Another reason I love Windows
So, today, my company’s helpful “system health” application popped up with this useful message:
Your system has been running continuously for more than 48 hours. As soon as possible, please shut down, hibernate or suspend your system for at least 15 minutes. To maintain your workstation’s performance and extend its life, you should shut your system down and restart it daily. You can review and reset your System Health preferences from the My Help menu bar. To do this, click File, select Preferences, then click on the System Health tab.
That’s right: 48 hours is too much to expect Windows to run. Wow. My MacBook Pro only gets rebooted when forced by a software installation, which is perhaps 1x a month at most.
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meh. I had an XP install that would run for months without a reboot. It only went down either if I took it down, or if there was an update. (For some reason, M$ require a reboot after an update. Debian is just update and close the window.)
With all due respect, this is your company configured message that is completely unsupported by any evidence. So blaming this on windows is just uncool. Moreover, the advice in this message boggles my mind “Suspend for 15 minutes?” That is completely meaning less since the system is not actually restarted; at best some of the hardware gets partially reinitialized on wake up. Even more funny is the 15 minutes period – i do like to hear what will happen in the 14.9999 minutes between before the bootup? (hopefully the processor will have sweet dreams).
I’ve been using windows xp on a laptop for years and hardly ever rebooting it, while docking/undocking/suspending it multiple times a day. Moreover, 4 of my friends have Macs, and I have personally witness them freezing up more then once.
Please try to be objective!
Since when do I have to be objective on my own blog? Seriously. I still find that if I go in and out of hibernation with my notebook after a week or two it starts to get slower and slower. Programs take longer to launch, etc.
Windows sucks. It’s not objective, but it is my opinion, and this is my forum.
This is your forum. However, just like a newspaper reporter (well, they used to have this back in the day) you have the responsibility to post Quality information. Don’t you agree?
Quite simply: NO.
I pay for the hosting, I pay for bandwidth, and you choose to come here. I have no “responsibility” to “Quality”, which is often a code-word for saying what you want to hear. If you feel there’s no value in what I post, then please, by-all-means, don’t read it.
And I do agree, windows sucks. It used to suck a lot worse, but it still suck quite a bit. I’ve learned to enjoy linux and OSS punishment, and if i didnt have a work winxp laptop i’d get a mac.
Since you cant agree that quoting one entity and then blaming another for it is poor quality, I will rest my case.
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This is funny, because I just posted the exact same thing on my blog. Only it was about OS X and it wasn’t ironic.
http://www.jponrails.com/blog/articles/2007/06/15/how-long-since-your-last-reboot