In late 2002 I had decided that "enough was enough" and made the switch to MAC OS X. Let me relate to you that it was the best operating system decision made. Reboots are a thing of the past. The "terminal"- it's there! Last year an old Powermac G4 was purchased for $200.00 at a swap meet. My Plextor CD-R drive, 512 Megs of PC-100 Corsair memory and 60 gig IBM disc were put into this old machine. They were all from my old PC and work just fine in the old Powermac. It's only a 450 Mhz, but speed has never been an issue, however, absolute reliability is always at the top of my list. This MAC is left on continuously with an "uptime" of over a year now, not hours. You know I could go on!
My installation has two networks. One connected to the external network, (Internet), the other, which has sensitive information, is "NEVER" connected to the external network and is completely isolated. Routine back-ups are performed on a daily basis and the resulting back-up media is stored in a safe, "No Physical Access"!
I rest easy and sleep well!
I remember that in September 2002 I was using another operating system in frustration. However, rather than "pull the plug", I simply became a "switcher"! Best "uptime" to date is 155 days. That's "without" a single crash of any kind, and/or, I think the term was, "rebooting", which for me is now a thing of the past! And the only reason that it is not any higher than that today is because I relocated to Southern California from the San Francisco Bay Area.
It really saddened me to "pull the plug" on my PowerMac, otherwise, it would now still be reliably running for over a year!
That said, my I suggest that those of you who are in "frustration", seek one of the alternative Operating Systems. Do a little research and you may very well come to the same conclusion I did just over two years ago. I could go on, but the bottom line is, remember, there's no reason to continue in your frustration!
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In late 2002 I had decided that "enough was enough" and made the switch to MAC OS X. Let me relate to you that it was the best operating system decision made. Reboots are a thing of the past. The "terminal"- it's there! Last year an old Powermac G4 was purchased for $200.00 at a swap meet. My Plextor CD-R drive, 512 Megs of PC-100 Corsair memory and 60 gig IBM disc were put into this old machine. They were all from my old PC and work just fine in the old Powermac. It's only a 450 Mhz, but speed has never been an issue, however, absolute reliability is always at the top of my list. This MAC is left on continuously with an "uptime" of over a year now, not hours. You know I could go on!
"If you sign up to receive mail from someone, and they send you an e-mail, then that e-mail is your property"
Has this person read Yahoo's Terms of Service agreement?
Type the following in terminal to view contents of the swapfile, which is in PLAIN TEXT!
/var/vm/swapfile0 |grep -A 4 -i longname
sudo strings -8
(The "longname" being your user ID name)
Why can't microsoft just GO AWAY!
I'm so excited, I'm having nightmares!
My installation has two networks. One connected to the external network, (Internet), the other, which has sensitive information, is "NEVER" connected to the external network and is completely isolated. Routine back-ups are performed on a daily basis and the resulting back-up media is stored in a safe, "No Physical Access"! I rest easy and sleep well!
"Windows software isn't totally worthless!"
Good point! Are you aware that "windows" has more BSD code than micro$oft would lead you to believe!
I remember that in September 2002 I was using another operating system in frustration. However, rather than "pull the plug", I simply became a "switcher"! Best "uptime" to date is 155 days. That's "without" a single crash of any kind, and/or, I think the term was, "rebooting", which for me is now a thing of the past! And the only reason that it is not any higher than that today is because I relocated to Southern California from the San Francisco Bay Area. It really saddened me to "pull the plug" on my PowerMac, otherwise, it would now still be reliably running for over a year! That said, my I suggest that those of you who are in "frustration", seek one of the alternative Operating Systems. Do a little research and you may very well come to the same conclusion I did just over two years ago. I could go on, but the bottom line is, remember, there's no reason to continue in your frustration!