Re: frustrated by hdf_sd_adddata

[JD Smith <jdsmith(at)astro.cornell.edu>]

"Pavel A. Romashkin" wrote:
> 
> George McCabe wrote:
> >
> > this is the microsoft service model right? software modules that fail
> > require system restart.
> >
> > sorry to be negative
> 
> I am really happy that at least there is *something* that helps. We
> today take a working computer/software for granted. Given how complex
> the processors, OSs and applications are these days, I am glad and
> surprised they work at all. And a restart takes just a few seconds. What
> are we complaining about? Our cars stall and need restarts, they break
> and require engine rebuilds, and we don't demand perpetual engines for them.

vodka% uptime
  6:41pm  up 138 days, 21:02,  3 users,  load average: 0.02, 0.09, 0.05

Unless you do weird hardware things to it, Linux *never* crashes.  It's
frightening what a little protected memory can do for you.

;)

jd