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> From: "Thomas Mueller" <tmueller AT bluegrass DOT net>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: 19 Feb 2002 11:56:40 GMT
> 
> You need a UPS so your system would keep running through split-second and other
> brief power outages.

Yes, but I cannot have a UPS everywhere.  Besides, some of the power
outages down here last for too long for the UPS to be a solution.

> Some Linux and BSD users have boasted uptimes on the order of a year.

A machine that can stay up for 3 months can do that for a year as
well.

> I guess you are more knowledgeable and more careful regarding email and
> newsgroup viruses than the average Windows user.

I use Emacs to read my mail, so what is done with attachments is
under my full control.  There are some types of virus out there whome
I got to recognize by their MIME headers ;-)