[P1] Mac OS X not so stable...

[Larry Kollar]

Gloria Vogel wrote:

> Are you saying we should, or should not, turn off our Macs in between 
> uses?  ...  I tend to leave my desktop G4 on and sleep my iBook, and 
> he always turns off his desktop G4 even if only for ten minutes' 
> absence from it.

I usually log out of the iBook every couple of days; that seems to 
reduce the occasional episodes when it goes comatose at wake-up time.

My work desktop is a b/w G3 running Jaguar, and it stays powered up for 
weeks or months at a time. I log in & out daily, and shut it down only 
for vacations, hardware poking, or if a line of heavy thunderstorms is 
on the way. Basically, I treat it like a Unix workstation.

Shutting off a desktop system for 10 minutes is kind of excessive, IMO. 
If you have dodgy power or numerous thunderstorms, it's not a bad idea 
though.
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