Re: What's the Big Deal with Firefox?
Neil <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.windows |
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| Organization | Another Netscape Collabra Server User |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Ron Hunter wrote: > Howard Brazee wrote: > >> On 13-Jan-2005, Andrew DeFaria <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I've heard of machines at work running Unix that have been up >>> continually for some 5+ years. >>> >>> Can your Mac do that? >> >> I don't know if he is Mac can do that (whatever that means). >> >> But I know of OS/2 machines that did that. >> >> I keep my Windows XP machines on until I have to reboot them because >> things stop working correctly, which happens every couple of weeks or >> so. I don't recall ever having to do that when I was using OS/2. > > I use my WinXP machine a LOT, doing various things, often with beta > (or alpha) software and I reboot only when an install or update > requires it. That is usually about once a week, but may happen > several times in a day, or not for several weeks. In the time I have > had WinXP, I have had maybe two reboots due to unspecified causes. > WinXP is VASTLY more stable than Win9X based versions. Plus it doesn't have that silly crash after 2^32 milliseconds bug. (FYI that's 49 days 17 hours 2 minutes and 47.296 seconds) -- Warning: May contain traces of nuts.