My PC is running 24/7 and only ever crashes from my own fault. It used to crash a lot under win98se but that was down to the crappy operating system. A compluter/console should be able to run for weeks without a problem. Yakumo
Man I've an old Pentium running as a router/firewall using Debian (without GUI of course) for the past year and a half. I could've use another old PC I got laying around (a PIII) but it has these annoying fans running all the time, while the other one is a fanless design, therefore it makes no noise.