Rock Solid

The computer had been running on a 9-month-old clean Windows 98 install. Windows didn't crash at 1% system resources free (a little slower than usual, though), but Fireworks did when I first attempted to export the 1152x864 screenshot to .gif format. I closed a couple apps and restarted Fireworks to continue where I had left off. I continued using the PC for a couple more hours, when I rebooted, since Fireworks hadn't given back its resources when it had crashed. Upon reboot, Windows finished configuring some software patches I had installed a couple days earlier. Check out how many applications are running! Granted, several of those are just downloads. But that goes to show how great my $27 modem is. It had been running without a hitch on a pretty bad ISP for over seven hours and seventy megabytes transferred. And not only does this screenshot show how reliable my PC is, it also shows that I need to get more sleep :)