gene heskett wrote: > Can some of that perceived resistance be credited to us linux folks > generally being more likely to have a decent UPS that shields our boxes > from a lot of that stuff? > > Nope, no UPSs here or at work. our network switches at work are on UPSs, and maybe the departmental server. I have 2 machines that are on 24/7 here, and a bunch more that are on a lot of the time. > Add that as a whole I think we pay more attention to surge arrestors and > ground bonding than the typical winderz user too. I sure have in here, and > I know well that there have been occasions when this whole rooms > electronics has bounced 50 kilovolts or more due to a nearby strike. But > it all bounces in unison as its all plugged into a single duplex, so there > is little if any real voltage between the various pieces in here. I have wires strung all over the place, network and a home environmental monitoring system. The other computers are all across the shop. I did get a motherboard ethernet jack blown out during a thunderstorm some years ago, that is about it. I did have some interface logic blown out about 25 years ago between two computers that were powered from different outlets. (One ran on 240 V, one on 120 V.) > > But the huge majority of it can be credited to ext3 with journalling > enabled I think, and I don't believe that any windows file system has ever > grown that ability. At least in the rare instances when I have had to > rescue the windows machines in the neighborhood, I have seen zero evidence > that it has such. > Yeah, I run Win 2K as a guest OS under VMware, and sometimes after a power failure the Win 2K system won't boot. I have to run the recovery console from the CD and then do chkdsk. Apparently, Win 2K leaves the disk in an intermediate state a fair amount of the time, typical of Microsoft logic. "Power failures never happen to our customers."
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