My Laptop Birthday :D

My laptop, simple fancy cheap (about $500) locally made Dual Core (1.86 MHz each) with 2 GB RAM, bought on September 8, 2007 and kept on for 3 years!

Using plain old Windows XP (no service packs), still running well, without problem.

Go sign up to a message board for BSD users and try bragging about your three year uptime there.

1.86 MHz each? Wow. I didn't think Windows XP ran on that kind of processor

Waste of a power bill?

> 1.86 MHz each? Wow. I didn't think Windows XP ran on that kind of processor
Well if they did, it would take 3 YEARS for XP to boot

Originally Posted by Salem

> 1.86 MHz each? Wow. I didn't think Windows XP ran on that kind of processor
Well if they did, it would take 3 YEARS for XP to boot

Sorry for yet another typo, it should be 1.86 GHz...

Originally Posted by Fordy

Waste of a power bill?

It worth to share porn, especially child porn I got from P2P... Just kidding!

Originally Posted by SlyMaelstrom

Go sign up to a message board for BSD users and try bragging about your three year uptime there.

Ha ha ha

Just be glad they fixed the bug in Windows 98 which would cause a system hang after about 44 days of uptime (when the 32-bit clock timer variable wrapped). I used Windows 98 for a long time but I never got anywhere near that uptime, since standby was iffy and I didn't have enough space on my 10 GB hard drive for hibernation.

These days I find my Linux system usually has about 2 weeks of uptime (for near-continuous use) until something stops working for one reason or another. Sometimes X crashes when I upgrade it, or my (closed-source) video driver borks out, or I lock Qt into an infinite loop with a bug in my program. I usually just reboot then, even though I could probably recover by restarting X, because it seems cleaner somehow after I reboot.

Originally Posted by dwks

These days I find my Linux system usually has about 2 weeks of uptime (for near-continuous use) until something stops working for one reason or another. Sometimes X crashes when I upgrade it, or my (closed-source) video driver borks out, or I lock Qt into an infinite loop with a bug in my program. I usually just reboot then, even though I could probably recover by restarting X, because it seems cleaner somehow after I reboot.

How about automatic restarting after several hours using at command or something?

I never had crash experiences with native applications in XP, even with .NET. I had simple comet server written in .NET which run very smoothly 24x7x4x12x...

The troublesome are Java applications They just randomly crashed, disappeared, without any notification!
So I've come up with simple solution:

Code:

:repeatme
start /b /wait javaw -jar frostwire.jar
goto repeatme

Originally Posted by audinue

Using plain old Windows XP (no service packs)

I seriously doubt that, considering that you bought it in 2007. XP was released in 2001 and usually got infected with Code Red within half an hour after an Internet connection + IIS was activated.