Unemployment on the Rescue List? (was RE: [rescue] FS: SGI

[Eric Dittman]

> >   The days of having to blindly reboot Windows to fix every little
> > problem are gone.
> 
>    Well, the problem is simple.  Even if this is true, the user base has 
> been trained to do that for years.  The user base has also been trained 
> that "anything that's not x86 is bad", and hence the failure of 
> Itanium.  The user base has also been trained that "anything that's not 
> Windows is bad" hence the otherwise inexplicable proliferation of the 
> platform.

We've had Microsoft and other vendors tell our Windows support people to
schedule regular reboots to clear problems.

>    Whether those "reboot to fix any problem" days are really gone or not 
> is irrelevant.  Bill Gates will be rotting in an old-age home before 
> people break the reset button habit.

I don't think they'll be gone as long as Microsoft recommends clearing problems
by rebooting instead of properly fixing the problem.
-- 
Eric Dittman
dittman at dittman.net