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Old March 22nd, 2002
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Yes , I know that Mac's are more stable then PC's in general if the user knows how to use it properly .
But in terms of compatiblity and such , leave them on the shelf .
They even use their own half-baked variant of TCP/IP ...

And why do I get a seminar because of a joke ?

I know that Mac's their filing system is more complicated then a NTFS or FAT32 filing system , and I mean in general daily use not setting them up .
It's a disease Mac's have had for years .

But so do PC's in parts .
For example : if you compile certain programs in a NTFS file system they won't run on FAT32 systems .
Even popular programs like Installshield can't run decently on FAT32 if compiled on NTFS .
Luckely it does work the other way around .

Running your Mac for over 4 months ?
PC's can do that trick too if you have decent drivers installed .
I have a Win 2000 machine running as proxy (mail&web) , FTP and Gnutella client .
It's a dual P4 Xeon 1.8GHZ with 2048MB DDR SDRAM .
I let it run 3 months , then I shut it down for like 10 minutes to udate the virusscanner and such .
I don't know if I can let it run even longer , haven't tried .