[Ham-Computers] Win98 "Garbage Collector" - was "RAM Defrag"

[johngadd at comcast.net]

As a former computer technician (Retired) it sounds like this computer technician (below) is trying to work himself out of a job. I always found my halo shined brighter when the boss thought I had saved a system. 
I got no credit for preventive maintainence! 

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> On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 23:23 -0400, WA5CAB at cs.com wrote: 
> > I was always impressed by the fact that the LAN could run for 
> > months without shutting down and restarting. 
> 
> I helped build a 4 node Novell 3.12 network that's still running. By 
> itself, as in I don't work there anymore and no one has touched the 
> server. It just keeps chugging along. 
> 
> My W2k server that runs Exchange started coming up with all sorts of 
> memory fragmentation errors. The MS answer - "We're aware of it. 
> Reboot the server nightly." 
> 
> Thank you, MS, you've been a HUGE help. 
> 
> 
> It is, quite plainly, a defective operating system. Yet the Great 
> Unwashed buy every single new version, as if it's somehow better than 
> the last one. 
> 
> Funny, my linux boxes don't need to be rebooted. 
> 
> Next April 1, I'm going to replace my bosses' hard drives with ones 
> containing linux. Or at very least, run a live CD distro. The look of 
> panic will be priceless. 
> 
> 
> 
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