Re: What's the Big Deal with Firefox?

Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T wrote:

> Well maybe the terminology has changed. when I went to school. A 
> computer that was turned on for the first time during the day, the 
> computer was starting from a "Cold Boot". A "restart" was when the 
> computer was already actively runing and you pressed a key 
> combination, or from a Menu choice. The power wasn't turned off at any 
> time (during the restart.)

The differences between whether the OS is restarted from a "cold boot" 
or a "restart" are pretty much irrelevant. The point is the OS is 
rebooted, or to use another term here, reloaded. What was of the OS 
before is now gone. Nothing survives and the OS, memory layout and all 
applications are reloaded. That's not a big trick and has the effect of 
removing many problems that can only be exhibited if one does not 
reboot, restart or otherwise reload the OS. Things like memory likes and 
other corruptions can occur with badly written software.

Question: Why do you restart at all?

Try this: Don't restart - just leave your system up and running. How 
long can it function properly in such an environment.

At home my XP box's record was something like 50 days before I just had 
to reboot. There were problems and I monitored and actively killed 
processes to keep it running.

My Linux box was up a good 183 days without problem (that is until I had 
to power it off because I was moving).

I've heard of machines at work running Unix that have been up 
continually for some 5+ years.

Can you're Mac do that?
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