--- Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can tell someone who has spent too long with > Windows, they are the ones > bragging about "uptime", thinking it is a wonderful > and shocking thing when > you go over a year without rebooting. Uh..what was > supposed to happen?
Can you imagine if someone came up to you and said "Wow. I've been driving my car now for a whole month and not once has it refused to start or just shut off spontaneously. Isn't that great?" You would think he was insane for buying such a car. And if cars actually did work as reliably as MS Windows there would be lynch mobs at every car dealership. So why do so many people tolerate it with their computers? BTW, for all those uptime junkies. How long you have gone without rebooting does not really impress me. If you make any major changes to an OS's configuration files and you do not reboot to test it, you are a fool. Because you may have made an error and you may not discover that error for a long time. And when you do 'have' to reboot and it won't, it probably won't be at a really nice convenient time. And you probably won't remember what you did to cause it. Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
