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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: spinning beach ball of death
Date: 30 Aug 2015 02:00:44 GMT
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On 2015-08-30, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
> In article <d4e9f2FaqnU3@mid.individual.net>, Huge
><Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
>> On 2015-08-29, Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> wrote:
>> > On 8/29/15 5:35 AM, nospam wrote:
>> 
>> [22 lines snipped]
>> 
>> >> there is *no* need to shut down a computer on a regular basis.
>> >
>> > Does this not assume there is no bug(s) in the system?
>> 
>> That's as may be, but uptimes of several years are not at all uncommon, at
>> least on Unix based systems.
>
> Yes, but those Unix systems are (usually) servers running software that
> has often been tried and tested over years, if not decades, of use.
>
> On the other hand a Mac is often running brand new / completely
> re-written software

Unfortunately, often default OS X installations come bundled with older
versions of open source components. Luckily, if you know anything at all
about Unix security, that's easily remedied - since open source is fully
supported (this is Unix, after all), this is easily remedied by anyone
with a clue. : )

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