On 2024-04-06, gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > On 4/6/24 11:07, Curt wrote: >> On 2024-04-05, John Hasler <j...@sugarbit.com> wrote: >>> Desktop Linux is widely used in physics and mathematics. NASA uses >>> Linux extensively, including on Mars and on the ISS. SpaceX uses Linux >>> on their rockets and spacecraft. Over 90% of the top 1 million Web >>> servers run Linux, including Yahoo, X, and Ebay. Almost all >>> supercomputers use Linux. Linux has a large and growing share of the >>> automotive market. Your router almost certainly runs Linux. >> >> Yeah, but Grandma's still using Windows XP > . > And she will never experience its only major bug, the timer rollover at > 46.something days. She will never leave it running that long. That was > the most stable windows ever published. That was the only reason we > ever rebooted the machine that literally ran the WDTV news dept back in > its day despite the reporters best efforts to crash it. I'd calculate > when it had to be rebooted & stick a postit note on it. And kept a copy > in my office to remind me when it was time to go reboot it.
Well, you'll be reassured to note that she is now defunct. Where the machine ended up, I am unaware. Her ashes are currently confined in some buried urn. Time heals all wounds, n'est-ce pas ? > Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. --
