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.
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.
Last edited by audinue; 09-08-2010 at 06:36 AM. Reason: Typo :(
Just GET it OFF out my mind!!
Go sign up to a message board for BSD users and try bragging about your three year uptime there.
Sent from my iPad®
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
If you dance barefoot on the broken glass of undefined behaviour, you've got to expect the occasional cut.
If at first you don't succeed, try writing your phone number on the exam paper.
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.
dwk
Seek and ye shall find. quaere et invenies.
"Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it." -- Alan Perlis
"Testing can only prove the presence of bugs, not their absence." -- Edsger Dijkstra
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." -- John Powell
Other boards: DaniWeb, TPS
Unofficial Wiki FAQ: cpwiki.sf.net
My website: http://dwks.theprogrammingsite.com/
Projects: codeform, xuni, atlantis, nort, etc.
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
Just GET it OFF out my mind!!