On Thursday 30 August 2001 11:58 pm, Clint Tinsley wrote:
Christopher D. Reimer wrote:
I think Win98 had a bug where it would crash every 45 days or so.
One thing I don't understand is this mantra about how long you can leave a computer up before it will crash or when you might need to force it down or reboot to get things running right again. At a Novell conference a year or so back, they had contest to find longest running server. One of the longest running ones was one that had been up over 8 years and probably hadn't been seen in that length of time because it had been walled in and the only way they found it was pull on the wire... :-)) Most people turn off their systems off when they go home at night or go to bed and that does not qualify as a reboot. As a Network Administrator, I want people to log off and turn off their computers at night before leaving...
Clint
It's all about reliability and productivity..... How many times does one have to re-boot when doing Windows Updates? About 6 times too many. Every damn little thing that gets changed in Windows requires a re-boot! Example: I run a VPN package on Windows that likes to change the domain setting down in the DNS config of Windows Networking. It does this when you start up the package. Ok, fine and it sets it back if it closes cleanly. But usually sometime during the day there's a line drop or some other hiccup and it doesn't close cleanly. In order to get my own domain back in there I have to go change it... and then.... REBOOT! Why in hell should you have to reboot an entire operating system (using the term very loosely) when all you are doing is changing the domain setting. Don't have to reboot in Linux for almost anything. Hell, I can even add a SCSI tape and/or scanner to my setup on the fly. I think for Windows that would take two reboots.. one for it to discover that the tape is there and another after it has found some driver to use with it... In any event, this is the last we should say about this (after your retort of course) since this is costing other people money in download time. OUT -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 08/31/01 00:31 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ First Law of Money Dynamics: "A surprise monetary windfall will be accompanied by an unexpected expense of the same amount."