had to get a new HDD a month ago as the old one decided to die.

Phaliure · Post by **Phaliure** » Thu Apr 10, 2003 7:59 pm

Own computer comes in at 3
I believe I may have reduced a mates pc to cruft 11

Cruft Force 10. Expiry. Description: Machine only runs in Safe mode at 16-color 800×600, and even then for about a minute and a half before BSODing. Attempts to start an app are rewarded with a dialog "No font list found."

Ordinary dodges, such as reformatting the hard disk(s) and starting again, are ineffective.

Where as his wont run in safe mode and even a reformat dont work,
It is an error with on board hardware whic only started when I tried to install network driver

In my defence this is an OLD pc

ZiK · Post by **ZiK** » Thu Apr 10, 2003 10:50 pm

or perhaps you are incompetant?

dogmeat · Post by **dogmeat** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 2:08 pm

ZiK wrote:or perhaps you are incompetant?

Blatantly so!

Phaliure · Post by **Phaliure** » Sat Apr 12, 2003 10:12 am

ZiK wrote:or perhaps you are incompetant?

Blatantly so!

I dont boubt it

But I have promised to get it fixed so will be going around with a new copy of win 95 because the cd he had was just a bit on the worn out side.

Post by **Kulgan** » Sat Apr 12, 2003 11:53 am

Phaliure wrote:But I have promised to get it fixed so will be going around with a new copy of win 95 because the cd he had was just a bit on the worn out side.

How the heck did you get hold of a new copy of win95? I thought they were extinct...

K

Phaliure · Post by **Phaliure** » Sat Apr 12, 2003 2:17 pm

"new" is the wrong word
meant just a different copy to the one I was using
I.e. one which doesnt resembe a record like his did
But my dad does have copies of almost all Windows OS
Including 3.1 on the old school floppy disks, always fun to boot up the old viglin in my attick and use paint 1.
Ok just me then

dogmeat · Post by **dogmeat** » Sat Apr 12, 2003 4:55 pm

Dude, it's Viglen and I'm guessing you have an attic!

Phaliure · Post by **Phaliure** » Sat Apr 12, 2003 7:58 pm

/me rummages around attic
Oh yea Viglen it is, never paid any attention
As for attick... unforgivable
Sorry sir

Chief · Post by **Chief** » Sun Apr 13, 2003 1:32 pm

Cruft Force 3. Lived-in.

It never really gets to Force 4 because i always seem to get a new hard drive by this time and it requires new install!