I'm here to refute your claim that all NT users who claim remarkable uptimes are cowards. Note that my nick is real. The NT server that I manage for our development group stays up for MONTHS at a time!!! The only reason it goes down is 1) Long power outages beyond the battery life of my UPS (certainly not an NT problem); and 2) the crappy 3COM NIC with the damn bent bracket causes the PCI card to not seat properly!!! (again not an NT problem). Other than that, I never reboot it. The biggest problem I have found with most OS's requiring frequent reboots is the fact that the sysadmins won't leave well enough alone. They always have to tinker. The exceptions to this are Win95/98 (memory fragmentation problems in the crappy memory management require frequent reboots), the Mac OS, Solaris, and my own Linux box that I constantly tinker with (therefore I am to blame not the OS).
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I'm here to refute your claim that all NT users who claim remarkable uptimes are cowards. Note that my nick is real. The NT server that I manage for our development group stays up for MONTHS at a time!!! The only reason it goes down is 1) Long power outages beyond the battery life of my UPS (certainly not an NT problem); and 2) the crappy 3COM NIC with the damn bent bracket causes the PCI card to not seat properly!!! (again not an NT problem). Other than that, I never reboot it. The biggest problem I have found with most OS's requiring frequent reboots is the fact that the sysadmins won't leave well enough alone. They always have to tinker. The exceptions to this are Win95/98 (memory fragmentation problems in the crappy memory management require frequent reboots), the Mac OS, Solaris, and my own Linux box that I constantly tinker with (therefore I am to blame not the OS).