6 months with no restarts!!!

[mrsvickie.livejournal.com]

Customer: I can't connect to the Internet.
Me: Okay, Let's un-plug the cable modem and router and shut down the computer please.
Customer: Oh, Okay. This computer hasn't been shut down in about 6 months... Do you think that could be the issue as why when my connection is running slow when it's connected?

Hmmm... Well what kinda damage have you caused to your computer in 6 months?!? Of course we recycle and it takes 10 minutes to restart... Jeeze and he gets back online...

Comments

[v3nu5.livejournal.com]

A workstation that has been up for 6 mnonths?

Can not possibly be a Micro$haft OS - It would have crashed long before now! ;) Hehehe

[mrsvickie.livejournal.com]

It was suprisingly... XP

[hoffman-log.livejournal.com]

"$" means MONEY (http://www.livejournal.com/community/techsupport/267695.html#cutid1)

_MaH

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine had an NT4 RAS server that had been up a year and a half at one point.

[coyoteden.livejournal.com]

...which means no updates requiring a restart have been applied for 6 months.

Eek.

[achernow.livejournal.com]

Even w/ an OS like OS-X which should theoretically be able to run for weeks at a time w/ no reboot, I reboot at least once a week. Though, it's better than the old Win-98SE PC I have, I have to reboot that sucker at least once a day. (Yes, it's 4 years old, but it works great as an internet/email machine!)

-A

[v3nu5.livejournal.com]

Thats a server - NT4 were notoriously exceptionally stable.

Desktop workstations are not.

[teriwyn.livejournal.com]

Hrm. My home Win2k box has been up for...

764 hours. I don't really bother to reboot it unless I'm applying a security patch.

[jacobine.livejournal.com]

I never reboot my XP box unless I've installed something that requires a reboot.

Only exceptions to that are when a) it decided to have something run away (rarely) and I reboot to fix the damn thing, b) I have to reboot to help AdAware clean the crappy spyware that's snuck on off, or c) I come home and my power has helpfully blinked for me, causing the machine to reboot.

[dmsalem00.livejournal.com]

ROFL I still think of that everytime I see someone use Micro$oft or words to that effect.

And on that note, my dad's been running a Windows 2003 Server network for quite some obscenely long time without a crash...and this services computers using everything between NT4.0 and Windows 98 to Windows XP Pro.

Don't ask me how, my dad scares me sometimes. He's also a former Army Helicopter pilot/instructor, mechanic, and now he's a lawyer. That services his own computers O_o

[edminister.livejournal.com]

that was my first thought when I saw this...