That's a thought....did 200 gig drives even exist 316 days ago?....

about less than 2 minutes...
i am a student...lots to study...
we are studying now what you might have done in your college level! oh boy...differentiation / calculus / kinematics/ dynamics/ they are sure bothering me...

I ran 128MB of RAM on my WinXP HE PC w/1.3GHZ P4 with no problems for around two years before I added 256MB more. Did boost it up though.

Laptop best uptime: 1 week, usually due to problems with desktopx and hiberate. 1 gb ram, more is better! Win xp

Computer: 3 months or so. Win xp. If 1 GB ram is a 'overkill' I don't want what people call 1.5 GB ram. nearly 100% of reboots is related to windows updates, installs or turn off due to storm/power saving in trip.

Old best uptimes: win 98 4 months, win 95: 2 months ( I know, it's amazing 95 ran that long )

1 gb ram 400 gb hdd 2/200 gb hdds combo dvd/cdr/w burner/player and a nvidia gforce2 mx with s video out

I think he wrote it out wrong.

he has 2 200 gig hard drives TOTALLING 400 Gigs...

so he only has 2 hard drives

Thats the way I understood it anyway.

No amount of RAM is overkill for WinXP because of something called bloatware.
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Hi Tech!

Hi Kona!

Thou darest the speaketh of the evil one? he-who-shall-not-be-named will get very angry with thee!

/me banned kona to the shadow realm...

um okay...

depends on how much my computer drinks and how nice it is to me afterwards

Windows 2K server: 9.5 months 24/7, shutdown to replaced failed CPU Fan, ran another 6 months before backup application required reboot, still running now after 3 more months 24/7 with ~ 25 users.

Windows 2K workstation: installed in telematic prototype application (OBDII monitor, GPS navigation & mp3 player) with 65K miles on system, hibernating between driving sessions, regularly runs for 2 to 3 months without lock up. Lock ups allways due to overheating problems in summer as main processor was initialy placed too close over catalytic converter in console.

Windows 2K server: 9.5 months 24/7...

Outside of the virus/worm authors themselves...this is why there is such a problem...so-called admins/owners not doing their job (patching). There is just no excuse for this.

There is really no excuse for ill-informed comments like yours. The server in question was not a mail server and not connected to the internet in any way. The mobile computer is also never connected to the internet.

The ultimate protection for dedicated use machines is no exposure at all. You can't infect what you can’t touch.

There is really no excuse for ill-informed comments like yours.

I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree on this one…

Rationalize it away however you wish. I’ll put my 15 years of “ill-informed” systems, network, and security administration employment experience and the 10 years of non-pro experience prior to that up against your misplaced trust any day. You stated you have 25 users...need I say more? If someone is an “admin” and they don’t patch, no mater what the OS, then they’re not doing their job…period.

I guess there’s no big deal in this case though. In the situation/environment you describe you, and probably your users, are the only ones that will be inconvenienced by the fact you didn’t do what you should have done to begin with. Sincerely, best of luck to you.

Now if I can only remember who it was that said: “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure…”


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Leo Laporte is a tool that knows nothing about computers and just reads from a script...

approx 173 days (this past winter... barely used my machine but left it on/connected) winxp

and well over 365 days on my 2k fileserver in the basement now (god bless battery backups)

Win98

3days

No Reboot

In truth I can honestly say that I have never kept any computer I have ever owned on longer than a week. As for warm boots, I consider it absolutely neccessary to do so at least every 24 hours. I don't care what machine you have, leaving a computer on without a warm boot every so often only leads to diminished fuctionality, and forget those scripts that say they can make you system feel like they have gotten a fresh boot. The truth is there is no substitute for the real thing. These are only my preferences; however, I can say that computers do benefit from being on for extended periods of time, monitors even more so. The fact is that every time we turn electronic products on we are shocking their systems. This causes ware on the circuitry and eventually leads to some failure, but since computers are constantly being replaced for better systems many of us will never see such a failure occur in one.

As for RAM - this has always been an issue. Many can often agree on a range but none can be specific. One thing which is absolutely a crock is the supposed "memory overkill". While this may be true for the average user who purchases his or her computer just to go on the internet, write documents, or even to use in a office setting, this is not so for someone who uses a work-horse machine. These are typically serious gamers, graphic oriented designers, and filming artists. Some of these machines can have 2gigs of RAM and still seem lacking! Microsoft says that XP requires a minimum of 128megs of RAM but look at the wording its "MINIMUM". In truth, if you plan to run XP at all you should start off with 256megs of RAM. Personally I beleive that a well rounded XP machine should have 512megs and a poweruser should have at MINIMUM 1gig of RAM, but again this is only my opinion.
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Since computers can get damaged from shocked caused by turning them on and off and that a running computer uses electricity which costs money, what is the best way to use your computer? Is it better to leave it on all the time, leave it on all the time and reboot once a day, run the PC during the day and keep it turned off over night,or only have your computer on when you are using it?


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I usually just leave em on. My laptop I always set it to hiberate however.

Is it better to leave it on all the time, leave it on all the time and reboot once a day, run the PC during the day and keep it turned off over night,or only have your computer on when you are using it?

The best way to use it is however you wish. IMO it’s BS about damaging your system by turning it on. Over the last 25 years, I’ve seen just as many systems fail when they’re left on all the time as the ones that are turned-off every day. From what I’ve seen, there is absolutely no correlation between system failure and daily power-downs. – IF – there is any truth whatsoever to it not being good for you to actually turn your computer on to use it, your system should be in a museum next to the abacus before you see any effects from this so-called power-on damage.

FWIW, my desktop system at home gets powered down before bed every night…then powered up before I leave for work in the morning (so I can remote home). My server at home (RH 9.0) stays on all the time. My wife and kids systems get powered-down at night too. All my systems at work stay on, but reboot for patches. About 85% of 1500 or so user systems at work get powered-down every day.

Hope this answers your question.

Well, Alan Turin switched mine on and I never bothered too turn it off

I guess I don't understand... Maybe someone can tell me the secret to updating Object Desktop, Microsoft Security Updates etc. and not having to reboot. I'd love to leave my computer on all the time. Please explain how to DL security updates without a rebot.