It is indeed the best way to work if you have an operating system with nine fives of reliability. For those of us whose operating systems have five nines of reliability, however…
bradford% uptime
22:13 up 14 days, 10:2delong% uptime
22:14 up 4 days, 8:54
white:~ paul$ uptime
5:24 up 12 days, 16:32, 3 users, load averages: 0.61 0.53 0.44
red% uptime
5:26AM up 4 days, 8:38, 0 users, load averages: 0.28, 0.30, 0.27
pink% uptime
5:32 up 1 day, 13:18, 3 users, load averages: 0.16 0.04 0.01
The MSFT charm offensive, spearheaded by Scoble, sometimes yields unexpected insights: he shuts down his Tablet PC every night (aren’t they supposed to be more accessible and easier to work with than desktops?) because that’s the way he’s been using PCs for 20 years. Um, isn’t the idea of these that they are “instant on” with the capacity to suspend and resume as the army of knowledge workers toting them move through their day? So you can’t actually have it on for a full day and leave unfinished work on it.
Microsoft has publicly acknowledged the Tablet PC bug (
66) that eats up the computer’s memory until the machine crashes. The out of control memory leak remains unchecked while Redmond’s Red Adairs grapple to put a lid on the blow-out. But there’s no word yet of exactly when a fix will be issued.
“Progress is being made and there’ll be an update soon,” a spokesman told us. “For now, we advise users to reboot the machine on a daily basis,” he added.