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Re: Reason for not allowing import twice but allowing reload()

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On Wednesday, March 2, 2016 at 3:45:28 PM UTC+5:30, Rustom Mody wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 2, 2016 at 7:53:10 AM UTC+5:30, Ian wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 6:19 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2 Mar 2016 09:29 am, Ian Kelly wrote:
> > >
> > >> There's a big difference between
> > >> that and clocking a year of uptime just because you can, though.
> > >
> > > What other reason is there for having a year of uptime?
> > >
> > > It's not like it is difficult. My laptop doesn't actually go anywhere: for
> > > historical reasons, it's a laptop but it is (mostly) used as a desktop. It
> > > sits on my desk. If there's a power outage, the handy built-in UPS
> > > (battery) keeps it alive for an hour or two. I come in, I nudge the mouse
> > > to wake xscreensaver and authenticate; I do my work; then I run
> > > xscreensaver to lock the screen and leave.
> > >
> > > If I need access to something from home, I can SSH into the office network,
> > > and from there into the laptop.
> > >
> > > The OS is as stable as the surface of the moon, and simply doesn't crash or
> > > go down ever. (If only Firefox was as good, alas, but when it does crash it
> > > is nearly always because I've allowed Javascript to run on some popular,
> > > multimedia-rich, information-free website.) I don't reboot because I don't
> > > need to reboot. Why would you reboot just for the sake of rebooting?
> > 
> > Software updates? The nice thing about *nix systems is that *most*
> > updates don't require a reboot. I'm still going to reboot any time
> > there's a kernel update though, and those are fairly frequent. I could
> > read the patch notes to determine whether this new kernel version is
> > actually important, but it takes less of my time just to go ahead and
> > reboot.
> 
> Dunno what systems you folks use...
> My ubuntu(s) 15.10 seem to (my estimates not hard data)
> - update every couple of days
> - kernel/security updates every 2-3 weeks
> 
> "Stable as the surface of the moon"??
> Well thats strong
> The other day I 
> - aptitude purge-d the kernel I was running on
>   [I was trying to show off to someone that ubuntu would not allow that!]
> - machine kept running merrily but thereafter aptitude crashed
> - Until I rebooted an older kernel; installed the one I had removed and rebooted to that

Right now as I write this a libssl security update.
No suggested reboot
But I should be rebooting if I were paranoid about security

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Reason for not allowing import twice but allowing reload() alien2utoo@gmail.com - 2016-02-28 22:40 -0800
  Re: Reason for not allowing import twice but allowing reload() Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-02-29 18:01 +1100
    Re: Reason for not allowing import twice but allowing reload() Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-01 22:18 +1100
      Re: Reason for not allowing import twice but allowing reload() Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-01 22:39 +1100
        Re: Reason for not allowing import twice but allowing reload() Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-02 04:11 +1100
          Re: Reason for not allowing import twice but allowing reload() Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-02 05:04 +1100
      Re: Reason for not allowing import twice but allowing reload() Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-03-01 14:53 -0700
      Re: Reason for not allowing import twice but allowing reload() Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-02 09:02 +1100
      Re: Reason for not allowing import twice but allowing reload() Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-03-01 15:29 -0700
        Re: Reason for not allowing import twice but allowing reload() Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-02 12:19 +1100
          Re: Reason for not allowing import twice but allowing reload() Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-03-01 19:22 -0700
            Re: Reason for not allowing import twice but allowing reload() Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2016-03-02 02:15 -0800
              Re: Reason for not allowing import twice but allowing reload() Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2016-03-02 02:19 -0800
            Re: Reason for not allowing import twice but allowing reload() Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2016-03-02 15:15 +0000
      Re: Reason for not allowing import twice but allowing reload() Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-02 11:13 +1100
  Re: Reason for not allowing import twice but allowing reload() Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-02-29 00:02 -0700
  Re: Reason for not allowing import twice but allowing reload() Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-02-29 18:11 +1100
    Re: Reason for not allowing import twice but allowing reload() BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-02-29 15:33 +0000
      Re: Reason for not allowing import twice but allowing reload() Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-01 03:05 +1100
  Correct IDLE usage (was Reason for not allowing import twice but allowing reload()) Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2016-02-29 04:42 -0800
    Re: Correct IDLE usage (was Reason for not allowing import twice but allowing reload()) Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2016-03-01 01:52 -0500
      Re: Correct IDLE usage (was Reason for not allowing import twice but allowing reload()) Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2016-03-02 07:22 -0800
        Re: Correct IDLE usage (was Reason for not allowing import twice but allowing reload()) Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2016-03-02 21:40 -0500
          Re: Correct IDLE usage (was Reason for not allowing import twice but allowing reload()) Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2016-03-02 20:07 -0800
            Re: Correct IDLE usage (was Reason for not allowing import twice but allowing reload()) Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2016-03-02 20:17 -0800
  Re: Reason for not allowing import twice but allowing reload() alien2utoo@gmail.com - 2016-02-29 05:00 -0800
  Re: Reason for not allowing import twice but allowing reload() alien2utoo@gmail.com - 2016-02-29 05:22 -0800
    Re: Reason for not allowing import twice but allowing reload() alien2utoo@gmail.com - 2016-02-29 05:25 -0800
      Re: Reason for not allowing import twice but allowing reload() Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-02 04:00 +1100
        Re: Reason for not allowing import twice but allowing reload() alien2utoo@gmail.com - 2016-03-05 04:51 -0800
          Re: Reason for not allowing import twice but allowing reload() Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-10 00:53 +1100
    Reason for not allowing import twice but allowing reload() Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2016-02-29 05:51 -0800
      Re: Reason for not allowing import twice but allowing reload() alien2utoo@gmail.com - 2016-02-29 07:13 -0800
    Re: Reason for not allowing import twice but allowing reload() Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2016-03-01 02:04 -0500
  Re: Reason for not allowing import twice but allowing reload() alien2utoo@gmail.com - 2016-03-06 00:20 -0800
    Re: Reason for not allowing import twice but allowing reload() Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-07 01:50 +1100
  Re: Reason for not allowing import twice but allowing reload() alien2utoo@gmail.com - 2016-03-06 00:31 -0800

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