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Re: Even more unix holy war. Was "Clinton freezes U.S. assets .."
In article <[email protected]> [email protected] () writes:
>I make myself root, and enter my root password. I type sync
>three times, and then type reboot. And lo, unix reboots.
>
>Eventually, at long, long, long, long, long, last, Unix
>deigns to come back and give me some windows.
>
>bad sucker -- that will teach me -- maybe next time I will type
>six sync commands before rebooting as a sacrifice to the great
>God unix in the vain hope that it will spare my data.
May I ask why you even bother re-booting? I never re-boot my machine
unless there is a problem. I can go for MONTHS without re-booting. I
have never used a DOS/Windows machine that could go more than a few
days without having to be re-booted.
My machine, if gracefully shutdown, boots in about 2 minutes. DOS, I
think, would take about 30 seconds. About 25 seconds of both of those
is POST (Power On Self-Test).
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