OT: windows oneCare Live

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Oct 06, 2005, Fairlight wrote:
>On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 10:35:28PM -0400, Bob Stockler may or may not have
>proven themselves an utter git by pronouncing:
>> 
>> I'm pretty happy with Windows XP Professional on my IBM ThinkPad.
>
>And I'm happy with Win2000 Pro on our two desktop systems, inasfar as
>actually using it, and as far as overall stability compared to 95 and 98.
>Doesn't mean it's secure though.

The only Winblows machine we have here is my wife's old Win98 machine which
she used for years, running Netscape for browsing and e-mail.  Currently
the main thing that machine is doing is holding up the new Mac Mini I gave
her for her birthday.  There's one program she still runs on the Win
machine, but as soon as we get the Mac version, we can unplug the Windows
box and get rid of the KVM switch that is sharing the monitor with the Mac.

Once we retire the win98 machine, all our desktop systems will be either
running OS X on Macs or some version of SuSE Professional (I really have to
try the Novell/SuSE desktop version one of these days).

Since I got the Mac Mini running Tiger, I've been doing 90+% of my desktop
work on that, although most of what I'm doing is still running xterms in
secure shell connections to other systems, where I'm doing development and
handling e-mail with mutt.

...
>
>And yet, my linux box running 2.0.36...

I'll see your 2.0.36 machine, and raise you a 2.0.35 OpenLinux box that
handles our dialup modems for uucp and fax.  It's a P75.  It's only been up
193 days (the UPS in that rack died so I had to reboot the three servers
that were on it).

The FreeBSD 4.8 system that hosts my e-mail has been up 471 days, and a SCO
OpenLinux 3.1.1 system has been up 485 days as has an OpenServer 5.0.6a box
that's in the same rack with the other two 471+ day uptime machines.  I
have to guess that our last power failure before I got a 3KVA generator was
about 16 months ago.

Bill
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