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I don't support many systems directly and the ones I do don't have unplanned outages often. They do however have unplanned violence, head-on collisions, bar fights with jet engines, and drown in the [REDACTED]. I won't miss any of this. -Magnus
LOL, I know. I was illustrating ( apparently not well) the trouble I have when I switch back and forth between operating systems. I forget which one I'm using.
I've got a teeny box at home that is running Windows 2000, just use it for Bittorrent. Whittled down the install to 198MB, boots kinda slow (it is win2k after all), but it works. Last time it was restarted was last spring... 2010.
Last time I tried that with a mac, it smiled at me and then informed me ever so politely: "you don't really need to do that".
Oh, LOL. I thought that might be it, but wasn't sure if you were serious. Took me about 3 weeks to get completely comfortable with OS X when I switched from XP a couple years ago. I can manage around in Windows 7, I'm just not super comfortable like I use to be. I have to remember hot keys between my MS systems at work and my OS X systems at home, like "Open new tab in background", "Open new tab in foreground", "Open new browser window". It's ctrl and ctrl shift at work (MS), command and shift command at home (OS X). It can get me sometimes too.
Sadly, since these are POS machines in a retail environment (convenience store, yes, cash registers running windows XP...) unplanned power outages (both from nature and employees) are all too common.
The mailserver, webserver, and SQL server all based at corp, all run Linux, quite happily (and for months on end).
I don't think I've seen the mainframe shut off since they moved it to the current location in 1990...
EDIT: and even *then* it was a seamless failover from the backup which was up and running in the *old* location, so the processing never really skipped a beat.
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What POS software are they running?
I recently needed to upgrade and reboot a couple of our Linux servers that hadn't been restarted in over a year. Not quite 1990, but still fantastic. Some of our Windows servers need to be restarted at least every other day...
Yes, but I've been hanging onto uTorrent with my bare teeth, dunno why. My WD-TV box does BT as well, but I'd need the computer/nas hooked to it to run it anyway.
Someday soon I'll move the uTorrent to a WINE backend on the home webserver/router/cacti logger, gotta get the PEX plumbing installed before that is complete.
Then again, I'll prolly need to be rid of uT by then anyway, it's my last Win2k box at home and I'm feeling a bit nostalgic.
Aw, man! My trusty Vision carto just died... coil burn-out. 
Back to my remaining CE2-Xs until my Sapphires get here, tomorrow I hope.
Back to my remaining CE2-Xs until my Sapphires get here, tomorrow I hope.
Not sure, they're in Maine as of 1:30am, so chances are high.
Aw, man! My trusty Vision carto just died... coil burn-out.
Back to my remaining CE2-Xs until my Sapphires get here, tomorrow I hope.
I feel for you. I had three CE2s die on me in the span of 15 minutes the other day. Hadn't abused them and they had all been refilled maybe twice. One second, happy vaping... The next, nothing... Just poof and gone. I'm cursing and my wife is laughing.
I've gone back to dripping in the mean time. I got some new hybrid 510/306 atomizers being delivered today.
I never thought I would ever use a Mac, was a windows girl all the way. Can't use Xcode on a PC tho, and one of the js frameworks we use is best installed on a Mac. Better support for git too, at least from what I've seen. Hate git.
* Fingers crossed *
I hope they work well. They'll certainly make long car trips easier.
I think my husband will get along better with them as well. He's having trouble figuring out when a carto needs to be filled. He just told me a carto was empty and I put 5 drops in it before it started dripping out the bottom.
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