At 07:41 PM 9/4/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Can someone explain to me why (and if) it's better to run Prime95 as a
>service under these OSs? Is there a speed advantage? Also, who would be
>serving whom?
The primary advantage is that it remains running regardless of who (if
anyone) is actually logged onto the box. Much in the same "general
concept" of how mprime runs on Linux in the background of the context of
the user ID that started it, mprime continues to run until killed, even if
the user that started mprime logs off the Linux box. NT services are the
same -- they AUTOMATICALLY start (if so configured) at bootup, and
automatically start up in the context of a specific user (i.e. an auto-cron
job on a Linux box, a user's start.start file), and runs until stopped, no
matter who logs in or out of the machine.
This can be of great benefit to those NT boxen that may be rebooted -- it's
the only way to auto-start an application in that manner, without hacking
the registry to automatically log a user onto the box, and that presents a
security hole to fly the space shuttle through.....
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