[geeks] Eeeek

[Sridhar the POWERful]

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Kurt Huhn wrote:

> > Overheard in a MS strategy session:
> > "We must get users past their misunderstandings of uptime. A reboot doesn't
> > mean that anything broke, there is no hardware or software corrective action
> > taken, so there wasn't any real downtime."
>
> OMG!!!  Seriously?
>
> The software and services are *UNAVAILABLE* - therefore you have
> *DOWNTIME*.  WTF is so difficult to understand about that?
>
> $clueless_moreon: "Yeah, I rebooted the server, but it just because I
> wanted too, not because anything was broken.  Therefore we didn't
> actually have downtime, so our uptime wasn't affected."
> Kurt: "You are sooooo fired."

Especially if $clueless_moron were to reboot my mainframe, I'd be forced
to go medieval on their ass.  Bringing a mainframe up with a full set of
power-on tests takes about half an hour.

Peace...  Sridhar