[rescue] Re: [geeks] THIS. MAKES. ME. SICK.

[Joshua D. Boyd]

Could be.  For me, I have a hard time keep power running well enough to my
machines.  Longest uptime I had was 6 months, then power outage.
Recently, I got 3 months, then a circuit blew.  If an NT server is
incapable of 2 years, most places locally wouldn't notice unless they had
backup generators installed.

I remeber one place I worked had a minicomputer.  When a black out
hit one day running a process that would really screw things up if it
failed, the sysadmin spent an hour trying to keep the mini up doing silly
things with chained UPSs.

--
Joshua Boyd

On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Dave McGuire wrote:

> On June 13, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> > OK, I can't quote anyone specific for NT achieving that uptime.  I've
> > heard people claim it, but I'm not going to take the time to find a
> > reference.  I do know that for several years now (and this is easy to find
> > references to) there have been companies guaranteeing uptimes upwards of
> > 99.99% uptime.  Now, if they can guarantee that in a bad case, then
> > average or good cases for those companies should easily exceed 2 years.
> 
>   Not meaning to gang up on you, Josh...but...
> 
>   These sorts of rumors are often started by Microsoft in one way or
> another.  For example...know how IE got where it is stats-wise?  IE
> prior to version 4 sent every HTTP request TWICE.  Microsoft called it
> a "bug"...a "simple oversight"...that JUST HAPPENED to DOUBLE the
> apparent number of people using IE.
> 
>        -Dave McGuire
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