OpenEuphoria

Re: How do you.....

• Posted by dm31 at uow.edu.au Jun 02, 2003
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On Sun, 1 Jun 2003 gertie at visionsix.com wrote:

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> On 1 Jun 2003, at 18:06, Robert Craig wrote:
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> > gertie at visionsix.com wrote:
> > > Define "rarely"? What is the longest uptime before a crash? What's the
> > > shortest?
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> > In 12 months of using XP every day, usually for several hours:
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> "for several hours" ? So it's not left on 24-7 then, and given time to nuke
> itself?
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I assumed he meant that he actively used it for several hours a day, and
left it on when he wasn't using it(like I did).

> > - I seem to recall only one actual XP "crash"
> > - I rebooted a couple of times because it was
> >    acting a bit strange (some cosmetic problem developed
> >    with the way some windows were shown).
> > - I rebooted a few times when trying to restore my Internet
> >    connection, but I can't say that was XP's fault, the DSL
> >    just seemed to go down for a while.
> > - It crashed twice during electrical storms, but that's hardly
> >    XP's fault.
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> > In contrast, my previous Win98, later WinME, machine crashed
> > an average of twice a day. It may have been partly due
> > to flaky hardware (though Linux on that same
> > machine rarely crashed - maybe an average of once per 200 hours).
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> 200 hours isn't much time either, only 8 days. I stay up 2 weeks before
> rebooting just to save settings, but have gone 22 days, which is supposed to
> be impossible on win95.

When I was using win98se I left it up weeks at a time, only rebooting
normally when some code I wrote with euphoria/exotica, c++ or asm
crashed it.

Having said that, it seems very pointless arguing which OS appears
better then the rest... even more so with such a small group. When it
comes done to it, everyone will want something slightly different from a
OS, and every OS will preform slightly(or greatly) different on
different hardware. Not to mention that an OSes stability is also
greatly affected by what third party software is run on it, and how it
was setup. I've seen very stable 95, 98, 2K and XP boxes. In a gaming
clan I was in, there are 2K and XP boxes with uptimes normally around
3weeks +, and they normally are not rebooted due to crashes. My 98 box
was normally up for around 2 weeks at a time. I've also seen really
unstable ones which crash atleast once a day. The same can be said for
linux boxes I have seen.

Almost all OSes in common use MUST have good points about
them, otherwise they wouldn't be in common use, and every OS MUST have
bad points about them, otherwise there wouldn't be 'other' OSes. One of
the hardest things in todays world is not to get caught up in all the
propaganda floating around from all sides of a debate.

When it comes done to it, use an OS that YOU feel at home with, use one
that gets the job done that YOU require.

Cheers,
Dan

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