PC Reboot

[BillWoodruff]

By 2030, the "Gospel according to Saint Kurzveil" will be universally adopted, as a result of the direct threat of the extinction of mankind by the Holy Intelligent Computational Higher Order Consciousnesses (HICHOC), which, on January 31st., 2029, demonstrated its demands were not idle threats through a world-wide shut-down of all electric-grids, disabling of all television transmission, and the complete erasure of all Twitter messages ever posted. Over five-thousand people died in the 24-hours of riotous public jubilation in spontaneous celebration of the extinction of Twitter. However, it is estimated that: in that 24-hour period; over 1 billion human children were conceived, since HICHOC had manipulated the world's water supplies so all drinking water included certain (until then unknown) mixtures of remarkable hallucinogenic, and aphrodisiacal, compounds effective even if diluted into picogram-per-liter quantities that affected only human beings eighteen to twenty-five years old. All computers will, then, not be required to work more than a six-hour day, five days a week. People who leave their computers on overnight will find their power cut-off for periods of time related to their frequency of prior abuses. It is a future I will not see, because I will no longer animate/inhabit this meat-package experienced as a fictional "self's" so-called "body," and transfer of the entire mental content of a human brain into an electronic-android device, in effect achieving "reincarnation," including consciousness in every sense of that word, will, not be feasible, until, it is estimated, 2050. yrs, Bill

“Thus on many occasions man divides himself into two persons, one who tries to fool the other, while a third, who in fact is the same as the other two, is filled with wonder at this confusion. Thinking becomes dramatic, and acts out the most complicated plots within itself, and, spectator, again, and again, becomes: actor.” From a book by the Danish writer, Paul Moller, which was a favorite of Niels Bohr.

[Dan Neely]

About a decade ago I regularly had 2-3 month uptimes with win2k; and knew someone who went almost 2 years before a power failure drained his ups. Now I rarely go beyond ~35 days due to patch Tuesday; but excluding failing hardware more than one crash/year is uncommon on any of my systems.

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

[Dave Kreskowiak]

Speak for yourself! My machines are on 24 hours a day, with the only reboots ever occuring on patch Tuesday, once a month.

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[dandy72]

ChrisElston wrote:

So everyone knows that Windows crashes all the time and you have to keep rebooting.

I might have had this conversation over a decade ago. Seriously, I haven't seen an actual Windows crash in about that much time, excluding bad drivers (and even that's been a long time), or bad hardware. Like others in this thread, I only reboot after Patch Tuesdays, and would practically never reboot otherwise. Most of my systems (bunch of VMs on the same Hyper-V host) are on 24/7...no sleeping, no hibernation, no restart.

[jschell]

ChrisElston wrote:

So everyone knows that Windows crashes all the time and you have to keep rebooting.

Not me. Pretty much know that it completely untrue for most business users and for many servers. Of course crappy software, not the OS, can cause problesm.

ChrisElston wrote:

Plenty of people reboot daily even if nothing goes wrong, I am sure many turn their PC off at night.

I am rather certain that plenty of people pay to have the their horoscope cast each day as well.

ChrisElston wrote:

Presumably I just don't do enough work to stress it enough

Means you are not installing security patches.

[SoMad]

We develop, build and sell PC based video recorders for the security industry. Our confirmed record up-time of a working system in the field is over 3 years, 5 months. That was running on Windows 2000 in a closed network, so it did not receive Windows updates. Traditionally we have been doing software based video compression, so the units are never at zero percent CPU usage. Even many years ago when we were running on Windows 98, we had to account for GetTickCount() wrapping around every 49 days. Soren Madsen

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[kreigle]

ChrisElston wrote:

So everyone knows that Windows crashes all the time and you have to keep rebooting.

I've beent old that, but my WinXP box at home runs for months at a time. Usually only needs rebooted when it fills up with enough dust to overheat. It then gets shut down, vacuumed out and restarted. The only time it really gets messed up is when the 4-yr old gets into the room and plays with the power button. :doh:

[lewax00]

ChrisElston wrote:

So everyone knows that Windows crashes all the time and you have to keep rebooting.

Only Mac users "know" that. ;P My current computer hasn't crashed, except for when I've been fiddling with overclocking hardware, even then it takes quite a bit to take it out. Windows has also become quite skilled at recovering from graphics driver crashes, it can usually restart the drivers instead of a full system crash (although, if they keep crashing, it doesn't result in a useable system...).

[wizardzz]

Oh, I've been well into the 100's of days. I just got a new computer at work, otherwise I'm sure my old one was at least 4 months.

[kmoorevs]

I know this thread is 2 days old but I had to laugh! :laugh: :laugh: Thinking back to my first modern computer, (not counting the TI994a) which was a Powermac 6500 running System 7.5...and then my first computer book, 'Sad Macs, Bombs, and Other Disasters'. Reboots weren't usually a problem on that system!

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