[geeks] Speaking of Bad practice in the Win/X86 world

[Hugh Saunders]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 02:34:30PM -0400, Michael A. Turner wrote:
> Figuring it has been up for 500 days, they are worried it will fail on
> the 501st, but if they reboot they get 500 days of error free
> operation before they have to worry again.  It may not be right, but I
> can sympathize on why this is there reaction.
yeah, what they need to know is that reboots cause more wear than
uptime, which makes failure more likely therefore increasing the need to
worry.

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