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i thought that all OS's were supposed to crash several times a day for no reason...
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Nope - just Microsoft stuff. I have Linux servers and Novell servers runinng for almost a year that I've needed to bring down and restart purely for maintenance issues, not crashing... At one time, Microsoft considered 1.5 events (crashes, lockups, lost printers and drive mappings, BSOD - Blue Screen Of Death) per day normal operation. I don't know what is considered normal now...
For all of you fellow geeks, here is an example (not to be duplicated on a MS product) from earlier this year before maintenace was performed - just look at the second line "uptime" (MS products don't have those categories easily seen - I think you need a third party product for that):