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Previously on alt.cellular.verizon, Justin said:
Yes, Windows needs to be rebooted daily or weekly and sometimes Linux needs to be rebooted annually The only reason I reboot my Win7 machine daily is because I shut it down overnight or if I'm going to be gone for at least an hour as a power saving measure. +THIS+ machine does not like Sleep or Hibernation, as a defect in the hardware. My last laptop had no problem, and would go weeks on end without an actual restart. Typically, it would get an actual restart only when a system update required one. -- Jeffrey Kaplan www.gordol.org Double ROT13 encoded for your protection There are none so blind as those who will not see. There are none so dumb as those who will not learn. |
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On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 22:24:10 -0500, tlvp wrote:
On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:27:23 -0600, BillW50 wrote: I am a perfectionists ... Do tell :-) . ... and I can find bugs that nobody else can find. And conversely, it would appear :-) . Cheers, -- tlvp OK, guys, it can happen. I can find bugs that no one else can find too. More than once, I have bought or installed something and had it crash, and it ended up being a bug that tech support had never seen before. But perhaps that comes under the rubric of "conversely" :-) -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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On 2/19/2013 9:06 PM, Justin wrote:
BillW50 wrote on [Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:23:57 -0600]: On 2/19/2013 5:49 PM, Gene E. Bloch wrote: On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:44:15 -0600, BillW50 wrote: I have been waiting for Linux to catch up since '95. Sadly Linus Torvalds, his father, and his sister even uses Windows. Only Linus' mother uses Linux. That should tell you something right there. His mother is the only smart one in the family? Disclaimer: I use Windows :-) I use both Linux and Windows. And Linux got to be the worst! The Yes, Windows needs to be rebooted daily or weekly and sometimes Linux needs to be rebooted annually I have not found it so. Windows XP Service Pack 3 Has been running for several years here. I can't claim that it works for the whole world but it works for me! It was a long and rocky road. I reboot only when my UPS's battery runs down and I'm forced to shut down. I've been looking for a gasoline powered generator or natural gas powered generator but those things are not cheap and my system is not sufficiently critical to justify the expenditure! |
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Richard B. Gilbert wrote on [Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:30:35 -0500]:
On 2/19/2013 9:06 PM, Justin wrote: BillW50 wrote on [Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:23:57 -0600]: On 2/19/2013 5:49 PM, Gene E. Bloch wrote: On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:44:15 -0600, BillW50 wrote: I have been waiting for Linux to catch up since '95. Sadly Linus Torvalds, his father, and his sister even uses Windows. Only Linus' mother uses Linux. That should tell you something right there. His mother is the only smart one in the family? Disclaimer: I use Windows :-) I use both Linux and Windows. And Linux got to be the worst! The Yes, Windows needs to be rebooted daily or weekly and sometimes Linux needs to be rebooted annually I have not found it so. Windows XP Service Pack 3 Has been running for several years here. I can't claim that it works for the whole world Since updates that require reboots comes out at least every two months, either you are an irresponsible user or fibbing |
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On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:30:35 -0500, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
I reboot only when my UPS's battery runs down and I'm forced to shut down. Windows, Adobe, and Java updates don't intermittently *require* rebooting? Or do you just not do those updates :-) ? Cheers, -- tlvp -- Avant de repondre, jeter la poubelle, SVP. |
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Justin typed: Richard B. Gilbert wrote on [Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:30:35 -0500]: On 2/19/2013 9:06 PM, Justin wrote: BillW50 wrote on [Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:23:57 -0600]: On 2/19/2013 5:49 PM, Gene E. Bloch wrote: On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:44:15 -0600, BillW50 wrote: I have been waiting for Linux to catch up since '95. Sadly Linus Torvalds, his father, and his sister even uses Windows. Only Linus' mother uses Linux. That should tell you something right there. His mother is the only smart one in the family? Disclaimer: I use Windows :-) I use both Linux and Windows. And Linux got to be the worst! The Yes, Windows needs to be rebooted daily or weekly and sometimes Linux needs to be rebooted annually I have not found it so. Windows XP Service Pack 3 Has been running for several years here. I can't claim that it works for the whole world Since updates that require reboots comes out at least every two months, either you are an irresponsible user or fibbing Really? Asus sold netbooks with XP2 with 4GB SSD soldered on the motherboard and it is impossible to update these machines. And Microsoft allowed Asus to sell XP licenses for these them. And the user is *not* irresponsible nor fibbing. I believed like you did. And I thought these machines would be a malware magnetic and I would have to restore them back to the factory state on almost a daily bases. But after a year, that never happened. In fact, it has been 5 years now and it still never had a virus or a rootkit yet. Since I have a lot of spare machines, I had taken half of them and stopped updating them four years ago. And then recorded the results. And none of them ever got a virus or a rootkit either. -- Bill Motion Computing LE1700 Tablet ('09 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2 Centrino Core2 Duo L7400 1.5GHz - 2GB RAM Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 SP2 |
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Richard B. Gilbert typed: On 2/19/2013 9:06 PM, Justin wrote: BillW50 wrote on [Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:23:57 -0600]: On 2/19/2013 5:49 PM, Gene E. Bloch wrote: On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:44:15 -0600, BillW50 wrote: I have been waiting for Linux to catch up since '95. Sadly Linus Torvalds, his father, and his sister even uses Windows. Only Linus' mother uses Linux. That should tell you something right there. His mother is the only smart one in the family? Disclaimer: I use Windows :-) I use both Linux and Windows. And Linux got to be the worst! The Yes, Windows needs to be rebooted daily or weekly and sometimes Linux needs to be rebooted annually I have not found it so. Windows XP Service Pack 3 Has been running for several years here. I can't claim that it works for the whole world but it works for me! It was a long and rocky road. I reboot only when my UPS's battery runs down and I'm forced to shut down. I've been looking for a gasoline powered generator or natural gas powered generator but those things are not cheap and my system is not sufficiently critical to justify the expenditure! I've have grown tiresome of UPS over the years. They won't run a computer very long and it is inefficient to take 12VDC and to covert it to 120VAC (or 220V) and then convert it back to some low voltages once again. Since everything I have since 2005, it makes more sense to use laptops, netbooks, and tablets with their own batteries. They are far more dependable than UPS and runs longer without AC in a far smaller package. I also have a lot of spare machines that uses the same batteries. Like this one I have 6 batteries for. My Gateway MX6124 and M465 machines uses the very same battery. And I have about 12 of those batteries. -- Bill Motion Computing LE1700 Tablet ('09 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2 Centrino Core2 Duo L7400 1.5GHz - 2GB RAM Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 SP2 |
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Gene E. Bloch typed: On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 22:24:10 -0500, tlvp wrote: On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:27:23 -0600, BillW50 wrote: I am a perfectionists ... Do tell :-) . ... and I can find bugs that nobody else can find. And conversely, it would appear :-) . Cheers, -- tlvp OK, guys, it can happen. I can find bugs that no one else can find too. More than once, I have bought or installed something and had it crash, and it ended up being a bug that tech support had never seen before. But perhaps that comes under the rubric of "conversely" :-) Let me put it in another way. Over the years I have written hundreds of programs and nobody to date has ever found a bug in one of my programs. It seems easy to me to logically think of every single variable and what could happen to the running program. It is a lot like playing chess logically. -- Bill Motion Computing LE1700 Tablet ('09 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2 Centrino Core2 Duo L7400 1.5GHz - 2GB RAM Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 SP2 |
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Jeffrey Kaplan typed: Previously on alt.cellular.verizon, Justin said: Yes, Windows needs to be rebooted daily or weekly and sometimes Linux needs to be rebooted annually The only reason I reboot my Win7 machine daily is because I shut it down overnight or if I'm going to be gone for at least an hour as a power saving measure. +THIS+ machine does not like Sleep or Hibernation, as a defect in the hardware. My last laptop had no problem, and would go weeks on end without an actual restart. Typically, it would get an actual restart only when a system update required one. I have over 30 machines here. And I have one like that. It's my Dell Latitude Slate Tablet with an Atom Z670. Motion Computing also uses the same CPU in their CL900 (and it is said that they designed the Dell slate). And MC said that the Z670 is *only* compatible with Windows 7 SP1 and that is it. I know of nobody who has got XP to run on the Atom Z670. But many have got Windows 8 running on it. But it isn't perfect. One of the problems with Windows 8 that I have seen is incomplete shutdowns and lockups trying to use standby or hibernation. -- Bill Motion Computing LE1700 Tablet ('09 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2 Centrino Core2 Duo L7400 1.5GHz - 2GB RAM Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 SP2 |
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Jeffrey Kaplan typed: Previously on alt.cellular.verizon, BillW50 said: I use both Linux and Windows. And Linux got to be the worst! The majority of the Linux programmers are rejects that couldn't get a real job programming. Most of your smart devices use Linux like Microwaves, smart phones, routers, broadband modems, etc. And they work for a day or two and then you have to reboot them. I have never seen such an unstable OS since IBM had taken over OS/2. I have no idea how IBM programmers got their jobs, as they got to be the worst of the lot. About on par with open source programmers. :-( Android is Open Source... I didn't know for sure, but it doesn't change anything for me. As my Android hardly sees any use at all. As it really doesn't do very much for me. And what is available is pretty bare bones applications anyway. -- Bill Motion Computing LE1700 Tablet ('09 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2 Centrino Core2 Duo L7400 1.5GHz - 2GB RAM Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 SP2 |
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John F. Morse typed: On 02/19/2013 06:15 PM, Justin wrote: BillW50 wrote on [Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:02:42 -0600]: On 2/19/2013 5:34 PM, Justin wrote: BillW50 wrote on [Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:55:13 -0600]: On 2/16/2013 10:21 PM, Justin wrote: BillW50 wrote on [Sat, 16 Feb 2013 16:10:47 -0600]: Anything regarding IM for Linux is really stripped down and isn't worth much. The only thing for IM for Linux is somewhat respectable is Skype, which I never used for Linux, but what I have heard. Everything else for Linux is pretty much plain text and that is it. That's what IM is, plain text. Naw... it is much more than that. Fonts, italics, bold, underline, emoticons, mic, webcam, file transfers, etc. Webcam is not a requirement of IM. Nor is microphone. I've never had a problem with any of these though Lots of problems with Linux. As Linux has the most limited support for Yep, must be some PEBCAK issues That is Bill, the child molester. Must have served out his latest sentence. Oh really? If you are so sure, surely you would be willing to put your money were your mouth is at. So how much would you care to lose? -- Bill Motion Computing LE1700 Tablet ('09 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2 Centrino Core2 Duo L7400 1.5GHz - 2GB RAM Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 SP2 |
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On 02/21/2013 08:51 AM, BillW50 wrote:
In , John F. Morse typed: On 02/19/2013 06:15 PM, Justin wrote: BillW50 wrote on [Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:02:42 -0600]: On 2/19/2013 5:34 PM, Justin wrote: BillW50 wrote on [Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:55:13 -0600]: On 2/16/2013 10:21 PM, Justin wrote: BillW50 wrote on [Sat, 16 Feb 2013 16:10:47 -0600]: Anything regarding IM for Linux is really stripped down and isn't worth much. The only thing for IM for Linux is somewhat respectable is Skype, which I never used for Linux, but what I have heard. Everything else for Linux is pretty much plain text and that is it. That's what IM is, plain text. Naw... it is much more than that. Fonts, italics, bold, underline, emoticons, mic, webcam, file transfers, etc. Webcam is not a requirement of IM. Nor is microphone. I've never had a problem with any of these though Lots of problems with Linux. As Linux has the most limited support for Yep, must be some PEBCAK issues That is Bill, the child molester. Must have served out his latest sentence. Oh really? If you are so sure, surely you would be willing to put your money were your mouth is at. So how much would you care to lose? I don't gamble, and you are the loser. I see you are still doing your bragging, like you did about your daughter's sleep-over friends who you fondled. Bugger-off, Bill. You are well-known, and should have stayed in Soledad a few more years. -- John When a person has -- whether they knew it or not -- already rejected the Truth, by what means do they discern a lie? |
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On 2/21/2013 9:30 AM, John F. Morse wrote:
On 02/21/2013 08:51 AM, BillW50 wrote: In , John F. Morse typed: On 02/19/2013 06:15 PM, Justin wrote: BillW50 wrote on [Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:02:42 -0600]: On 2/19/2013 5:34 PM, Justin wrote: BillW50 wrote on [Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:55:13 -0600]: On 2/16/2013 10:21 PM, Justin wrote: BillW50 wrote on [Sat, 16 Feb 2013 16:10:47 -0600]: Anything regarding IM for Linux is really stripped down and isn't worth much. The only thing for IM for Linux is somewhat respectable is Skype, which I never used for Linux, but what I have heard. Everything else for Linux is pretty much plain text and that is it. That's what IM is, plain text. Naw... it is much more than that. Fonts, italics, bold, underline, emoticons, mic, webcam, file transfers, etc. Webcam is not a requirement of IM. Nor is microphone. I've never had a problem with any of these though Lots of problems with Linux. As Linux has the most limited support for Yep, must be some PEBCAK issues That is Bill, the child molester. Must have served out his latest sentence. Oh really? If you are so sure, surely you would be willing to put your money were your mouth is at. So how much would you care to lose? I don't gamble, and you are the loser. No John, where I come from it is called settling out of court. I see you are still doing your bragging, like you did about your daughter's sleep-over friends who you fondled. Really? That is amazing! Since I don't even have a daughter. Bugger-off, Bill. You are well-known, and should have stayed in Soledad a few more years. We don't have to settle this out of court if you don't want to. We can go to court and you can enjoy a nice life behind bars if you like. -- Bill Motion Computing LE1700 Tablet ('09 era) - Thunderbird v12 Centrino Core2 Duo L7400 1.2GHz - 2GB RAM - Windows 7 Pro SP1 (x86) |
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On 2/20/2013 5:30 PM, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
I've been looking for a gasoline powered generator How large a generator? What's expensive? Harbor Freight has an 800w gas gen for $89.95 Large generators? Google Genrac. There are other lower cost generators as well, with sources usually on the west coast. Generally, a "conventional" generator uses the mass of the rotating components, along with regulator(s) to stabilize the output. More expensive units have a solid state "inverter" for more tightly controlled output. One drawback of the conventional generator has to do with the output voltage level in an "idle" situation. The inverter types usually don't have the lower voltage output associated with the idle condition. My conventional 15KW ~22KW surge generator drops output voltage to ~90-100vac at idle, and immediately goes to normal output 123-125 vac under load. Frequency control seems to be within 1 hz or so of 60 hz. A good UPS with a voltage stabilizer capability can help with "sensitive" equipment. Most of the current crop of desktops (with a decent power supply) aren't to picky, and the UPS helps eliminate any brownout that might be caused by a generator going into idle mode. |
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On 2/21/2013 10:04 AM, charlie wrote:
On 2/20/2013 5:30 PM, Richard B. Gilbert wrote: I've been looking for a gasoline powered generator How large a generator? What's expensive? Harbor Freight has an 800w gas gen for $89.95 Large generators? Google Genrac. There are other lower cost generators as well, with sources usually on the west coast. Generally, a "conventional" generator uses the mass of the rotating components, along with regulator(s) to stabilize the output. More expensive units have a solid state "inverter" for more tightly controlled output. One drawback of the conventional generator has to do with the output voltage level in an "idle" situation. The inverter types usually don't have the lower voltage output associated with the idle condition. My conventional 15KW ~22KW surge generator drops output voltage to ~90-100vac at idle, and immediately goes to normal output 123-125 vac under load. Frequency control seems to be within 1 hz or so of 60 hz. A good UPS with a voltage stabilizer capability can help with "sensitive" equipment. Most of the current crop of desktops (with a decent power supply) aren't to picky, and the UPS helps eliminate any brownout that might be caused by a generator going into idle mode. Curiously, what is the gas usage typically under load per hour? -- Bill Motion Computing LE1700 Tablet ('09 era) - Thunderbird v12 Centrino Core2 Duo L7400 1.5GHz - 2GB RAM - Windows 7 Pro SP1 (x86) |
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