The Win98 machine that I am typing on right now runs for days without reboot. I know, it surprised me too. It runs the Exchange client, IE5, AutoCAD 2000, SolidWorks 98, McAfee virus stuff and of course the distributed.net Win32 GUI Client. And it runs all of these pretty much full time. 1.1 megakeys on d.net btw. And I'm not gentle with it either. Always downloading something foolish of the net. After all, if it does crash that just means that I get to take a couple days break from work and reinstall everything!
I work with two Russian born engineers and they are constantly telling me about how incredibly backward most of Russia is. They showed me a news article about how most big businesses there can't even get supplies like raw material and food and electricity without resorting to a basic bartering system. Some are paying their employees in canned meat since the employees can trade that for more stuff than they could with cash. I'm not just spewing a "Rah Rah America". I personally find it frightening how fragil **any** national economy can be!
Philip Greenspun wrote an excellent review at photo.net/wtr/radiolan.html
And if you haven't already, have a look at the rest of Philip's site. He's a professor at MIT and most all of what he teaches there can also be found on his site.
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Beer and chicks! maps.yahoo.com says it'll be a 10 hour drive from my house. I'll hope I can make it up there.
So just where is Yucaipa anyway
The Win98 machine that I am typing on right now runs for days without reboot. I know, it surprised me too. It runs the Exchange client, IE5, AutoCAD 2000, SolidWorks 98, McAfee virus stuff and of course the distributed.net Win32 GUI Client. And it runs all of these pretty much full time. 1.1 megakeys on d.net btw. And I'm not gentle with it either. Always downloading something foolish of the net. After all, if it does crash that just means that I get to take a couple days break from work and reinstall everything!
I work with two Russian born engineers and they are constantly telling me about how incredibly backward most of Russia is. They showed me a news article about how most big businesses there can't even get supplies like raw material and food and electricity without resorting to a basic bartering system. Some are paying their employees in canned meat since the employees can trade that for more stuff than they could with cash. I'm not just spewing a "Rah Rah America". I personally find it frightening how fragil **any** national economy can be!
Philip Greenspun wrote an excellent review at photo.net/wtr/radiolan.html
And if you haven't already, have a look at the rest of Philip's site. He's a professor at MIT and most all of what he teaches there can also be found on his site.