Interesting that your colleague's W2K box has so many problems. Mine has been running since April 2000. The only time it has been down since then is when I've shut it down (occasionally bad storms cause power problems beyond what my UPS can reasonably be expected to handle) and a few times when I've installed security patches and/or updates that required a reboot. With W2K very few items that I need on a server require a reboot.
I have never once had to reboot the system once because it became unstable. I was gone for 2 months this summer leaving my nanny in charge of the house, dogs and computers (kids were with me). She had to reboot the server once while I was gone due to a power outage of 6 hours well beyond the capabilities of my UPS. Since she doesn't have admin privileges on my network (no big surprise there) ALL she could do is turn the server back on. She had to do that because that server runs the DHCP service without it the computer she is authorized to use couldn't connect to the internet. She rebooted her computer after restarting the server and all was back to normal. That occurred first week in June. Other than applying one patch and using the server to check a couple of websites (it still has IE 5 on it) I haven't touched it since. As I said, when next we upgrade a computer we'll take one of the old boxes and put Linux on it as a learning experience for my partner but it won't be because our W2K Server has been unreliable. More to expand our knowledge base than anything else. Cheryl D. Wise WiserWays Office: 713.353.0139 Mobile: 713.412.0406 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: David Precious It's well worth it. It's not that hard to learn it (especially if you just want to use it and have someone else who can do the setting up and sysadmin work for you). If you have a window manager like KDE, it's kinda like using Windoze, only a few hundred times better. My machine is left on 25 hours a day, 7 days a week. Every day, I do a lot of hard work on it, it gets a good thrashing. My colleagues Win2000 box is lucky to stay up for 3 days without becoming unstable. My current uptime: 9:09am up 29 days, 21:34 Yep, 29 DAYS continuous usage, and everything's still as stable as a rock. Another Linux box I set up upstairs to run some automatic processes (including one which involves contacting BT's site to check ADSL availability for batches in the region of 15,000 numbers each time), has been up for 54 days and performing great! Other Linux boxes in the company also run and run and run. It's great for a workstation, and obviously it's a brilliant operating system for any kind of server. I'd definately recommend it. It's so bloody stable, plus of course it's free! Cheers Dave P On Wednesday 11 September 2002 3:51 pm, you wrote: > And then I'll have to learn Linux? Aaah! > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: David Precious <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 12:16 PM > Subject: [wdvltalk] Re: Intelligent computers? 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