From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Mar 6 10:28:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shattered.disturbed.net (shattered.disturbed.net [192.139.81.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F5CA152F6 for ; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 10:28:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from veers@disturbed.net) Received: from shattered.disturbed.net ([192.139.81.180]:41736 "EHLO shattered" ident: "IDENT-NONSENSE") by disturbed.net with ESMTP id <61467-273>; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 13:30:25 -0500 Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 13:30:24 -0500 (EST) From: Alex Perel To: jack Cc: Wes Peters , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Microsoft dies after 47 days (was: Moving on and check out my .sig) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, jack wrote: > On Mar 5 Wes Peters wrote: > > > What's the likelihood of keeping a Win95/Win98 machine up for 49.7 > > days in the first place? > > Perhaps it could be done with no programs launched at startup, no > mouse, no keyboard, no network connection, no serial or parallel > port connections, no USB connections, no APM, and no screen > saver? Nope - Windows gets all confused if you don't launch a myraid of useless things on startup. The only way to keep windows from crashing is encasing the machine in concrete and sending it to the bottom of the ocean. If it is not running, it's not going to crash, now is it..? Oh wait it's windows! Never mind.... Alex G. Perel -=- AP5081 alexp@iplink.net -=- (work) veers@disturbed.net -=- (play) Disturbed Networks - Powered exclusively by FreeBSD == The Power to Serve -=- http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message