Re: What's the Big Deal with Firefox?

"CBFalconer" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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> "Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T" wrote:
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>> Actually, I think that way, I use my Computer every day (including Sat
>> and Sun). I don't think my computer is slow (G4-500 with 1.5GB system
>> RAM). (I use think it was slow when I was using ppp on Dialup.) And I
>> rarely reboot if ever reboot. In fact since switching to OSX3.x I've
>> rebooted once. and that was the first day I switched, because of an out
>> of date control panel which was updated as soon as the problem was found
>> (the same day).
>>
>> Most days I turn computer on at about 7-9 in morning and remains on
>> until 9 at night.
>
> Please explain how you manage to turn the machine off and avoid
> rebooting?  It sounds to me as if you reboot daily.  My W98 machine
> generally remains on, and gets rebooted about once a week on
> principle, or on any illegal operation failure (rare).

Found via Google:
"OSX pretty much has that now. You don't have to shut of a Mac. It can go 
into deep sleep where pretty much everything is off except a bit of power to 
keep data in RAM. If you unplug it, yea, you'll have to boot, but otherwise, 
the machine sleeps perfectly quite and content."

Also, on WinXP systems there is a Hybernate function that saves to disk a 
snapshot of the system's memory (open programs & states) and then powers 
down. When you turn the system on, it restores it rather quickly (<30secs 
ready to go) exactly as you were. However, Hybernating does not take care of 
any 'housekeeping' that is normally done on shutdown or reboot(normal) so 
over time things can start to bloat a little.

Win98 was like, so 7 years ago!!