So my main Apple Macintosh has been up and running for 39 consecutive days and now Apple release an upgrade to MacOS X and Java both of which require me to restart my computer. Life’s not fair. The last time my Mac had to restart was when we had a power failure. Does that count? Or can I add the previous uptime to the 39 days? Our offices are going to get UPS devices installed soon so that I can keep my uptime going through power failures


[Scooter:~] chris% uptime
12:42 up 39 days, 18:22, 2 users, load averages: 1.25 0.83 0.92
[Scooter:~] chris%


However, it’s not like I’m boasting Macs over PCs. I have a PC running Windows XP Home Edition which despite its funnies and slowdowns at times, keeps running quite happily for weeks at a time. Mind you, as soon as you install something peculiar on it all hell breaks loose and you then spend an hour or so weeding out the culprits to get it working again. Then there are the bizarre restarts when you install a software package. One rarely gets that with Macs nowadays.