It's been 28 days since I last rebooted my iBook. 28 days is nothing for a server, but for a laptop that constantly switching networks gaining and losing file servers and having USB devices swaped in and out, even while sleeping, that's pretty damn impressive.

If it weren't for the upcoming 10.3.3 upgrade, I'd probably keep running for weeks.

The only hitch has been a few times were I've begun to note some Finder wackiness. For instance, when using the pop-up menu off of my Apps folder that I've got on the dock, and then opening up the proper submenus to get to the app, and then releasing my mouse button while the app is highlighted there would be a problem. Instead of opening and running the app like it should the Finder would open up the folder that contained the app. Very odd. But also easily fixed.

One way would be to relaunch the Finder, and I may try that next time, but this time I simply logged out and logged back in.

Every once in a while I'd notice odd things about Mail and Camino and such and I'd simply quit them and relaunch them and all would be fine.

This whole microkernal thing seems to be working out pretty well for Apple. Now if they could just get the file server services to not hang or pause the Finder, we'd be really in business.

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