[WEB4LIB] Re: Netscape link problems...

[Bob Jones]

We wrote a screen saver (unfortunately my university won't let me share
it) that reboots the computer after 2 hours in screen saver mode.  (This
guarantees that the machines will reboot overnight!).  We use Norton Ghost
and have partititioned our local hard drive into two logical drives. When
the workstation reboots, it re-ghosts the clean image from the D drive
(partition) back to C: so any hacking gets overlaid and the workstation
fully refreshed with a proven image known to work on that particular
machine. If the reboot/re-ghost process fails, we know there is a hardware
problem and can address that specifically.  This is in addition to IKiosk
and Fortress protections.  Maybe this strategy would work for you.


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On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Peter Jorgensen wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 skelsey at lsu.edu wrote:
> 
> > All of our computers in the reference section have to be rebooted
> > constantly because the links in Netscape quit working-
> > the connection is still alive, the links just don't work.  It happens on
> > various versions of Netscape and both NT and 95
> > operating systems....
> > Does anyone out there have another solution to this annoying problem?
> 
> I raised this same question here a couple of months ago and got a lot of 
> theories but only one solution: reboot.
> 
> Peter Jorgensen
> Reference Department, Lincoln City Libraries
> Lincoln, Nebraska
> peterj at rand.lcl.lib.ne.us
> 
>