Post by thread:Informal poll: was [OT] Your PC Time & Date

Caisson wrote: > That's nothing ! I received mail's from 2098 (Alan Nickerson), 2036 (Uwe > Holz), 2004 ( Matt Bonner) and several from the year 2000. But better yet > where those from 1904 (marcel), 1978 (Stephen Collister), 1988 (Ansel > Sermersheim) and 1995 (M Walter). > My old Win95 machine used to like resetting the year to 2004 every time it crashed (I made extensive use of "AboutTime"). I guess that one got by me. Luckily my new Win98 machine reloads the proper time whenever it crashes. This time problem would never be a problem if we had machines that didn't crash. Which brings me to the poll. Crashes per work week: Win98 PC: Win95 PC: DOS PC: Unix: Linux box: Mac: Amiga: ?: I'll tally the totals after next Monday's (Feb 22) morning email deluge. --Matt

On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Matt Bonner wrote: > Which brings me to the poll. > > Crashes per work week: > Win98 PC: ~1.5 times a week (7 crashes since 08Jan99) > Win95 PC: > DOS PC: > Unix: > Linux box: once in the last 14 months (and that was because of a bad/experimental network driver). So I guess that makes it 0.016 times per week. Linux has never crashed on the two different computers I have at home. We do have an experimental MKlinux kernel on one of our Macs at SRI that crashes about once every three weeks. > Mac: > Amiga: > ?: > > I'll tally the totals after next Monday's (Feb 22) morning email deluge. Matt, You've really opened a can of worms! My white board has tally of crash statistics for Linux and Windows. One category I have is 'useless restarts'. These are the times you have to reboot your PC because you've made a change like installed new software, added a printer, edited your network connection, ... I've got 14 since 08Jan99. Other categories are: 'ORCAD crashes', 'ORCAD sucks', and Linux Hacked. The last unfortunately has a tick mark. Scott

> >You've really opened a can of worms! My white board has tally of crash >statistics for Linux and Windows. One category I have is 'useless >restarts'. These are the times you have to reboot your PC because you've >made a change like installed new software, added a printer, edited your >network connection, ... I've got 14 since 08Jan99. Other categories are: >'ORCAD crashes', 'ORCAD sucks', and Linux Hacked. The last unfortunately >has a tick mark. > >Scott I'm suprised! I didn't think anyone would be tracking this routinely. Is it for some other reason, or just your own perversity :) (BTW: I run orcad too, but I stuck with the DOS version, it seemed more stable than the wintel stuff)

dave vanhorn wrote: > > >I'll tally the totals after next Monday's (Feb 22) morning email deluge. > > > >--Matt > > Why not give us a week to actually count, rather than making us guess. > I doubt anyone's actually been keeping a log. Post 'em here - [OT] of course, or mail 'em direct, I'll keep the tally: spam_OUTmbonnerTakeThisOuTsunada.com --Matt