Tempted and Tried
So many times, we are tempted by the fresh and new gadgets and gizmos. This new box is nearly two years newer than my PowerBook G4 (my primary machine) and obviously it is going to be faster. What brought me back to reality was knowing that as I installed more and more software, configured things just the way I wanted them, and began getting Windows just the way I wanted it, I KNEW that I'd catch a virus that some Malaysian college kid threw online, a service pack would corrupt my drive, or I'd be so bogged down by the standard, eventual degradation of most windows machines that I'd throw this piece of hardware into my neighbors pool.
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I have come to recognize that reinstalling Windows is part of the process, usually every 6-12 months.
Rebooting of a win98/2k machine happens every 2-3 days, approximately as often as security fixes are released. Windows XP is usually rebooted every week or two, when an Internet Explorer update is issued (forcing a reboot most of the time).
My linux boxen are not rebooted unless a power outage of more than 15-20 minutes happens or if I need to canibalize some hardware.
My macs reboot whenever I manage to crash them. The same goes for my windows boxen. None of my Linux apps seem to take down the OS when they crash. Absolute worst case scenario, if things get weird under X, I just log out of my X session and log back in.
Simple as that.