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["Tony Spencer" <tony AT tonyspencer.com>]

Anyhoo, I don't know whats wrong with your Windows boxes but as I said
before I simply don't have to reboot mine.  This includes my server, and
desktops.
 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tanner Lovelace [mailto:clubjuggler AT gmail.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 10:15 AM
> To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
> Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Microsoft to sell personal 
> informationaboutcustomers to advertisers
> 
> On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 10:11:11 -0500, Michael Czeiszperger
> <michael AT czeiszperger.org> wrote:
> > Its unfair to even make this comparison in my opinion.  The 
> Windows OS
> > was designed for desktop and small business server use, and 
> as such was
> > never intended to run overnight.  UNIX was designed for use 
> as a 24x7
> > server, and has been used for such for decades, and so it naturally
> > going to have better uptimes.
> 
> Michael,
> 
> I'm sorry, but that's just a cop-out in my book.  Just 
> because something is
> "designed for desktop and small business server use" doesn't mean that
> it can't be designed correctly, without memory leaks, with proper
> privilege separation, etc...  Being for desktop use does not in any
> way at all preclude making something stable.  Microsoft has 
> brainwashed
> people into thinking that rebooting is normal, but it is not. 
>  Having to
> reboot shows that the operating system is not well built.
> 
> Tanner
> 
> 
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