Uptime. Simple value that tells how long something has been running.

It is is way to see stability of the system/app, but It is very accurate way to check it.

Mostly uptime is used to show that someone has better uptime than someone else. With servers it is much easier to get hundreds days of uptimes, but with personal computer it is little harder.(?) There is more power outages and system is usually used daily, so changes that something goes wrong and screws up system. Updates are also very popular reason to reboot computer.

Most of computer owners shut downs the system for night. This is the most popular way to ruin uptime. I personally have to close my computer, because my hard-disc is bit noisy and I can’t sleep well while my computer is running…

I have currently 2 systems where I have semi-good uptimes. (imo)

• Irssi 70d uptime and counting| last reason to close: server reboots
• iPod Touch 18d uptime and counting| Last reason to boot: battery outage

IPods uptime may not be great, but the irssi uptime is one of the highest that I have seen. If you have seen better uptime, please tell me Mostly I only try to beat my own uptimes.

I really don’t know why I hate gnome, I just hate it. After moving from Kubuntu to Ubuntu, my productivity have drop dramatically and my computer have become unstable and slow. There is so many little things that I don’t like on gnome, and just 3 things why I like gnome.

First things I like on Gnome:

• Dropbox works (It requires nautilus)
• Firefox looks nice without changing theme (on kde with default settings, it looks horrible)
• Compiz works well

And then the bigger list, why I hate Gnome:

• Task manager/System managing
• Its slow (on my computer at least)
• It is unstable (KDE is stabler.)
• I don’t like panel system
• I don’t like nautilus
• I don’t like “simplicity”
• I don’t like terminal emulator
• I don’t like menus. (applications/places/system)
• I don’t like default colors
• I want my Amarok in native environment
• I want konqueror!

Yes, many things aren’t so big and can be fixed, but I like KDE, it works on me better than Gnome. I hate Gnome, but someone else may like it. (?)

So I will install something to my current system, Wmii or KDE. And when next Kubuntu release comes out, I will and download it and install it.

Update: installed kubuntu 8.04 now happy with it