Woohoo!!!

[George Toft]

My WinNT 4.0 box in the Navy would run for about 6 weeks before 
a reboot was required to make it go again.

George


Carl Parrish wrote:
> 
> Are you kidding me? Now honestly I've been able to keep winNT boxes up
> for a couple of weeks. (as long as they were only servers and didn't
> have to do any other applications). But I've *never* been able to keep
> *any* M$ box up for longer. I have to admit that I haven't tried win2k
> or XP because I gave up on M$ for any serious work awhile ago. Not meant
> as a slam. I realize that quite a few ppl do a lot of real work with M$
> it just got to be too much of a pain for me. I'd be *really* interested
> to see an uptime of more than a month on a M$ box however.
> 
> Carl P.
> 
> Tom Achtenberg wrote:
> 
> > My win98se box stays up for months at a time as does my win2k.  I've seen little difference between the win98 and my rh72 boxes for this.  The rh72 box does occasionally lock up and force a hard reboot.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: George Toft [mailto:george@georgetoft.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 1:29 PM
> > To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> > Subject: Re: Woohoo!!!
> >
> >
> > I am sharing with everyone that for the first time in over a year,
> > I have a Win98 box up for over 4 days.  It used to crash once per
> > day, and usually flakes out after being up for 3 days.
> >
> > George
> >
> >
> > Isaac Sparrow wrote:
> >
> >><snip>
> >>
> >>>C:\WINDOWS>uptime
> >>> 00:41:07  up 6 days, 5:17,  1 user
> >>>C:\WINDOWS>
> >>>
> >></snip>
> >>Am I missing something here???
> >>--
> >>
> >>-------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>Isaac Sparrow
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> >>The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.
> >>
> >>On Tuesday 20 November 2001 11:46 pm, George Toft wrote:
> >>
> >>>I am not bashing Microsoft, but in a fit of glory, I must share
> >>>my elation.  I have nursed my Windows box along to record heights
> >>>in uptime:
> >>>
> >>>=============================================================
> >>>Microsoft(R) Windows 98
> >>>   (C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1981-1998.
> >>>
> >>>C:\WINDOWS>uptime
> >>> 00:41:07  up 6 days, 5:17,  1 user
> >>>C:\WINDOWS>
> >>>=============================================================
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>George
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