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86 or 200 ain't much for pre-Win10 machines. Win10 forces reboots if you delay it too long (3 months?) but the others didn't.
I usually never turn off my computer at work. only unless there are electricity works/outages or when I do a windows update right before or after holidays.
linux nerds would not like to see it but when I moved my agression alarm tool (written in B4J ofcourse) from my desktop to a server right before the xmas holidays
so that it doesn't get interrupted due to windows updates or other reasons I spotted some nice figure as seen in the image below...
that's a Win2008R2 box by the way and there are several which have such figures and were booted after electricity works in the high voltage cabine.
the biggest mistake with their 2016/19 line of servers is automatic reboots for updates during nights
(can be turned off via a console application tho but that should not have been enable by default on a prodcution OS)
I usually never turn off my computer at work. only unless there are electricity works/outages or when I do a windows update right before or after holidays.
linux nerds would not like to see it but when I moved my agression alarm tool (written in B4J ofcourse) from my desktop to a server right before the xmas holidays
so that it doesn't get interrupted due to windows updates or other reasons I spotted some nice figure as seen in the image below...
that's a Win2008R2 box by the way and there are several which have such figures and were booted after electricity works in the high voltage cabine.
the biggest mistake with their 2016/19 line of servers is automatic reboots for updates during nights
(can be turned off via a console application tho but that should not have been enable by default on a prodcution OS)
Superstitious! ??
Interesting fact, I read an interview a LONG time ago with the guy who developed the original IBM pc for IBM. And, of course he worked for IBM.
One of the questions he was asked was what was the number one design consideration when designing the IBM PC. The interviewer was expecting something like "speed" or "Ease of use", or "cost".
The answer was SAFETY. First and foremost in all IBM designs (at least at the time) was safety.
I forget a lot of you youngsters don't know the history of this stuff. Here is another interesting tidbit from that interview. The reason IBM designed and built the PC:
"Hearts and minds"
At the time "real" computers meant big mainframes - and that was where the money was. IBM did not like competitors hardware in an IBM shop that meant they were losing the "Hearts and Minds" of their customers. There was an old adage at the time. "No one ever got fired for buying IBM." And it was true. If you needed a computer and software there were other choices but IBM was the safe bet.
But mainframes didn't have a spreadsheet and Apple did. For those who don't know this, it was VisiCalc, the spreadsheet program that REALLY made Apple a success. It was the "killer app", and IBM employees started seeing Apple computers peoples desktops - in IBM shops! and they felt they were losing the "Hearts and Minds". Truth be told IBM could probably have written a spreadsheet to run on a mainframe but it would have been too expensive to run.
So they developed the PC and bought the DOS operating system from Microsoft to run on it.
The part I have never heard explained adequately is why IBM did not enforce their patents and copyrights on the PC. They could have made a fortune. Evidently their focused remained on the mainframe (which by the way has continued to make them a LOT of money),
You got me started- another interesting tidbit.
IBM first went to Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Inc. who had the CP/M (Control Program for Microcomputers) operating system. That was their first choice for an operating system. They literally showed up at his door to talk about it but first IBM asked him to sign a non-disclosure agreement.
He refused.
So the IBM reps flew to WA and talked to Bill Gates, who said "Where do I sign!?"
And the rest is history.
Sigh, another aside, as I understand, the first language Bill Gates learned was in High School and it was BASIC (which, by the way stands for Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code - that ain't B4X!). As a result he always had a soft spot for the language which is one of the reasons why it has been kept in the MS fold for so long.
decades ago when I had to crunch my C64 releases it was preparing during the day and crunching during the night.
on a large program (~60K) this took 6+ hours depending on the LZ matching.
it wasn't designed for it either and the machine still works fine
I once had to solder something and because I had no room on my desk I had put it back on the floor which was that plastic balaton(?)/linoleum(?) carpet kind of thing.
A week later I noticed it was still plugged in, lol. it survived aswell and the 2 cm hovering over the floor was enough for not destroying that carpet stuff.
You mean after saying 'you must be nuts' ?