On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at 01:08 am, Reggie Bautista wrote:
Jon wrote:It seems horrifically high. I suspect that it's a combination of lack of maintenance and ID10T errors. I use tons of programs, usually simultaneously on my Windows machine and don't have problems, but I keep them maintained, too.
There are two computers at home, both with Windows ME, that are primary my responsibility to keep up. I do the same maintenance on both of them, run the same software, and use them both about equally. They have the same virus definitions, same Windows updates, same version of the Opera web browser, same games, same everything. One of them crashes maybe once every couple of months. With the other one, I'm lucky if it doesn't crash at least once a day. The only hardware difference between them is that they have different models of mouse.
I don't think the difference can be written off to ID10T errors in this case (I don't think my IQ changes *that* much when I move from machine to machine :-), or lack of maintenance. It's certainly possible that one of them has a piece of faulty hardware somewhere, but they've both reacted the same to every diag that I know how to throw at them.
Reggie Bautista
The most unreliable OS I had running until recently was the OS on my Vigor 2600We ADSL modem-router-firewall-wireless-basestation-kitchen-sink gadget
http://www.adslguide.org.uk/hardware/reviews/2002/q4/vigor2600we.asp
which used to lock up every 10 to 14 days, requiring a reboot. I upgraded the firmware a couple of months ago and it hasn't misbehaved since. Upgradeable firmware is good :)
The Linksys WET11 I use to connect the G3 server to the network never crashes - but it doesn't do anything very complicated so it doesn't have any excuses.
The G3 runs Apache, MySQL, PHP, the brin-l chat. It hasn't actually been up longer than about 90 days (24/7) at a stretch because of software updates or having to cut off the power for electrical work.
My HP calculator has never crashed, although there are instructions in the manual for resetting it should that happen :)
Pity about HP...
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