How did it end?
How did it end?
- Subject: How did it end?
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 19:47:58 EST
For those who have been tracking my email sig, I had to restart my Powerbook
(running MacOS 9.1) after 19 days, 20 hours, ~45 minutes of uptime (40.5 days
of elapsed time - I obviously need a life!). I had disconnected the power
cord to visit a client. After about an hour of use, and during a period of
inactivity, the screen dimmed and would not light back up (or did I sleep it?
I don't know). I did not have the power cord (the battery lasts an honest 4
hours) to tickle it, and had to resort to a force restart. Was that a crash?
I don't know. Maybe a power management issue.
During this time I had over twenty apps open continuously (probably 30
total), including heavy internet usage (Interarchy, Timbuktu, Fetch, WebSTAR
Admin, AOL 3, Communicator 4.76, URL Access scripting, BetterTelnet, Green),
scripting (Smile, Script Editor, CGIs, scripting additions, many many
scripts), graphics (Photoshop, GIFConvertor, GraphicConvertor, ClarisWorks
Paint, Transparency), and various other apps (Now Up-To-Date, InTouch, B
BEdit, Birthdays and Such..., Stickies, Sherlock, Find File 1.1.3). I access
many other apps via TB2.
Virtual Memory was off (real RAM 384 Meg.) TCP/IP was set to load only when
needed. All extensions were on except the printing ones, Airport, Multi User
Startup and Iomega driver (but very few non-Apple extensions). CarbonLib was
1.2, URL Access extension was 2.2.1 (maybe I updated to those versions during
that long uptime). I connect via LAN (IPNR) and did not use Remote Access
once during that time AFAIK.
I have had other Macs stay up for probably months at a time, but always on a
dedicated machine with minimal user interaction and only 1 or 2 apps running,
never on my working machine. What a difference from the dark days of System
7.5.3 when I would get crashes every 20 to 30 minutes (blame Nav 3) and could
not even walk away without wondering if the system would die in my absence
(which it usually would).
So in summary, major Kudos to the bug squashers in the MacOS engineering
department at Apple! You are leaving the Classic OS in fine shape to sail
gracefully into the pages of history as the new dawn of OSX brightens the
skyline!
Jeff Baumann
email@hidden
www.linkedresources.com
Any ideas for a new email sig?