Excuse the formatting.  Copying it over from OpenOffice it threw off my tab marks and things.  I've included references for all my sources at the bottom (end).

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Do we need to sacrifice system uptime against system availability. And I use the term system availability to identify both uptime and unscheduled outages. So here system availability includes time from both unscheduled and scheduled outages. Why would I ask such a thing? Systems crash for all kinds of reasons: failure in the garbage collector to collect objects or collecting the wrong objects. So why do we need to do regular scheduled reboots of the system?

I picked up a new phone, but was having trouble getting to connect it to any computer. The phone is great, but I was hoping to find a tool to manage the information on it - my MP3s, my pictures, etc.

Sometimes you need to bind a second IP address to a Network Interface Card.  Maybe you need access to another network temporarily or you just need to fix something that comes with a default address not on your network.

From Linux, you can execute the following command:

ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.5.16 netmask 255.255.255.0 up

This will add a second IP Address to your eth0 network interface.