From: this@ddress.is.invalid   
      
   Brian Gregory  wrote:   
   > On 21/12/2025 10:48, Frank Slootweg wrote:   
   > >    But to be [f|F]rank, this month, I had to restart my laptop for some   
   > > weird problem, which I could not fix (I forgot what it was), but that   
   > > was an exeption, not the rule.   
   >   
   > Wasn't restarting the first thing you tried?   
   > If not you're you must be MAD.   
      
     Quite the contrary, thank you very much. Why would I waste time   
   shutting down and restarting everything, including all programs, just in   
   case the problem might be 'fixed' by that? Makes more sense to try a few   
   things while the system is up. But as I said, we're used to real systems   
   and yes, Windows NT and beyond can behave as a real system, well sort   
   of. :-)   
      
     Maybe the fact that I supported Five Nines High Availability systems   
   (99.999% uptime, about 5 *minutes* per *year* downtime) explains my   
   'madness'. You don't shut down those systems nilly-willy, at least not   
   if you don't want to be shot when you do.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)