Re: krashing krap

2008-03-26 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Joshua Juran [2008-03-25 09:05]: > On Mar 24, 2008, at 5:28 PM, Phil Pennock wrote: >> On 2008-03-24 at 07:26 -0700, Joshua Juran wrote: >>> A desktop application can download mail or news batch-wise >>> for offline viewing, but a Web app can't, except for what it >>> can cram into the browser s

Re: krashing krap

2008-03-26 Thread Michael G Schwern
Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: Indeed. I've seen UNIX servers with 1+ year uptime, but sooner or later either a disk crash or a need to patch something urgent brings them down either by accident or by necessity. VMS takes uptime rather seriously. (I don't know for certain but I assume that one can pa