Facts about Bugs and Breakdowns
The following series of questions have to do with the effects
that bugs and breakdowns may have on you.
1. Why do bugs and breakdowns occur?
- Part of the problem regarding bugs and breakdowns lies with the corporations that create and market software and hardware products These companies must choose whether to get the product on the market as early as possible, and release patches for bugs as they are discovered, or to take time with intensive testing in order to uncover more of the possible problems before the products are shipped.
- Bugs- bugs occur due to design flaws and cursory testing of
software or hardware.
- Breakdowns- breakdowns are caused by system failures usually
due to either mechanical problems, bugs in your system, or viruses
in your hard drive.
4. Do they favor particular computers or programs?
- Yes, particular kinds of hardware or software are subject
to particular types of bugs and breakdowns.
5. What will they do to my computer?
- Bugs in certain types of communication software, such as those
recently appearing in
Java may allow people to break into your system and
alter or copy your files and data.
- Breakdowns can cause files to be deleted or may cause an entire
system failure.
6. Where do they originate?