G> From: "Geo." 

 G> So a friend had a rendering running for 3 weeks on his machine, last
 G> night Microsoft updated the machine and rebooted it losing 3 weeks
 G> worth of work. 

 G> Nice professional attitude.

damn, again?!? it was exactly this type of thing that lost fidonet one of
their top tier mail hubs... he was running OS/2 in a VM when this type of
update with forced reboot took place... it caused corruption of the VM
image and another one bit the dust :(

)\/(ark