> But I mostly blame the software industry, which has conditioned people to
> accept poor performance without complaining.
I'd blame early versions of Windows. "Turn it off and back on again" was
(and still is) the easiest, fastest and most reliable cure for troubles on
Windows.
It's true of Unix/Linux machines, too, of course: I restart them once,
sometimes twice a year :) Usually when updating the kernel of the OS.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. :) I had a CentOS file server choke itself to death in
the space of about 12 hours by writing to a single log file until it used
up the entire TB of disk space in the machine.... once in 4 years. No
explanation was ever found.
More mysteriously, my ClearOS domain server (a species of CentOS) just hung
one day for no clear reason at all that could be detected... once in 4 years.
OTOH, my Windows NT 4 domain server never cracked up once in 8 years of
operation, except when the motherboard on the IBM Nefinity 3000 server blew
a capacitor. And then IBM sent a genuine tech out from 70 miles away to
replace that 8-year-old mobo the NEXT DAY, and only charged for the cost of
the part.
Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM....
:-)
Ken Dibble
www.stic-cil.org
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